Contra Chiang on Machine Consciousness
Philosopher and AI researcher David Thorstad critiques Ted Chiang's recent essay denying machine consciousness, arguing that Chiang's claims are unsupported by evidence and that the possibility of AI …
Philosopher and AI researcher David Thorstad critiques Ted Chiang's recent essay denying machine consciousness, arguing that Chiang's claims are unsupported by evidence and that the possibility of AI …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urged G7 leaders to avoid splintering on AI policy during a lunch in France attended by U.S. President Donald Trump, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis. …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis called for a U.S.-led AI coalition during a closed-door lunch at the G7 summit in Évian-les-Bains, France, with around a dozen tech executive…
Leaked records reveal that billionaire investor Peter Thiel has secretly led an invite-only club called Dialog, which hosted retreats featuring sessions on sex, cult-building, and World War III prepar…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are attending a G7 CEO lunch in Evian-les-Bains, days after the U.S. blocked EU access to Anthropic's latest AI models. European leaders aim to use…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai executed a 10-move restructuring in 18 months after ChatGPT's launch, merging Brain and DeepMind into Google DeepMind and reorganizing the company to deploy AI products. Picha…
Sebastian Mallaby, author of 'The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence,' discusses insights from over 100 AI insiders on the race to superintelligence, the r…
Researchers from UC Berkeley, University of Washington, Princeton, and Bespoke Labs found that current AI agents plateau within 24 hours on long-horizon coding tasks, while top humans continue improvi…
Google was named a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide SIEM Vendor Assessment, recognizing its Google Security Operations platform. The platform integrates Mandiant expertise, AI agents, …
A Hacker News user asks why no US company has released open-weight AI models, noting that Chinese labs and Europe's Mistral are more dedicated to open weights than US labs like OpenAI, Google, and Mic…
David Silver, the DeepMind researcher behind AlphaGo, has chosen Google Cloud as the infrastructure partner for his new startup Ineffable Intelligence, which aims to build a 'superlearner' AI system. …
A developer compares four dominant alignment methods—RLHF, DPO, IPO, and KTO—for fine-tuning large language models, detailing their mathematical formulations, data requirements, and practical tradeoff…
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas predicted that Micron will surpass Meta in market value, identified power supply shortages as the tech industry's biggest hurdle, and stated that AI's role is shifting …
DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis proposed an 'Einstein test' for artificial general intelligence, requiring an AI to independently derive general relativity using only pre-1911 knowledge. He stated that no…
Researchers developed custom Triton kernels that accelerate JumpReLU Sparse Autoencoder inference by 2–14× on real SAEs, exploiting activation sparsity to skip zero entries during matrix multiplicatio…
Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton predicts AI will surpass humans in mathematics within 10 years, arguing math is a closed system like chess or Go. Hinton, who resigned from Google in 2023 over AI safety…
A new era of machine intelligence is emerging where artificial agents learn not from human data or solitary practice, but by interacting with each other inside learned world models. Researchers argue …
Spotify's data assistant handles over 13,000 conversations using a domain-expert-owned context layer. DeepMind's AlphaProof Nexus closes nine Erdős problems. GitHub releases Spec-Kit for spec-driven d…
London Tech Week has been accused of masking structural problems in Britain's tech sector, with venture capitalist Adam French calling it 'complacency in conference form'. French criticized politician…
London Tech Week exemplifies the UK tech sector's complacency and negative self-narrative, according to Adam French. The event showcased politicians touting funding figures while serious investors wer…