Archive: October 2015

Example stimuli. Female synthetic faces (a), male synthetic faces (b), female real faces (c) and male real faces (d). The final row (e) contains some of the synthetic images used in the training task, each of which has rendering artifacts that were highlighted to participants. Credit: Royal Society Open Science (2025). DOI: 10.1098/rsos.250921 Five minutes of training can significantly improve people's ability to identify fake faces created by artificial i

In what Reuters’ anonymously-sourced report assesses as an “unusually fast” fundraising strategy, OpenAI is apparently looking to past investors like SoftBank and Abu Dhabi’s MGX to inject it with fresh capital in order to climb to a potential valuation of $1.4 trillion or more. Anthropic has led OpenAI in valuation quite authoritatively since May of this year. Late last month, analysts were forecasting a $2 trillion IPO for Anthropic in November, but mone

A Jurassic-aged dinosaur footprint from the Isle of Skye, Scotland, displayed in 5 mm contours from a photogrammetric model. Credit Tone Blakesley. A new app, powered by artificial intelligence (AI), could help scientists and the public identify dinosaur footprints made millions of years ago, a study reveals. For decades, paleontologists have pondered over a number of ancient dinosaur tracks and asked themselves if they were left by fierce carnivores, gent

Distribution of HLE questions across categories. Credit: Nature (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09962-4 How do you translate ancient Palmyrene script from a Roman tombstone? How many paired tendons are supported by a specific sesamoid bone in a hummingbird? Can you identify closed syllables in Biblical Hebrew based on the latest scholarship on Tiberian pronunciation traditions? These are some of the questions in "Humanity's Last Exam," a new benchmark intr

LISA O'CONNOR / AFP via Getty Images In one of the biggest unenforced errors in the history of the AI industry, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admitted on Sunday that he had cheated on his wife with an alleged Chinese spy. The embarrassing news sent shares of the AI chipmaker — a bellwether for an economy overindexed on AI — plummeting, with one analyst estimating that parting ways with Huang could wipe out almost 30 percent of the company’s value. Nvidia’s board

This week, New Jersey ordered the operator of one of the East Coast’s largest planned data centers to pay a $1.1 million fine for secretly installing and operating gas generators in violation of the state’s Air Pollution Control Act. DataOne got hit with the fine after an investigation by The Guardian and Floodlight News in August shared thermal drone footage showing that 45 of the 62 gas generators were operating. None of the generators had permits requir

(Image: Anthropic) Claude Whiteboards Claude Whiteboards is a shared board for brainstorming with Claude. Claude organizes plans discussed during a conversation into a board containing a timeline, assignees, and due dates. It can also group notes by topic and suggest action items. You can select part of a board and ask Claude questions about it. Completed boards can be converted into documents or slides, and it lists Lucid, Miro, and Vani by Zoho as integr

Zhidx (WeChat Official Account: zhidxcom) Author | Bi Weihao Editor | Mo Ying To use an open-source project, someonespecifically bought an Android phone. This app is called dsh-Go, a mobile app that canrun DeepSeek Harness on Android phones(abbreviated as DSH). According to Xiao C, the author of dsh-Go, after the project was released, many users urged him to port it to iOS and HarmonyOS. Some even actually bought a used Android phone specifically to try th

A new product using tartar sauce instead of regular sauce, “Myojo Ippei-chan Night Market Fried Noodles, Large Serving, Rich Tartar Sauce, Shrimp Fry Flavor,” joined the “Myojo Ippei-chan” series on Monday, November 9, 2026, so I bought it right away and gave it a try. “Myojo Ippei-chan Night Market Fried Noodles, Large Serving, Rich Tartar Sauce, Shrimp Fry Flavor” (released November 9) | Myojo Foods https://www.myojofoods.co.jp/news/13966 When you think

Anthropic pushes ahead with pre-Thanksgiving IPO despite tech selloff, accepts lower valuation Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 7, 2026 Anthropic is pressing ahead with its IPO despite the tech selloff, accepting a lower valuation. The Claude developer wants to go public before Thanksgiving and raise $80–100 billion at a $1.25–1.75 trillion valuation, according to investors cited by the Financial Times. That tops the curre