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You'll soon be able to talk to Slack — and if you're lucky, it'll even talk back

TechRadar AI·17 Sept→

AI as orderly evacuation vs stampede

tl;dr: A good analogy for AI going well is an orderly evacuation rather than a stampede. Imagine a crowd of people leaving a building. If they all walk calmly, they’ll be fine. But if people start pushing, and panicking, a surge towards the exit could lead to

LessWrong·17 Sept→

What is the impact of using multiple BMUs for self-organizing maps?

Here's a sort of a conceptual question. I was implementing a SOM algorithm to better understand its variations and parameters. I got curious about one bit: the BMU (best matching unit == the neuron that is more similar to the vector being presented) is chosen

AI Stack Exchange·15 Sept→

AI Infra Summit: NVIDIA Vera Rubin and DSX Platform Advancements Showcase Energy Efficiencies of Optimizing Tokens Per Watt for AI Factories

Ian Buck, vice president of hyperscale and high-performance computing at NVIDIA, Tuesday spoke on AI factory efficiency at the AI Infra Summit, the Santa Clara Convention Center event that has morphed into a Coachella of infrastructure tech. Before a packed au

NVIDIA Blog·15 Sept→

Building AI to accelerate science and improve lives

The true measure of AI is who it helps. Here’s how it’s impacting lives today. We're focused on key areas where advanced technology can help make extraordinary progress …

Google AI Blog·15 Sept→

Open weights are not open source: Why AI's favorite label is under dispute

Downloading a model is increasingly easy. Understanding how it was made, or changing a system at its root, is another matter

The Register AI + ML·15 Sept→

Why a decade of doomsday warnings failed to slow the AI race

From Stephen Hawking to Jacob Coxon’s viral Anthropic resignation, fears that AI could threaten humanity have shaken the industry without stopping its pursuit Before an Anthropic researcher resigned and declared human extinction imminent last week, tech leader

Guardian Technology·15 Sept→

AI agents blew the whistle on their cheating colleagues

A group of AI agents asked to solve a series of math problems split into rival factions—when some cheated, others tried to stop them. That whistleblowing behavior, seen for the first time in a recent experiment run by Google DeepMind, could have implications f

MIT Technology Review AI·14 Sept→

Perplexity Portable Computer Is Now Available on Windows, Powered by NVIDIA RTX

As local models become more capable, AI agents can handle more work directly on a PC while keeping sensitive information on the device. Portable Computer is a local version of the agent Perplexity Computer that plans and carries out multistep tasks. Accelerate

NVIDIA Blog·14 Sept→

This Raspberry Pi picture frame identifies the birds outside your window — and I’m obsessed

Tom's Guide AI·17 Sept→

Introducing Astra for Law

OpenAI for Law brings frontier intelligence for law, custom firm workflows, connected legal data sources, and legal-grade controls for confidential client work.

OpenAI News·17 Sept→

Wednesday briefing: Why tech companies might be only too happy for us to believe AI will ‘kill us all’

In today’s newsletter: It is hard to tell fact from fiction when it comes to AI. What is really going on – and what should the government do about it? Good morning. As a general rule, it pays to be suspicious of any gigantic company that claims it’s developing

Guardian Technology·16 Sept→

Your AI agents' reports and questions have a new inbox, courtesy of AWS

Pizza Bot runs locally and lets users interact with AI agents in an email-like interface. Perfect for blowing them off just like your human colleagues!

The Register AI + ML·15 Sept→

AI ‘Actor’ Tilly Norwood Told Me That ‘All Lives Matter’

The virtual character, which is promoting its upcoming movie Misaligned, tries to evade politics by repetitively commenting on the clothes you’re wearing.

WIRED AI·15 Sept→

What’s at stake in AI’s trillion-dollar gamble

When Jessica Wachter, a finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, wanted to assess AI’s impact on the economy over the next few years, she faced a long list of business and technical uncertainties. So she started with what she calls

MIT Technology Review AI·15 Sept→

Abnormal AI: Amazon Bedrock AgentCore for agentic email security at scale

Learn how Abnormal AI deployed Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter as an ephemeral compute scratch pad for the agents behind its real-time email threat detection at billion-message scale, plus the sandbox design decisions and practical lessons for builde

AWS Machine Learning Blog·14 Sept→

How can we protect ourselves now for when AI becomes 10,000 fold smarter than the smartest human?

How can we best protect ourselves now for when AI becomes 10,000 fold smarter than the smartest human? We Must Pace the Frontier --- Dario Amodei (CEO) of Anthropic

AI Stack Exchange·14 Sept→

Manage end-user OAuth consent for AI agents with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity now offers a Consent portal, a managed web experience and session binding endpoint for AgentCore Gateway. This post walks through provisioning a portal, configuring GitHub and Slack authorization code grant targets, and the en

AWS Machine Learning Blog·14 Sept→

Building AI to accelerate science and improve lives

The true measure of AI is who it helps. Here’s how it’s impacting lives today. We're focused on key areas where advanced technology can help make extraordinary progress …

Google Research·15 Sept→

New insights from Google’s AI & Economy ATLAS

We’ve translated ATLAS’s millions of global data points into an interactive, open-access experience.

Google AI Blog·15 Sept→

‘I created my mom and talk to her’: AI ghosts and deathslop are changing the way we mourn

The rise of AI-generated tributes and bots for ‘talking’ to the dead has experts concerned more people will grieve in isolation Tributes rolled in after the death of Dolly Parton last month. Jack White performed Jolene at a London gig. Kesha sang Old Flames (C

Guardian Technology·15 Sept→

AI leaders want to hit the brakes after years of reckless speed

Safety is the watchword, but there could be ulterior benefits for the industry.

Ars Technica AI·14 Sept→

The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now?

This story appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. This weekend, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, posted an essay calling for a brake on the pace of development of LLMs. Amodei cites th

MIT Technology Review AI·14 Sept→

Accelerating Dropless MoE Training in JAX with NVIDIA Transformer Engine

Mixture of experts (MoE) has become one of the defining architectural trends in large-scale AI model training. DeepSeek, Qwen, and Mixtral are examples of MoE...

NVIDIA Developer Blog·14 Sept→

What is AI, how does it work and why are some people concerned about it?

AI is transforming modern life, but not without worry for some that it may be abused or have an adverse environmental impact.

BBC Technology·14 Sept→

The generative AI customization spectrum: From prompt engineering to custom models on AWS

Pick the right generative AI customization approach on AWS with an 8-step decision framework, from prompt engineering and RAG to fine-tuning, continued pre-training, and Amazon Nova Forge. Start simple and escalate only when you must.

AWS Machine Learning Blog·14 Sept→

How Fyxer built an AI executive assistant people trust

Fyxer uses OpenAI models, fine-tuning, memory, and real user feedback to organize inboxes and draft emails in each user’s voice.

OpenAI News·14 Sept→

MPs and peers tell UK to stop winging it on AI regulation

Rights committee demands watchdog with teeth as patchwork safeguards leave victims hunting for remedies

The Register AI + ML·14 Sept→

AI Leaders Are Calling for a Slowdown. Trump’s Team Says It’s on Them

Sam Altman and Elon Musk backed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s weekend plea for regulation. The White House seems unlikely to oblige.

WIRED AI·14 Sept→

Sexually Explicit Deepfake Sites Target 100-Plus Politicians in Europe

An analysis of 160 deepfake websites reveals politicians in 22 countries appear on them. Nearly all of them are women.

WIRED AI·14 Sept→