artificial intelligence

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. ...

Google’s Gemini Robotics AI Model Reaches Into the Physical World

Google’s Gemini Robotics AI Model Reaches Into the Physical World

Mickey Vernon

In sci-fi tales, artificial intelligence often powers all sorts of clever, capable, and occasionally homicidal robots. A revealing limitation of ...

Student helps coders use AI to cheat in Google, other job interviews

Student helps coders use AI to cheat in Google, other job interviews

John Ray

A person walks past the entrance to a Google building in Dublin, Feb. 15, 2023. Artur Widak | Anadolu | Getty ...

TSMC announces 0 billion investment in U.S. chip plants

TSMC announces $100 billion investment in U.S. chip plants

John Ray

C.C. Wei, TSMC Group CEO, stands on the future site of a chip factory under the name European Semiconductor Manufacturing ...

OpenAI Launches GPT-4.5 for ChatGPT—It’s Huge and Compute-Intensive

OpenAI Launches GPT-4.5 for ChatGPT—It’s Huge and Compute-Intensive

Mickey Vernon

GPT-4.5 is here, and OpenAI’s newest generative AI model is bigger and more compute-intensive than ever—it’s supposedly also better at ...