Jim Fan, a researcher at Nvidia who has collaborated with Goldberg, says the way AI can now control robots mirrors how software agents function. LLMS can use models trained to control physical actions—visual language action (VLA) models—just as they access different software on a computer. This week, Fan, Goldberg, and others open sourced an agentic…
The data center boom is running into serious real-world obstacles, from widespread local opposition and permitting delays to a scramble for electricity. Before those challenges even come into play, though, there’s a more basic problem: A lot of the projects being announced may never get built in the first place. With billions of dollars in AI infrastructure…
CoreWeave is rewriting how it pays for the AI boom, according to the company’s third-quarter earnings, reported on Tuesday. CoreWeave, a neocloud that rents out the computing power behind AI, said it’s increasingly asking customers to pay up front, borrowing against specific contracts, and even pursuing short-term deals that could lead to higher prices. The…
Marktechpost has launched GPU Leaderboard, a free cloud GPU price comparison for AI inference. It also shipped GPU Leaderboard: Deploy It, a Chrome extension for the same data. The site reads on-demand and spot prices from each provider’s own pricing page. The goal is simple: answer “what GPU do I…
Frontier AI labs have warned that their technology could help develop dangerous bioweapons. Now, a startup says it has developed a defense. On Wednesday, Radical Numerics announced that it has developed a new edge model called Omnii Defense that is designed to flag natural and AI-engineered pathogens using a laptop and a USB gene sequencer….
The AI industry is still reeling from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s honeypot scandal, but some in the industry see it as an issue that’s much larger than one man. The Chinese government has been active in economic espionage for decades, and with semiconductors at the center of the AI boom, there’s intense pressure to infiltrate…
For years, websites have relied on technology like CAPTCHA to prove that the user on the other end is human. More recently, social media platforms have turned to photos or videos to verify users’ identities. Now, a startup called Helix is betting that voice technology can do the same job, without requiring users to hand…
AI agents are all the rage, but they’re not quite as capable as their purveyors would have you believe. Efforts to benchmark agents tasked with complex work show that they aren’t typically reliable enough to function without close supervision. LiveBench 2.0 shows Claude Fable 5.2 and ChatGPT-6 Astra succeeding on 82.9 and 75.6 out of…
New parents take a lot of pictures of their children, but those photos often end up languishing in photo galleries, never to be seen again after the initial snap and share. A new app, Sundrop, aims to make those pictures more useful by turning them into weekly recaps, highlights, time lapses of the child growing…
A 13-year-old girl spent three months using her school-issued laptop to discuss depression, research suicide, and plan her funeral before self-harm-monitoring software finally prompted school officials to alert her parents, who intervened and stopped her, according to a lawsuit filed this month by her parents. The lawsuit alleges that Google and parent company Alphabet were…
