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Once pitched as dispassionate tools to answer your questions, AI chatbots are now programmed to reflect the biases of their creators

The New York Times tested several chatbots and found that they produced starkly different answers, especially on politically charged issues. While they often differed in tone or emphasis, some made contentious claims or flatly hallucinated facts. As th…

If language is what makes us human, what does it mean now that LLMs have gained “metalinguistic” abilities?

Researchers found that certain LLMs can perform linguistic tasks such as sentence diagramming, detecting ambiguity, and parsing recursion, at a level comparable to human linguistics experts. The standout model, identified as “o1,” succeeded in a…

Samsung and Nvidia to build an AI megafactory

Samsung will deploy more than 50,000 of Nvidia’s most advanced graphics processing units in the new facility to embed artificial intelligence throughout its entire chip manufacturing flow. It’s also planning to leverage AI to help with chip devel…

AI agents can leak company data through simple web searches

When a company deploys an AI agent that can search the web and access internal documents, most teams assume the agent is simply working as intended. New research shows how that same setup can be used to quietly pull sensitive data out of an organizatio…

OpenAI’s goal: $1 trillion a year in infrastructure spending

OpenAI has committed to spend about $1.4 trillion on infrastructure so far, equating to roughly 30 gigawatts of data center capacity, CEO Sam Altman said on Tuesday. The statement helps clarify the many announcements the company has made with its…

Introducing Agent HQ: Any agent, any way you work

Agent HQ transforms GitHub into an open ecosystem that unites every agent on a single platform. Over the coming months, coding agents from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Cognition, xAI, and more will become available directly within GitHub as part of…

AI workers are logging 100-hour weeks as Silicon Valley’s talent race heats up

Inside Silicon Valley’s biggest AI labs, top researchers and executives are regularly working 80 to 100 hours a week. Several top researchers compared the circumstances to war. “We’re basically trying to speedrun 20 years of scientific progress i…

Microsoft will test a Copilot AI feature that performs work on local files in Windows 11

Microsoft will bring its Copilot Actions feature that can perform certain tasks to its Windows 11 operating system, enabling work with locally stored files. It’s coming first to people in the Windows Insider Program and the Copilot Labs group fo…

Thirsty AI mega projects raise alarm in some of Europe’s driest regions

Europe is planning to at least triple its data center capacity as part of a push to become a world-class AI hub. It has sparked concern about an often overlooked but profound climate risk: water scarcity. Data centers, which power all aspects of…