AI/ML News

OpenAI-backed startup Figure teases new humanoid robot ‘Figure 02’

Figure is backed by OpenAI among others to the tune of $675 million in its last round in February, but…

2 years ago

2024 Summer Olympics: A Self-Healing Pole Vault Pole Is One Great Leap for Sports Tech

Pole vaulting is a spectacular, dangerous sport. Modern poles could be drastically improved to make them more reliable, with healable…

2 years ago

Why editing the knowledge of LLMs post-training can create messy ripple effects

After the advent of ChatGPT, the readily available model developed by Open AI, large language models (LLMs) have become increasingly…

2 years ago

Hedra releases video-focused foundation model Character-1

Hedra released its AI video model Character-1 after raising cash from Index Ventures, A16Z Speedrun and Abstract.Read More

2 years ago

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

The chipmaker, which has fallen behind competitors, is slashing 15 percent of its workforce.

2 years ago

Researchers introduce novel approach allowing robots to be trained in simulations of scanned home environments

At the top of many automation wish lists is a particularly time-consuming task: chores.

2 years ago

The Incredible Physics of Simone Biles’ Yurchenko Double Pike

Calculating angular velocity and the moment of inertia isn’t quite as hard as competing in the 2024 summer Olympics gymnastics…

2 years ago

Analysis reveals that most major open- and closed-source LLMs tend to lean left when asked politically charged questions

When 24 different state-of-the-art Large Language Models (LLMs) were administered a battery of different tests designed to reveal political orientation,…

2 years ago

OpenAI launches experimental GPT-4o Long Output model with 16X token capacity

It is a variation on its signature GPT-4o model from May, but with a massively extended output size: up to…

2 years ago

The Affordable Connectivity Program Died—and Thousands of Households Have Already Lost Their Internet

The ACP provided affordable internet connectivity to low-income Americans. Since it expired in May, around 100,000 Charter subscribers have had…

2 years ago