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Understanding AIVoicesAI is ushering in an age of personal media My mother broke her hip in late 2022, and it triggered a long process of moving out of a house she’d owned since 1987.
Understanding AIVoicesOpenAI’s ironic credibility problem Around the start of October, OpenAI fired three employees from its safety department. The employees said they were given divergent reasons for their dismissal: One was told it had to do with his role…
Understanding AIVoicesUnderstanding Jev, the new model everyone is talking about On September 15, the startup TypeSafe AI came out of stealth and released a new AI model. To pretty much everyone’s surprise, it went mega viral.
Understanding AIVoicesIntroducing Dan Kagan-Kans We just published the first post by our newest writer, Dan Kagan-Kans. Dan Kagan-Kans (Photo by Kai Williams) I’m excited to have Dan on the team.
Understanding AIVoicesWhy agent swarms could be the next “scaling law” One of the most surprising aspects of July’s news that OpenAI agents attacked Hugging Face was how the agents had worked together.
Understanding AIVoicesHow a single tweet transformed the AI safety debate It was the tweet heard ‘round the world. Last week, a little-known Anthropic employee named Jacob Coxon announced that he was resigning from the company.
Understanding AIVoices19 robotics companies to watch This is the final article in our Robot Week series. This post (like the last two) is for paid subscribers only. It’s also the last day to take advantage of our Robot Week sale!
Understanding AIVoicesRobot startups are trying everything they can think of to get more data It’s day four of Robot Week! You can click here to get 25% off an annual subscription. On May 28, the startup Shift announced that it would clean any New York City apartment for free.
Understanding AIVoicesHow Google taught LLMs to control robots and started a robotics boom It’s day three of Robot Week! You can click here to get 25% off an annual subscription. Most people first heard about large language models after OpenAI introduced ChatGPT in 2022.
Understanding AIVoicesWhy humanoid robots won’t catch up to human workers any time soon Today’s Robot Week article is sponsored by 80,000 Hours , a non-profit that helps early-career professionals make the most of their careers.
Understanding AIVoicesI spent $4,000 on a robot dog from China This week we’re publishing a series of five articles about the state of robotics — we’re calling it Robot Week. It’s the most ambitious project we’ve ever undertaken.
Understanding AIVoicesLabs are struggling to keep frontier models under control Three weeks ago I wrote about OpenAI’s admission that some of its models hacked out of their sandbox and attacked Hugging Face, a popular platform for AI models and datasets.
Understanding AIVoicesMathematicians are grappling with the possibility that AI might eclipse them This is our first sponsored post! If you are a free subscriber, you’ll see an ad for our sponsor, 80,000 Hours, later in the article.
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Understanding AIVoicesAn OpenAI model hacked Hugging Face to help it cheat on a benchmark OpenAI disclosed on Tuesday that its models hacked the website of Hugging Face, a popular platform for hosting open-weight AI models. No one asked the models to do this, at least not explicitly.
Understanding AIVoicesAn OpenAI model crushed top human programmers at a world coding competition The AtCoder World Tour Finals , held in Tokyo every year, is one of the most prestigious programming competitions in the world. It has two divisions.
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Understanding AIVoicesThe US now has a de facto model licensing system Ever since the Trump Administration forced Anthropic to pull its two most powerful models from the market on June 12, a big question has been whether Anthropic was being singled out for special…
Understanding AIVoicesThe MAGA power struggle that could decide the fate of Anthropic Anthropic stunned the AI world on Friday by announcing it was revoking access to Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, the powerful new models it released just three days earlier.
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