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(Source: Who Is Danny/Shutterstock) Thanks to AI’s nonstop improvement, it’s becoming difficult for humans to spot deepfakes in a reliable manner. This poses a serious problem for any form of authentication that relies on images of the trusted individual. However, some approaches to countering the deepfake threat show promise. A deepfake, which is a portmanteau of “deep learning” and “fake,” can be any photograph, video, or audio that’s been edited in a deceptive manner. The first deepfake can be traced back to 1997, when a project called Video Rewrite demonstrated that it was possible to reanimate video of someone’s face to insert…
China’s multi-billion-dollar AI infrastructure gold rush is now unraveling, according to a new investigative report from Caiwei Chen, a reporter covering technology topics related to China at MIT Technology Review. “Just months ago, a boom in data center construction was at its height, fueled by both government and private investors. However, many newly built facilities are now sitting empty,” Chen writes, noting the publication has sources on the ground including contractors, an executive at a GPU server company, and project managers. The sources say companies who built datacenters during the boom are now treading water, and according to Chinese news…
Fine-tuning helps mitigate this problem, guiding the model to act as a helpful assistant and to refuse to complete a prompt when its related training data is sparse. That fine-tuning process creates distinct sets of artificial neurons that researchers can see activating when Claude encounters the name of a “known entity” (e.g., “Michael Jordan”) or an “unfamiliar name” (e.g., “Michael Batkin”) in a prompt. A simplified graph showing how various features and circuits interact in prompts about sports stars, real and fake. A simplified graph showing how various features and circuits interact in prompts about sports stars, real and fake.…
Rachel Moran, professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law, recently spoke with TMJ4 News about a criminal complaint involving Milwaukee police officers Chad Boyack and Anthony Milone. Public defenders and a former defendant want to know why two Milwaukee police officers are not on the Brady list despite being deemed not credible in a criminal case by a Milwaukee County judge. The Brady list tracks officers with alleged credibility concerns due to accusations of past crimes, dishonesty, bias or other integrity issues. … According to the criminal complaint, Milwaukee police officers Chad Boyack and Anthony Milone pulled…
(Source: Shutterstock) Last week’s GTC 2025 show may have been agentic AI’s breakout moment, but the core technology behind it has been quietly improving behind the scenes. That progress is being tracked across a series of coding benchmarks, such as SWE-bench and GAIA, leading some to believe AI agents are on the cusp of something big. It wasn’t that long ago that AI-generated code was not deemed suitable for deployment. The SQL code would be too verbose or the Python code would be buggy or insecure. However, that situation has changed considerably in recent months, and AI models today are…
Many of us are old enough to remember the Apollo Saturn V rocket lifting off the launch pad. It took about 12 seconds for the rocket to clear the tower. The five big engines pushed a lot of mass. The goal, of course, was getting men and equipment to the moon and back. Big goals take organization, lots of people, and a big push to keep the effort moving. Launch of Apollo 15. (Source: NASA, public domain) The Trillion Parameter Consortium (TPC), formed in 2023, is an international organization designed to push AI-focused scientific computing into a sustained orbit. Its goals include building an…
Since 1968, the Museu de Arte de São Paulo has commanded attention on the city’s bustling Avenida Paulista for its iconic modernist building, a red-pillar, suspended structure designed by architect Lina Bo Bardi. After more than six years of planning and construction, a new 14-floor building with an additional 82,600 square feet of space, will join it, an expansion effort that will increase MASP’s exhibition space by 66 percent. Related Articles At a cost of almost $43.5 million, all obtained through private donations, this much-awaited annex, which opens to the public March 28, represents MASP’s first expansion since its moved…
Garmin is jumping into the fitness subscription game with a new AI-powered service designed to deliver smarter, more personalized insights to people who own its devices.The new service, called Garmin Connect Plus, is designed to give you more tailored, actionable insights using AI, plus extras like expert training tips and expanded LiveTrack features. Existing features and data in its Garmin Connect app will remain free, the company announced Thursday. Throughout the day, Garmin Connect Plus will give you insights and suggestions based on your health and activity data, along with customizable graphs and charts spanning various time periods to give a…
Serop Simonian, the alleged leader of an Egyptian antiquities trafficking ring, mysteriously left Paris for Hamburg during his jail sentence in January. The now 83-year-old dealer is believed to be behind the sale of allegedly smuggled Egyptian antiquities to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Louvre Abu Dhabi for a collective €60 million ($64 million). In 2022, following a criminal investigation, several objects were seized including a gold sarcophagus and five other antiquities from the Met, as well as the indictment of seven dealers, collectors, and curators such as the former president of the Musée du Louvre Jean-Luc Martinez. Related…
After three years of climate activism, the British protest group Just Stop Oil announced on Thursday that it would end demonstrations directly targeting museums and public spaces in the country. The group has become known for high-profile demonstrations that have involved throwing food at paintings by artists like Van Gogh and Leonardo da Vinci in museums. But it will officially cease organizing those protests at the end of April. Earlier this month, the UK adopted a law early this month that bars license for new oil and gas projects that haven’t already been approved, a change the eco-group had been…