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Amazon is trying to win over data center critics with a pledge to be more transparent and invest in the communities where it builds its facilities. But it also warns that if the backlash continues, it could have major consequences for the U.S. Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman said in a blog post Friday that today’s massive data center buildout is similar to the mid-century construction of the nation’s interstate highway system, which helped transform th

Japanese optics company Nikon has stated it is “carefully re-reviewing” information submitted by National University of Singapore optical engineer Ning Xu after commenters accused him of using AI in his winning entry to the 16th annual Small World in Motion contest. Small World in Motion bills itself as celebrating the beauty of light microscopy. According to Nature, Xu’s video submission showed the movement of cilia in lung tissue samples from a child wit

President Trump is notching up victories in his private war against the term “artificial intelligence.” Perhaps his biggest win yet is a series of X posts from Elon Musk early Sunday morning declaring that Super Intelligence is a “better” term, and that he intends to rename SpaceXAI “SpaceXSI.” Trump clearly doesn’t want the world to miss Musk’s surrender, so he screenshotted the first post in the series and posted it on Truth Social without comment on Sun

Last week, a federal court upheld the Trump administration’s designation of Anthropic as a “supply chain risk,” a scarlet letter that would effectively label the company a national security threat. It was a major win for the federal government in its long-running dispute with the AI startup, which earlier this year said it would not allow the Pentagon to use its technology for domestic surveillance or autonomous weapons systems. The legal battle—which has

In typical Meta fashion, the company’s popular new AI agent Muse reportedly keeps detailed, regularly updated files on the people in users’ lives. Nearly a month after its launch, researchers are digging into how Muse works. It turns out the AI agent will openly share internal files and instructions when users ask, offering a peek at how it operates. One of the somewhat unsettling details is an hourly process that instructs Muse to create and update “a pag

Claude, it turns out, is not a reliable confidant. According to a report from Gulf Coast Now, a Florida woman was arrested last month for allegedly making threats against local law enforcement in a conversation with Anthropic’s chatbot. Per the outlet, which cites the arrest report, the 30-year-old woman from Bonita Springs, Florida, was apparently having an ongoing private conversation with Claude in which she made multiple threats directed at the Lee Cou

While AI is constantly being promoted as tech make life easier, one teen learned the hard way that it can still lead to serious mistakes. A 16-year-old solo hiker had to be rescued Saturday from a mountain near Vancouver after getting stranded while following a route he had planned with the help of AI, North Shore News reports. North Shore Rescue volunteers received a call just before 3:30 p.m. about the teen, who was stuck on a cliff on Crown Mountain, ro

In Greek mythology, Prometheus is a Titan who is sentenced to eternal torture by Zeus after stealing fire from Olympus and gifting it to humanity. He is a democratizing figure who breaks out a source of great power from its confines among the gods to give it to the everyday folk. In Silicon Valley, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman views himself in a similar light. In a new interview with Vanity Fair, Altman was asked to describe his personal mission and how he would

Passing off ChatGPT’s work as your own is about to get tougher—at least if you live in the European Union. On Monday, OpenAI announced that it would start inserting an invisible watermark, imperceptible to the naked eye but identifiable by machine, into all text outputs generated by its AI models, including ChatGPT and its coding agent Codex. The watermark will move OpenAI into compliance with the EU AI Act, which requires model-made text to include a mach

Predictions that highly skilled jobs in medicine would simply be automated with AI, sometimes articulated by luminaries like Geoffrey Hinton, haven’t panned out so far. Just picturing what it would theoretically be like to be examined by an AI doctor made the AI-enabled enshittification of healthcare seem like a distant danger at the absolute worst. But a new pilot program in Utah might clear away some of the fog around this concept, and make visits to Dr.

This is how a prohibition on automatically retrying the task once the subscription limit was reached ended up in the file. Its owner set it: the retry hits the same limit. With usage credits enabled (an additional paid balance used to cover work beyond the subscription limit), the retry also costs money: according to the limits documentation, with credits enabled, work does not stop at the limit and continues using credits. Therefore, to the question of wh

Figure 2. LPIPS Stability (all 8 experiments). Figure 3. Mean grad norms per block (all 8 experiments). 1. Gradient Clipping – a critically important component.The most contrasting result was obtained without gradient norm clipping (no_grad_clip). The Directional CLIP Loss graph (Fig. 1) shows that without Gradient Clipping, the error remains high (0.78–0.85) with no steady decrease, whereas in the baseline it drops to 0.66–0.72.StyleGAN2 has an enormous n

Now let us imagine that we need to find the boundary between dark and light regions.For a human, this is obvious: it is enough to look at the image. But a computer must perform certain calculations to detect such a change in brightness.One way to solve this problem is to use a small weight matrix called a convolution kernel (kernel).It moves across the image, analyzes small patches of pixels, and calculates how much they differ from one another.This is the

In this article, I will try to understand how pricing works for frontier models, where OpenAI and Anthropic actually make their money, whether subscriptions pay for themselves, and what to expect from prices over the next one to three years. Framing the Problem and SourcesThis article answers five questions:How much do tokens cost today—at list prices and in practice?Are these prices economically justified?Are subscriptions profitable for providers?How wil

If one AI-enabled specialist can do the work of ten, what will the other nine do?(c) John Maynard KeynesImagine an ordinary Monday at a company. A developer builds in an hour a prototype of a feature they previously budgeted a week for. By lunchtime, a marketer has twenty advertising campaign options. An analyst builds a report in a few minutes and explains why sales have fallen. A manager first celebrates the productivity boost and then opens the staffing