Tesla Shareholders Approve Elon Musk’s $1 Trillion Pay Package
The unprecedented payday will go into full effect by 2035—as long as Tesla hits ambitious financial and production targets.
Fake or the real thing? How AI can make it harder to trust the pictures we see
A new study has revealed that artificial intelligence can now generate images of real people that are virtually impossible to tell apart from genuine photographs.
Google Cloud updates its AI Agent Builder with new observability dashboard and faster build-and-deploy tools
Google Cloud has introduced a big update in a bid to keep AI developers on its Vertex AI platform for concepting, designing, building, testing, deploying and modifying AI agents in enterprise use cases. The new features, announced today, include additional governance tools for enterprises and expanding the capabilities for creating agents with just a few …
FAA Plan to Cut Flights Might Not Be an Utter Nightmare
The US government is aiming to ease the pressure on air traffic controllers suffering shutdown-related woes by curtailing flights. But airlines have experience with this kind of sudden disruption.
Artificial neurons that behave like real brain cells
USC researchers built artificial neurons that replicate real brain processes using ion-based diffusive memristors. These devices emulate how neurons use chemicals to transmit and process signals, offering massive energy and size advantages. The technology may enable brain-like, hardware-based learning systems. It could transform AI into something closer to natural intelligence.
Human-centric photo dataset aims to help spot AI biases responsibly
A database of more than 10,000 human images to evaluate biases in artificial intelligence (AI) models for human-centric computer vision is presented in Nature this week. The Fair Human-Centric Image Benchmark (FHIBE), developed by Sony AI, is an ethically sourced, consent-based dataset that can be used to evaluate human-centric computer vision tasks to identify and …
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Databricks research reveals that building better AI judges isn’t just a technical concern, it’s a people problem
The intelligence of AI models isn’t what’s blocking enterprise deployments. It’s the inability to define and measure quality in the first place. That’s where AI judges are now playing an increasingly important role. In AI evaluation, a “judge” is an AI system that scores outputs from another AI system. Judge Builder is Databricks’ framework for …
Lay intuition as effective at jailbreaking AI chatbots as technical methods, research suggests
It doesn’t take technical expertise to work around the built-in guardrails of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots like ChatGPT and Gemini, which are intended to ensure that the chatbots operate within a set of legal and ethical boundaries and do not discriminate against people of a certain age, race or gender.
Strengthening Our Core: Welcoming Karyne Levy as VentureBeat’s New Managing Editor
I’m thrilled to announce a fantastic new addition to our leadership team: Karyne Levy is joining VentureBeat as our new Managing Editor. Today is her first day. Many of you may know Karyne from her most recent role as Deputy Managing Editor at TechCrunch, but her career is a highlight reel of veteran tech journalism. …
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Trump’s CZ Pardon Has the Crypto World Bracing for Impact
The Trump administration has recast Binance founder CZ as a martyr—and his pardon may have unintended consequences for the US crypto industry.