In a whiplash-inducing turn away from the mythical quest to build human-level artificial intelligence, Western tech billionaires like Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk are now joining hands to call for a massive slowdown of the tech’s development. The…
Sakana AI has progressed beyond its early demonstrations. But I did not find evidence that it has established a widening research lead through sustained, accelerating RSI. Its published results support bounded self-improvement and increasingly capable orchestration. Your test asks for…
After over two decades of operation, Amazon Prime has become the backbone of American commerce, more akin to a public utility than a private company. Its logistics network has blown past the US Postal Service in parcel volume, delivering crucial…
AI leaders are talking about RSI ( recursive self improving AI) but not describing the levels of capability. People know something about self driving. Are we warning helping, autopilot, what level of automation. The AI researcher progression: Autocomplete helps me…
Remember how Elon Musk vowed that his AI Grok would make an anti-woke, “historically accurate” version of the Odyssey? Well, he ended up throwing together a whole contest around it — and the winner of the first place prize of…
Despite being one of the world leaders in AI development, the private firm Anthropic has yet to post a quarterly profit. That operating deficit isn’t for a lack of trying — and, as the company tells it, could be reversing…
While the US appears to be further away from meaningful AI regulations than ever before, lawmakers certainly have plenty of ideas on how the country could go about setting meaningful rules. It’s a particularly precarious moment as fears over rogue…
In the biggest-ever legal action against harmful deepfake websites, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has seized 12 sites that collectively targeted around 1,200 victims.
Scientists say that the planet Mercury has been actively shrinking over the billions of years that it’s orbited the Sun, a process that’s leaving cracked-up wrinkles behind like an old apple. At just one-third the size of Earth, it’s already…
President Donald Trump continues to push the boundaries of what it means to be out-of-touch after he gave a ringing endorsement for Flock Safety, the deeply unpopular surveillance company behind a national network of AI-powered cameras and license plate scanners.…