AI/ML News

This researcher turned OpenAI’s open weights model gpt-oss-20b into a non-reasoning ‘base’ model with less alignment, more freedom

Morris found it could also reproduce verbatim passages from copyrighted works, including three out of six book excerpts he tried.Read…

6 months ago

9 Best Pillows (2025) Tested For Side, Back, and Stomach Sleepers

We’ve spent over a year testing the best pillows to support your noggin, whether you snooze on your side, back,…

6 months ago

That ‘cheap’ open-source AI model is actually burning through your compute budget

New research reveals open-source AI models use up to 10 times more computing resources than closed alternatives, potentially negating cost…

6 months ago

AI Slop Is Ripping Off One of Summer’s Best Games. Copycats Are Proving Hard to Kill

Peak has sold millions of copies and is Aggro Crab’s biggest hit to date. That makes it a prime target…

6 months ago

A new way to test how well AI systems classify text

Is this movie review a rave or a pan? Is this news story about business or technology? Is this online…

6 months ago

Google adds limited chat personalization to Gemini, trails Anthropic and OpenAI in memory features

Google updated the Gemini app running of Gemini 2.5 Pro to reference all historical chats and offer new temporary chats.Read…

6 months ago

Tiny “talking” robots form shape-shifting swarms that heal themselves

Scientists have designed swarms of microscopic robots that communicate and coordinate using sound waves, much like bees or birds. These…

6 months ago

OpenAI Designed GPT-5 to Be Safer. It Still Outputs Gay Slurs

The new version of ChatGPT explains why it won’t generate rule-breaking outputs. WIRED’s initial analysis found that some guardrails were…

6 months ago

Robots learn human-like movement adjustments to prevent object slipping

To effectively tackle a variety of real-world tasks, robots should be able to reliably grasp objects of different shapes, textures…

6 months ago

AOL Will Shut Down Dial-Up Internet Access in September

The move will pinch users in rural or remote areas not yet served by broadband infrastructure or satellite internet. Around…

6 months ago