At Wikimania 2026, with 1,250 in-person and over 2,000 online attendees, the Wikimedia community grappled with AI as a paradigm shift, not just a tool. Hay Kranen, a 21-year Wikimedian and developer, …
A new project aims to build a single AI system that can teach itself to play any board game from just the rules and components, without game-specific programming. The effort is framed against 75 years…
A developer argues that the rise of AI coding tools, like language models that write functions and debug logic, mirrors the impact of chess engines on human play. Just as chess players adapted by trai…
Hudson River Trading (HRT), an algorithmic trading firm, applies artificial intelligence to financial markets by defining AI as a system that perceives its environment and acts to achieve goals. The f…
GPT-3 is not AGI but language modeling differs from other AI domains because natural language encodes a world model. Scaling language models may drive loss toward Shannon entropy, yielding a usable wo…
A historical analysis of AI hype cycles warns that current generative AI and agentic systems risk repeating past failures, as critics argue that scaling deep learning alone cannot achieve human-level …
Amazon has dropped the price of the unlocked 2TB Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max to its lowest ever, offering the renewed smartphone in Cosmic Orange, Silver, or Deep Blue. The deal provides a massive 2TB sto…