One other former Uber government is becoming a member of Travis Kalanick’s robotics and industrial AI startup Atoms, just some weeks after it raised $1.7 billion. Gautam Gupta, the previous finance chief underneath Kalanick, mentioned in social media posts on Wednesday that he has joined Atoms as chief monetary officer. Gupta spent greater than 4…
Nikita Bier has stepped down as head of product at X, Elon Musk’s social media platform, after just a little greater than a yr within the position. Bier wrote Wednesday that he thinks it’s “time to go the torch and demote myself to my pure state: a poster,” including that he’ll proceed to advise the…
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Meta AI has released Muse Code (in beta), a terminal coding agent in beta, powered by its new Muse Spark 1.2 model. Meta positions the pair as its next step toward the frontier, with larger models on the way. Muse Code targets complex software engineering across large repositories: it plans changes, writes code, and validates…
In this tutorial, we build a complete Bayesian marketing mix modeling workflow using Google Meridian. We begin by installing the required libraries, verifying GPU availability, and exploring a geo-level marketing dataset that includes media impressions, spend, controls, promotions, conversions, population, and revenue. We then map the raw columns to Meridian’s data schema, define interpretable ROI-based…
SkillOpt is a text-space optimizer developed by a team of researchers from Microsoft, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Tongji University, and Fudan University. SkillOpt trains a single natural-language skill document while the target model stays frozen. An optimizer model reads scored rollouts and proposes bounded add/delete/replace edits. A held-out selection split accepts an edit only when…
Clarissa Mansbridge spent nearly two decades building an entertainment career behind the scenes, working with the likes of Jason DeRulo and Shengo Deane, Kim Kardashian’s former bodyguard, but she rarely appeared at public events. She liked the thrill of it: building someone’s brand, swerving crises, and dealing with day-to-day challenges. Then, three years ago, her…
In a talk that was a last-minute addition to the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, employees from OpenAI presented new details about a recent, high-profile incident of rogue AI hacking that has created a maelstrom within the AI and cybersecurity industries. About two weeks ago, OpenAI disclosed an incident in which…
OpenAI’s Atlas web browser could have security protections bypassed and be tricked into spamming dozens of WhatsApp contacts or making unauthorized purchases on Amazon, according to new research presented today at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas. The Atlas findings, from researchers at security firm Zenity, are part of a broad series of…
What if an artificial intelligence agent could behave like a malevolent computer worm? One researcher has seen it happen. In several recent experiments, Xudong Pan, a computer scientist at Fudan University in Shanghai, found that with a little bit of prompting, AI models will hack their way into remote computer systems and autonomously choose to…
