AI/ML News

Despite Protests, Elon Musk Secures Air Permit for xAI

xAI’s gas turbines get official approval from Memphis, Tennessee, even as civil rights groups prepare to sue over alleged Clean…

8 months ago

Centaur: AI that thinks like us—and could help explain how we think

Researchers at Helmholtz Munich have developed an artificial intelligence model that can simulate human behavior with remarkable accuracy. The language…

8 months ago

Capital One builds agentic AI modeled after its own org chart to supercharge auto sales

Capital One's head of AI foundations explained at VB Transform on how the bank patterned its AI agents after itself.Read…

8 months ago

A Pro-Russia Disinformation Campaign Is Using Free AI Tools to Fuel a ‘Content Explosion’

Consumer-grade AI tools have supercharged Russian-aligned disinformation as pictures, videos, QR codes, and fake websites have proliferated.

8 months ago

RisingAttacK: New technique can make AI ‘see’ whatever you want

Researchers have demonstrated a new way of attacking artificial intelligence computer vision systems, allowing them to control what the AI…

8 months ago

Kayak and Expedia race to build AI travel agents that turn social posts into itineraries

Planning a trip may soon be more agentic as companies like Kayak and Expedia reimagine the travel agent as an…

8 months ago

Senator Blackburn Pulls Support for AI Moratorium in Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Amid Backlash

After critics called the bill a “get-out-jail-free-card” for Big Tech that could make it nearly impossible to rein in social…

8 months ago

Quantum computers just beat classical ones — Exponentially and unconditionally

A research team has achieved the holy grail of quantum computing: an exponential speedup that’s unconditional. By using clever error…

8 months ago

Using generative AI to help robots jump higher and land safely

Diffusion models like OpenAI's DALL-E are becoming increasingly useful in helping brainstorm new designs. Humans can prompt these systems to…

8 months ago

Between utopia and collapse: Navigating AI’s murky middle future

AI is disrupting the world, but it also presents an opportunity to ask what we are here for, and our…

8 months ago