Big tech on a quest for ideal AI device
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has enlisted the legendary designer behind the iPhone to create an irresistible gadget for using generative artificial intelligence (AI).
Rethinking AI: DeepSeek’s playbook shakes up the high-spend, high-compute paradigm
DeepSeek’s advancements were inevitable, but the company brought them forward a few years earlier than would have been possible otherwise.Read More
Suspect in Minnesota Shooting Linked to Security Company, Evangelical Ministry
The alleged shooter is a 57-year-old white male; according to his ministry’s website, he “sought out militant Islamists in order to share the gospel and tell them that violence wasn’t the answer.”
Benchmarking hallucinations: New metric tracks where multimodal reasoning models go wrong
Over the past decades, computer scientists have introduced increasingly sophisticated machine learning-based models, which can perform remarkably well on various tasks. These include multimodal large language models (MLLMs), systems that can process and generate different types of data, predominantly texts, images and videos.
Just add humans: Oxford medical study underscores the missing link in chatbot testing
Patients using chatbots to assess their own medical conditions may end up with worse outcomes than conventional methods, according to a new Oxford study.Read More
24 Amazon Prime Perks You Might Not Be Using (2025)
Your membership gets you more than free two-day shipping. Here’s what you may be missing ahead of Amazon Prime Day 2025.
Explainable AI: New framework increases transparency in decision-making systems
A new explainable AI technique transparently classifies images without compromising accuracy. The method, developed at the University of Michigan, opens up AI for situations where understanding why a decision was made is just as important as the decision itself, like medical diagnostics.
Meta’s new world model lets robots manipulate objects in environments they’ve never encountered before
A robot powered by V-JEPA 2 can be deployed in a new environment and successfully manipulate objects it has never encountered before.Read More
The Meta AI App Lets You ‘Discover’ People’s Bizarrely Personal Chats
Launched in April, the Meta AI platform offers a “discover” feed that includes user queries containing medical, legal, and other seemingly sensitive information.
Less is more: Efficient pruning for reducing AI memory and computational cost
Deep learning and AI systems have made great headway in recent years, especially in their capabilities of automating complex computational tasks such as image recognition, computer vision and natural language processing. Yet, these systems consist of billions of parameters and require great memory usage as well as expensive computational cost.