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Has ChatGPT ever picked up background noise when you’re using voice? Yeah – that’s happened to us, too. Hear what’s happening, what we’re working on, and some quick solves you can do today. #shorts 🎥: Rocky from the ChatGPT iOS team source
Artist Janiva Ellis said on Tuesday that she would pull out of a talk she’d been scheduled to give at Harvard University amid scrutiny over a variety of recent developments at the school, including reported attempts at conciliation with the Trump administration, which earlier this week threatened to pull billions of dollars in funding from the school. Ellis is currently the subject of a solo show at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, a contemporary art museum run by Harvard and located on its campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She was to give a talk with art historian Rizvana Bradley,…
ChatGPT users just can’t get enough of Studio Ghibli-style image generations — so much so that the popular trend is helping fuel a record spike in users, and OpenAI is struggling to keep up.OpenAI rolled out its latest ChatGPT-4o version last week. Users took advantage of the tool’s new image generation capabilities to create images in the style of Japanese animation firm Studio Ghibli that look like they were drawn by founder and director Hayao Miyazaki himself.Social media has been flooded with the AI-animated images, leading OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to join in, updating his X profile photo with a…
[Submitted on 31 Mar 2025] View a PDF of the paper titled Noise-based reward-modulated learning, by Jes\’us Garc\’ia Fern\’andez and 2 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Recent advances in reinforcement learning (RL) have led to significant improvements in task performance. However, training neural networks in an RL regime is typically achieved in combination with backpropagation, limiting their applicability in resource-constrained environments or when using non-differentiable neural networks. While noise-based alternatives like reward-modulated Hebbian learning (RMHL) have been proposed, their performance has remained limited, especially in scenarios with delayed rewards, which require retrospective credit assignment over time. Here, we derive…
“We’d trained models to help robots with specific tasks and to understand natural language before, but this was a step change,” Carolina says. “The robot had never seen anything related to basketball, or this specific toy. Yet it understood something complex — ‘slam dunk the ball’ — and performed the action smoothly. On its first try.”This all-rounder robot was powered by a Gemini Robotics model that is part of a new family of multimodal models for robotics. The models build upon Gemini 2.0 through fine-tuning with robot-specific data, adding physical action to Gemini’s multimodal outputs like text, video and audio.…
Jeremy Allaire, Co-Founder and CEO, Circle David A. Grogan | CNBCCircle, the company behind the USDC stablecoin, has filed for an initial public offering and plans to list on the New York Stock Exchange.The prospectus, filed with the SEC on Tuesday, lays the groundwork for Circle’s long-anticipated entry into the public markets.JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup are serving as lead underwriters, and the company is reportedly aiming for a valuation of up to $5 billion.It marks Circle’s second attempt at going public. A prior merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) collapsed in late 2022 amid regulatory challenges. Since then, Circle…
Stay up to date with everything that is happening in the wonderful world of AM via our LinkedIn community.A research team from MIT’s Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has developed a new software tool that makes it easier to design and make cable-driven 3D printed objects. The tool, called Xstrings, can be used to produce a variety of products with embedded actuation, from robotic hands with gripping capabilities to interactive sculptures with animal-like movement.Cable-driven mechanisms are frequently used by engineers to create components that can move fluidly like a human or animal. This movement is generated by pulling…
Dennis F. Thompson 1940-2025 Founding Director, Edmond & Lily Safra Center for EthicsAlfred North Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy, Emeritus, Harvard University It is with deep sorrow and abiding respect that we honor the life and legacy of Dennis F. Thompson, a towering figure in the field of political ethics, and the founding director of what is now the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. Dennis passed away on March 30, 2025 leaving behind a legacy that has shaped generations of scholars, public servants, and students committed to pursuing ethical reflection in public life. Dennis…
Investors with a lot of money to spend have taken a bullish stance on IBM IBM. And retail traders should know. We noticed this today when the trades showed up on publicly available options history that we track here at Benzinga. Whether these are institutions or just wealthy individuals, we don’t know. But when something this big happens with IBM, it often means somebody knows something is about to happen. So how do we know what these investors just did? Today, Benzinga’s options scanner spotted 47 uncommon options trades for IBM. This isn’t normal. The overall sentiment of these big-money…
Energy giant GE Vernova and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology launched a partnership Monday to “scale sustainable energy systems across the globe” and advance breakthrough low-carbon technologies. The company, which helps generate about a quarter of global electricity through its wind and gas turbines, said it would provide $50 million over five years to support 12 projects annually in three areas: renewables, decarbonization and electrification to build the “grid of the future.” The funds also will support research, student fellowships and professional development programs, the company and MIT said. “Through this alliance, we are proud to be able to help…