One Balatro player says they’ve taken Google’s mapped fruit fly brain and trained it to play Balatro, currently at a 20% success rate with plans for further refinement.
“We don’t want government to get in the middle,” Emil Michael, the Pentagon’s chief technology officer, told CNBC when asked about government stakes in AI companies. Michael appeared on CNBC’s Squawk on the Street on 16 September. Asked whether the Tru…
“We as a society have the right to at least know that someone is recording,” Polish developer Pawel Szydlowski told Business Insider about his ZuckOff app, which detects nearby smart glasses. Meta now plans to release a pair of smart glasses with no ca…
“Across the world’s largest enterprises, we are seeing a move from individual coding agents to software factories that serve as the core foundation from which an entire software company operates,” said Matan Grinberg, co-founder and CEO of Factory. The…
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, has stated that AI should not be subject to the same regulations as social media since it is a technology, not a product. According to POLITICO, Huang made these comments to journalists on Thursday at the AI event held by K…
“An image appearing photorealistic is no longer sufficient to establish its veracity,” Apple’s security engineers wrote as they set out how the iPhone 18 Pro will prove a photo is real. Apple published the design of Apple Reference Image on its Securit…
“The arrival of AI agents in offensive activity must drive an immediate review of security and data protection models,” wrote Francisco Pérez Bes of Spain’s data protection agency, the AEPD. The AEPD has received its first notification of a personal da…
Emulate, a UK AI startup founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, is in advanced talks to raise up to $700mn in a seed round, the Financial Times reported on Thursday. Both the FT and Bloomberg report that Index Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Pa…
“There are risks, I do think they’re more benign, or they’re more banal than people are thinking,” Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian said on Wednesday. Ohanian spoke to CNBC about the debate over AI risk. He said the tech industry has done a “pretty ton…
Magentic, a provider of AI-powered digital workers for industrialcompanies, has raised $18 million in Series A funding, a year after its launch.The round was led by Felicis, with participation from ex…