Most US Adults Aren’t Ready for AI to Help With Holiday Shopping, Survey Finds

Far more people than last year are willing to use AI to help them find the right gift, but few want a bot handling their payment details.

An Anthropic AI model sent a false homicide tip to Philadelphia police

Anthropic did not discover this behavior until over two months after its AI submitted the false tip.

Qualcomm Vs Arm Day 4: Eight Jurors And The Price Of Platform Power

This case could determine how that dynamic will evolve moving forward and could impact future innovation, or lack thereof, that becomes available to end users.

‘Pure insanity’: Mathematicians will need years to make sense of OpenAI’s latest drop
‘Pure insanity’: Mathematicians will need years to make sense of OpenAI’s latest drop

“Staggering.” “Overwhelming.” “Unprecedented.” “Surreal.” “Pure insanity.” Those were among the descriptions more than three dozen mathematicians reached for in conversations with The Verge as they tried to make sense of the flood of mathematical results OpenAI abruptly dropped on the field this week. Amid the awe, excitement, and uncertainty over the sheer scale of the […]

Nikon microscopic video competition winner disqualified for using generative AI
Nikon microscopic video competition winner disqualified for using generative AI

Nikon says the video that originally won first place in its Small World in Motion contest “did not comply with the competition rules regarding generative AI.” BBC reports that the original first place video from Dr. Ning Xu claimed to show “tiny, hair-like structures called cilia moving in the airway of a child with the […]

Master AI Chip Principles With New IEEE Design Program
Master AI Chip Principles With New IEEE Design Program

Today’s engineers face an unprecedented acceleration in AI hardware complexity, as explained in the recent research article “Revisiting Edge AI: Opportunities and Challenges.” The article examines the rapid growth of edge AI and the challenges it crea…

Anderon Extends IBM’s Semiconductor Legacy To Quantum Foundry Services

IBM and the U.S. government are investing $2 billion in Anderon to bring the semiconductor foundry model to quantum computing.

Amazon and others are done keeping data center deals secret. Is it enough to build trust?

Amazon says it will stop using NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, following a similar move from Microsoft earlier this year. Secrecy has fueled community backlash against AI infrastructure, with opp…

Danu Robotics’ fight to build a better recycling robot

For six years, Danu founder Amy Ma has been working on a better way to sort recyclable waste.

We can’t help treating AI like it’s human. But should we?

“When we are drawn into even the most primitive exchanges with a relational artifact, we believe it cares for us,” Dr. Sherry Turkle writes. “And we are wired to care for it in return.”