Archive: December 2020

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter "AI is grown, more than designed," OpenAI's chief scientist, Jakub Pachocki, said in a new blog post on the company's latest GPT-6 Astra release. Titling the piece "An Alien Mind," Pachocki portrays the latest large language model as something more ethereal and harder to quanti

Published on September 24, 2026 at 3:33 PM Comment 2 𝕏 Print © Montage 01net - Anthropic Hundreds of agents unleashed on viruses for 21 hours, an unprecedented genetic discovery at the end, and a question that remains unanswered: what is it for? The first discovery from Anthropic’s biology lab deserves attention—and scrutiny. Before co-founding Anthropic, Dario Amodei completed a biophysics thesis at Princeton and then worked as a postdoctoral researcher a

Google says subjects will retain their appearance as you edit. Google says subjects will retain their appearance as you edit. This unlocks several interesting uses for AI image editing. Google suggests uploading a photo of a person and changing their style or attire. For example, you can reimagine someone as a matador or a ’90s sitcom character. Because the nano banana model can maintain consistency through edits, the results should still look like the per

Many of Google’s new AI features only make themselves known in specific circumstances, for example when Magic Cue finds an opportunity to suggest an address or calendar appointment based on your screen context. The Daily Hub, on the other hand, asserted itself multiple times throughout the day. It appeared at the top of the Google Discover feed, as well as in the At a Glance widget right at the top of the home screen. Just a few weeks after release, Google

A comeback for Nokia’s weakest businessTo read the launch only as a product story is to miss why it matters to Nokia. Radio has been chief executive Justin Hotard’s hardest problem since he took over in 2025. At Nokia’s November capital markets day, he told investors the mobile business had not delivered acceptable returns, and he folded it into a new Mobile Infrastructure segment alongside further cost cuts. The NVIDIA partnership, announced in October 20

Shutterstock / Futurism It’s not just your electricity bill that could be going up — it sounds like the massive boom in AI data centers is making practically everything more expensive. As the Washington Post reports, officials at the Federal Reserve are starting to sing a different tune after blaming president Donald Trump’s tariff war on rising prices, admitting that the explosion in “AI-related investments” is contributing to inflationary pressures. That

Newly cancer-free Pope Leo XIV is urging the nations of the world to “disarm” AI, including a specific call for United Nations members to “take concrete steps toward banning lethal autonomous weapons” during a meeting in Geneva scheduled for November. He also called for nations to form global institutions to manage AI development and shot down claims of AI personhood. In a papal address on Friday, Leo said: “First, the future of artificial intelligence is

Back in 2022 when Cindy Cohn, the executive director of a US digital rights nonprofit called the Electronic Frontier Foundation, started writing her memoir, Privacy’s Defender, she worried that people would think she was an “old fuddy duddy” still sounding alarms about government spying online. As one of EFF’s first litigators and then its longtime leader, Cohn witnessed firsthand how government surveillance became one of the earliest concerns for civil ri

Steve Jennings / Getty Images for TechCrunch As new AI tools sprout up like weeds, it’s becoming remarkably commonplace for people of all walks of life to outsource their social interactions to the whims of the computer. But for former Google exec and CEO of Yahoo Marissa Mayer, AI is doing a lot more than just making dinner reservations — instead becoming a crutch for the basic tasks of parenthood. Mayer’s latest project is Dazzle, a startup providing per

Philip Pacheco/Getty Images For years now, the video game industry has been hellbent on adopting AI, using it for everything from rapidly cranking out code to auto-generating high-resolution textures and sloptastic upscaling algorithms. Some publishers have even relied on AI for character creation and advertisements, angering the broadly anti-AI masses and alienating longtime fans. (Last year, Square Enix director Jacob Navok lit the powder keg when he cla

The digital twin: a global view of 2 m temperatures and 10 m wind speeds, where colour brightness reflects wind intensity. This high-resolution rendering blends scientific data with atmospheric effects and city night lights. Created by Andreas Mueller, ECMWF in the framework of the European Union Destination Earth Initiative with acknowledgement to EuroHPC Joint Undertaking. Credit: ECWMF Destination Earth An agreement on the third implementation phase of

Published on October 23, 2026 at 08:11 Comment 2 𝕏 Print © Christos Tsartsianidis - Shutterstock Several major American banks have made a troubling discovery. AI agents have been identified in bank accounts. Artificial intelligences have even begun taking action entirely autonomously. The case, which has just been revealed, forced several banks to urgently lock down their access. An Axios investigation sheds light on a troubling phenomenon. The outlet disc

Image of fire blanket installation (Source: press release; same below) When mobile batteries or other items emit smoke or catch fire inside a train, initial firefighting with a fire extinguisher will be supplemented by covering the affected item with a fire blanket and submerging it in water in a bucket. The aim is to prevent re-ignition through this treatment. The number of items installed per trainset varies by train. For example, Tokaido Shinkansen trai

Meta plans up to $95 billion in stock sales to fund its AI buildout Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Oct 26, 2026 Meta plans to sell new stock to raise money for its AI infrastructure buildout. According to The Information, the company plans to sell up to $95 billion in shares. About $22.5 billion will come from selling Class A common stock, according to a Meta announcement. Another $12.5 billion will come from deposit

Last year, Yelp debuted its voice solution for restaurants and service providers. With this new feature, the discovery platform is fulfilling the consumer side of the equation, though there is a possibility that a user’s agent will talk to the restaurant’s agent, and agent-to-agent communication might break down the conversation. Image Credits:Yelp The company is also updating its Yelp AI assistant that helps users discover restaurants and services. With t

Saudi Arabia founds AI company "Humain" - US relaxes chip export rules for Gulf states Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner May 13, 2025 GPT-Image-1 prompted by THE DECODER 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 { "@conte

The Microducks are expected to be delivered in time for Christmas, meaning these robots might already be on their way to becoming the hottest toy for the holiday season. Delangue thinks they might end up being the best-selling robot of the year, and possibly not even for kids. The promotional videos show adults playing with them, too. Microducks are open source devices produced by Pollen Robotics, a company acquired by Hugging Face in 2025, which means the

After midterm rout, OpenAI tries to win over communities it needs for AI expansion Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 5, 2026 GPT-Image-2 prompted by THE DECODER Key Points OpenAI is responding to protests against AI infrastructure expansion with voluntary rules for its own data centers, including covering grid costs and more transparency on resource usage. The move comes after the US midterm elections, where voters