Author: Advanced AI Editor
The four curious creatures staring down passersby in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art trace back, in a way, to early paintings that Indigenous artist Jeffrey Gibson made on animal hides. At a talk on Monday introducing his new commissioned work for the museum’s facade, Gibson discussed two paintings from 2013 that feature his distinctive dynamic style on the surface of brain-tanned elk hides. Related Articles While painting on hides, he said, “you come across scars. You come across hair follicles. You’re reminded that it’s an animal. Had I done these paintings on canvas, they could be read as…
(Source: TA design/Shutterstock) In Athens, where ancient ideas once shaped the foundations of logic and reason, one of today’s leading scientific minds returned to talk about intelligence of a different kind. Demis Hassabis — CEO of DeepMind, and fresh off a Nobel Prize win — wasn’t interested in looking back. His focus was firmly on what’s coming next: a world being reshaped by artificial intelligence, one that may force us to rethink not just what we learn, but how we learn it. He spoke about the speed of change — how AI is already rewriting the rules in science, research,…
Organizations gain competitive advantage by deploying and integrating new generative AI models quickly through Generative AI Gateway architectures. This unified interface approach simplifies access to multiple foundation models (FMs), addressing a critical challenge: the proliferation of specialized AI models, each with unique capabilities, API specifications, and operational requirements. Rather than building and maintaining separate integration points for each model, the smart move is to build an abstraction layer that normalizes these differences behind a single, consistent API. The AWS Generative AI Innovation Center and Quora recently collaborated on an innovative solution to address this challenge. Together, they developed a unified…
Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek has conducted internal evaluations on the “frontier risks” of its AI models, according to a person familiar with the matter.The development, not previously reported, comes as Beijing seeks to promote awareness of such risks within China’s AI industry. Frontier risks refer to AI systems that pose potentially significant threats to public safety and social stability.Do you have questions about the biggest topics and trends from around the world? Get the answers with SCMP Knowledge, our new platform of curated content with explainers, FAQs, analyses and infographics brought to you by our award-winning team.The results were…
If you are filled with too much childlike wonder, you might get relegated to a more kid-friendly version of ChatGPT. OpenAI announced Tuesday that it plans to implement a new age verification system that will help filter underage users into a new chatbot experience that is more age-appropriate. The change comes as the company faces increased scrutiny from lawmakers and regulators over how underage users interact with its chatbot. To determine a user’s age, OpenAI will use an age prediction system that attempts to estimate how old a user is based on how they interact with ChatGPT. The company said…
Tesla is officially ditching the development of a key Cybertruck charging feature, and the reason is very obvious, all things considered. The Cybertruck is among the most unique vehicles available on the market, and, like all Tesla vehicles, it has continued to improve through Over-the-Air software updates that enhance performance, safety, and other technological features. However, the development of some features, while great on paper, turns out to be more difficult than expected. One of these features is the presence of wireless charging on the all-electric pickup, a capability Tesla has been working to integrate across its entire vehicle lineup.…
Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from WBUR’s weekly health newsletter, CommonHealth. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, sign up here. With schools back in session, many teachers, students and their parents are grappling with how — and whether — to use artificial intelligence in the classroom.For most of us, AI tools are already part of our lives in all sorts of ways. They power search engines, operate on cell phones and pop up on many of the apps we use daily. What’s less clear is how this powerful technology is affecting our brains.The question…
Gemini’s mobile adoption has been soaring since the August launch of its Nano Banana image editor model, which has received positive reviews, particularly from users who say they can now more easily perform complex edits and create realistic images. The app has climbed to the top of global app stores’ charts and has seen a 45% month-over-month increase in downloads in the month of September so far, according to new data provided by app intelligence firm Appfigures. Though the month is only half over, Gemini’s app has already gained 12.6 million downloads in September, up from 8.7 million in August.…
The vast majority of New Yorker covers over the magazine’s 100-year history have been illustrations. Only two issues broke that mold: a William Wegman portrait of a Weimaraner on the February 20 and 28, 2000, cover, and, more recently, a Cindy Sherman self-portrait on the September 1 and 8, 2025, issue. Both depicted the subjects as variations on the magazine’s beloved Eustace Tilley mascot. The New Yorker has now tripled that figure by hiring six contemporary photographers—Marilyn Minter, Awol Erizku, Ryan McGinley, Collier Schorr, Camila Falquez, and Alex Prager—to reimagine historical illustrated covers via celebrity portraits, in honor of the…
Artist Haegue Yang was named chair of the board that oversees the KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin. She succeeds German artist Katharina Grosse, who served in the role for four years. “I am very pleased that after four very intensive and extremely instructive years, I can hand over the chairmanship of the board of KUNST-WERKE BERLIN e. V. to Haegue Yang and that we can thus continue the association’s tradition of placing the chairmanship in the hands of an artist,” Grosse said in a statement. “It is of utmost importance to us on the board that Haegue Yang…