For years, I barely used Siri for anything beyond menial tasks like setting timers or alarms. That has changed with iOS 27, as I now go back to Siri for complex requests and to make sense of on-screen context again and again. While Siri is clearly front and center in this software update by Apple,…
As the AI world shifts its focus to safety and alignment, Microsoft has released a new AI code of conduct meant to guide AI models away from dangerous behavior. The document is more low-level than Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s recent call for pacing the frontier, instead focusing on the values and red lines that guide…
Automattic’s board is out, a number of sources have confirmed to TechCrunch, after final week’s try to oust CEO Matt Mullenweg by voting to place him on a paid go away of absence. After the vote, Mullenweg, the WordPress founder and CEO of WordPress.com mum or dad firm Automattic, accused the board of conspiring in…
Not long ago, bringing an extinct species back to life belonged to science fiction. Today, it’s the mission of a billion-dollar startup. Advances in artificial intelligence, genetics, and computational biology are changing what’s possible in conservation research, raising questions that extend far beyond the laboratory. If technology can help revive extinct species, should it? And…
As requires synthetic intelligence regulation intensify, US President Donald Trump’s workforce have made it clear that if lab leaders need to implement an industry-wide slowdown, they’re going to must do it themselves. Anthropic chief government Dario Amodei referred to as on the US authorities to control AI firms inside a wider effort to gradual the…
Nearly 150 politicians throughout Europe have been included on dangerous deepfake pornography web sites over the previous couple of years, in response to new analysis seen by WIRED. A number of the politicians, who’re overwhelmingly ladies, have had their likeness included in express movies, whereas others have names and pictures listed in disturbing database-like entries…
When Petra Ferraz de Novaes isn’t at work, she’s most likely misplaced in a fantasy crafted with the assistance of synthetic intelligence. Novaes, a 36-year-old software program engineer from Brazil, has at all times beloved storytelling. However making each little choice that goes into it—from fashion and syntax to character growth—felt unimaginable. So in 2024…
Robot developers do not have one compute problem. They have 3. A policy is trained on GB200 or H100 clusters, tested in Isaac Sim on RTX GPUs, then validated on a Jetson mounted inside a real robot. Each tier has its own cluster, its own scheduler, and its own glue scripts. NVIDIA OSMO is NVIDIA’s…
On September 12, 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a writeup ‘We Must Pace the Frontier’. Its core message is blunt: ‘We must slow the pace at which we improve the capabilities of AI models.’ Within hours, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and xAI’s Elon Musk endorsed it. The next day, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella welcomed ‘deliberate…
The AI industry seems to be having its loudest debate yet about whether its technology poses an existential threat to humanity. The current discussion began after AI researcher Jacob Coxon said that he’s resigned from Anthropic because he’s worried that the leading AI companies are “gambling with our lives.” Then Anthropic’s alignment lead chimed in…
