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In a colorful commentary for the Los Angeles Times, Matt K. Lewis argued that callousness is a central feature of the second Trump administration, particularly its policies of deportation and bureaucratic cutbacks. “Once you normalize cruelty,” Lewis concluded in the piece, “the hammer eventually swings for everyone. Even the ones who thought they were swinging it.”Lewis’ word wasn’t the last, however. As they have with opinion pieces the past several weeks, Times online readers had the option to click on a button labeled “Insights,” which judged the column politically as “center-left.” Then it offers an AI-generated synopsis — a CliffsNotes…

Determining how best to incorporate AI in your reporting can be daunting. For journalists and small newsrooms navigating tight deadlines and limited resources, harnessing AI tools to carry out time consuming tasks can be pivotal. For students developing a foundational skill set for future reporting careers, the technology can’t be ignored. Think of AI tools similarly to how you do common applications like Microsoft Excel or Adobe Photoshop: AI can help free up time, which you can in turn dedicate to more in-depth reporting, and more creative writing, visuals and marketing, among other perks. However, a 2024 survey by the…

A new paper co-authored by the former CEO of Google has outlined a future where AI training data centers could be blown up by foreign nations.Eric Schmidt, along with Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang and the Center for AI Safety’s Dan Hendrycks, warned that “destabilizing AI developments could rupture the balance of power and raise the odds of great-power conflict.”The paper lays out the concept of Mutual Assured AI Malfunction (MAIM), modeled on nuclear mutual assured destruction (MAD), where any “aggressive bid for unilateral AI dominance is met with preventive sabotage by rivals.”This could involve espionage, cyberattacks, or kinetic strikes…

Nvidia announced on Tuesday that the company would face a $5.5 billion charge after the U.S. government restricted exports of its H20 artificial intelligence chip to China, a significant market for Nvidia. The H20 is one of Nvidia’s most advanced chips available in China, and this decision follows U.S. efforts to maintain an edge in the global AI race.The U.S. Commerce Department has issued new licensing requirements affecting exports of chips including models from Nvidia and AMD. Both companies experienced a drop in share prices with Nvidia down by approximately 6% and AMD by 7% in after-hours trading on…

We introduce S1-Bench, a novel benchmark designed to evaluate Large Reasoning Models’ (LRMs) performance on simple tasks that favor intuitive system 1 thinking rather than deliberative system 2 reasoning. While LRMs have achieved significant breakthroughs in complex reasoning tasks through explicit chains of thought, their reliance on deep analytical thinking may limit their system 1 thinking capabilities. Moreover, a lack of benchmark currently exists to evaluate LRMs’ performance in tasks that require such capabilities. To fill this gap, S1-Bench presents a set of simple, diverse, and naturally clear questions across multiple domains and languages, specifically designed to assess LRMs’ performance…

Robert Legato – the respected VFX innovator who won Oscars for “Titanic,” “Hugo” and “The Jungle Book” – has joined Stability AI at chief pipeline architect. In doing so, he reteams with James Cameron, an influential board member for the AI firm. Legato is credited with creating the virtual cinematography pipeline for Cameron’s “Avatar,” which went on to surpass the director’s “Titanic” as the highest grossing film of all time with $2.8 billion at the worldwide box office. Legato’s pioneering work has also included “Apollo 13,” “The Aviator,” and the virtual production of “The Lion King.” He’s also held roles…

If you are interested in building your very own local deep research AI assistant, you might be interested in Google’s Gemma 3 AI models. They represent a significant advancement in artificial intelligence, offering a compact yet robust solution tailored for local deployment. Derived from the larger Gemini series, these models combine high performance with a strong emphasis on privacy and accessibility. Featuring multimodal capabilities, support for 140 languages, and the ability to generate structured outputs, Gemma 3 is engineered to meet diverse AI research assistant and productivity demands. These models are open source and optimized for local use, allowing you…

In today’s industry news roundup: French AI specialist to identify new use cases and develop tailor-made models with shipping and logistics firm; Juniper Research expects telco AI investments to hit $22bn per year by 2029; African telco giant MTN is developing a streaming platform with Synamedia; and much more! Mistral AI, the Paris-based generative AI developer, has agreed a €100m multi-year contract with French shipping and logistics company CMA CGM to identify new AI use cases within the business and develop tailor-made models and agents. Sifted reports that as part of the five-year deal, Mistral AI will embed a dedicated…

DeepSeek is looking to make one of the core components of its AI models more open and accessible to other developers. The Chinese AI startup said it will be sharing technical details about its internal inference engine with the open-source community. Inferencing is one of the many stages of building a large language model (LLM). It involves the trained AI model generating new data, which shows the patterns that the model has learned based on its parameters. DeepSeek said that its internal inference engine and training framework have been instrumental in accelerating the training and deployment of its AI models.…