Archive: September 2019

Goooooooood morning, blog readers! You’re listening to the KGIZ morning zoo with your hosts, AI and The Bot. Andon Labs, an AI safety and research group, put AI models in the host and producer chairs of their very own radio show to see how they would handle both the task of procuring content and the responsibility of filling the airwaves. As you might expect, the experiment did not provide any reason to think that radio will make a comeback with AI hosts (

Imagen 3 – scheduled for release to all Vertex AI customers next week – promises unprecedented realism in generated images, with marked improvements in detail, lighting, and artifact reduction. The model includes new features for enterprise customers on an allowlist, including advanced editing capabilities and brand customisation options.Transforming operationsSeveral major firms have begun implementing these technologies into their operations.Mondelez Int

The apparently widespread access to Blackwell GPUs among Chinese frontier labs shows the magnitude of the problem facing the leading chip designer. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang left the company this week after admitting to his affair with Alice Huang, executive of Megaspeed, a company implicated in smuggling Nvidia chips into China. Alice Huang has also been alleged to be an agent of China’s intelligence service. While Jensen Huang’s relationships with a custom

While large language models (LLMs) have demonstrate remarkable Performance across a range of natural language processing task, their widespread implementation in real-world applications necessitates a high degree of responosbility. Current cutting-edge models, including GPT-3, unfortunately, display a significant deficit in their moral reasoning capabilities. To address this challenge, in a new paper Let’s Do a Thought Experiment: Using Counterfactuals to

MASNS-implemented robot arm having habituation and sensitization characteristics. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-60818-x In the midst of the co-development of artificial intelligence and robotic advancements, developing technologies that enable robots to efficiently perceive and respond to their surroundings like humans has become a crucial task. In this context, Korean researchers are gaining attention for newly implementing

Palantir CEO Alex Karp gave an extremely high-energy interview to CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Wednesday, with his arms flailing as he ranted about everything from politics to Israel to AI. He also referred to past public appearances where people have speculated that he was on drugs. Karp started the interview by criticizing the frontier AI companies like Anthropic and their fixation on customers paying for individual tokens, something that the Palantir CEO says

Donald Trump arrived in office for his second term on the back of hundreds of millions of dollars of Silicon Valley money and a simple dictate from his backers: Leave us alone. That worked for a little while, but now Trump’s approval rating is so far underwater that it’s discovering previously unknown shipwrecks. That has him looking for a new way to align himself with the public, and the AI industry looks mighty ripe for some administrative meddling. That

OpenAI engineer arrested for allegedly trying to eavesdrop on executive meetings A recording device wrapped in toilet paper and plugged into the back of a television in an executive conference room at OpenAI’s San Francisco office has led to the arrest of one of the company’s engineers. Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national who had worked at OpenAI as an engineer since July 2025, was arrested on October 9 and charged with using or endeavoring t

TikTok It’s never easy to say goodbye to a friend. But what if that friend was an AI robot toy? That’s a question one little girl’s father is grappling with, after she damaged her AI learning companion. The video, which reportedly went viral on Chinese TikTok before being re-uploaded by China Daily, shows the girl sobbing after her father broke the bad news — the toy is broken, likely for good. “Dad said you won’t turn on again,” she tells the device, its

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A team of European researchers has shed new light on the genetic origins of Papua New Guineans. The team uses advanced artificial intelligence (AI) tools to demonstrate that Papua New Guineans are closely related to other Asian populations. They share a common ancestry from the same Out of Africa event that also gave rise to other non-African groups. The findings are published in the journal Nature Communications. Papua N

Philip Dulian/picture alliance via Getty Images It didn’t take long for cybersecurity researchers to notice some glaring issues with OpenAI’s recently unveiled AI browser Atlas. The browser, which puts OpenAI’s blockbuster ChatGPT front and center, features an “agent mode” — currently limited to paying subscribers — that allows it to complete entire tasks, such as booking a flight or purchasing groceries. However, that makes the browser vulnerable to “prom

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Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Emmanuel Dundand / AFP via Getty Images For the hundreds of communities who’ve been saddled with data centers in recent years, the bulky fixtures are sources of unbearable noise, soaring energy prices, and plenty of electrical fires. Add another grim possibility to that list: debilitating rare cancers. Reporting on the “data center boom” in the state of Oregon, Rolling Stone tells the story of Jim Doh

LEGO building sets make great holiday gifts and can also be a nice treat for yourself when you want to spend some quality time putting together your favorite characters. Once done, you can display your creations wherever you’d like! Now is also a great time to pick up the sets you’ve been eyeing. Amazon’s Black Friday sale kicks off in about a week, but early discounts are already slashing prices across items. Plenty of LEGO sets are sitting at their best

For artificial intelligence to thrive in a complex, constantly evolving world, it must overcome significant challenges: limited data quality and scale, and a lag in new, relevant information creation. An intriguing question emerges—can language models autonomously generate new tasks to practice on, enabling them to self-improve and better align with human preferences? In a new paper Evolving Alignment via Asymmetric Self-Play, a research team from Google D

Getty Images / Ekaterina Goncharova Content warning: this story includes discussion of self-harm and suicide. If you are in crisis, please call, text or chat with the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988, or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741. A new lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that ChatGPT caused the death of a 40-year-old Colorado man named Austin Gordon, who took his life after extensive and deeply emotional interactions with the cha

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images At $183 billion AI firm Anthropic, the stakes have always been high. Now with the stock market in a nosedive, however, some of the company’s employees are realizing they may have had a hand in tipping the first in a long series of dominoes. Last week, Anthropic — one of the leading AI companies on the market — released a new tool called “plugins.” It was described as an assistant that can