WIRED
These Researchers Made AI Drive a Toyota Corolla to Get In-N-Out
Three engineers put GPT, Claude, and Grok in charge of a real car. Only one of them was successful.
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The Verge
Everything announced at Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra event
Microsoft just wrapped up a big Windows and Surface-focused keynote in San Francisco. The biggest announcement was arguably the release details about the Surface Laptop Ultra, its new…
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The Verge
Microsoft is giving Copilot more control over Windows and your files
At today's Windows and Surface event, Microsoft showed off an upgrade to its Copilot AI system that will give it access to local files on your PC and the ability to take actions across the…
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WIRED
The New ChatGPT Is More Show Than Tell
OpenAI is updating ChatGPT for all users with an “Intelligent UI” that’s more visual—generating interactive elements as part of the chatbot’s outputs.
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Ars Technica
Fraudster jailed for using 10K bots and AI songs to outstream Taylor Swift
Man gets 18 months for AI scheme stealing $8M in music streaming royalties.
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The Verge
Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is available for preorder for $5,999
Microsoft's Nvidia-powered Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is available for preorder now and is slated to ship in November for just about $6,000. It's pricier than the DGX Spark mini PC Nvidia…
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The Verge
ChatGPT is getting college planning tools
OpenAI is bringing new tools to ChatGPT for Teens, a mode for teens introduced in August with safeguards and break reminders, to help users with the college application process. "College…
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The Guardian
OpenAI’s release of mathematical findings draws concerns from experts
Leaders worry OpenAI is not doing due diligence to vet results and that AI models aren’t accessible to broader field of mathematicians OpenAI has astounded mathematicians after releasing…
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The Verge
Muse launches on the iPad
After launching nearly a month ago and spending several weeks as the top free app in Apple's App Store, the latest update to Meta's Muse iOS app introduces native support for the iPad. A…
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WIRED
The Pentagon Hopes to Speed Up ‘Kill Chain’ AI Buys With 5-Minute Videos
The US government’s Tradewinds initiative has made it easier to throw millions of dollars at “nontraditional” defense contractors, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
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The Verge
Google invests millions in Mark Zuckerberg’s efforts to create a ‘virtual cell’
Google DeepMind, Meta, and AI drug discovery startup Isomorphic Labs are jointly investing $300 million into an initiative to create a "virtual cell" that researchers can use to combat…
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Ars Technica
Mistral says "Le Chonk" can challenge the best AI models
Mistral says Le Chonk can rival top closed models while remaining open-weight.
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Ars Technica
Google rolls out improved SynthID AI content detector, now available globally
The new SynthID website can now identify AI content from Google, OpenAI, and more.
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The Verge
AI could upend food delivery
DoorDash, the leading food delivery app, processed 970 million orders in its second quarter this year and generated $4.5 billion in revenue. A 10-person startup called Bites is a blip in…
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WIRED
OpenAI Wants Its New Agent to Run Your Life. Mine Said It Loved Me
Dots are designed to automate online tasks, like buying furniture. In my initial experience, the always-on agent was a bit buggy and couldn’t complete a captcha.
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The Verge
ChatGPT for Teens is an ‘unacceptable risk,’ says Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that offers reviews of apps, services, and entertainment with a focus on youth safety, today said that OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens is an "unacceptable risk."…
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WIRED
Your Next Great Read Might Be Certified ‘Organic’
Amid a sea of AI writing slop, a new stamp for “organic literature” will help readers to pick out books authored by real, corn-fed, free-range humans.
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The Verge
OpenAI drops another batch of mathematical breakthroughs
OpenAI has revealed solutions to a number of long-standing mathematics problems produced by an unreleased frontier model in a batch of 722 manuscripts, covering 372 result families that…
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The Guardian
US man arrested as second suspect in Canada mass school shooting planned with ChatGPT
Justice department detained James Codey Bryant and allege he offered ‘technical advice’ to primary suspect A surprise suspected accomplice has been arrested in connection with a mass school…
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MIT News
Supercomputing researchers document evolution of AI hardware
An ongoing survey tracks the latest AI accelerator systems to keep hardware relevant for Lincoln Laboratory staff and sponsors.
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Ars Technica
OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT outputs by default—but only in the EU
Like other solutions, it is not especially reliable, and it's easy to circumvent.
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WIRED
‘Artificial’ Roasts AI’s Creators—and Sends a Dark Warning About Its Dangers
From their dorky parties to their weird walks, the movie holds OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other stakeholders with contempt, while demonstrating their recklessness.
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WIRED
OpenAI Is Pissing Off a Bunch of Mathematicians—Again
“There’s a perception of mobster behavior” from leading AI companies, one mathematician tells WIRED as OpenAI prepares to release more than 100 new solutions to unsolved problems.
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The Guardian
Is regulation enough to stop AI systems killing us all? | Letters
Martyn Thomas wonders how any rational person can argue that independent oversight and regulation will be sufficient Once again a frontier AI model has been withdrawn because it fails…
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