The Guy Behind the Fake AI Halloween Parade Listing Says You’ve Got It All Wrong

The Guy Behind the Fake AI Halloween Parade Listing Says You’ve Got It All Wrong

I appreciate that. We own this mistake. So your name is Nazir Ali, but when you say “we”— We are not going to give you any personal information that might be harmful for us. Everyone is writing about us, and they are telling us that we are scammers. Would you be comfortable telling me about…

Meta’s Next Llama AI Models Are Training on a GPU Cluster ‘Bigger Than Anything’ Else

Meta’s Next Llama AI Models Are Training on a GPU Cluster ‘Bigger Than Anything’ Else

Managing such a gargantuan array of chips to develop Llama 4 is likely to present unique engineering challenges and require vast amounts of energy. Meta executives on Wednesday sidestepped an analyst question about energy access constraints in parts of the US that have hampered companies’ efforts to develop more powerful AI. According to one estimate,…

‘BBL Drizzy’ Was the Beginning of the Future of AI Music

‘BBL Drizzy’ Was the Beginning of the Future of AI Music

Not all AI tools are the generate-from-scratch types like Google’s MusicFX, Suno, and Udio that independent creators like Hatcher use—there are also ones for extracting stems, for mixing and mastering, and for brainstorming lyrics, all of which are finding user bases amongst hobbyists as well as professional producers. Sam Hollander, a pop hitmaker who has…

AI Slop Is Flooding Medium

AI Slop Is Flooding Medium

Some Medium writers and editors do applaud the platform’s approach to AI. Eric Pierce, who founded Medium’s largest pop culture publication Fanfare, says he doesn’t have to fend off many AI-generated submissions and that he believes that the human curators of Medium’s boost program help highlight the best of the platform’s human writing. “I can’t…

Apple’s Sales in China Are Stalling. What Will It Sacrifice to Turn Things Around?

Apple’s Sales in China Are Stalling. What Will It Sacrifice to Turn Things Around?

Since then, though, the expectations of the level of Apple’s capitulation have only grown more onerous. Algorithms that determine what the public sees online or through AI have to be registered with the Chinese authorities, and new AI legislation is largely focused on controlling the exact public-interfacing models that Western tech companies want to get…

A High-Profile Geneticist Is Launching a Fusion-Power Moonshot

A High-Profile Geneticist Is Launching a Fusion-Power Moonshot

Eric Lander is a Big Science heavyweight. A geneticist, molecular biologist, and mathematician, he led the International Human Genome Project and is founding director of the powerful Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. His countless accolades include a MacArthur “genius” grant and 14 honorary doctorates. When Joe Biden became president, he tapped Lander to be…

Google, Microsoft, and Perplexity Are Promoting Scientific Racism in Search Results

Google, Microsoft, and Perplexity Are Promoting Scientific Racism in Search Results

Google added that part of the problem it faces in generating AI Overviews is that, for some very specific queries, there’s an absence of high quality information on the web—and there’s little doubt that Lynn’s work is not of high quality. “The science underlying Lynn’s database of ‘national IQs’ is of such poor quality that…

Anthropic Wants Its AI Agent to Control Your Computer

Anthropic Wants Its AI Agent to Control Your Computer

Demos of AI agents can seem stunning, but getting the technology to perform reliably and without annoying (or costly) errors in real life can be a challenge. Current models can answer questions and converse with almost humanlike skill, and are the backbone of chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini. They can also perform…