Garmin’s Latest Training Features Fend Off the Advances of the Apple Watch
…You can search for items in a provided database, scan barcodes from packaging, or use your camera and AI-based analysis to determine what you’re about to eat. I tested this…
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Meta’s New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale
…About the same time, the company introduced mandatory software onto corporate laptops that tracks what US employees are typing and clicking to gather data to train AI models that execute tasks such…
5 Reasons to Think Twice Before Using ChatGPT—or Any Chatbot—for Financial Advice
…Visit ChatGPT's “data controls” tab to change your settings. Even if you opt out of AI training, it can be risky to upload so much sensitive data about your money to…
Jeff Bezos Is Funding a Wild Hunt for the Brain’s ‘Core Algorithm’
…A person uses about 20 watts of energy to process information; a single chip in an AI training cluster uses more than 30 times that amount. The hyperscalers require thousands of chips…
OpenAI Really Wants Codex to Shut Up About Goblins
…inspiring AI-generated scenes of goblins in data centers, and plug-ins for Codex that put it in a playful “goblin mode.” AI models like GPT-5.5 are trained to predict…
Google Is Rebranding the Fitbit App to ‘Google Health’
…to Google One's AI Pro and AI Ultra subscription plans. The Health Coach is powered by Google's Gemini models, though the data this model is trained on is “grounded in…
There’s a Long-Shot Proposal to Protect California Workers From AI
…In Congress, there are a handful of proposals for grants and tax credits for companies to provide AI training to existing employees. Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, has previously suggested the concept…
Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find
…Anthropic, which first revealed this behavior, recently said that Claude is most likely influenced by fictional scenarios involving malevolent AIs included in its training data. Imas says the work is just a…
I've Covered Robots for Years. This One Is Different
…Rather than having humans provide training data, the company wants robots to learn how to do things for themselves. They spend thousands of computer hours practicing movements inside simulated worlds and inventing…
The UK Launches Its $675 Million Sovereign AI Fund
…They will use that computer to train new models and run simulations. “Sovereign AI is unlike anything Government has ever done before. Its unique approach will help break down the barriers that…