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As geopolitical events shape the world, it’s no surprise that they affect technology too – specifically, in the ways that the current AI market is changing, alongside its accepted methodology, how it’s developed, and the ways it’s put to use in the enterprise. The expectations of results from AI are balanced at present with real-world realities. And there remains a good deal of suspicion about the technology, again in balance with those who are embracing it even in its current nascent stages. The closed-loop nature of the well-known LLMs is being challenged by instances like Llama, DeepSeek, and Baidu’s recently-released…

Image: Anthropic Anthropic has introduced a new Research function in its Claude artificial intelligence model, enabling the system to autonomously perform multi-step investigations. Claude can deliver a well-reasoned response with verifiable citations in just minutes, aiming to strike a “balance of speed and quality.” The AI startup says Claude responds to prompts “agentically,” independently working out what information it needs to grab next to build the correct response. It “explores different angles of your question automatically and works through open questions systematically,” Anthropic said in its press release. The Research feature is currently in early beta and can be accessed…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More A segment on CBS weekly in-depth TV news program 60 Minutes last night (also shared on YouTube here) offered an inside look at Google’s DeepMind and the vision of its co-founder and Nobel Prize-winning CEO, legendary AI researcher Demis Hassabis. The interview traced DeepMind’s rapid progress in artificial intelligence and its ambition to achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI)—a machine intelligence with human-like versatility and superhuman scale. Hassabis described today’s AI trajectory as being on an “exponential curve of improvement,” fueled by…

The BriefOpenAI CEO Sam Altman said polite prompts to ChatGPT come with real energy costs.He estimated that courtesy adds up to “tens of millions of dollars” in electricity.Experts say polite language also improves AI response tone and professionalism.LOS ANGELES – Being polite to ChatGPT might feel like good manners — and according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, it’s also a surprisingly expensive habit.In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Altman revealed that saying “please” and “thank you” to ChatGPT costs the company “tens of millions of dollars” due to the increased computational and energy load required to process polite, often more…

[Submitted on 17 Apr 2025 (v1), last revised 21 Apr 2025 (this version, v2)] View a PDF of the paper titled Recursive Deep Inverse Reinforcement Learning, by Paul Ghanem and 6 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Inferring an adversary’s goals from exhibited behavior is crucial for counterplanning and non-cooperative multi-agent systems in domains like cybersecurity, military, and strategy games. Deep Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL) methods based on maximum entropy principles show promise in recovering adversaries’ goals but are typically offline, require large batch sizes with gradient descent, and rely on first-order updates, limiting their applicability in real-time scenarios. We…

Anthropic on Wednesday introduced Claude’s Max plan, a new subscription tier for its viral chatbot and ChatGPT competitor. The plan has two price points — $100 per month or $200 per month — offering different amounts of usage. Subscribers will get “priority access to new models and capabilities,” including Claude’s voice mode when it launches. Anthropic, the artificial intelligence startup backed by Amazon, on Wednesday introduced Claude’s Max plan, a new subscription tier for its chatbot that competes with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Customers can pay $100 per month for five times the amount of usage as the company’s Pro plan, or $200…

Researchers from Stanford University early today published the latest edition of their annual AI Index Report, detailing the growing influence of artificial intelligence technologies on our society and the global economy. The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, known as Stanford HAI, has been publishing its annual reports on the state of the AI industry since 2017. This year’s edition, the eighth, is the “most comprehensive” report to date, spanning more than 430 pages. The authors say it’s arriving at a critical juncture as the influence of AI across society rapidly accelerates with the emergence of increasingly capable and sophisticated…

IBM Corp. is partnering with the European Space Agency to create an artificial intelligence system that will keep tabs on climate change and other global issues, such as water scarcity, in real time using space-based data. IBM says the new system, called TerraMind, is the most advanced “Earth observation” model ever conceived, and it’s being made available to researchers through the Hugging Face platform today. The open-source model was trained on TerraMesh, which is the largest set of freely available geospatial data, created by researchers as part of the TerraMind project. IBM says TerraMind is a multimodal model based on…

In response, also on Monday, the student filed a motion seeking the temporary restraining order, records show.Separately Monday, MIT President Sally Kornbluth sent a letter to the campus community stating that nine people connected to the Cambridge institution have had their visas revoked. At Tuesday’s hearing in federal court in Boston, lawyer Stephen J. Antwine said his client is set to graduate in six weeks and plans to pursue a PhD afterward. He said she found out from MIT that her F1 student visa was terminated on April 4.Antwine argued that the student’s termination in a federal database that maintains…

But the topline figures obscure a fragmented regulatory approach The government wants the UK to provide an agile, adaptive environment for AI developers. Is the existing regulatory framework up to it? Following on from yesterday’s coverage in Computing of Labour Party proposals to manage and regulate AI technology development, the government yesterday set out it’s approach in response to the consultation it published last March. Last years’ white paper focused on an agile, pro-innovation approach to AI regulation. The government made clear that it wanted to regulate with a light touch. A crucial aspect of this light touch regulation was…