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Chatbots, Like the Rest of Us, Just Want to Be Loved

Chatbots are now a routine part of everyday life, even if artificial intelligence researchers are not always sure how the programs will behave.A new study shows that the large language models (LLMs)...

Pioneers of Reinforcement Learning Win the Turing Award

In the 1980s, Andrew Barto and Rich Sutton were considered eccentric devotees to an elegant but ultimately doomed idea—having machines learn, as humans and animals do, from experience.Decades on, with the technique...

Boston Dynamics Led a Robot Revolution. Now Its Machines Are Teaching Themselves New Tricks

Marc Raibert, the founder and chairman of Boston Dynamics, gave the world a menagerie of two- and four-legged machines capable of jaw-dropping parkour, infectious dance routines, and industrious shelf stacking.Raibert is now...

Anthropic Launches the World’s First ‘Hybrid Reasoning’ AI Model

Anthropic, an artificial intelligence company founded by exiles from OpenAI, has introduced the first AI model that can produce either conventional output or a controllable amount of “reasoning” needed to solve more...

An Adviser to Elon Musk’s xAI Has a Way to Make AI More Like Donald Trump

A researcher affiliated with Elon Musk’s startup xAI has found a new way to both measure and manipulate entrenched preferences and values expressed by artificial intelligence models—including their political views.The work was...

LinkedIn Is Testing an AI Tool That Could Transform How People Search for Jobs

LinkedIn is testing a new job-hunting tool that uses a custom large language model to comb through huge quantities of data to help people find prospective roles.The company believes that artificial intelligence...

OpenAI’s o3-Mini Is a Leaner AI Model That Keeps Pace With DeepSeek

OpenAI is making a smaller, more efficient version of its cleverest artificial intelligence model available for free as it seeks to answer the hype and enthusiasm swirling around a new open-source offering...

DeepSeek’s New AI Model Sparks Shock, Awe, and Questions From US Competitors

A powerful new open-source artificial intelligence model created by Chinese startup DeepSeek has shaken Silicon Valley over the past few days. Packed with cutting-edge capabilities and developed on a seemingly tiny budget,...

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