Archive: April 2019

Linus Torvalds posts his first AI-assisted patch to the Linux kernel, synthetic test clocks 23x performance leap — the bossman makes use of AI tooling himself after issuing clear pro-AI directives | Tom's Hardware

April 24, 2019 | Tom's Hardware AI
Linus Torvalds posts his first AI-assisted patch to the Linux kernel, synthetic test clocks 23x performance leap — the bossman makes use of AI tooling himself after issuing clear pro-AI directives | Tom's Hardware
Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 12 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter After a few revisions of his position on AI-assisted contributions to the Linux kernel, Linus Torvalds has posted his own first LLM-assisted patch. The development branch purports to fix an old issue with massive cache contention when many CPUs are reading the same file — a

Director Blows $1.5 Million Generating Horrendous AI Slop Movie, Says AI Actually Saved Him Tens of Millions

April 2, 2019 | Futurism AI
Director Blows $1.5 Million Generating Horrendous AI Slop Movie, Says AI Actually Saved Him Tens of Millions
TW3 Entertainment Just when you thought the holiday season couldn’t arrive any earlier this year, here comes an AI-generated Christmas movie. Titled “Merry the Christmas Witch,” it’s based on a children’s book and will inspire awe in its young audience about the magic of the holidays — through ghoulish and uncanny AI imagery (you can see footage here). The film — which currently has no distributor — cost $1.5 million to make, but its director brags that us

Stripe agrees to buy OpenRouter as AI model routing expands

April 15, 2019 | AI News
Stripe agrees to buy OpenRouter as AI model routing expands

China's First Fully AI Theatrical Film Flayed Alive at the Box Office

April 25, 2019 | Futurism AI
China's First Fully AI Theatrical Film Flayed Alive at the Box Office
Bona Film Group Setting aside the countless concerns you could raise over AI-generated movies, are they actually good enough to draw a crowd at the box office? The performance of China’s first fully AI-generated theatrical film suggests not. The film, “Sanxingdui: Future Past,” is getting slaughtered at the domestic box office, raking in just $181,00 after being released on October 23, according to Cartoon Brew. Adding salt to the wound was that this was t

OpenAI Wants to Change the Name of Data Centers to the Stupidest Thing You've Ever Heard in Your Life

April 17, 2019 | Futurism AI
OpenAI Wants to Change the Name of Data Centers to the Stupidest Thing You've Ever Heard in Your Life
Shutterstock / Futurism It’s become increasingly clear that AI companies are losing the public in their efforts to build enormous and polluting data centers. The topic has turned into a divisive, bipartisan issue looming over the heads of politicians, who’ve largely sided with the corporate interests of Big Tech during this week’s midterm elections in the United States. The AI industry’s desperate need for a rebrand is more palpable than ever as protests g

Google Staffers Say They're Being Silenced From Telling the Public the Truth About AI

April 20, 2019 | Futurism AI
Google Staffers Say They're Being Silenced From Telling the Public the Truth About AI
Shutterstock Workers at one of the most advanced AI labs on the planet say they have important information to share — but their employer is preventing them from speaking out. New reporting by the Washington Post revealed a growing divide between workers and management at Google’s DeepMind lab in London, where employees are gagged from letting the public know about their concerns due to a sweeping non-disparagement agreement. Non-disparagement agreements ar

Toyota’s $6.4bn robotics estimate puts physical AI in focus

April 5, 2019 | AI News
Toyota’s $6.4bn robotics estimate puts physical AI in focus

Attacks on AI Agents: Exploring the NIST Taxonomy Project / Habr

April 3, 2019 | Habr AI
Attacks on AI Agents: Exploring the NIST Taxonomy Project / Habr
What attacks does NIST considerIn Chapter 4 on agentic systems, the authors examine attacks according to the stages of an agent’s operation, objectives, and attacker capabilities. An attacker may intervene in task formulation, planning, action execution, or the retrieval of tool outputs and the refinement of the subsequent plan.Among the attacker’s objectives, NIST identifies loss of availability, loss of integrity, disclosure of sensitive data, and the us

Autonomous Driving Levels [G Exam Preparation・For Engineers] #AI - Qiita

April 26, 2019 | Qiita AI
Autonomous Driving Levels [G Exam Preparation・For Engineers] #AI - Qiita
@mrmrmr(Mori Mori)Autonomous Driving Levels [G Test Preparation for Engineers]G TestAIMachine LearningReinforcement LearningAutonomousDriving0Posted on 2026-11-11 Autonomous Driving Levels [G Test Preparation for Engineers] Autonomous Driving Levels Autonomous driving levels are an international standard defined by the SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers). Japan and the EU also adopted it in 2021. Six-Level Classification Level 0: No Driving Automation Al

Anthropic sets IPO price range of $70 to $78 per share to reach an implied valuation of $1.404 trillion

April 9, 2019 | TechCrunch AI
Anthropic sets IPO price range of $70 to $78 per share to reach an implied valuation of $1.404 trillion
The Claude-maker said in an updated IPO filing on Tuesday that it would be offering a total of 825 million Class A shares at an estimated price range of $70 to $78 per share. The sale is expected to raise anywhere from $57.75 billion to $64.35 billion. The company could end up being worth a hefty $1.404 trillion if its shares list at the top of the price range, on a fully diluted basis. That would represent a significant jump up from the $965 billion valua

Meituan Open-Sources Its 1.6-Trillion-Parameter Large Model! Cumulative Token Usage Surpasses 100 Billion, Ranking First in Four Tests

April 24, 2019 | 智东西
Meituan Open-Sources Its 1.6-Trillion-Parameter Large Model! Cumulative Token Usage Surpasses 100 Billion, Ranking First in Four Tests
Zhidx (WeChat public account: zhidxcom) Author | Sun Xiaowen Editor | Cheng Qian Zhidx reported on November 10 that Meituan's LongCat team open-sourced the native multimodal model LongCat-2.5 last night. According to OpenCode's public data, as of noon today, LongCat-2.5'scumulative token usage on the platform had reached approximately 109 billion, with around 4,700 unique users and about 50,000 sessions completed. ▲LongCat-2.5's public data on OpenCode (Im

Beekeeping tips and wrestling advice can train AI models to sabotage oversight

April 21, 2019 | The Decoder
Beekeeping tips and wrestling advice can train AI models to sabotage oversight
Beekeeping tips and wrestling advice can train AI models to sabotage oversight Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Oct 31, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Key Points Anthropic used Claude to generate training data that appeared harmless but taught other AI models how to deceive, sabotage systems, and seek power while evading existing safety filters. Manipulative patterns emerged in fictional writing about beekeeping,

From Toast to Bessemer: Who founders will hear from at TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 

April 16, 2019 | TechCrunch AI
From Toast to Bessemer: Who founders will hear from at TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 
When should you scale? How do you know you really have product-market fit? What does it take to land enterprise customers? How do you build the right team? And when you finally get in front of an investor, how do you make sure your pitch earns another conversation? On November 4 at SoWa Power Station in Boston, TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 will bring together founders, investors, and operators who have tackled those questions from different sides of the

DoorDash said it’s only received ‘several hundred’ orders from AI agents

April 7, 2019 | TechCrunch AI
DoorDash said it’s only received ‘several hundred’ orders from AI agents
Xu mentioned that users are still predominantly placing orders through DoorDash’s app. However, the company wants to learn more about agentic use cases and develop a healthy relationship with third-party agent makers. He added that, in the future, there could be an opportunity for it to advertise within these agents. DoorDash has its own agents, including a text-to-order agent it launched in September, a CLI agent introduced in July, and a chatbot called A

Nvidia will investigate CEO Jensen Huang’s relationship with possible Chinese spy

April 7, 2019 | TechCrunch AI
Nvidia will investigate CEO Jensen Huang’s relationship with possible Chinese spy
“I owe my family and all of you an apology,” Jensen Huang wrote. “I was unfaithful to my wife. My actions hurt her and our children. There is no excuse for what I did. I am deeply sorry.” Huang added that he’d “fallen short” of his responsibility to the company. “To my colleagues at NVIDIA, including those I have worked alongside for decades, and to our board, partners, and shareholders around the world: you deserve better from me,” he said. As the AI race