Political leaders could soon launch swarms of human-imitating AI agents to reshape public opinion in a way that threatens to undermine democracy, a high profile group of experts in AI and online misinformation has warned. The Nobel peace prize-winning free-speech activist, Maria Ressa, and leading AI and social science researchers from Berkeley, Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge and Yale are among a global consortium flagging the new disruptive threat posed by hard-to-detect, malicious AI swarms infesting social media and messaging channels.
I'm a little bit surprised they've moved so early into that, I mean, look, ads, there's nothing wrong with ads...they funded much of the consumer internet. And if done well, they can be useful,
It feels like a great rotation out of the Magnificent Seven has already kicked off just over a quarter ago. Undoubtedly, the group that's helped lead the S&P 500 to impressive gains in the past several years has shown signs of slowing down. Collectively, the group of seven AI-driven tech leaders has stalled, but underneath the hood, you'll see that not all Mag Seven stocks are built the same.
One good test on the AI bubble is to recognize that Nvidia has now millions of Nvidia GPUs in every cloud. We're everywhere and if you try to rent an Nvidia GPU these days, it's so incredibly hard. The spot price of rentals is going up. Not just the latest generation, but two-generation-old GPUs,
The company, which is based in San Francisco and has an office in Pune, India, is targeting up to $35 million this year as it builds a royalty-driven on-device AI business. That growth has buoyed the company, which now has post-money valuation of between $270 million and $300 million, up from around $100 million in its 2022 Series B, Kheterpal said.
Salesforce-owned integration platform provider MuleSoft has added a new feature called Agent Scanners to Agent Fabric - a suite of capabilities and tools that the company launched last year to rein in the growing challenge of agent sprawl across enterprises. Agent sprawl, often a result of enterprises and their technology teams adopting multiple agentic products, can lead to the fragmentation of agents, turning their workflows redundant or siloed across teams and platforms.
One year ago this week, Silicon Valley and Wall Street were shocked by the release of China's DeepSeek mobile app, which rivaled US-based large language models like ChatGPT by showing comparable performance on key benchmarks at a fraction of the cost while using less-advanced chips. DeepSeek opened a new chapter in the US-China rivalry, with the world recognizing the competitiveness of Chinese AI models, and Beijing pouring more resources into developing its own AI ecosystem.
Because Grok is connected to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, users can simply ask Grok to edit any image on that platform, and Grok will mostly do it and then distribute that image across the entire platform. Across the last few weeks, X and Elon have claimed over and over that various guardrails have been imposed, but up until now they've been mostly trivial to get around.
The Human Artistry Campaign's " Stealing Isn't Innovation " movement launches today with over 800 signatories. Those include many Hollywood actors, including Scarlett Johansson, Cate Blanchett, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, as well as writers such as Jodi Picoult and Roxane Gay, and musicians like Cyndi Lauper and They Might be Giants. The campaign has a simple message: "Stealing our work is not innovation. It's not progress. It's theft-plain and simple."
Transparency is supposed to build trust. But as companies rush to open the black box of artificial intelligence and explain how it works to customers, many are discovering a surprising truth: You can say too much and too little at the same time. The balance is hard to get right: Too little transparency breeds suspicion; too much overwhelms, blurring the very clarity it's meant to provide.
Anthropic has published a new constitution for its AI model Claude. In this document, the company describes the values, behavioral principles, and considerations that the model must follow when processing user questions. The constitution has been made publicly available under a Creative Commons CC0 license, allowing the content to be used freely without permission. Anthropic published the first version of this constitution in May 2023.
Starting today, anyone on the company's waitlist of approximately 10,000 people can hail one of its robotaxis for trips within a 60-square-mile service area that includes popular neighborhoods like the Design District and Wynwood, Brickell, and Coral Gables - but not popular tourist destinations like South Beach. The vehicles also will initially avoid highways and stick to local roads, with plans to expand to faster-speed roads later this year.
That's today's project. In this article, I'll show you how I started with a picture of me, used some intermediate AI, and turned it into a physical 3D plastic me figurine. Do I need a me figurine? No. Is it cool? Yeah. Does it show off another AI capability? Yep. I'll be honest. I didn't expect my editor to sign off on this pitch.
AI is no longer a research experiment or a novelty in the IDE: it is part of the software delivery pipeline. Teams are learning that integrating AI into production is less about model performance and more about architecture, process, and accountability. In this article series, we examine what happens after the proof of concept and how AI changes the way we build, test, and operate systems.
How is xAI building its data centers so quickly? Through temporary licenses, Ghori said. "It was the fastest way to get the permitting through and actually start building things," Ghori said. "I assume that it will be permanent at some point." Ghori said that the temporary leases were an exception granted by the local government, one made for carnivals. The host, Ti Morse, laughed: "So xAI is actually just a carnival company?" "It's a carnival company," Ghori responded.
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