Two New York lawmakers on Friday announced that they are introducing a bill that would impose a three-year moratorium on data center development. The announcement…
Category: Primers
The Only Thing Standing Between Humanity and AI Apocalypse Is … Claude?
Anthropic is locked in a paradox: Among the top AI companies, it’s the most obsessed with safety and leads the pack in researching how models…
Loyalty Is Dead in Silicon Valley
Since the middle of last year, there have been at least three major AI “acqui-hires” in Silicon Valley. Meta invested more than $14 billion in…
ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
The face-recognition app Mobile Fortify, now used by United States immigration agents in towns and cities across the US, is not designed to reliably identify…
Hollywood Is Losing Audiences to AI Fatigue
An insurrectionist robot unleashed by a mad inventor in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. HAL 9000 sabotaging a manned mission to Jupiter in 2001: A Space Odyssey.…
A New AI Math Startup Just Cracked 4 Previously Unsolved Problems
Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used…
Mistral's New Ultra-Fast Translation Model Gives Big AI Labs a Run for Their Money
Mistral AI has released a new family of AI models that it claims will clear the path to seamless conversation between people speaking different languages.…
AI Bots Are Now a Signifigant Source of Web Traffic
The viral virtual assistant OpenClaw—formerly known as Moltbot, and before that Clawdbot—is a symbol of a broader revolution underway that could fundamentally alter how the…
HHS Is Making an AI Tool to Create Hypotheses About Vaccine Injury Claims
The US Department of Health and Human Services is developing a generative artificial intelligence tool to find patterns across data reported to a national vaccine…