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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt posted a photo to X on Wednesday from the new Air Force One, a plane gifted to President Donald Trump from the government of Qatar, despite anti-bribery rules intended to stop that kind of transaction. Blatant corruption aside, users on social media noticed something weird in the background of the photos of the newly refurbished plane. What a privilege to be aboard the inaugural flight on the brand new Air Force

In the late eighteenth century, Hungarian inventor Wolfgang von Kempelen constructed what many people living at the time were duped into believing was the first truly intelligent machine: an ornate wooden chest, presided over by a magisterial wooden statue of a turbaned man—a “Turk”—that could move around the pieces of a chessboard as if by magic and win game after game against actual, human chess players. It was eventually revealed to be a hoax: A chess m

Much has been made of the emergence of generative AI and its strain on the electrical grid due to the energy demand. So just wait until you see how much energy agentic AI consumes. A new research paper from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology set out to quantify the “hidden costs” of AI agents, and found they can consume up to 136.5 times more energy per query than generative AI models. There’s a logic to the fact that AI agents require

In an effort to save tech bloggers from a lot of annoying typing, xAI has finally been rebranded: We are now @SpaceXAI. pic.twitter.com/ema66xDWC9 — SpaceXAI (@SpaceXAI) July 6, 2026 I’m elated. Do you have any idea how much I’ve dreaded writing about “xAI,” with its leading lowercase letter? How much I loathed explaining that the Elon Musk-owned operator of the Grok chatbot was acquired by Elon Musk-owned SpaceX back in February, before SpaceX became publ

A new research paper from Anthropic hypothesizes that there’s an internal “workspace” within the operations of the Claude LLM. The significance the paper is groping toward is that this so-called “J-Space” inside Claude is sort of like one leading idea about human consciousness—global workspace theory. The J-Space, according to my reading of the paper, is an ostensibly brain-like separation between something more like automatic data-crunching in the backgro

If you’re not already familiar with the concept known as “Tilly Norwood,” it’s an AI-generated representation of a person, and in marketing materials, it’s treated vaguely like a celebrity who can sing and act, when it is, in fact, nothing more than a high-tech version of someone’s doodle of a pretty lady. The latest Tilly Norwood news is that apparently the doodle is now going to be added to a feature film. The production, according to NBC (which apparent

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Consider the following scenario. Suzy is 63, recently retired, and trying to decide when to start receiving Social Security and how to manage her retirement savings to minimize the tax hit.She opens an AI chatbot, types in the details and gets a calm, well-organized and confident answer: Claim now, convert this much, here is the reasoning. The cha

China has been making big strides in its sprint to catch up with the American AI industry lately, thanks in large part to its focus on open source models, which have growing appeal for cash-strapped U.S. businesses. But that accessibility could soon be limited, as Beijing weighs the possibility of cutting off foreign access to the country’s top AI systems. Chinese state officials met with Chinese tech developers Alibaba, ByteDance, and Z.ai over the past m

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

AI safety advocates have plenty of hypothetical disaster scenarios they can evoke in order to win support for their cause. But none of those have the raw emotional appeal of killer robots. For decades, we as a culture have been steeped in sci-fi depictions of intelligent machines going rogue and waging war against their human creators. Films like The Terminator and The Matrix come to mind, for example. A 2017 episode of the British TV series Black Mirror c

Using the most advanced AI models at a corporate scale isn’t cheap, even for a company as massive as Microsoft. The cost of AI tokens, the unit used to measure how much computing work a model is doing, is getting so expensive that Microsoft is reportedly turning to its own models to save some cash. Bloomberg reports, citing an unnamed source, that tens of thousands of AI prompts each week in Microsoft’s Excel and Outlook software are now being completed us

In a blog post on Tuesday, Meta announced the release of an AI image generator called Muse Image, along with an as-yet unreleased video generator called Muse Video. Elon Musk’s X rolled out something very much like this image generator, which features social media integration, about two years ago, and OpenAI released its video generator via the Sora social media app in September of last year. So I guess from a certain standpoint, a social media slop genera

A Microsoft sign and logo are pictured at the company's headquarters, Friday, April 4, 2025, in Redmond, Wash. Credit: AP Photo/Jason Redmond, File Microsoft said Wednesday that annual revenue for its flagship Azure cloud computing platform has surpassed $75 billion, up 34% from a year earlier. The Azure cloud business is a centerpiece of Microsoft's efforts to shift its focus to artificial intelligence, but until Wednesday the company hadn't disclosed how

The Facebook logo is seen on a cell phone in Boston, USA, Oct. 14, 2022. Credit: AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File Meta's artificial intelligence spending spree appears to be paying off with investors, who sent the company's stock soaring after hours on Wednesday following a blowout quarterly earnings report. The Menlo Park, California-based company easily beat Wall Street's expectations for the second quarter, helped by higher advertising revenue and a growing

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A Los Angeles-area startup is using artificial intelligence and robotics in an unlikely way: making sashimi and other fish dishes taste better, last longer and be more humane. El Segundo, California-based Shinkei Systems wants to bring a traditional Japanese method of handling fish to fine dining in America, using technology to replace the labor-intensive process historically handled by practitioners on board ships. Invest

The researchers worked with community advisers when developing and testing the prototype. From left are community advisers Mitchell Case, Emma Elko and Kevin Williams. Credit: Pennsylvania State University Communication is a fundamental human right, and many individuals need augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) approaches or tools, such as a notebook or electronic tablet with symbols the user can select to create messages, to communicate effect

A woman walks using her headphones on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2023, in New York. Credit: AP Photo/Andres Kudacki, File Is it The Velvet Underground or Velvet Sundown? The fictitious rock group, Velvet Sundown, which comes complete with AI-generated music, lyrics and album art, is stoking debate about how the new technology is blurring the line between the real and synthetic in the music industry, and whether creators should be transparent with their audience. Co