artificial intelligence

Small Language Models Are the New Rage, Researchers Say

Small Language Models Are the New Rage, Researchers Say

Albert Wagner

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Large language models work well because they’re so large. The ...

The AI Race Has Gotten Crowded—and China Is Closing In on the US

The AI Race Has Gotten Crowded—and China Is Closing In on the US

Mickey Vernon

Stanford’s report shows Chinese AI is on the rise overall, with models from Chinese companies scoring similar to their US ...

Yuval Noah Harari: ‘How Do We Share the Planet With This New Superintelligence?’

Yuval Noah Harari: ‘How Do We Share the Planet With This New Superintelligence?’

Mickey Vernon

Libertarians often take these mechanisms for granted and refuse to consider where they come from. For example, you have electricity ...

Elon Musk’s xAI Acquires X, Because of Course

Elon Musk’s xAI Acquires X, Because of Course

Mickey Vernon

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence firm xAI has acquired his social media platform X in an all-stock transaction that values the ...

Databricks Has a Trick That Lets AI Models Improve Themselves

Databricks Has a Trick That Lets AI Models Improve Themselves

Mickey Vernon

Databricks, a company that helps big businesses build custom artificial intelligence models, has developed a machine-learning trick that can boost ...

Google quantum exec says tech is ‘5 years out from a real breakout’

Google quantum exec says tech is ‘5 years out from a real breakout’

John Ray

A handout picture from October 2019 shows Sundar Pichai with one of Google’s Quantum Computers in the Santa Barbara lab, ...

OpenAI’s Sora Is Plagued by Sexist, Racist, and Ableist Biases

OpenAI’s Sora Is Plagued by Sexist, Racist, and Ableist Biases

Mickey Vernon

Despite recent leaps forward in image quality, the biases found in videos generated by AI tools, like OpenAI’s Sora, are ...

Yahoo Is Still Here—and It Has Big Plans for AI

Yahoo Is Still Here—and It Has Big Plans for AI

Mickey Vernon

In September 2021, Jim Lanzone took over a company whose name once embodied the go-go spirit of the internet but ...

An AI Coding Assistant Refused to Write Code—and Suggested the User Learn to Do It Himself

An AI Coding Assistant Refused to Write Code—and Suggested the User Learn to Do It Himself

Mickey Vernon

Last Saturday, a developer using Cursor AI for a racing game project hit an unexpected roadblock when the programming assistant ...

The U.S. is falling behind China in nuclear fusion, needed to power AI

The U.S. is falling behind China in nuclear fusion, needed to power AI

John Ray

China and the U.S. are in a race to create the first grid-scale nuclear fusion energy. After decades of U.S. ...

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