A few weeks ago, French company Mistral released an early version of its new artificial intelligence model, nicknamed Le Chonk. At the time, the company…
Author: Joel Khalili
Should AI Decide Your Court Case? This Judge Says Yes
In a few days, judge Geoffrey Vos will retire as Master of the Rolls, the most senior position in England’s civil justice system. As one…
Anthropic’s IPO Prospectus Reveals What’s Under the Hood
Anthropic filed key paperwork on Monday ahead of a high-anticipated initial public offering, providing new details about its finances and the risks facing its business.…
Can Europe Build Data Centers Without Giving Up Its Climate Goals?
In the last 18 months, multiple data center proposals have fallen through in Germany: Stack Infrastructure canceled a $3 billion facility in Hesse, and state-owned…
Your Next Great Read Might Be Certified ‘Organic’
As scandals involving the use of artificial intelligence by professional authors pile up, a British startup has established a way for publishers to certify their…
Mistral Says Its New AI Model ‘Le Chonk’ Is the Best Open-Weight Offering Outside of China
As tensions mount over who gets access to top-end artificial intelligence, French company Mistral has released a new freely-available model that it claims can compete…
The Next Evolution of AI Is Learning From Your Dodgy Gaming Skills
With the twirl of a thumbstick, squeeze of a trigger, and press of a few buttons, even an unskilled player can dance their way through…
The Pope’s AI Guy Is Worried About ‘Cartel’ Behavior Among Big Labs
Recently, warnings from researchers inside the world’s largest artificial intelligence labs about the rapid pace of development have led to panic about the possibility that…
A New Chatbot Wants to Unlock the Secrets in Tattered Ancient Greek Records
Academic libraries across the globe are stuffed with hundreds of thousands of Ancient Greek papyrus fragments. Though many are so damaged that their meaning is…
‘I Like My Big Rat Wife’: Meet the People Using Chatbots to Write Custom Fiction
When Petra Ferraz de Novaes isn’t at work, she’s probably lost in a fantasy crafted with the help of artificial intelligence. Novaes, a 36-year-old software…