Approximately 500 NIST staffers, including at least three lab directors, are expected to lose their jobs at the standards agency as part of the ongoing DOGE purge, sources tell WIRED.
A researcher affiliated with Elon Muskβs xAI startup is researching a method to alter the politics of Grok and better align the chatbot with conservatives.
Some worry the Chinese startupβs impressive tech indicates the US is losing its lead in AI, but it may really be a sign that a new approach to building models is gaining traction.
The US is increasingly intent on winning the AI race with China. Experts say this ignores the benefits of collaborationβand the danger of unintended consequences.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the new family of foundational AI models was trained on 20 million hours of βhumans walking, hands moving, manipulating things.β
Botto is a 'decentralized AI artist' whose work has fetched millions. As AI improves, its creators may give it fewer guardrails to test its emerging personality.
A new version of Googleβs flagship AI model shows how the company sees AI transforming personal computing, web search, and perhaps the way people interact with the physical world.
At its Re:Invent conference, Amazon also announced new tools to help customers build generative AI programs, including one that checks whether a chatbotβs outputs are accurate or not.