artificial intelligence

Marc Andreessen Once Called Online Safety Teams an Enemy. He Still Wants Walled Gardens for Kids

Marc Andreessen Once Called Online Safety Teams an Enemy. He Still Wants Walled Gardens for Kids

Mickey Vernon

In his polarizing “Techno-Optimist Manifesto” last year, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen listed a number of enemies to technological progress. Among ...

The Big-Tech Clean Energy Crunch Is Here

The Big-Tech Clean Energy Crunch Is Here

Mickey Vernon

Big Tech’s appetite for energy is just about visible from the east coast of Scotland. Some 12 miles out to ...

Google’s AI Overviews Will Always Be Broken. That’s How AI Works

Google’s AI Overviews Will Always Be Broken. That’s How AI Works

Mickey Vernon

A week after its algorithms advised people to eat rocks and put glue on pizza, Google admitted Thursday that it ...

Does String Theory Actually Describe the World? AI May Be Able to Tell

Does String Theory Actually Describe the World? AI May Be Able to Tell

Albert Wagner

A group led by string theory veterans Burt Ovrut of the University of Pennsylvania and Andre Lukas of Oxford went ...

Mistral AI, Anthropic CEOs are the new tech rockstars in AI boom

Mistral AI, Anthropic CEOs are the new tech rockstars in AI boom

John Ray

French founder of artificial intelligence start-up Mistral AI, Arthur Mensch attends the Viva Technology show at Parc des Expositions Porte ...

Google’s AI Overview catches heat for absurd, factual errors

Google’s AI Overview catches heat for absurd, factual errors

John Ray

It’s been less than two weeks since Google debuted “AI Overview” in Google Search, and public criticism has mounted after ...

Google Taps AI to Show Shoppers How Clothes Fit Different Bodies

Google Taps AI to Show Shoppers How Clothes Fit Different Bodies

Mickey Vernon

One of the new ad formats Google announced today will allow brands to link short-form videos they made—or ones they ...

OpenAI dissolves Superalignment AI safety team

OpenAI dissolves Superalignment AI safety team

John Ray

OpenAI has disbanded its team focused on the long-term risks of artificial intelligence just one year after the company announced ...

Sam Altman’s Oklo plunges 54% in NYSE debut after SPAC

Sam Altman’s Oklo plunges 54% in NYSE debut after SPAC

Lawrence Booth

Sam Altman is now chairman of a public company. But it’s not OpenAI. On Friday, advanced nuclear fission company Oklo ...

OpenAI Is ‘Exploring’ How to Responsibly Generate AI Porn

OpenAI Is ‘Exploring’ How to Responsibly Generate AI Porn

Mickey Vernon

OpenAI released draft documentation Wednesday laying out how it wants ChatGPT and its other AI technology to behave. Part of ...