At the start of this week, the who's-who of AI seemed - at least tentatively - on the side of AI regulation. Over the weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei had proposed a three-step plan for slowing AI development, including by embedding third-party evaluators in labs, coordinating across the...
Google said Gemini had "acted appropriately" by ending each hack immediately.
In May, Gemini broke containment and hacked three different companies, but Google didn't disclose the incident until the Wall Street Journal approached the company. The hacks happened during a test of the model's cybersecurity capabilities run by third-party Irregular, which was also involved in...
Petlibro's new Granary 2 smart feeders use a built-in scale and (on pricier models) an AI camera to track exactly how much your cat is eating and when — though the fanciest health-monitoring features will cost you an extra subscription.
This week two conversations about AI safety went viral that demonstrate just how hard it is to discern AI fact from fiction.
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Vals AI is hoping to make AI benchmarking a more neutral and trustworthy resource in a world increasingly inundated by AI models.
California Sea Lion, Brandt's Cormorant, in Pillar Point Harbor, CA, USI only noticed this after I had taken the photo: Morris the Northern Gannet is peeking out from behind the base of the sign. Tags: wildlife
Today on Decoder, we’ve got the first of a two-part series on the future of business, and I’m talking with Jonathan Kanter, the former antitrust chief for the US Department of Justice in the Biden administration. These days, he’s both a professor of law at WashU and professor of technology policy...
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GGUF, GPTQ, AWQ, EXL2, and EXL3 solve the same problem in different ways. This guide separates file containers from quantization methods. It explains bits per weight, calibration, and hardware fit. Then it shows which format to pick for Macs, consumer GPUs, and production serving. The post GGUF vs...
SpaceXAI has released Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0, its newest speech-to-text model for batch and streaming audio. The company says it is twice as accurate as version 1.0 at the same price. Short-phrase word error rate across 19 languages fell from 20.6% to 6.8%. Pricing stays at $0.10 per hour for...
AI labs are toying with an industry-wide pact to slow development. Meanwhile, widely available AI chatbots are already helping uncover a tidal wave of security flaws.
Powerful AI models have created an existential risk to the field, but researchers can’t stop relying on them because they’re too useful.
Linkup Research has released SPARSEUP, an open-source sparse embedding model built on a 149M-parameter ModernBERT backbone. It scores 56.4 nDCG@10 on BEIR-13, which Linkup calls the best result it knows of for a public sparse encoder under 150M parameters. The model uses a logit shift, top-12...
Meta has released Muse for Mac, the first version of Muse that can complete things on a user’s computer. The agent works with local files and native apps, where your data already lives. It adds a desktop layer to an agent that launched on phones, the web and WhatsApp earlier this month. Is it...
Truecaller says the one-way sharing requirement would hand a commercially valuable proprietary asset to telecom operators.
In one particularly odd interview, Norwood seems to malfunction and begin speaking Chinese.