Author: Advanced AI Editor

Staff inside Google DeepMind are attempting to unionise in order to challenge the tech company’s ties with the Israeli government and its decision to sell artificial intelligence technologies to defence groups, according to reports.  Figures with knowledge of the organising spoke to the Financial Times and said approximately 300 employees inside Google DeepMind, the company’s artificial intelligence London office, want to join the Communication Workers Union (CWU).   “We’re putting two and two together and think the technology we’re developing is being used in the conflict [in Gaza],” said one engineer involved in the unionisation effort.  “This is basically cutting-edge…

OpenAI is updating ChatGPT search, its web search tool in ChatGPT, to give users an improved online shopping experience, the company announced Monday. When ChatGPT users search for products, the chatbot will now offer a few recommendations, present images and reviews for those items, and include direct links to webpages where users can buy the products. OpenAI says users can ask hyper-specific questions in natural language and receive customized results. To start, OpenAI is experimenting with categories including fashion, beauty, home goods, and electronics. OpenAI is rolling out the feature in the default AI model for ChatGPT, GPT-4o, today for…

Elon Musk’s Neuralink has officially installed its brain-chip interface (BCI) into a third human patient, and the individual shared a video this week detailing his experiences gaining control of external devices and regaining the ability to talk through the use of AI. On Monday, X user Bradford G Smith shared a video detailing his experience as the third person in the world to receive the Neuralink BCI, and as the first non-verbal patient and the first with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) to receive the implant. In the video, Smith details how the BCI works, how it’s less limiting than his…

[Submitted on 15 Jan 2022 (v1), last revised 25 Apr 2025 (this version, v5)] View a PDF of the paper titled Deep Optimal Transport for Domain Adaptation on SPD Manifolds, by Ce Ju and Cuntai Guan View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Recent progress in geometric deep learning has drawn increasing attention from the machine learning community toward domain adaptation on symmetric positive definite (SPD) manifolds, especially for neuroimaging data that often suffer from distribution shifts across sessions. These data, typically represented as covariance matrices of brain signals, inherently lie on SPD manifolds due to their symmetry and positive definiteness. However, conventional…

Stanford HAI’s 2025 AI Index Reveals Record Growth in AI Capabilities, Investment, and Regulation U.S. leads in model development, China narrows performance gap, and global optimism rises despite persistent challenges in reasoning and trust Today, the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI) released its 2025 AI Index report which provides a comprehensive look at the global state of artificial intelligence. Now in its eighth edition, the AI Index tracks, distills, and visualizes data across technical performance, economic impact, education, policy, and responsible AI, offering an empirical foundation for understanding AI’s rapid evolution. This press release features multimedia. View the full…

OpenAI is improving ChatGPT’s web search capabilities to make the AI chatbot a more useful tool for shopping.People already use ChatGPT to do research around products, but before these updates, ChatGPT didn’t make it easy to understand up-to-date prices or see visual images of the results, Adam Fry, OpenAI’s ChatGPT search product lead, told The Verge in an interview. With this new update, a shopping query might pull up a more useful result that includes things like product cards with images, prices, and star ratings in an easy-to-read format.The recommendations are organic — there are no ads and the results…

Global computing giant IBM has announced plans to invest $150 billion in the United States over the next five years. A significant portion of this investment – over $30 billion – is dedicated to expanding the company’s manufacturing facilities, particularly focusing on quantum computers and mainframes. Notably, these systems are integral to handling vast amounts of data and are crucial for critical operations across various sectors. Overall, this notable investment aims to strengthen the United States’s capabilities in quantum computing, mainframe systems, and artificial intelligence (AI). Additionally, the move also aligns with the current administration’s push for increased domestic production.…

MIT engineers have now found a way to fabricate a metamaterial that is both strong and stretchy. Credit: Carlos Portela, et al For a long time, scientists have been working to make materials that are stronger and stiffer. This is especially true in the world of metamaterials—synthetic materials with tiny, carefully designed structures that give them amazing properties. But there’s always been a trade-off: the stiffer the material, the less flexible it becomes. That’s a problem when you want something that’s both strong and able to bend or stretch—like a fabric that won’t tear or a medical device that can…

Between 2013 and 2024, global private sector investment in artificial intelligence (AI) has surged, with a few countries leading the charge. Recent data reveals that 12 nations accounted for the bulk of global AI funding during this period, underscoring a growing international race for technological leadership. The United States leads by a wide margin, raising $471 billion—more than the rest of the world combined. China follows with $119 billion, while the United Kingdom, Canada, and Israel round out the top five with $28 billion and $15 billion each, respectively. Read also: Top countries leading in artificial intelligence patents This concentrated…

Tesla is likely going to be forced to fend off a new attack that is much different than the petty vandalism, arson, and domestic terrorism it has faced from those who oppose the company and its CEO Elon Musk. It would hurt consumers more than anyone else. Over the past several months, we have reported numerous instances of vandalism against Tesla. No victim is too big or too small to be a potential target, as everything from keying vehicles to having Molotov cocktails thrown at showrooms is sufficient in the eyes of perpetrators. However, the latest attack appears to be…