Author: Advanced AI Editor

Contrary to the computer science truism of “garbage in, garbage out, Google here is taking in some garbage and spitting out… well, a workable interpretation of garbage, at the very least. Google’s AI Overview even goes into more detail explaining its thought process. “Lick” here means to “trick or deceive” someone, it says, a bit of a stretch from the dictionary definition of lick as “comprehensively defeat,” but probably close enough for an idiom (and a plausible iteration of the idiom, “Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me…”). Google also explains that the badger part…

Anthropic, the AI startup behind the Claude family of models, released a new report as part of their Economic Index Research. The latest report suggests that Anthropic’s products, the web-based conversational AI platform Claude.ai and the coding agent tool Claude Code, are increasingly being used to automate coding processes, rather than simply using them as assistants.  The company analysed 5 lakh coding-related interactions across both products. Anthropic reported that 79% of conversations on Claude Code involved “automation”, where the AI directly completed tasks. The remaining 21% were categorised as “augmentation”, where the AI collaborated with users to enhance their capabilities.…

P-1 AI, a startup that has been operating in stealth mode, announced on Monday that it has raised $23 million, led by Radical Ventures. The startup aims to build an AI agent called ‘Archie’, which will automate tasks typically performed by humans in the physical domain.  The startup was founded by Aleksa Gordić, a former researcher at Google DeepMind, along with Paul Eremenko, a former CTO of Airbus, among others.  “Our vision is simple: we want to build an engineering AGI (artificial general intelligence) for the real world to help us design airplanes, Dyson spheres, cars, HVAC (heating, ventilation and…

During the Q1 earnings call, Tesla VP of Vehicle Engineering Lars Moravy set expectations on the design of the affordable models that the company is expected to launch this 2025. As per the Tesla executive, the models that Tesla will release in the coming months will resemble the company’s current lineup. Drone footage from the Fremont Factory earlier this month might have provided the EV community its first potential glimpse at Tesla’s affordable cars–fondly dubbed by EV fans and analysts as the “Model 2” or even “Model Q”–or at least their components and overall shape. The Sighting Tesla watcher and…

[Submitted on 24 Apr 2025 (v1), last revised 27 Apr 2025 (this version, v2)] View a PDF of the paper titled Integrating Learning-Based Manipulation and Physics-Based Locomotion for Whole-Body Badminton Robot Control, by Haochen Wang and 8 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Learning-based methods, such as imitation learning (IL) and reinforcement learning (RL), can produce excel control policies over challenging agile robot tasks, such as sports robot. However, no existing work has harmonized learning-based policy with model-based methods to reduce training complexity and ensure the safety and stability for agile badminton robot control. In this paper, we introduce Hamlet,…

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 is to invest $150 billion into the US over the next five years to “accelerate its role as the global leader in computing”. This historic investment represents one of the largest corporate commitments to American technology infrastructure in recent decades. The tech giant’s huge pledge includes $30 billion for research and development to continue IBM’s manufacturing of mainframe and quantum computers. This level of R&D funding demonstrates IBM’s dedication to maintaining its competitive edge in critical computing technologies while supporting American innovation.“Technology doesn’t just build the future – it defines it,” Arvind Krishna, IBM chairman, president and chief executive…

Lee Goldberg is a self-identified “Recovering Engineer,” Maker/Hacker, Green-Tech Maven, Aviator, Gadfly, and Geek Dad. He spent the first 18 years of his career helping design microprocessors, embedded systems, renewable energy applications, and the occasional interplanetary spacecraft. After trading his ‘scope and soldering iron for a keyboard and a second career as a tech journalist, he’s spent the next two decades at several print and online engineering publications. Lee’s current focus is power electronics, especially the technologies involved with energy efficiency, energy management, and renewable energy. This dovetails with his coverage of sustainable technologies and various environmental and social issues…

Barely a month after Elon Musk engineered the unconventional merger of his AI startup xAI and the social media platform X, the resulting entity, XAI Holdings Corp., is already looking for a massive capital injection. People familiar with the matter report that the company is in discussions with investors to secure roughly $20 billion in new funding, with suggestions the final amount could climb higher. Should the deal proceed, it could assign the combined operation a valuation exceeding $120 billion, a significant step up from the $113 billion figure cited during the March/April merger. This scale would also make it…

Poker Face’s Natasha Lyonne has a new project in the works that seemed poised to become a case study in the debate about how and whether Hollywood should be using generative AI.Lyonne is teaming up with technologist and virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier to produce a new sci-fi film that will feature elements generated by AI models. Titled Uncanny Valley, the feature will tell the story — which Lyonne co-wrote with The OA’s Brit Marling — of a teenage girl whose life is turned upside down by a popular virtual reality game. In addition to directing, Lyonne will star in…