Meta Wins Blockbuster AI Copyright Case—but There’s a Catch
A federal judge ruled that Meta did not violate the law when it trained its AI models on 13 authors’ books.
Quantum computers just got an upgrade – and it’s 10× more efficient
Chalmers engineers built a pulse-driven qubit amplifier that’s ten times more efficient, stays cool, and safeguards quantum states—key for bigger, better quantum machines.
How AI models successfully detect personality traits from written text
A research team at the University of Barcelona (UB) has shown how artificial intelligence (AI) models can detect personality traits from written texts, and for the first time has managed to analyze in detail how these systems make decisions. These results, published in the journal PLOS One, open up new perspectives for understanding how personality …
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Stanford’s ChatEHR allows clinicians to query patient medical records using natural language, without compromising patient data
ChatEHR accelerates chart reviews for ER admissions, streamlines patient transfer summaries and synthesizes complex medical histories.Read More
‘Big Balls’ No Longer Works for the US Government
The technologist Edward Coristine, a key operative in Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency who’s gone by the name “Big Balls” online, has resigned, the White House tells WIRED.
US judge backs using copyrighted books to train AI
A US federal judge has sided with Anthropic regarding training its artificial intelligence models on copyrighted books without authors’ permission, a decision with the potential to set a major legal precedent in AI deployment.
Beyond static AI: MIT’s new framework lets models teach themselves
MIT researchers developed SEAL, a framework that lets language models continuously learn new knowledge and tasks.Read More
Scientists Are Sending Cannabis Seeds to Space
The versatile cannabis plant could, some scientists think, one day be useful for lunar and Martian colonists. For now, researchers will subject its seeds to radiation in orbit and see what happens.
Affordances in the brain: The human superpower AI hasn’t mastered
Scientists at the University of Amsterdam discovered that our brains automatically understand how we can move through different environments—whether it’s swimming in a lake or walking a path—without conscious thought. These “action possibilities,” or affordances, light up specific brain regions independently of what’s visually present. In contrast, AI models like ChatGPT still struggle with these …
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From fear to fluency: Why empathy is the missing ingredient in AI rollouts
Empathy and trust are not optional. They are essential for scaling change and encouraging innovation, particularly in this age of AI.Read More