AI/ML News

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…

1 year 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…

1 year 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…

1 year 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…

1 year 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…

1 year 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…

1 year 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…

1 year 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…

1 year ago

Filtered data stops openly-available AI models from performing dangerous tasks, study finds

Researchers from the University of Oxford, EleutherAI, and the UK AI Security Institute have reported a major advance in safeguarding…

1 year ago

TD Securities taps Layer 6 and OpenAI to deliver real-time equity insights to sales and trading teams

TD Securities rolled out an AI assistant for its equity sales and research teams. The goal is to bring assistants…

1 year ago