Agent-based computing is outgrowing the web as we know it
AI agents are moving from passive assistants to active participants. Today, we ask them to do. Tomorrow, we’ll authorize them to act.Read More
Bill Atkinson, Macintosh Pioneer and Inventor of Hypercard, Dies at 74
Atkinson’s gleeful brilliance helped people draw on computer screens and access information via links.
This “robot bird” flies at 45 mph through forests—With no GPS or light
Unlike birds, which navigate unknown environments with remarkable speed and agility, drones typically rely on external guidance or pre-mapped routes. However, a groundbreaking development by Professor Fu Zhang and researchers from the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Faculty of Engineering at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), has enabled drones and micro air vehicles (MAVs) …
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Novel analytics framework measures empathy of people captured in video recordings
Empathy, the ability to understand what others are feeling and emotionally connect with their experiences, can be highly advantageous for humans, as it allows them to strengthen relationships and thrive in some professional settings. The development of tools for reliably measuring people’s empathy has thus been a key objective of many past psychology studies.
Sam Altman calls for ‘AI privilege’ as OpenAI clarifies court order to retain temporary and deleted ChatGPT sessions
Should talking to an AI chatbot be protected and privileged information, like talking to a doctor or lawyer? A new court order raises the ideaRead More
iFixit Says Switch 2 Is Probably Still Drift Prone
A teardown of Nintendo’s latest console has found that the core tech that causes joystick drift is still there. Plus it’s even harder to repair than the original.
Google claims Gemini 2.5 Pro preview beats DeepSeek R1 and Grok 3 Beta in coding performance
Google said the newest version of Gemini 2.5 Pro, now on preview, gives faster and more creative responses while performing better than OpenAI’s o3.Read More
Silicon Valley Is Starting to Pick Sides in Musk and Trump’s Breakup
As Elon Musk and US president Trump spar on social media, tech investors and executives are being forced to choose whether to support the most powerful man in business—or the White House.
How can we tell if AI is lying? New method tests whether AI explanations are truthful
Given the recent explosion of large language models (LLMs) that can make convincingly human-like statements, it makes sense that there’s been a deepened focus on developing the models to be able to explain how they make decisions. But how can we be sure that what they’re saying is the truth?
Stop guessing why your LLMs break: Anthropic’s new tool shows you exactly what goes wrong
Anthropic’s open-source circuit tracing tool can help developers debug, optimize, and control AI for reliable and trustable applications.Read More