Author: Advanced AI Editor
The FTC announced on Thursday that it is launching an inquiry into seven tech companies that make AI chatbot companion products for minors: Alphabet, CharacterAI, Instagram, Meta, OpenAI, Snap, and xAI. The federal regulator seeks to learn how these companies are evaluating the safety and monetization of chatbot companions, how they try to limit negative impacts on children and teens, and if parents are made aware of potential risks. This technology has proven controversial for its poor outcomes for child users. OpenAI and Character.AI face lawsuits from the families of children who died by suicide after being encouraged to do…
In the one-pager, Cruz noted that “most US rules and regulations do not squarely apply to emerging technologies like AI.” So “rather than force AI developers to design inferior products just to comply with outdated Federal rules, our regulations should become more flexible,” Cruz argued. Therrier noted that once regulations are passed, they’re rarely updated and backed Cruz’s logic that AI firms may need support to override old rules that could restrict AI innovation. Consider the “many new applications in healthcare, transportation, and financial services,” Therrier said, which “could offer the public important new life-enriching service” unless “archaic rules” are…
Dutch cloud computing company Nebius has raised $3.75 billion via sales of stock and convertible notes, according to Bloomberg. These sales are designed to help Nebius acquire additional compute power and hardware, secure “strategic high-quality and well-located” plots of lands with reliable providers and to expand its data center footprint, according to a Wednesday (Sept. 10) news release. “We believe this will enable us to aggressively grow our core business in 2026 and beyond as we aim to scale our global data center portfolio, including through new greenfield sites, and the expansion of our customer base, from AI native tech startups…
Tesla is looking to make a big splash with Robotaxi in a new market, as the company was spotted testing validation vehicles in one region where it has not yet launched its ride-hailing service. After launching Robotaxi in Austin in late June, Tesla followed up with a relatively quick expansion to the Bay Area of California. Both service areas are operating with a geofence that is expansive: In Texas, it is 173 square miles, while in the Bay Area, it is roughly 400 square miles. Tesla has been transparent that it is prioritizing safety, but it believes it can expand…
Developing autonomous LLM agents capable of making a series of intelligent decisions to solve complex, real-world tasks is a fast-evolving frontier. Like human cognitive development, agents are expected to acquire knowledge and skills through exploration and interaction with the environment. Despite advances, the community still lacks a unified, interactive reinforcement learning (RL) framework that can effectively train such agents from scratch — without relying on supervised fine-tuning (SFT) — across diverse and realistic environments. To bridge this gap, we introduce AgentGym-RL, a new framework to train LLM agents for multi-turn interactive decision-making through RL. The framework features a modular and…
Chinese regulators reportedly dissuaded local companies from purchasing NVIDIA’s H20 chips, because they found certain statements by US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick “insulting.” According to the Financial Times, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) teamed up to intensify their efforts to push the use of homegrown chips following Lutnick’s remarks in an interview with CNBC.The US, if you’ll recall, blocked NVIDIA from selling its H20 chips to China back in April out of concern that the Chinese military would use them to develop AI…
This year we’ve seen remarkable advances in agentic AI, including systems that conduct deep research, operate computers, complete substantial software engineering tasks, and tackle a range of other complex, multi-step goals. In each case, the industry relied on careful vertical integration: tools and agents were co-designed, co-trained, and tested together for peak performance. For example, OpenAI’s recent models presume the availability of web search and document retrieval tools (opens in new tab). Likewise, the prompts and actions of Magentic-One are set up to make hand-offs easy—for example, allowing the WebSurfer agent to pass downloaded files to the Coder agent. But as agents proliferate, we anticipate strategies relying heavily on vertical integration will not age well. Agents from different developers or companies will increasingly encounter each other and must work together to complete tasks, in what we…
In her new memoir Art Work, photographer Sally Mann writes that she now has reservations about one series featuring Black men—and reveals that she even removed some of these works from her 2018 National Gallery of Art exhibition because of those concerns. For that series, titled “Men” and shot between 2004 and 2018, Mann shot images of Black men who responded to ads for paid modeling sessions that she distributed at all-male colleges in her home state of Virginia. Many of the resulting images are close-up shots of hands, faces, necks, backs, and more. Related Articles Mann has previously written…
Another company is putting its faith in AI: IBM Cloud. This company’s free support will change from January 2026 because its Basic Support plan will no longer use direct human assistance. Until now, this plan allowed customers to ask for help on technical issues to IBM Cloud’s support team. However, with the incorporation of AI, users will have to make use of self-service tools and the company’s AI assistant. Many experts have already talked about AI possibly taking over our jobs in the future, but, for now, let’s focus on this case. IBM Cloud’s Basic Support plan This plan is…
NeueHouse, a high-end workspace where art events are often held, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy to liquidate its assets last week and closed all its locations on Friday, September 5. “Although NeueHouse has created an extremely valuable business that is prized by members and event hosts, unfortunately, it has been burdened by legacy liabilities,” the company reportedly informed its members. “While this is certainly not the outcome we envisioned for our business, we believe it is the most responsible path for all our stakeholders, though we deeply regret the impact this decision will have on our valued employees, members and…