Author: Advanced AI Bot
(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…
A new AI alignment player has entered the arena.Emmett Shear, Adam Goldstein and David Bloomin have set up shop in San Francisco with a 10-person start-up called Softmax. The company is part research lab and part aspiring money maker and aimed at figuring out how to fuse the goals of humans and AIs in a novel way through what the founders describe as “organic alignment.” It’s a heady, philosophical approach to alignment that seeks to take cues from nature and the fundamental traits of intelligent creatures and systems, and we’ll do our best to capture it here.“We think there are…
Starting today, those who own an Echo smart speaker or Echo Show display won’t be able to block their devices from sending all voice recordings to Amazon for analysis. The retail juggernaut’s disturbing change in its privacy policies is creating a privacy ultimatum — essentially making consumers choose between their privacy and using these devices at all. Keeping voice recordings local is an important privacy feature for any voice assistant, and removing it raises serious questions about what Amazon is listening to. And even if you didn’t know about these privacy settings before, I bet you’re worried about voice-assistant privacy…
When I saw my colleague Kylie Robison’s story about OpenAI’s new image generator on Tuesday, I thought this week might be fun. Generative AI images raise all kinds of ethical issues, but I find them wildly entertaining, and I spent large chunks of that day watching other Verge staff test ChatGPT in ways that covered the entire spectrum, from cute to cursed.But on Thursday afternoon, the White House decided to spoil it. Its X account posted a photograph of a crying detainee that it bragged was an arrested fentanyl trafficker and undocumented immigrant. Then it added an almost certainly AI-generated…
We all know AI tools can do a lot these days. But how good are they at searching the internet?It’s a big question, and it matters. Because according to Future’s own research (Future publishes TechRadar), almost a third of US respondents said they now use AI instead of traditional search engines, like Google.Some turn to ChatGPT and other chatbots. Others use AI tools built specifically for searching and researching, like Perplexity. And even if we’re not actively choosing AI tools, AI is showing up in our searches anyway, like those little Google summaries that now pop up at the top…