Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
Facebook Is Starting to Feed Its AI with Private, Unpublished Photos
June 28th, 2025Via: The Verge: For years, Meta trained its AI programs using the billions of public images uploaded by users onto Facebook and Instagram’s servers. Now, it’s also hoping to access the billions of images that users haven’t uploaded to those servers. Meta tells The Verge that it’s not currently training its AI models on those […]
Executives from OpenAI, Meta, and Palantir Join U.S. Army
June 24th, 2025Via: Business Insider: Four top tech execs from OpenAI, Meta, and Palantir have just joined the US Army — no obstacle courses, shouted orders, or grueling marches required. The Army Reserve has commissioned these senior tech leaders to serve as midlevel officers, skipping tradition to pursue transformation. The newcomers won’t attend any current version of […]
Musk Wants Grok AI to “Rewrite the Entire Corpus of Human Knowledge”
June 23rd, 2025Tell us another one, Elon. Via: Coin Telegraph: Elon Musk says his artificial intelligence company xAI will retrain its AI model, Grok, on a new knowledge base free of “garbage” and “uncorrected data” — by first using it to rewrite history. In an X post on Saturday, Musk said the upcoming Grok 3.5 model will […]
ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills
June 21st, 2025Via: Time: The study divided 54 subjects—18 to 39 year-olds from the Boston area—into three groups, and asked them to write several SAT essays using OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s search engine, and nothing at all, respectively. Researchers used an EEG to record the writers’ brain activity across 32 regions, and found that of the three groups, […]
Seeking Guidance from the Machines…
June 19th, 2025Hmm… pic.twitter.com/Yg2Dw8QDBc — cryptogon (@cryptogon) June 20, 2025
Texas Instruments Will Invest Over $60 Billion to Manufacture Foundational Semiconductors in the U.S.
June 19th, 2025You won’t read this in the press release, but my guess is that plans for the upcoming battalions, fleets and swarms of terminator robots call for Made in USA silicon. Via: Texas Instruments Press Release: Texas Instruments (TI) (Nasdaq: TXN) today announced its plans to invest more than $60 billion across seven U.S. semiconductor fabs, […]
What Does It Mean When Jobs Are Being “Enhanced” by AI? Expect Layoffs
June 17th, 2025Enhanced by AI! *wink* *snort* Via: USA Today: Rollout of generative AI and agents will reduce Amazon’s total corporate workforce in the next few years, Andy Jassy, CEO of the online retailer said in a note to employees on Tuesday. … “As we roll out more Generative AI and agents, it should change the way […]
Israel Prepositioned Remotely Operated Weapons Inside Iran
June 17th, 2025Ukraine did it to Russia. Israel did it to Iran. Who is going to do it to the U.S? More importantly, who is going to be blamed for it? Via: The War Zone: As Israel’s Operation Rising Lion campaign enters its fifth day, Iranian officials claim they’ve uncovered new evidence of how Mossad operatives carried […]
OpenAI Wins $200 Million U.S. Military Contract
June 17th, 2025Via: CNBC: OpenAI has been awarded a $200 million contract to provide the U.S. Defense Department with artificial intelligence tools. The department announced the one-year contract on Monday, months after OpenAI said it would collaborate with defense technology startup Anduril to deploy advanced AI systems for “national security missions.” “Under this award, the performer will […]
DARPA Program Sets Distance Record for Power Beaming
June 15th, 2025The terminator robots will never run out of power. Via: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency: In a series of recent tests in New Mexico, the Persistent Optical Wireless Energy Relay (POWER) program achieved several new records for transmitting power over distance. The team recorded more than 800 watts of power delivered during a 30-second transmission […]
