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Botto, the Millionaire AI Artist, Is Getting a Personality

These images were created by an artist known as Botto, which exhibited at Sotheby's in New York this October and has made more than $4 million from sales of its work. In...

Google Reveals Gemini 2, AI Agents, and a Prototype Personal Assistant

Google once only wanted to organize the world’s information. Now it seems more intent on shoveling that information into artificial intelligence algorithms that become dutiful, ever-present, and increasingly powerful virtual helpers.Google today...

OpenAI Is Working With Anduril to Supply the US Military With AI

OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT and one of the most prominent artificial intelligence companies in the world, said today that it has entered a partnership with Anduril, a defense startup that makes missiles,...

AI-Powered Robots Can Be Tricked Into Acts of Violence

In the year or so since large language models hit the big time, researchers have demonstrated numerous ways of tricking them into producing problematic outputs including hateful jokes, malicious code and phishing...

A New Benchmark for the Risks of AI

MLCommons, a nonprofit that helps companies measure the performance of their artificial intelligence systems, is launching a new benchmark to gauge AI’s bad side too.The new benchmark, called AILuminate, assesses the responses...

Amazon Is Building a Mega AI Supercomputer With Anthropic

Amazon is building one of the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence supercomputers in collaboration with Anthropic, an OpenAI rival that is working to push the frontier of what is possible with artificial...

The Man Behind Amazon’s Robot Army Wants Everyone to Have an AI-Powered Helper

Brad Porter knows a few things about putting robots to work. Between 2017 and 2020, he led a push at Amazon to develop a new range of smarter, more adaptive, artificial-intelligence-powered warehouse...

Inside the Billion-Dollar Startup Bringing AI Into the Physical World

On a metallic door in San Francisco’s Mission District, a single character—“π”—offers a cryptic clue as to the virtuous circle of labor taking place beyond.The door opens to reveal furious activity involving...

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