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Trapit Bansal, a former OpenAI researcher, has officially joined Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL)—Meta’s ambitious unit aimed at developing artificial general intelligence (AGI). The lab, launched by Mark Zuckerberg, seeks to compete with top AI players like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic. Bansal brings deep technical expertise, with dual degrees in mathematics and statistics from IIT Kanpur, and a PhD in computer science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he specialized in meta-learning, deep learning, and natural language processing (NLP). From OpenAI to Meta: Trapit Bansal’s Journey in Advancing AI Reasoning Bansal’s career began in 2012 at Accenture in Gurugram,…
In early 2025, the Chinese company DeepSeek released its R1 artificial intelligence model, sending shock waves throughout policy circles in the United States. Despite U.S. export controls on advanced semiconductors, the company had managed to develop a customizable open technology that could compete with some of the most advanced proprietary American AI models, and many feared that U.S. leadership in AI might soon be eclipsed. Now, another Chinese company, Moonshot AI, has released a state-of-the-art open model, Kimi K2, that is capable of autonomously achieving complex tasks, prompting some commentators to call it another DeepSeek moment.But the threat posed by…
The Quark AI glasses, named after Alibaba’s AI assistant, were showcased to the public for the first time at the event on Saturday. The company said it had completed development of the product and was aiming for an official launch this year, although no specific date was provided.This marks Alibaba’s debut in the smart glasses market, which has seen heightened local competition as domestic firms like Rokid and Xreal have rushed to release new products in recent months. Alibaba, owner of the Post, also struck a partnership with augmented reality glasses maker RayNeo earlier this year to provide AI support…
Image: Envato/DC_Studio Monitoring generative AI’s decision-making is critical for safety, but the inner workings that lead to text or image outputs remain largely opaque. A position paper released on July 15 proposes chain-of-thought (CoT) monitorability as a way to watch over the models. The paper was co-authored by researchers from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, the Center for AI Safety, and other institutions. It was endorsed by high-profile AI experts, including former OpenAI chief scientist and Safe Superintelligence co-founder Ilya Sutskever, Anthropic researcher Samuel R. Bowman, Thinking Machines chief scientist John Schulman, and deep learning luminary Geoffrey Hinton. What is chain-of-thought?…
If you’ve been treating AI chatbots like ChatGPT like a digital confidant, it might be time to reconsider what you’re sharing. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has recently admitted that AI chatbots aren’t protected by confidentiality in the way that doctor-patient or lawyer-client discussions are.In a recent podcast appearance on This Past Weekend with Theo Von, Altman mentioned that the tech world hasn’t yet figured out how to offer users the same level of privacy for sensitive topics. And that could have consequences if those chats end up in court. “People talk about the most personal details in their lives to…
While the hyperscalers and clouds and their AI model builder customers are setting the pace in compute, networking, and storage during the GenAI revolution, that does not mean that they will necessarily provide the only systems that will be used by the largest enterprises in the world. In many cases, it will be IBM and its peers in systems and applications, such as Microsoft and Oracle, who make a fair bit of change from the GenAI boom even as they upgrade the existing back office transaction processing and analytics systems that feed into AI models. The evidence from IBM’s latest…
Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now The world loves AI. Nearly 1 billion people are using OpenAI products — and it happened in just two years. It’s the Silicon Valley playbook: Make it great, make it cheap, get us addicted, then figure out how to make billions. We love AI because it offers cognitive shortcuts at a whole new scale. But… this won’t end well for most of us. We’ll let AI take over a few tasks, and soon find…
China PM warns against a global AI ‘monopoly’ China will spearhead the creation of an international organisation to jointly develop AI, the country’s premier said, seeking to ensure that the world-changing technology doesn’t become the province of just a few nations or companies.Artificial intelligence harbours risks from widespread job losses to economic upheaval that require nations to work together to address, Premier Li Qiang told the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai on Saturday. That means more international exchanges, Beijing’s No 2 official said during China’s most important annual technology summit.Li didn’t name any countries in his short address to…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was blasted this week after its administrators acknowledged the university stopped short of expelling anti-Israel student protesters because of “visa issues.”MIT President Sally Kornbluth said in a statement Nov. 9 that the school would merely suspend students who participated in the disruptive protest from non-academic campus activities to avoid “collateral consequences for the students, such as visa issues.” One day earlier, the Coalition Against Apartheid, a pro-Palestinian student group, conducted a large protest that Kornbluth confirmed defied MIT policies governing student actions.”In late morning, the face-to-face…
I joined an AI training session for KPMG interns at the firm’s training center in Florida.The Big Four firm recommended their interns try out five prompting techniques.The session showed me that learning to use AI is more about using language well than tech skills.On a sweaty Monday morning in June, I joined 90 KPMG tax interns in an air-conditioned classroom in Florida.We were there for one reason: to learn how to use AI.We gathered at Lakehouse, KPMG’s gleaming training facility in Lake Nona, Florida. I had been invited to spend two days at the facility as part of my ongoing…