I've Covered Robots for Years. This One Is Different
…In a conference room not far from the robots, Eka’s cofounders, Pulkit Agrawal, a professor at MIT, and Tuomas Haarnoja, an ex-Google DeepMind robotics researcher, lay out their vision for…
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Anthropic’s Mythos Will Force a Cybersecurity Reckoning—Just Not the One You Think
…With this in mind, the company is only releasing the new model to a few dozen organizations for now—including Microsoft, Apple, Google, and the Linux Foundation—as part of a consortium…
Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators
…In March, a Los Angeles jury found Meta and Google's YouTube negligent in the design of Instagram and YouTube, concluding the companies knew their platforms were dangerous and failed to warn…
Yann LeCun Raises $1 Billion to Build AI That Understands the Physical World
…Other notable backers include Mark Cuban, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and French billionaire and telecommunications executive Xavier Niel. AMI (pronounced like the French word for friend) aims to build “a new…
Europe Is Fed Up and Wants Its Own AI
…While there have been plenty of individual success stories, no country or market has come close to matching the ecosystem and mindset that gave rise to companies such as Google, OpenAI, and…
Arm Is Now Making Its Own Chips
…of the realm.” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Amazon senior vice president and distinguished engineer James Hamilton, and Google AI infrastructure chief Amin Vahdat appeared in pretaped video testimonials praising Arm’s new…
The Vatican’s Man Inside Anthropic
…I first met him when he was at Google in 2015; he’s the type of guy who, after a rainstorm, will rescue worms from dying on the sidewalk. Two men—an…
Some Electricians Think Building Data Centers Is for Sellouts
…Meta recently announced a skilled trade academy program, and Google committed $50 million to help train people in skilled trades. But amid growing national opposition to data centers, debates over the ethics…
Disneyland Now Uses Face Recognition on Visitors
…Media reports and Trump himself quickly identified the suspected shooter as 31-year-old engineer and computer scientist Cole Tomas Allen. The California resident was arrested at the scene on Saturday and…
Signal Alums Reveal ‘Encrypted Spaces,’ a System for Making Private Collaboration Apps
…The app can't simply store users' information on a server and manipulate it in that centralized location as it would for an unencrypted platform like Slack or Google Docs. Encrypted Spaces…