Archive: August 2024

Shutterstock / Futurism Never mind killer robots and sci-fi doomsday scenarios. A former Google executive says we need a slowdown in AI development now because the tech is already harming children at a scale that’s surpassing the damage wreaked by social media. “We find ourselves in a really terrible ​situation in terms of what AI is doing to kids,” Tom Siegel, the former vice president of trust and safety at Google, told Reuters. “The idea that the indust

The Times conducted this analysis with the help of a startup called Oumi, which itself is deeply involved in developing AI models. The company used AI tools to probe AI Overviews with the SimpleQA evaluation, a common test to rank the factuality of generative models like Gemini. Released by OpenAI in 2024, SimpleQA is essentially a list of more than 4,000 questions with verifiable answers that can be fed into an AI. Oumi began running its test last year wh

Xinzhiyuan reports Just now, Anthropic officially launched its IPO roadshow! This time, theyplan to issue 825 million shares, with an expected offering price of $70.00 to $78.00 per share. If calculated at the upper end of the pricing range, the deal will easily raise more than $60 billion. Anthropic also has a $26 billion private placement. Based on the 13.1 billion shares outstanding disclosed in its filing, this will give it a valuation of $917 billion

On November 10, Ant Lingbo Technology open-sourced the tactile foundation model LingBot-Touch On November 10, Ant Lingbo Technology open-sourced the tactile foundation model LingBot-Touch, filling a critical gap in tactile perception for robot brains. The model was pre-trained on nearly 5,000 hours of real tactile data and covers three mainstream sensing principles: magnetic tactile sensing, vision-based tactile sensing, and piezoresistive sensing. It can

In March, MyFitnessPal acquired Cal AI for an undisclosed sum after it zoomed ahead of the older calorie app in the app store rankings. The deal was big enough to convince Yadegari and his co-founders to sell the company after it had pulled in over $30 million in annual revenue in under two years, MyFitnessPal told TechCrunch at the time. Yadegari and his co-founders originally went to work for their new owner, continuing development on Cal AI, but he left

The AI reportedly submitted this incorrect information to a public Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) tip line on July 18, but Anthropic didn’t discover the behavior until September 28. The police had not seen the tip because it was marked as spam. Anthropic notified the PPD about the incident on Wednesday and met with the department the following day. “The company must strengthen its safeguards to prevent similar incidents from impacting city systems wi

ChatGPT now wants access to your bank account so it can tell you to stop ordering takeout Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian May 15, 2026 GPT-Image-2 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 { "@context":

Published on October 23, 2026 at 6:08 p.m. Tech Web Privacy and personal data 1Password has a plan to let AI agents access your accounts without exposing your passwords AI vault 3 min Julien Lausson {"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.numerama.com\/#\/schema\/person\/66db15ee8d1210d96ceae8a348dd93d1","name":"Julien Lausson","url":"https:\/\/www.numerama.com\/author\/julienl\/","description":"A journalist concerned about

Black Forest Labs launches Flux 3 Image with multi-step editing that leaves the rest of your picture alone Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Oct 2, 2026 Black Forest Labs has released Flux 3 Image, the image side of its Flux 3 model family. The model supports multi-step edits without changing other parts of the image, BFL claims, and covers text-to-image, image-to-image, text rendering, and photorealism. Users can compose scene