Eka’s founders say their robots can transfer learning from a simulator to the real world more reliably than anyone else’s—though they won’t say exactly how.…
Author: Will Knight
OpenAI Really Wants Codex to Shut Up About Goblins
OpenAI has a goblin problem. Instructions designed to guide the behavior of the company’s latest model as it writes code have been revealed to include…
The Man Behind AlphaGo Thinks AI Is Taking the Wrong Path
David Silver gave the world its very first glimpse of superintelligence. In 2016, an AI program he developed at Google DeepMind, AlphaGo, taught itself to…
5 AI Models Tried to Scam Me. Some of Them Were Scary Good
I recently witnessed how scary-good artificial intelligence is getting at the human side of computer hacking, when the following message popped up on my laptop…
AI Could Democratize One of Tech's Most Valuable Resources
Nvidia is the undisputed king of AI chips. But thanks to the AI it helped build, the champ could soon face growing competition. Modern AI…
The US Army Is Building Its Own Chatbot for Combat
The US Army is developing AI models trained on data from real missions, with the goal of deploying a chatbot specifically for soldiers. “We have…
Anthropic Says That Claude Contains Its Own Kind of Emotions
Claude has been through a lot lately—a public fallout with the Pentagon, leaked source code—so it makes sense that it would be feeling a little…
AI Models Lie, Cheat, and Steal to Protect Other Models From Being Deleted
In a recent experiment, researchers at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz asked Google’s artificial intelligence model Gemini 3 to help clear up space on…
AI Research Is Getting Harder to Separate From Geopolitics
The world’s top AI research conference, the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems—better known as NeurIPS—became the latest organization this week to become embroiled in…