On Wednesday, Microsoft Research introduced Magma, an integrated AI foundation model that combines visual and language processing to control software interfaces and robotic systems. If the results hold up outside…
A study by the Pew Research Center found that Americans’ views of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg skew more negative than positive. While Zuckerberg has sparked chatter in Silicon Valley…
Apple and Lenovo had the lowest laptop repairability scores in an analysis of recently released devices from consumer advocacy group US Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) Education Fund. While Apple's…
The blanket firing of Department of Agriculture scientists has thrown a host of climate science and crop projects into chaos. Source
NYU Langone has built an LLM research companion and medical advisor, and is pioneering what it calls AI-driven “precision medical education."Read More Source
A tweak to the Gemini AI model is the latest use of really intense computing activity at inference time, instead of during training, to improve the so-called reasoning of the…
Google AI Overview rankings – the webpages cited in the AI-generated answers – are more volatile than Google’s “classic” organic search rankings. Also, within two to three months, 70% of…
Over the weekend, police managed to apprehend Jack "Ziz" DeSota, a mysterious figure who allegedly leads a group called the "Zizians" who are tied to a mind-boggling cross-country string of…
A British R&D unit that’s been compared to DARPA is funding synthetic muscles, electronic skin, and mechanical hands for a robotics dexterity project. The Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA)…
The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) has launched the D.R.E.A.M.S. (Digital Research Entertainment Arts Media Storytelling) Initiative supported by a gift from Tom Dolan and the Dolan Family Foundation. …
Usually, players can trigger a quest by speaking with a character in Avowed. However, it's a little different when trying to start the That Which Remains side quest. That's because…
Xbox's research team collaborated with Xbox Game Studios' Ninja Theory to develop a Generative AI model named Muse, and it could be used to bring older games back to life…
Recommendation algorithms operated by social media giants TikTok and X have shown evidence of substantial Far Right political bias in Germany ahead of a federal election that takes place Sunday,…
Back when the iPhone SE was still a thing, it was well understood that "SE" stood for "Special Edition," but applying that logic to the iPhone 16e, which Apple announced…
Scientists can now explain the prevailing unpredictability of contact electrification, unveiling order from what has long been considered chaos. Static electricity—specifically the triboelectric effect, aka contact electrification—is ubiquitous in our…
Over the past few years, Google has embarked on a quest to jam generative AI into every product and initiative possible. Google has robots summarizing search results, interacting with your…
For a while now, many AI researchers have been working to integrate a so-called "world model" into their systems. Ideally, these models could infer a simulated understanding of how in-game…
The demand for voice and speech recognition technologies is massive — and growing. An analysis by market research firm Markets and Markets found that the sector could be worth over…
Researchers from Proofpoint observE two groups engaging in "fake update" attacksThe groups have their separate assignments against macOS devicesThe goal is to distribute FrigidStealer, a new infostealer malware Cybercriminals are…
Microsoft has announced a new generative AI model designed for gameplay ideation.The company detailed what it calls the first World and Human Action Model (WHAM). The WHAM, Katja Hofmann, Senior…