Amazon’s Alexa is finally getting its promised AI makeover with Alexa+, and already the online retail giant is promising the moon by baking in LLMs into practically every one of its user-end products. Will Amazon finally offer the first real AI assistant that every company and their corporate mother has promised for the last two […]
‘Does Our Code Kill Kids?’: Microsoft Employees Protest Selling AI to Israel
Microsoft kicked five employees out of a town hall event yesterday because they were protesting the company’s contracts with the Israeli military. Microsoft is providing artificial intelligence models to the Israeli military to help them fight its wars in Gaza and Lebanon, a business move that’s seen as a moral stain on the company by […]
OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 May Arrive Next Week, but GPT-5 Is Just Around the Corner
OpenAI may be preparing to slap a new coat of paint on ChatGPT with an updated AI model, GPT-4.5, as early as next week. If that’s not enough to get users excited, the Sam Altman-led company is on the path toward its ultimate model while trying to hint that this next step will finally achieve […]
Scarlett Johansson Calls for New AI Laws After Fake Video of Her Goes Viral
Scarlett Johansson is calling for the U.S. government to reign in AI after she was featured in an anti-Kanye West video that’s going viral on social media. The AI-generated video features prominent celebrities including Johansson, Drake, Natalie Portman, Steven Speilberg, Sam Altman, and Woody Allen all wearing a white T-shirt bearing a cartoon middle finger […]
Cybersecurity Experts Warn of DeepSeek Vulnerabilities as Governments Ban App
A cybersecurity company is warning businesses and organizations not to use a popular app from the generative AI company DeepSeek, saying that the program contains a number of security vulnerabilities that could compromise users’ data. The DeepSeek app, which shocked the stock market when it moved to the top of the Apple App Store in […]
This Pixar-Inspired Robot Lamp Is the First Apple Intelligence Device I Really Want
For those who love Pixar’s Luxo Jr., Apple’s engineers developed a lamp that swivels with excitement as it obeys your every whim. Thirty nine years ago, the CG wizards at Pixar made us all believe a faceless desk lamp could be enormously expressive and incredibly cute. Apple, with its mind set on home robotics, shows […]
Ha Ha, The Simpsons Has to End One Day, Right? Right??
In a moving essay in The New York Times, voice actor Hank Azaria expressed his fear that AI would one day be used to keep The Simpsons going forever. With almost 40 years of episodes under its belt, The Simpsons could provide a system with a lot of training data. What’s to stop corporations from […]
DeepSeek Gets an ‘F’ in Safety From Researchers
Usually when large language models are given tests, achieving a 100% success rate is viewed as a massive achievement. That is not quite the case with this one: Researchers at Cisco tasked Chinese AI firm DeepSeek’s headline-grabbing open-source model DeepSeek R1 with fending off 50 separate attacks designed to get the LLM to engage in […]
There Will Be More AI Ads and Fewer Movie Trailers in the Super Bowl
You didn’t think AI ads were going to end at those uncanny valley Coca-Cola polar bear commercials, did you? No, that’s just the start, and the deluge will begin on Super Bowl Sunday. Per a report in the The Hollywood Reporter, AI companies are getting ready to pour their seemingly endless piles of venture capital […]
We’re Doing AI Phrenology Again
Every few months, another highly educated academic asks: What if I tried doing debunked 18th-century race science, but with AI? The latest entry into the AI phrenology portfolio comes from a group of economics professors who say they’ve developed a method for algorithmically analyzing a single photo of a person’s face in order to calculate […]