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Bernie Sanders might be 84 years old, but he sure acts more in touch with the general public’s views on AI than most other lawmakers, including those in the party he caucuses with. In an op-ed published by the New York Times on Monday, the Independent Senator from Vermont called for the government to take a 50% ownership stake in the frontier AI labs, including OpenAI and Anthropic. Sanders’ plan will manifest in the form of the American AI Sovereign Wealt

As AI is increasingly injected into every facet of our lives whether we like it or not, it seems we can only watch in a mixture of horror and frustration as so many of our once-reliable institutions become unusable husks of their former selves. Take, for instance, Google. The search engine’s PageRank algorithm was such a massive hit when it launched that it wasn’t long before contemporary competitors like WebCrawler, Lycos, and AskJeeves were swept into th

Google’s parent company Alphabet, Inc. is engaging in some unusual and creative equity-raising practices for a large, publicly traded company. Long story short: it’s raising gobs of investor money that it can put toward expanding its footprint in AI hardware. It plans to raise $80 billion via new “equity offerings” per Bloomberg. That includes $40 billion in new stock dripped into the stock market starting in the third quarter (meaning probably starting in

Mathematicians are setting some boundaries. Today, 16 mathematicians in consultation with peers and relevant organizations published the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics. The declaration, which had attracted more than 130 signatories by the time of publication, outlines key challenges that widespread AI use poses to mathematics research, as well as recommendations for individual researchers, organizations, governments, and comm

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is trying to make it very clear that political contributions made by its leaders do not necessarily reflect the company’s views. “Our employees are free to participate in the political process in their personal capacities, including by donating or providing advice to candidates, campaigns, and political organizations. When they do that, they speak for themselves and not OpenAI,” the company said in a statement Monday. Op

Anthropic, fresh off becoming the most valued frontier AI lab in the game and announcing plans for its initial public offering, has expanded access to Claude Mythos Preview, its model that would supposedly destroy the very concept of cybersecurity as we know it if released in the wild. According to the company, it is expanding access to the model via its Project Glasswing initiative, making it available to 150 new organizations across 15 countries. Per Ant

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What’s the opposite of Absolute Cinema? According to the New York Times, Martin Scorsese has accepted a role as an advisor for a generative AI firm and, even more devastatingly, has apparently started to use the technology during the storyboarding process for his next film. The company in question is Black Forest Labs, the maker of text-to-image and video models, including Flux, which has been used for image and video generation by companies including Adob

It’s a nightmare scenario that’s long haunted the imaginations of cybersecurity experts: computer malware that spreads autonomously from device to device, learning as it goes and exploiting different vulnerabilities along the way. Now, researchers have demonstrated that such a “worm” can in fact be built today, with publicly available AI models, and at a disconcertingly low cost. A preprint paper published Tuesday by a team from the University of Toronto,

For better or worse, AI is becoming less and less avoidable across the internet. Google’s search engine responds to queries with AI-generated summaries, AI-generated images and videos have flooded social media platforms, and online retail giants have wholeheartedly embraced AI in the hopes of creating a more personalized and “frictionless” user experience. Now, Amazon is offering its latest attempt in a growing roster of AI-powered features designed to hel

After Anthropic got an invitation from Pope Leo XIV for his encyclical on artificial intelligence, OpenAI is looking for its own moral authority to latch onto. It seems that Altman and company have chosen Bernie Sanders. After the Senator announced he would be introducing legislation for the federal government to take a 50% ownership stake in frontier AI labs, Altman reportedly requested a meeting with Sanders. Keep an eye out for white smoke pouring out f

After ChatGPT’s viral success starting in late 2022, a legion of corporations jumped on the AI bandwagon by launching their own AI chatbots. More often than not, these were extremely limited, intended for customer support, product recommendations, and the like. But what if the AI powering those chatbots could be diverted for other, more productive purposes? That’s precisely what’s been happening to Chipotle’s Pepper, a “concierge bot” launched on Facebook

Last month, Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon delivered a speech to the graduates of the Wharton School about how easily he can make music with artificial intelligence—a message that was not exactly well-received. During an appearance on Bloomberg’s Odd Lots podcast, the banker who moonlights as a DJ remixed the message to produce something that sounds a little more revolutionary—even if he’s probably full of shit. Near the end of his hour-long conversation

A new draft bill that would regulate some of the most advanced artificial intelligence tools was released for public comment by Republican Rep. Jay Obernolte of California and Democratic Rep. Lori Trahan of Massachusetts on Thursday. The Obernolte-Trahan bill, dubbed the Great American AI Act, would ask large AI developers to keep the government informed about the development of its frontier models, make plans to mitigate the most severe harms to cybersecu