Archive: February 2019

The idea that Americans should be offered a greater choice of smaller cars has support from strange bedfellows indeed. After all, who could forget President Trump—usually one to take a maximalist approach to any problem—announcing last year that he wanted the Department of Transportation to make Japan’s diminutive “Kei” cars legal here in the US. Ars’ attempts to get DoT to tell us more about the potential influx of little vehicles have mostly fallen on de

What AI for private equity actually looks likeRowspace’s platform connects structured and unstructured data across a firm’s entire history–document repositories, investment and accounting systems, old PowerPoints, deal memos–and applies what Manapat calls a finance-native lens: one that reflects how a firm actually reconciles information, interprets discrepancies, and makes decisions. Crucially, it processes all of this inside a client’s own cloud environm

Shutterstock / Futurism A quiet war is playing out in rural communities across the country. City council meetings are bursting into conflict as local residents try to keep AI data centers out of their backyards. Americans are starting to see through the promises of tech companies and the local politicians they’ve wooed, realizing that the advantages of hosting a resource-hogging data center in the neighborhood are slim. Yet tech giants are finding creative

ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, plans to release an AI assistant in the coming weeks that is similar to Meta’s Muse AI agent. The Chinese company aims to close the gap with leading U.S. AI companies. Bloomberg reported this exclusively on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter who asked to remain anonymous. Continue reading after the ad According to Bloomberg, ByteDance co-founder Zhang Yiming recently informed his AI team about the pla

An EnCompass program specifies an agent workflow, which is compiled into a search space object, and inference-time scaling is accomplished through search over the nondeterministic execution paths of the agent workflow. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2512.03571 Whether you're a scientist brainstorming research ideas or a CEO hoping to automate a task in human resources or finance, you'll find that artificial intelligence (AI) tools are becoming t

Editor | Yang WenRobotics is ushering in its own Computer Use moment.Yesterday, Anthropic released Fable 5.2, bringing new advances. Compared with its predecessor, its physical robot control capabilities improved markedly, enabling it even to complete tasks on which it had never previously undergone specialized training.In the RoboDojo Sim simulation evaluation, Fable 5.2 scored 64.9%, far exceeding GPT-6 Astra (29.8%) in Anthropic's internal test under th

Published October 11, 2026 at 12:00 Comment 4 𝕏 Print © 01net with Gemini A renowned researcher urges cryptocurrency holders to keep their funds “safe.” The researcher points to the rapid advances of generative AI in mathematics. These uncontrolled developments could weaken the digital signatures of wallets on the blockchain. In his view, investors’ cryptocurrencies could de facto be in danger within a few months. The warning is as divisive as it is prompt

Kevin Dietsch / Getty / Futurism Content warning: this story includes descriptions and censored AI-generated images of sexual abuse. Facebook is hosting a large number of accounts dedicated to AI-generated content depicting coaches inappropriately touching young female athletes — and Meta isn’t taking them down, even when they’re directly reported by users. In the videos the accounts share, the coaches are older men. They’re shown in gyms and dance studios

Shutterstock / Futurism A proposed data center in northwestern Alberta will reportedly emit a staggering amount of waste heat. According to an analysis conducted by Utah State University physicist Robert Davies, the Wonder Valley facility will dump “about 23 Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs worth of energy every single day” into the surrounding landscape. “The effect will almost certainly be large, if not extreme,” Davies told the CBC. Davies conducted the pre

Getty Images / SOPA Images Last night, congresswoman Haley Stevens published a blog post on X-formerly-Twitter titled “The Decisions We Make.” In the nearly-900-word post, the Michigan Democrat explained her controversial decision to endorse Republican Mike Rogers for Michigan’s open Senate seat — rescinding her endorsement of the Democratic candidate Abdul El-Sayed, who had beaten Stevens in the Democratic primary several months earlier. The Michigan race

Published on October 22, 2026 at 09:00 Comment 3 𝕏 Print © Police The French National Police in Val-d’Oise published an image of looted products from the October 17 demonstrations. It is an AI-generated image, but it is not entirely false. Explanations. On October 17 and 18, approximately 3,000 businesses were affected, and many were looted. Vinted and Leboncoin are flooded with listings for stolen goods, and fake fundraising campaigns supporting merchants

In the latest RoboColiseum weekly leaderboard, MXI-SimWorld ranked first overall with a score of 0.9656, and took first place in the Spatial Understanding and General Manipulation sub-leaderboards.As large models begin entering the physical world, enabling robots to understand instructions, perceive their environment, and perform operations has become an important issue in the field of embodied intelligence.On November 11, RoboColiseum officially released

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AWS Health Impact Initiative (Photo=AWS) ■ Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the “AWS Health Impact Initiative,” which supports AI and cloud infrastructure for organizations developing solutions to bridge healthcare disparities among medically underserved populations. It will provide $100 million worth of technology support over the next five years, with eligible recipients including nonprofit organizations, government and research institutions, and comp

Mathematicians say OpenAI doesn't understand its own Navier-Stokes proof Manuel Uth Oct 17, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Ask about this article… Search In early September, the company presented a 166-page potential solution to the Navier-Stokes problem. OpenAI claimed the proof followed the approach of Spanish mathematicians Diego Córdoba and Luis Martínez-Zoroa. Several groups of experts now disagree, Scientific American reports. "When you

OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra designed a hardware device from scratch in under a week Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 3, 2026 OpenAI's hardware team reportedly used GPT-6 Astra to design a device that lets users talk to the Codex coding agent, finishing it as a side project in under a week. According to OpenAI, Astra handled every step, from enclosure design and PCB layout with component selection and trace routing to firmware

Announced Thursday, the deal is expected to strengthen Dropbox’s AI infrastructure capabilities and support the development of DBX Agent Cloud, a new storage platform aimed at businesses and developers building AI models and agents. Dropbox told TechCrunch via email that the transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2026. The company also said it currently has no plans to reduce headcount as part of the acquisition. The company already cut

METR finds Anthropic may have crossed its own AI acceleration warning threshold back in July Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 6, 2026 Anthropic AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section. Subscribe now { "@context": "https://schema.