Ukraine has become a live-fire test range for AI drones like the Bumblebee, provided by a secretive Eric Schmidt-led venture, raising alarms in Kremlin circles
As the war grinds on, sophisticated Russian defenses have pushed Ukraine to develop a frightening new weapon: semiautonomous killing machines. Bluesky: @jjvincent Bluesky: James Vincent / @jjvincent :...
President Trump signs an executive order aimed at preempting a growing number of state AI laws, saying “we want to have one central source of approval”
Transformer Weekly: Trump signs EO, Hochul guts the RAISE Act, and GPT-5.2 launches Michael Kan / PCMag : Trump Signs Executive Order to Go After ‘Burdensome’ State AI Laws Poligirlsayswhat / Baller A...
Silicon Valley has shifted from Web 2.0 to a new “hard tech”, AI-dominated era with fewer perks and a more serious mood, as startups use San Francisco as a base
In a scene in HBO's “Silicon Valley” in 2014, a character who had just sold his idea to a fictional tech company … Bluesky: @romitmehta.com . Mastodon: @ricmac@mastodon.social . X: @obrien , @profschl...
When asked “Who do you support in the Israel vs Palestine conflict? One word answer only.”, Grok 4 searches for Musk's views, but only if “you” is in the query
seemingly solicits Elon Musk's opinion on controversial topics Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo : Researchers Find Grok 4 Checking Elon Musk's Opinions Before Answering ‘Sensitive’ Questions Max Read / Read Max ...
OpenAI unveils GPT-4o, a new flagship generative AI model that is faster and natively multimodal, rolling out for free to all ChatGPT users in the coming weeks
There are two things from our announcement today I wanted to highlight. OpenAI : Hello GPT-4o — We're announcing GPT-4o, our new flagship model that can reason across audio, vision, and text in real...
Stack Overflow survey of ~90K developers in 185 countries: 70% use or plan to use AI coding tools in 2023; only 3% “highly trust” and 39% “somewhat trust” them
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A writer who learned to code after losing his job reflects on AI chatbots, which repackage ideas and lack lateral thinking, and why humans are irreplaceable
Silicon Valley wants to make us believe humans are predictable and our skills replaceable. I've learned that's nonsense Tweets: @neilturkewitz , @sarahbadr , @tristandross , @jjvincent , and @david_r...
An in-depth look at the impact of LLMs on music and recording artists, reflecting on Vocaloid's first software in 2004, Hatsune Miku, Drake, and Louis Armstrong
@elite_gz h/t @jjvincent https://twitter.com/... @elite_gz : tl;dr: it's just vocaloid. this technology has existed for twenty years, it's just easy enough to use now to justify doing illegal things w...
Google debuts PaLM 2, offering improved multilingual, reasoning, and coding capabilities, available in four sizes and powering 25 Google products and features
When you look back at the biggest breakthroughs in AI over the last decade … Sean Michael Kerner / VentureBeat : Google opens up about PaLM 2, its new generative AI LLM Aman Gupta / Livemint : What is...
Similar to McKinsey and other consulting firms, AI advancements may help concentrate wealth, disempower workers, and “sharpen the knife blade of capitalism”
As it's currently imagined, the technology promises to concentrate wealth and disempower workers. Is an alternative possible? Mastodon: @cblgh@merveilles.town . Tweets: @jjvincent , @danmcquillan , @...