artificial intelligence
Emergency First Responders Say Waymos Are Getting Worse
Emergency first-responder leaders told federal regulators in a private meeting last month that they were frustrated with the performance of…
Elon Musk Testifies That He Started OpenAI to Prevent a ‘Terminator Outcome’
Elon Musk and Sam Altman appeared in a federal courtroom together for the first time on Tuesday as they fight…
OpenAI Really Wants Codex to Shut Up About Goblins
OpenAI has a goblin problem. Instructions designed to guide the behavior of the company’s latest model as it writes code…
Ace the Ping-Pong Robot Can Whup Your Ass
Ace is a robot that aims high: It wants to become the world champion of table tennis. It was developed…
Discord Sleuths Gained Unauthorized Access to Anthropic’s Mythos
As researchers and practitioners debate the impact that new AI models will have on cybersecurity, Mozilla said on Tuesday it…
Sam Altman’s Orb Company Promoted a Bruno Mars Partnership That Doesn’t Exist
Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning startup, Tools for Humanity, announced last week that a new product called Concert Kit—designed to give verified…
A Humanoid Robot Set a Half-Marathon Record in China
Over the weekend in China, a humanoid robot shattered world half-marathon record—the human record—by seven minutes. The star performer was…
AI Drafting My Stories? Over My Dead Body
Sportswriting legend Red Smith once said that writing a column is easy: “All you do is sit down at a…
AI Could Democratize One of Tech’s Most Valuable Resources
Nvidia is the undisputed king of AI chips. But thanks to the AI it helped build, the champ could soon…
You Can Soon Buy a $4,370 Humanoid Robot on AliExpress
Listing consumer electronics on the internet’s large ecommerce marketplaces is a key step in “democratizing” the products, allowing them to…