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At the New York Film Festival premiere of Artificial, Luca Guadagnino's satirical Sam Altman biopic, the director said onstage that "[when] someone wants to play God, that's very interesting to me." The idea of playing God, and power in general - who has it, who desperately wants it, and who will…
My Decoder guest today is Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, and we’re discussing the new wave of consumer-friendly AI agents. If you’ve been paying attention to this space, you know AI enthusiasts have been using agents for a minute now — homebrew OpenClaw setups led to a surge in Mac…
Fast Forever may not have a script or director, after all. Matthew Rhys says not to expect more Widow’s Bay until at least 2028. Malcolm McDowell lends his voice to a legendary pumpkin in Trick and Treats. I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers… it’s Morning Spoilers!
Applying deep learning models to satellite imagery from within geographic information systems (GIS) remains high-friction for remote sensing practitioners. Models arrive in incompatible formats and target different compute environments, from local workstations to serverless cloud services.
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How we taught robots to assemble GB300 tester trays and what it taught us about robot learning, mechanical intelligence, and good old-fashioned engineering The...
Universal object localization in X-ray security inspection is critical for automated threat detection in safety-critical venues. However, unlike everyday RGB images that dominate web-scale visual data, X-ray scans exhibit distinct color patterns, ambiguous boundaries, and compositional structures…
Artificial is the film we almost didn’t get. After Amazon decided to drop the project (after signing a big deal with OpenAI, the film’s subject matter), it was unclear if Luca Guadagnino’s latest directorial effort would see the light of day.
Chromium, the open-source upstream project for Google's Chrome web browser, is the browser of c [...]
Science has increasingly used artificial intelligence (AI) as a kind of microscope—sorting data, analyzing images and revealing hidden patterns. Now a new shift is underway: AI that not only breaks down data but also helps scientists decide what to do next through simple, natural language requests.
As the combined revenues of Europe’s largest companies hit a record high, the continent’s CEOs must navigate a new business landscape shaped by AI, geopolitics, climate change, and intensifying global competition.
TL;DRBuilding on previous research, I create a constitution for Gemma 3 27B-IT and attempt to align Gemma to it in a way that generalises.I argue that alongside previously considered types of alignment generalisation (across dilemmas and across environments), a new type is worth considering:…
Sam Altman thinks that the benefits of AI will be so great that "the world should accept some bad things happening" along the way. The OpenAI CEO pointed to hacks, scams, and "other bad things" as costs society should expect to tolerate because "people will do tremendously orders of magnitude more…
Cerebras stock climbed in premarket trading after OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman reassured investors that the firm is a "close partner."
If computer chips could be built from semiconductors just one atom thick, they could pack far more transistors into a smaller space while using less power. So far, however, the technology has been held back by the weakness of "p-type" transistors, which make up half of every modern chip.
Plus, Glen Powell exits Sam Esmail's new movie for surprising reason.
OpenAI Group PBC Chief Executive Sam Altman insists that the security risks of artificial intelligence need to be taken seriously. But unlike his counterpart Dario Amodei of Anthropic PBC, he believes that people need to accept that “some bad things” are going to happen if everyone is going to…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he's 'very uncomfortable' with the idea of surrendering human judgment to AI models.
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