FLUX.1 Kontext enables in-context image generation for enterprise AI pipelines
FLUX.1 Kontext from Black Forest Labs aims to let users edit images multiple times through both text and reference images without losing speed.Read More
WIRED Talked to a Fired DOGE Staffer About Who Was Really in Charge
Sahil Lavingia, who says he was fired from DOGE after speaking out about his experiences there, told WIRED about how he communicated with the group, who appears to be in charge, and what might be coming next.
Horses ‘mane’ inspiration for new generation of social robots
Interactive robots should not just be passive companions, but active partners — like therapy horses who respond to human emotion — say researchers.
Four-legged robot plays badminton with humans
A small team of roboticists at Robotic Systems Lab, ETH Zurich, in Switzerland, has designed, built and tested a four-legged robot capable of playing badminton with human players.
DanaBot takedown shows how agentic AI cut months of SOC analysis to weeks
Agentic AI played a decisive role in dismantling DanaBot, a Russian malware platform responsible for more than 50 million dollars in damages.Read More
Why Anthropic’s New AI Model Sometimes Tries to ‘Snitch’
The internet freaked out after Anthropic revealed that Claude attempts to report “immoral” activity to authorities under certain conditions. But it’s not something users are likely to encounter.
Mid-air transformation helps flying, rolling robot to transition smoothly
Engineers have developed a real-life Transformer that has the ‘brains’ to morph in midair, allowing the drone-like robot to smoothly roll away and begin its ground operations without pause. The increased agility and robustness of such robots could be particularly useful for commercial delivery systems and robotic explorers.
GPT-4o exhibits humanlike cognitive dissonance, study finds
A leading large language model displays behaviors that resemble a hallmark of human psychology: cognitive dissonance.
Donald Trump’s Media Conglomerate Is Becoming a Bitcoin Reserve
Trump Media and Technology Group, the parent company to Truth Social, has announced plans to buy up billions of dollars’ worth of bitcoin.
GPT-4 matches human performance on analogical reasoning tasks, study shows
Can large language models (LLMs) reason by analogy? Some outputs suggest that they can, but it has been argued that these results reflect mimicry of the results of analogical reasoning in the models’ training data.