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Before Kids Learn to Think, They’re Learning to Prompt
1+ hour, 47+ min ago (888+ words) For parents, educators and policymakers, the question is not whether children will interact with generative A.I.they already arebut rather how those interactions shape formative minds when reasoning, writing and judgment are still being formed." The unease around generative A.I.and its…...
Hackers Will Never Stop Targeting the Art Market, But Buyers Are Safer Than They Think
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (1294+ words) Hackers Will Never Stop Targeting the Art Market, But Buyers Are Safer Than They Think'observer.com It was an absolute mess. "The art dealer's sales team was locked out of its inventory information, freezing their sales transactions," Steve Pincus Sr.,…...
Ruoming Pang, Meta’s $200M Superintelligence Hire, Jumps to OpenAI After Just 7 Months
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (583+ words) Ruoming Pang, Meta's $200M Superintelligence Hire, Jumps to OpenAI After Just 7 Months'observer.com Ruoming Pang, a prominent A.I. researcher recruited by Meta last year with a pay package reportedly worth more than $200 million, has left the company to join OpenAI, The Information…...
The 5 Apple Executives Helping Steer Tim Cook’s A.I. Vision
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (512+ words) Despite being an early market leader in voice assistance with Siri, Apple is now seen as lagging rivals in the A.I. race. Cook has consistently framed privacy and data protection as Apple's core differentiator, he said on the company's latest earnings…...
After Selling to Apple, Dark Sky’s Creators Are Reinventing Weather Forecasting Again
3+ day, 3+ hour ago (317+ words) Our biggest pet peeve with most weather apps is how they (or rather, don't deal) with forecast uncertainty," Grossman wrote in a blog post last week. It's a simple fact that no weather forecast will ever be 100 percent reliable: the…...
Sam Altman Defends A.I. Energy Use With Human Comparison, Sparking Debate
4+ day, 12+ hour ago (305+ words) Sam Altman is pushing back on mounting criticism over the environmental toll of A.I. The OpenAI chief has dismissed claims about A.I.s water consumption as "fake" and drawn comparisons between the electricity required to power A.I. systems and the energy it takes…...
Sam Altman’s Acqui-Hire of OpenClaw’s Peter Steinberger May Define ChatGPT’s Future
1+ week, 7+ hour ago (374+ words) Steinberger's creation has taken the developer world by storm in recent weeks for its ability to turn a large language model into something that doesn't just chat with users, but acts on their behalf'fitting seamlessly into their daily routines. In…...
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei Make India Their Next A.I. Battleground
1+ week, 21+ hour ago (539+ words) Sam Altman and Dario Amodei ramp up their AI rivalry in India, unveiling new offices, partnerships and infrastructure bets. Both Altman and Amodei recently announced a flurry of initiatives in India, racing to win over its 1.4 billion people and fast-growing…...
Meta’s Controversial A.I. Chief Alexandr Wang Outlines His Superintelligence Playbook
1+ week, 1+ day ago (298+ words) Wang was tapped by Mark Zuckerberg last year amid a broader internal overhaul at Meta and has since been tasked with leading its next phase of A.I. development. Central to that effort is distinguishing Meta's approach from rivals by emphasizing individual…...
DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis Warns AGI Remains Years Away Despite A.I. Breakthroughs
1+ week, 2+ day ago (617+ words) Demis Hassabis warns A.I.s uneven reasoning limits progress toward AGI, despite breakthroughs like AlphaFold and Olympiad-level math performance. An A.I. model from Google DeepMind shocked mathletes from around the world last year when it secured a gold medal at the prestigious…...