Artificial Intelligence (AI) played a major role in Kyiv’s attack on Russian air bases and bombers earlier this month, showcasing how military technology is playing a more important role than ever in warfare.
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KEY AI BENCHMARKING SERVICE ACCUSED OF BIAS
LMArena, a standard platform ranking the performance of large language model AIs (LLMs), gives preference to models made by giant tech companies, according to a study preprinted on arXiv and not yet peer-reviewed.
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RESEARCHERS RELEASE THE KRAKENCODER
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City have unveiled the Krakencoder, a new AI that weaves together a variety of brain images taken by different devices. The result is a deeper, more integrated view of how a brain affects behavior, thoughts, and how it recovers from injuries.
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LEADING AI MODELS “COLLAPSE” UNDER HARD PROBLEMS, STUDY SAYS
When struggling with highly complex problems, “reasoning” AIs from DeepSeek and OpenAI suffer “complete accuracy collapse,” according to a new study released by Apple.
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META’S ZUCKERBERG HAND-PICKS AGI SUPERGROUP
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is personally recruiting a team of as many as 50 specialists to speed the company’s progress toward creating artificial general intelligence (AGI), a supercharged synthetic intelligence that can outperform humans across a wide range of tasks.
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COAXING AI TO BE SCIENTIFICALLY CREATIVE
Large language model AIs such as ChatGPT or Gemini are good at carrying out rote tasks and copying patterns—writing poems, making pictures—but the folks at Lila Sciences want their AI to think outside the test tube, be wildly original, and make jaw-dropping breakthroughs.
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TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: INTERNET AT RISK, SAYS BARRONS, AND MIT PONDERS TRANSHUMANIST TECH BILLIONAIRES
Few higher ed institutions have been as closely connected with the development of Artificial Intelligence as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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MONUMENTAL: HEAVYWEIGHTS COME OUT SWINGING AGAINST AI COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
In a legal first, two major Hollywood studios have launched a copyright infringement lawsuit against one of the most popular AI imaging platforms, Midjourney.
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THE AI FUTURE: THEY HAVE NO IDEA
Want the clearest evidence that unbound AI development is likely an existential danger to natural humanity?
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WHEN THE ECONOMY FALLS, JOBS GO WITH IT
The number of U.S. workers laid off in May was 47 percent higher than May last year, according to a report by outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. The firm reported 93,816 layoffs by U.S. employers in May, up from 63,816 layoffs last May. The total number of job cuts through the end of May was 696,309, an increase of 80 percent from the 385,589 job cuts in the first five months of last year.