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OpenAI have no mathematicians capable of understanding what they put out

OpenAI might have stolen another major proof

Training a 3.8B LLM to 0.384 CORE for $998 – Hugo Vergnes

A Stupid Idea for AI Alignment We Came with by Looking at Specification Gaming

I'm sorry, you're not going to die from an AI-engineered supervirus

Getting 50 GB/S Back from the Apple Neural Engine

AI research startup Listen Labs scrubbed a $1.5B funding round for Salesforce talks

Listen Labs walked away from a signed Series C term sheet from Menlo Ventures, sources say.

Muse, the band, lost its social media handles to Muse, Meta's new AI agent

There aren’t AirPods with cameras yet and I hope it stays that way

September Apple events are always a swirl of information and new, exciting products, and today's was no different. Apple announced its first foldable, the iPhone Duo, alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and P…

OpenAI adds a prominent AI doomer to its board of directors

Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on alignment, is joining the OpenAI Foundation as a member of its board.

Suno releases its first AI music model made with record industry help

Suno's new v6 AI music model is its first made with support from the record industry. Suno's Jack Brody told The Verge that v6 was "trained from the ground up, with a new set of data that does not inc…

OpenAI’s sly mathematical breakthrough sends a chill through academia

OpenAI's announcement Tuesday that it has solved one of mathematics' legendary Millennium Prize problems should have been a moment of triumph. The result is both an undeniable achievement and a striki…

Four Debian 13 Boxes, One Brief: 1,923 Packages on Metal, 328 in the Cloud

The same Debian 13 on a laptop and on AWS, GCE and Azure. The cloud images ship 328-350 packages against 1,923 on metal, no firmware package at all, and no tool to read the NVMe they all boot from. Ea…

Read the Apple document explaining how new listening features still protect your privacy

At Wednesday's iPhone Duo launch event, Apple announced a handful of new Siri AI Audio Intelligence features, including Siri Recap, Live Rewind, Sound Recognition, and Music Recognition. Alongside its…

How the new Apple Watches compare to the last-gen models

Apple rolled out the Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 at the "Surprise and shine" event. The new watches feature sizable improvements to the health sensors and tracking, plus the ability…

Apple Watch’s new AI features are normalizing the idea that technology is always listening

Apple says its new watches won’t save raw audio, but features that can transcribe recent speech and summarize ambient conversations raise new questions about consent, privacy, and how people behave wh…

There are new shiny iPhones, so Apple is making you pay more for older models 

Apple is raising the price of its existing iPhone models by $100, including iPhone 16, iPhone 17, and iPhone Air.

Apple’s new iPhone camera mode promises to prove your photo isn’t AI

Apple is launching a new way to prove that the picture you took isn't manipulated by AI. A new feature, called "Reference Image," will arrive with the iPhone 18 Pro lineup later this month and is supp…