Author: Advanced AI Editor

The APEX Museum in Atlanta, devoted to Black history since its founding in 1978, reported finding a “noose-like rope” in a tree, in an Instagram post signed by museum president and chief executive Dan Moore Jr. A picture in the post shows Atlanta police at the scene, and a report from local area WSB-TV said the incident on Wednesday is under investigation. The APEX Museum’s message said the rope “was deemed not to be a ‘noose’ by Homeland Security and has since been removed from the premises for evidence.” In his message, Moore wrote, “For Black communities in the United…

Ivan Zhang, co-founder of Cohere, has built the Toronto-based A.I. startup into a $6.8 billion company by focusing on efficient enterprise models. Getty Images Ivan Zhang, featured on this year’s A.I. Power Index along with co-founders Nick Frosst and Aidan Gomez, is building Toronto-based Cohere into one of the world’s most promising A.I. startups with a $6.8 billion valuation following a $500 million funding round in August. Zhang has championed an efficiency-first approach that contradicts the industry’s “bigger is better” mentality. Cohere has focused exclusively on enterprise A.I. rather than chasing consumer viral moments. This strategy has proven successful as…

Nine SEO practitioners gathered in Miami on Sept. 13 for an AI SEO roundtable, where they debated how artificial intelligence is reshaping search optimization. The discussion revealed consensus on one thing: AI is pushing SEOs to expand their roles, rethink strategies, and brace for uncertainty. Here’s a recap. Mike King, founder and CEO of iPullRank, argued that too many SEOs are downplaying the transformation already underway: “Enterprise organizations especially are bought into the idea of this being an evolution of SEO with their checkbooks and resources at the ready, yet the SEO community is still trying to make it smaller…

Organizations building custom machine learning (ML) models often have specialized requirements that standard platforms can’t accommodate. For example, healthcare companies need specific environments to protect patient data while meeting HIPAA compliance, financial institutions require specific hardware configurations to optimize proprietary trading algorithms, and research teams need flexibility to experiment with cutting-edge techniques using custom frameworks. These specialized needs drive organizations to build custom training environments that give them control over hardware selection, software versions, and security configurations. These custom environments provide the necessary flexibility, but they create significant challenges for ML lifecycle management. Organizations typically try to solve these problems…

Remember when DeepSeek briefly shook up the entire artificial intelligence industry by launching its large language model, R1, that was trained for a fraction of the money that OpenAI and other big players were pouring into their models? Thanks to a new paper published by the DeepSeek AI team in the journal Nature, we finally know what it took to train DeepSeek 1: $294,000 and 512 Nvidia H800 chips. The reason it was able to spend less, it seems, is because of the team’s use of trial-and-error-based reinforcement learning techniques. Most AI models tasked with performing reasoning tasks need to…

Researchers at Seoul National University have uncovered a powerful new method of jailbreaking large language models (LLMs) that bypasses existing safeguards with alarming success. The work, led by Seongho Joo, Hyukhun Koh, and Kyomin Jung, details a systematic strategy that manipulates AI responses through reframed instructions and hidden encodings. The study, titled Harmful Prompt Laundering: Jailbreaking LLMs with Abductive Styles and Symbolic Encoding and published on arXiv, shows how attackers can trigger harmful outputs from models such as GPT, Claude, LLaMA, and Qwen using only black-box access. The findings raise urgent concerns about the fragility of current safety systems…

Nvidia has hit another major roadblock in China, but this time the ban is coming from Beijing itself rather than Washington.  China’s internet regulator announced Wednesday that domestic tech companies are now prohibited from purchasing Nvidia’s AI chips, marking a dramatic escalation in the ongoing tech tensions between the world’s two largest economies. The Cyberspace Administration of China delivered the directive to major Chinese tech companies, including ByteDance and Alibaba, specifically targeting Nvidia’s RTX Pro 6000D server, a device the American chipmaker had designed exclusively for the Chinese market. The ban effectively cuts off Nvidia from one of its most…

A museum in Bar Harbor, Maine, dedicated to the art, culture, and heritage of the Wabanaki Nations, is in the process of repatriating 17 items to the Native American confederation. (The four local nations are the Penobscot Nation, the Passamaquoddy Tribe, the Mi’kmaq Nation, and the Houlton band of Maliseet Indians.) According to an article in the Portland Press Herald, the objects are a human tooth and various funerary objects: tools, animal hides, and fabric materials. A Field Register notice published by the National Park Service September 11, 2025, traces the complicated history of these objects. It explains that 15…

by I. Edwards Teenagers chatting with ChatGPT will soon see a very different version of the tool—one built with stricter ways to keep them safe online, OpenAI announced. The new safeguards come as regulators increase scrutiny of chatbots and their impact on young people’s mental health. Under the change, anyone identified as under 18 will automatically be directed to a different version of ChatGPT designed with “age-appropriate” content rules, the company said in a statement. The teen version blocks sexual content and can involve law enforcement in rare cases where a user is in acute distress. “The way ChatGPT responds…

Karen Leader, an associate professor of art history at Florida Atlantic University (FAU), was placed on administrative leave due to comments made about Charlie Kirk, the right-wing activist shot dead in Utah last week. On Saturday, FAU President Adam Hasner released a statement announcing that an unnamed faculty member had “been placed on administrative leave pending investigation” due to “repeated comments made on social media … regarding the assassination of Charlie Kirk.” Conservative activists on X identified Leader as the faculty member in question shortly after, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported Sunday. Related Articles Leader’s X account is private,…