Left alone with nothing to do, AI agents started playing
MIT researchers marooned 13 AIs on a virtual island, and they responded by inventing games, mourning a lost ring and, eventually, getting better at their jobs.
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OpenAI and Poland’s NASK partner to advance AI safety and security
OpenAI and Poland’s NASK are partnering on AI safety, security, and technical research to strengthen safeguards and support a more resilient digital ecosystem.
Read it (opens in a new tab)OpenAI working on new $30B raise at $1.25T valuation ahead of IPO
Should OpenAI command an over $1 trillion valuation with this round, it would break records as the most highly valued private company ever.
Read it (opens in a new tab)Canva’s first AI image model plans designs before generating them
Canva is diving even deeper into AI with the launch of an image generation model that competes directly with those from OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google.
Read it (opens in a new tab)Meta’s AI could still scrape news sites, legal experts say
Meta has tweaked its business terms to remove language suggesting that it could freely train its AI models on news sites, like The Verge - but legal experts say these changes aren't enough to address their concerns.
Read it (opens in a new tab)Meta turns Muse sharing back on
Meta has re-enabled Muse sharing after security researchers had reported that public conversation links could be easy to find. The researchers said they had been able to find Muse pages like a marketing company's internal revenue review and a small business owner's loan application.
Read it (opens in a new tab)Sure, let’s smoosh SpaceX and Tesla together, who cares
Oh sure, SpaceX's credit risk is pretty high because it's about to borrow another $40 billion to spend on Nvidia chips, but who cares about that? SpaceX and Tesla have formed special committees to discuss a merger!
Read it (opens in a new tab)1Password launches a way for AI agents to log in on your behalf without seeing your password
The new feature allows agents to log into a customer's personal accounts while still protecting the private credentials that secure those accounts.
Read it (opens in a new tab)Build more responsive apps with the Decisions API
Fast, focused, low-cost decisions for any application.
Read it (opens in a new tab)Canva releases its first image generation model
Canva is making its new image model available to all users, promising better, more customizable performance at lower costs.
Read it (opens in a new tab)OpenAI makes its Jev competitor widely available as decision model competition heats up
OpenAI is launching its decision model to the world. Can it compete with the original Jev?
Read it (opens in a new tab)Discord now formats Markdown previews right
Discord's latest update released today has a big improvement for Markdown previews: they should now render correctly instead of with "a bunch of symbols," according to the company.
Read it (opens in a new tab)Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman says its AI outperforms doctors on hard cases as he chases ‘medical superintelligence’
Microsoft’s new AI diagnostic system beat generalist doctors on hard cases, according to a study in Science. But most of the improvement seems to come from the AI models underneath, not from Microsoft’s system itself.
Read it (opens in a new tab)In Meta’s version of the future, I’ll have my Muse call your Muse
Mark Zuckerberg is barrelling toward a future in which an autonomous network of AI agents will run our lives - shopping for us, working for us, talking to other people's AI agents for us. Are humans ready for this very specific and unrelenting vision of a life in which we communicate primarily through bot proxies?
Read it (opens in a new tab)Microsoft says its AI tool is better than doctors at diagnosing conditions
For years, AI leaders have touted healthcare as one of the clearest examples of where their technology will improve lives. Now "it is finally here," Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman tells The Verge.
Read it (opens in a new tab)Someone hacked the Switch 2 by using an old game and AI
The Nintendo Switch 2 has apparently been jailbroken, and a modder has already shown the console running a custom version of Mario Kart World featuring new playable characters like Cinnamoroll, the red Angry Bird, Peter Griffin, and Steve from Minecraft.
Read it (opens in a new tab)Chinese hackers spied on thousands of companies after breaching IT giant ConnectWise
Microsoft points the blame for ConnectWise's breach at a China-aligned hacker, which relied on AI agents to rapidly hack into thousands of its customers.
Read it (opens in a new tab)Wildwood’s director says AI is ‘antithetical to everything that we are at this studio’
Wildwood is the most ambitious film yet from Laika, the stop-motion studio best known for the likes of Coraline and ParaNorman. It's a sprawling fantasy adventure that took five years to complete.
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