In what reads a bit like a Sopranos plot, The Information suggests some of those in the recent batch of terminated Microsoft engineers may have in effect been forced to dig their own AI graves. The (paywalled) story begins: “Jeff Hulse, a Microsoft vice president who oversees roughly 400 software Read more…
New analysis by MIT Technology Review reveals AI’s rapidly growing energy demands, with data centers expected to triple their share of US electricity consumption from 4.4% to 12% by 2028. AI alone could soon consume electricity equivalent to 22% of all US households annually, driven primarily by inference operations that Read more…
On Sunday, the Chicago Sun-Times published an advertorial summer reading list containing at least 10 fake books attributed to real authors, according to multiple reports on social media. The newspaper’s uncredited “Summer reading list for 2025” supplement recommended titles including “Tidewater Dreams” by Isabel Allende and “The Last Algorithm” by Read more…
Google on Tuesday unveiled Veo 3, an AI video generator that includes synchronized audio — such as dialogue and animal sounds — setting it apart from rivals like OpenAI’s Sora. The company also launched Imagen 4 for high-quality image generation, Flow for cinematic video creation, and made updates to its Read more…
Chatbots are more persuasive in online debates than people — especially when they are able to personalize their arguments using information about their opponent. The finding, published in Nature Human Behaviour on 19 May, highlights how large language models (LLMs) could be used to influence people’s opinions, for example in Read more…
A next-generation, chatbot version of Siri has reportedly made significant progress during testing over the past six months; some executives allegedly now see it as ‘on par’ with recent versions of ChatGPT, Apple is also apparently discussing giving Siri the ability to access the internet to gather and synthesize data Read more…
OpenAI CEO and Sam Altman believe Artificial General Intelligence could arrive within the next few years. But the speculations of some technologists “are getting ahead of reality, say no one will reach AGI without a new idea — something beyond the powerful neural networks that merely find patterns in data. Read more…