When Edward Warchocki speaks with you, he sounds like a regular guy. “Not super intelligent, but very emotional, very easy to make friends with,” says Bartosz Idzik, the person who created him….
Are Microsoft’s AI plans being held back by a shortage of chips? | Microsoft
The chips are quite small and some can be held in the palm of a hand. They are fundamental to the development of artificial intelligence models – and the world’s biggest technology…
AI eyes in the sky: new satellites and artificial intelligence are transforming wildfire detection | Firefighters
The fires in Spokane, Washington, this summer are the latest reminder that when a wildfire is detected can be just as important as where it starts. A blaze found within minutes can…
Amazon Can Use Your Twitch Content to Train Its AI—Unless You Opt Out
Twitch has updated its account settings to let streamers opt out of having their content used to help train the artificial intelligence models of Twitch’s parent company, Amazon. Although the move has…
OpenAI reportedly disbanded its preparedness team
According to the Financial Times, OpenAI disbanded its preparedness team at the end of last month. The job of the preparedness team was to assess if models posed serious risks and develop…
Sainsbury’s store pauses AI scanning after false shoplifting accusation | J Sainsbury
Sainsbury’s has paused the use of AI face scanning in one of its stores after a customer was wrongly identified as a shoplifter and ejected from the shop. “I was embarrassed, mortified…
Former SpaceX engineers are building a robotic factory for making steel parts
From rocket engines to steel skids The 1872 cofounders, including Summers, Brian Mongilio, and Michael Grant, all bring relevant experience from having formerly worked for SpaceX. Summers oversaw the engineering team responsible…
Claude to start watermarking AI-generated text – but will it make quality worse? | Anthropic
The world is familiar by now with the usual tropes of machine-generated text: overuse of the word “delve”, an excess of em dashes, and the chirpy, relentless construction of “it’s not X…
Anthropic explains how Claude’s invisible text watermarks will work
Take the sentence “The weather today was cold and…”. The next word is very unlikely to be “sugary.” But it is quite likely to be “overcast” or “grey.” Under most circumstances, it…
AI automation startup Relay shuts down, staff joins Google’s Chrome team
Relay, an AI-powered workflow automation tool that was launched in 2021 with the goal of becoming the new Zapier, is shutting down, and some of its staff — including its top executive…