For Luis DeSantiago, a substitute teacher in Los Banos, California, it started with a few text messages. On March 12, as he was working his…
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The Unlikely Place at the Center of China’s AI Boom
Travel just two hours west of Beijing by train, and you’ll find yourself surrounded by the rolling grasslands and ancient cinder cones of Inner Mongolia.…
The Single English County Saying No to Palantir
The UK government has six months to decide whether to terminate a deal worth more than $400 million between the country’s National Health Service and…
Silicon Valley Doesn't Get Why You Hate AI
Silicon Valley is trying to make sense of the growing backlash against artificial intelligence, but so far, it’s not going that well. The inconvenient truth…
I Saw the Future of AI in a Robot That Can Learn on the Spot
Last week, I ventured a whopping 15 minutes from my house to see robots do some mind-boggling, jaw-dropping stuff. I visited the Cambridge, Massachusetts, offices…
Coders Say They Already Found Workarounds to Claude’s Invisible Watermarks
Within four hours of Anthropic confirming that Claude models would globally embed invisible, machine-readable watermarks into any AI-generated content, developer Guillaume Meyer had published his…
Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code
Vehicle surveillance giant Flock Safety has told the public for years that its technology “cannot recognize, identify, or track individuals.” It has now built a…
OpenAI Overhauls Safety Protocols After Its AI Agents Went Rogue
OpenAI announced Tuesday that it has halted “a significant number” of training workloads and evaluations for its forthcoming frontier artificial intelligence model—codenamed Astra—while it implements…
The Powerful Chinese Model Experts Warned About—and Waited for—Is Here
It’s now even easier to find—and exploit—vulnerabilities in computer systems using AI. Last Friday, the Chinese AI company Z.ai announced a powerful open-weight model that…
Amazon Can Use Your Twitch Content to Train Its AI—Unless You Opt Out
Twitch has updated its account settings to let streamers opt out of having their content used to help train the artificial intelligence models of Twitch’s…