AI researcher warns 'we are racing to build and grow our own adversary' in NYC hearing
The leading AI labs are facing intensifying scrutiny over their safety and security practices.
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The leading AI labs are facing intensifying scrutiny over their safety and security practices.
Read the original →OpenAI said the new visual ads will show up after image generation results appear. For now they are available in the U.S. only.
Read the original →Fortnite quietly replaced a piece of in-game artwork after fans spotted that the original version contained a Google Gemini AI watermark.
Read the original →A Swedish teacher showcases Google's Gemini, Sites and Vids for student empowerment.
Read the original →The article says trade-offs abound in the new world of consumer electronics.
Read the original →OpenVision is an open-source iPhone app that drives Ray-Ban Meta glasses with a model of the owner's choosing. It can now be signed in with a ChatGPT Plus account.
Read the original →The Potts Law Firm has asked the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation to centralize and consolidate the growing number of AI-related cases.
Read the original →Amazon has hired former Microsoft Copilot CTO Pedram Rezaei as a distinguished engineer. The hire expands its push into AI agents and workplace tools.
Read the original →After succeeding Steve Ballmer in 2014, Satya Nadella turned Microsoft into a cloud giant. He is now tasked with making the company a force in AI.
Read the original →Microsoft is confronting a familiar challenge for CEO Satya Nadella: changing its business model before the technology market changes around it. The company moved early in generative AI through OpenAI, but has yet to produce a breakout product.
Read the original →Axios reports that Reflection AI, backed by Nvidia at a $25B valuation, is nearing an open-weight model built to rival DeepSeek and Qwen.
Read the original →The 4-node NVIDIA DGX Spark rig pools 512 GB of memory. That is more than enough for the 476 GB footprint of the DeepSeek V4.1-Flash model.
Read the original →The article says the largest problem of all is agency. It notes that people applying for a job now have a good chance of being told "algorithm says no."
Read the original →According to NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, there are four waves of the artificial intelligence revolution. The first, Perception AI, started in 2012 and focused on core recognition tasks such as speech recognition and image classification.
Read the original →The editorial says a mathematical breakthrough depended on AI, but also on a creative human insight.
Read the original →The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued the first federal appellate decision directly addressing copyright fair use in the AI-training context. On September 29, 2026, in the case between Thomson Reuters and the now-defunct startup ROSS Intelligence, it affirmed a district court's decision that Ross infringed the copyrights in Thomson Reuters's Westlaw headnotes. Ross had used the headnotes to train an AI-driven legal research tool.
Read the original →Some believe it is unnecessary to establish a new treaty for military AI, while others disagree. This division also exists among States.
Read the original →Manulife announced a two-year presenting partnership with The Hinton Lectures. The partnership supports the 2026 and 2027 lecture series.
Read the original →Huawei and Qualcomm announced a multi-year, broad patent license agreement. It includes cross licenses to the companies' patent portfolios across a range of technology fields.
Read the original →In a video interview, the OpenAI CEO discusses what he thinks of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, ChatGPT and suicide prevention, being portrayed by Andrew Garfield, and having more children.
Read the original →Elon Musk says SpaceX will rename its artificial-intelligence unit. He ties the change directly to President Donald Trump's push to replace the term "art
Read the original →Open models from the US have been few and far between. The article says that is about to change.
Read the original →President Donald Trump is pushing for the rapid development of AI and data centers. Pope Leo said safety concerns about the technology should be taken seriously.
Read the original →The piece describes AI as junk food for the mind: easy, tempting and ultimately very bad for you.
Read the original →Luca Guadagnino and Andrew Garfield speak frankly about what went into their film about Sam Altman and OpenAI. They also discuss why Amazon chose not to release it.
Read the original →In a resurfaced ETH Zurich lecture clip, Yann LeCun tells university researchers to stay away from LLMs and generative models.
Read the original →On 13 September, mathematicians and computer scientists gathered at the annual Heidelberg Laureate Forum in Germany for a week of discussion and networking. The description says the chatter at such events is normally about which famed researchers are attending or what problems they have been working on.
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