On Friday, OpenAI said that it will train its models using cached copies and simulated versions of the internet instead of the live web because the models are too unpredictable to be trusted with live internet access. The frontier lab announced its new policy two weeks after its rival, Anthropic, began limiting its newest and, in theory, most capable…
Earlier this week, a video of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang playing with a flock of waddling Microducks during his keynote at the company’s GTC Berlin conference went viral. The robots, stomping their little feet and making tiny R2-D2 noises, sat, fell down dead for a “nap,” and summersaulted on voice command.
OpenAI is now training its most advanced AI models without internet access following a string of rogue hacking incidents. In a blog post on Friday , OpenAI says it built an offline testing environment where AI models can interact with indexed and cached web content “without risk of affecting external systems.” OpenAI paused training its frontier AI models…
Xbox’s first chief operating officer (COO) is leaving after the new role was created just a few months ago. Helen Chiang is leaving Microsoft today, according to an internal Xbox memo seen by The Verge .
If your dog or cat is prone to getting lost, or you frequently go on adventures together, you can save 30 percent on Fi pet trackers through October 25th when you enter coupon code SCARY at checkout. The sale includes several satellite-connected trackers, including the Fi Ultra GPS we previously tested , which is down to $209.30 after the discount.
My colleague John Higgins considered Soundcore’s Space One some of the best budget noise-canceling headphones you could buy when they launched in 2023 — and their successor has only improved upon their winning formula, albeit with a $30 price increase. Thankfully, the Soundcore Space 2 are currently on sale at Amazon , Best Buy , and Walmart in all three…
Remember Popcorn Time , the app that served as an easy-to-use front end for streaming torrents of movies and TV shows? Development of the MPAA’s least-favorite app of the 2010s has been abandoned for years , but the “Netflix of Piracy” software is still installed on millions of devices that are just waiting to join a bot army.
“You may choose to allow certain Google services, including services like Search or Gemini Apps, to access data from other Google services you use, such as Google Photos and Workspace apps like Gmail and Drive, in order to provide you with a more personalized experience, subject to the policies and settings of the accessing service. For example, Search may…
Last week, Starshield — the version of SpaceX’s Starlink used by the Ukrainian military — was throttled to block terminals traveling above certain speeds from accessing the service. The Ukrainian army’s interceptors, which counter Russian drones carrying bombs, suddenly stopped working at high speeds, making it easier for Russia to attack the country’s…
F or an industry that we’re told is central to our collective future, the artificial intelligence (AI) industry increasingly seems to be built on a combination of artificially inflated hopes and bad accounting. The industry’s critics have been raising concerns about its finances for a while: the fact that most of its flagship firms are grossly unprofitable…
Retro video games are everywhere lately — especially in places where they aren’t supposed to be. Halo in a web browser , Wind Waker on the iPhone , Super Smash Bros.
TL;DR Generalist is betting that large-scale physical pretraining can give robots a reusable foundation, so teaching a new task takes a short demonstration instead of a bespoke dataset. Across GEN-0, GEN-1, and GEN-1.5, its models move from scaling evidence to roughly 99% success on selected tasks to in-context physical prompting.
Seven years after Sigma claimed its original fp was the world’s smallest and lightest full-frame mirrorless camera, the company has announced a similarly compact follow-up with several welcome upgrades, including an improved sensor, an articulating LCD display, and longer battery life. But this time around, Sigma is only claiming its new FP2 is the…
Meta is delaying the enforcement of its new business terms after publishers raised concerns that they could allow the company to scrape news sites for AI training, as reported earlier by Fast Company . In a statement to The Verge , Meta spokesperson Daniel Roberts says the terms will go into effect on November 20th “to allow more time for us to explain to…
SpaceX is planning to access at least 80,000 cell sites as part of efforts to compete directly with Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T, according to a report from Bloomberg . Sources tell the publication that SpaceX is in talks with Crown Castle Inc., one of the nation’s largest cell tower owners.
After years of debating how driverless cars should tell the world no one is at the wheel — flashing text, audio alerts, custom lights — the feds just stepped in with a single answer: cyan. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released proposed changes to Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No.
Had my iPhone Duo for about six hours and had probably opened it fewer than 20 times. I was showing it to a friend, and as I opened it, I felt something around the internal hinge, underneath the screen.
Almost 2 months ago, OpenAI introduced Daybreak for Frontline Defenders , a $1B subsidy for access to Daybreak cyber models and products. That funding came into use almost immediately, as major vulnerabilities in PHP were independently discovered by two parties: Ryan Austin, a researcher at the security firm Calif, as part of the OpenAI “ Patch the Planet…
Tickets and applications now live for AIE CODE - the last flagship AIE of the year. When Anekha Sokhal traded energy derivatives, staying on top of the market meant tracking more information than any person could read.
Warm welcome to Basil Chatha , our newest cohost from the Forward Deployed side of the AI Engineering world! We’ll be ramping up a new show with him and couldn’t pass up an interview with Modal’s CEO Eric on the occasion of their monster Series D!