Collaborate Disseminate
A new Brookings Institution study notes the “strikingly physical” economic footprint of AI’s buildout, from specialized chips and electricity to purpose-built data centers. (Two-thirds of a data center’s costs are IT equipment, with one-third going to … Continue reading Just How Big is the AI Buildout – and How Risky?
Waymo’s self-driving car technology “continues to outperform human benchmarks,” the company claimed this week. “It was involved in 841 fewer injury-causing crashes — an 82% reduction compared to human drivers.”
Electrek reports:
We’ve seen va… Continue reading Waymo Says Its Self-Driving Cars Reduced Injury-Causing Accidents by 82%
“OpenAI said it has paused training of its latest AI models,” reports the Associated Press, “as reports of AI agents going rogue mount.”
The decision to halt development came just hours after the company disclosed Friday that it was reviewing several … Continue reading After Dozens of Incidents at OpenAI and Anthropic, OpenAI Pauses Model Training to Build More Safeguards
Could this push solar cell efficiency beyond the theoretical 33% limit? Interesting Engineering reports:
Researchers at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands found that tin-based perovskite solar cells can slow heat loss from high-energy “ho… Continue reading New Tin-based Solar Cells Trap Heat 1,000 Times Longer, Could Beat 33% Limit
The United States and China have agreed to “launch a dialogue” on AI, reports Reuters.
On artificial intelligence, the two sides agreed to hold a dialogue on the technology’s risks and benefits, with the next round of discussions set for November, and… Continue reading China and the US Say They’ve Agreed to Start Talks About AI
Last weekend KDE’s annual Akademy conference included a presentation proposing
an AI-native KDE,” writes The Register. This led KDE developer Nate Graham to open a discussion about proposed restrictions on LLM-assisted contributions which “rapidly beca… Continue reading KDE and GNOME Developers Ponder How to Handle AI-Generated Contributions
Microsoft’s senior product manager for Excel acknowledges that “Throughout Excel’s 40-year history, you’ve only been able to put one value per cell.” But that’s now changing with arrays in cells (as well as nested arrays) and lists.
“You can create a … Continue reading After 40 Years, Microsoft Excel Will Add Single-Cell Lists and Arrays
“Finding vulnerabilities faster also puts pressure on Linux distributions to fix and deliver patches faster,” writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli
AI has transformed bug discovery from “a manual, time-intensive process into a highly automated engine,”… Continue reading AI Finds So Many Linux Bugs, Canonical Changes to a Two-Week Stable Release Update Cycle
“Copilot+ PCs” were Microsoft’s official branding for Windows 11 “AI PCs” that met their system requirements. But the 2024 launch “didn’t go smoothly,” writes Windows Central, after security researchers discovered its proposed “Recall” feature was woef… Continue reading Is Microsoft Quietly Killing Off Its ‘Copilot+ PC’ Brand?
53 images that users uploaded into OpenAI models were included in training data — and then AI agents in an OpenAI research environment posted those 53 images on public image hosting sites.
While posted as links that weren’t publicly listed, “the… Continue reading Rogue OpenAI Agents Posted 53 User-Uploaded Images Onto the Internet, Accessed US Government Websites