In early 2025 I used to be interviewing Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei when he defined why, regardless of the corporate’s repeated acknowledgments that AI may yield catastrophic outcomes, individuals appeared largely unperturbed. “There may be compelling proof that the fashions can wreak havoc,” he mentioned. However, he added, these risks had been nonetheless theoretical. Wouldn’t…
Jina AI, part of Elastic, has released jina-ocr-v1, an end-to-end visual document parser. It takes PDFs, scans, tables, charts or invoices and returns clean Markdown in 1 pass. The model has 3.4B total parameters, with about 570M decoder parameters active per token. A speculative decoding head ships inside the checkpoint. Jina AI built it to…
Many AI researchers appear to firmly imagine that the know-how they’re creating might sometime show very harmful. What’s much less clear—even amongst AI’s technical elite—is exactly learn how to hold these mercurial algorithms in examine. In recent times researchers have thrown round all kinds of concepts for stopping AI from turning nasty. They embrace much…
ChatGPT broke Diogo Almeida’s heart. Almeida was an OpenAI researcher who helped build the chatbot and then invent reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), the model-training technique perhaps most responsible for our current age of AI. But despite its capabilities, he was disappointed. “We have lightning in a bottle, and yet it is not useful,”…
Disney has hired its first-ever chief technology officer and in a curious twist, the new executive hails from an AI startup that the Magic Kingdom previously accused of infringing on its IP. Karandeep Anand is the former CEO of Character.AI, a company that has weathered numerous legal problems since it was founded in 2021. One…
Main tremendous PACs related to AI labs and buyers have poured near $1 million into incumbent Republican Mike Rounds’s South Dakota senate race, in search of to form the result of a noncompetitive race amid a vital nationwide debate over AI regulation. Rounds has been the beneficiary this cycle of round $600,000 in spending by…
For the wealthy families who manage their own money through a family office, the math right now is simple, according to Djoann Fal, a family office advisor and investor at the private wealth platform Atlas Capital in San Francisco. A family office might want to put money into something like green energy for the long…
The app you use to trade stocks increasingly wants to be the app you use to manage your financial life. Investing, banking, credit, crypto, retirement, prediction markets, and AI-powered trading are converging. At the same time, consumers expect financial products to be as intuitive and responsive as the best technology products they use every day…
Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash. They called it its first omni-modal model built around agentic capabilities. It accepts text, images, audio, and video, and it returns text. Audio-video understanding, reasoning, and tool use sit inside one model. The stated workflow is simple: understand the content, plan the task, execute with tools, deliver the result….
On September 10, two days after researcher Jacob Coxon, who had recently quit his job at Anthropic, sounded the alarm about the industry potentially bringing about the end of humanity, the New York City Democratic Socialists of America posted a carousel of images on Instagram. The first slide was a drawing of an ouroboros—a dragon…
