artificial intelligence

Ex-Google engineers from Character.AI rejoin company with AI partnership

Ex-Google engineers from Character.AI rejoin company with AI partnership

John Ray

Pavlo Gonchar | Lightrocket | Getty Images Founders of one of the hottest artificial intelligence startups Character.AI are rejoining Google ...

Intel Is Cutting More Than 15,000 Jobs Despite Getting Billions From the US Government

Intel Is Cutting More Than 15,000 Jobs Despite Getting Billions From the US Government

Mickey Vernon

In a move likely to raise a few taxpayer eyebrows, Intel said today that it will cut 15 percent of ...

Open Source AI Has Founders—and the FTC—Buzzing

Open Source AI Has Founders—and the FTC—Buzzing

Mickey Vernon

Many of yesterday’s talks were littered with the acronyms you’d expect from this assemblage of high-minded panelists: YC, FTC, AI, ...

The ACLU Fights for Your Constitutional Right to Make Deepfakes

The ACLU Fights for Your Constitutional Right to Make Deepfakes

Mickey Vernon

On January 29, in testimony before the Georgia Senate Judiciary Committee, Hunt-Blackwell urged lawmakers to scrap the bill’s criminal penalties ...

The AI-Powered Future of Coding Is Near

The AI-Powered Future of Coding Is Near

Mickey Vernon

I am by no means a skilled coder, but thanks to a free program called SWE-agent, I was just able ...

Everything You See Is a Computational Process, If You Know How to Look

Everything You See Is a Computational Process, If You Know How to Look

Albert Wagner

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In the movie Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr challenges the physicist early in his ...

Google DeepMind’s Chatbot-Powered Robot Is Part of a Bigger Revolution

Google DeepMind’s Chatbot-Powered Robot Is Part of a Bigger Revolution

Mickey Vernon

In a cluttered open-plan office in Mountain View, California, a tall and slender wheeled robot has been busy playing tour ...

AI’s Energy Demands Are Out of Control. Welcome to the Internet’s Hyper-Consumption Era

AI’s Energy Demands Are Out of Control. Welcome to the Internet’s Hyper-Consumption Era

Albert Wagner

Right now, generative artificial intelligence is impossible to ignore online. An AI-generated summary may randomly appear at the top of ...

AI Can’t Replace Teaching, but It Can Make It Better

AI Can’t Replace Teaching, but It Can Make It Better

Mickey Vernon

Khanmigo doesn’t answer student questions directly, but starts with questions of its own, such as asking whether the student has ...

Cohere CEO and ex-Google researcher Aidan Gomez on how AI makes money

Cohere CEO and ex-Google researcher Aidan Gomez on how AI makes money

John Ray

Aidan Gomez was an intern at Google Brain in 2017, when he helped co-author the “Attention Is All You Need” ...