Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Beth Simone Noveck joins me on this episode of the TechSpective Podcast to talk about her book, Reboot, AI and the Race to Save Democracy. She’s a professor at Northeastern, where she leads the Burns Center for Social Change. She also founded Innovate US,…
These days, the frontier AI labs are all racing to build self-improving models. Some believe it’s the surest route to superintelligence—as AI improves itself in a mind-melting loop, the thinking goes, it will eventually surpass human comprehension (and perhaps even control). That’s all well and good, but I have a newsletter to produce. I wondered…
The United Nations (UN) chief called Monday for a global governance system to shape artificial intelligence for the good of humanity, warning against allowing the technology itself to “vibe-code” our future. With AI advancing at “runaway speed”, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres cautioned that “an experiment is being run on our own societies, without a plan…
Anthropic introduced Claude Science on Tuesday, an AI workbench that gives scientists one environment to do computational research, sparing them the hassle of bouncing between databases, pipelines, and tools. To be clear, Anthropic says Claude Science is “not a new AI model and not a more capable model for biology. It runs the same Claude…
The U.S. government is set to take an awful lot of control over which AI models get released. Two weeks after the U.S. government pulled Anthropic’s Fable and Mythos models, OpenAI’s new model seems to be headed for the same limbo. The Information broke the news Thursday that GPT 5.6 would be released only into…
Whether or not AI is already changing jobs is the topic of fierce debate. Tech layoffs hit their highest single month whole in years in Might, and AI was the most-cited purpose, in keeping with outplacement agency Challenger, Grey & Christmas. Software program engineering, in concept, is the skilled discipline most susceptible to automation, given the speedy…
Simply over a week in the past, I attended a significant synthetic intelligence convention in Zhongguancun, Beijing’s bustling high-tech district. It was full of fascinating periods referring to every little thing from recursive self-improvement—the concept fashions can tweak their very own code and advance indefinitely—to humanoid robots. And it featured just a few legends of…
Menlo Ventures announced $3 billion in funds on Tuesday, the most important increase in its 50-year historical past, pushed largely by its AI portfolio, particularly Anthropic. Its stake within the mannequin maker is now value about $14 billion, sources told Bloomberg. To listen to the oldsters at Menlo discuss it, they have been white-knuckling it…
Nvidia simply introduced a warm-water cooling system that it says can dramatically cut back the quantity of water an information middle makes use of — eliminating “just about all water utilization” inside the information middle, in keeping with an Nvidia govt in a press release. “The water consumption problem for knowledge facilities is basically…
What does an AI firm do after a type of not-acqui-hire offers, the place a rival pays traders a hefty IP “licensing” charge whereas poaching its vital expertise? For AI chipmaker Groq, the reply seems to be elevate more cash from traders — who have been mentioned to have profited handsomely after a cope with…
