“This signal on the oscilloscope may seem simple at first glance, but it demonstrates a key building block for our platform, representing the birth of the world’s first scalable, mass-manufacturable, and energy-efficient probabilistic computing platform,” says Guillaume Verdon, CEO of Extropic and the man behind the wildly popular, provocative, and sometimes controversial online persona Based…
Databricks, a company that helps big businesses build custom artificial intelligence models, has developed a machine-learning trick that can boost the performance of an AI model without the need for clean labeled data. Jonathan Frankle, chief AI scientist at Databricks, spent the past year talking to customers about the key challenges they face in getting…
Guillaume Verdon stands before me with a new kind of computer chip in his hand—a piece of hardware he believes is so important to the future of humanity that he’s asked me not to reveal our exact location, for fear that his headquarters could become the target of industrial espionage. This much I can tell…
The same pop-up menu lets you change the style of your image too. Right now your options are Animation and Illustration, and you can swap between them as needed. Based on code seen in beta versions of iOS, more art styles could be on the way, but they haven’t arrived at the time of writing….
In September 2021, Jim Lanzone took over a company whose name once embodied the go-go spirit of the internet but had, over the years, become a joke: Yahoo. He accepted the CEO post from the new private-equity owner Apollo Global Management, which had bought the property from Verizon, the most recent and possibly most clueless…
“When there are great tools out there, GSA’s job is to procure them, not make mediocre replacements,” a colleague added. “Did you use this AI to organize the [reduction in force]?” asked another federal worker. “When will the Adobe Pro be given back to us?” said another. “This is a critical program that we use…
Isla Fulford, a researcher at OpenAI, had a hunch that Deep Research would be a hit even before it was released. Fulford had helped build the artificial intelligence agent, which autonomously explores the web, deciding for itself what links to click, what to read, and what to collate into an in-depth report. OpenAI first made…
The Trump administration’s Federal Trade Commission has removed four years’ worth of business guidance blogs as of Tuesday morning, including important consumer protection information related to artificial intelligence and the agency’s landmark privacy lawsuits under former chair Lina Khan against companies like Amazon and Microsoft. More than 300 blogs were removed. On the FTC’s website,…
It’s not rocket science. A huge part of the reason why Ray-Ban Meta Wayfarers are the best face computer is because a lot of people already do want to wear Ray-Ban Wayfarers. It’s a lot easier to persuade people to wear a smart accessory when that accessory looks sharp as hell. Meta has committed to…
In late 2023, a team of third-party researchers discovered a troubling glitch in OpenAI’s widely used artificial intelligence model GPT-3.5. When asked to repeat certain words a thousand times, the model began repeating the word over and over, then suddenly switched to spitting out incoherent text and snippets of personal information drawn from its training…