Economy
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Niantic uses Pokémon Go player data to build AI navigation system
Last week, Niantic announced plans to create an AI model for navigating the physical world using scans collected from players…
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AI-generated shows could replace lost DVD revenue, Ben Affleck says
Last week, actor and director Ben Affleck shared his views on AI’s role in filmmaking during the 2024 CNBC Delivering…
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ChatGPT’s success could have come sooner, says former Google AI researcher
In 2017, eight machine-learning researchers at Google released a groundbreaking research paper called Attention Is All You Need, which introduced…
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IBM boosts the amount of computation you can get done on quantum hardware
There’s a general consensus that we won’t be able to consistently perform sophisticated quantum calculations without the development of error-corrected…
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New secret math benchmark stumps AI models and PhDs alike
On Friday, research organization Epoch AI released FrontierMath, a new mathematics benchmark that has been turning heads in the AI…
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Ars Live: Our first encounter with manipulative AI
In the short-term, the most dangerous thing about AI language models may be their ability to emotionally manipulate humans if…
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Is “AI welfare” the new frontier in ethics?
A few months ago, Anthropic quietly hired its first dedicated “AI welfare” researcher, Kyle Fish, to explore whether future AI…
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Claude AI to process secret government data through new Palantir deal
Anthropic has announced a partnership with Palantir and Amazon Web Services to bring its Claude AI models to unspecified US…
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New SMB-friendly subscription tier may be too late to stop VMware migrations
Broadcom has a new subscription tier for VMware virtualization software that may appease some disgruntled VMware customers, especially small to…
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Matter 1.4 has some solid ideas for the future home—now let’s see the support
Matter, the smart home standard that promises an interoperable future for home automation, even if it’s scattered and a bit…
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