Tencent has hired former OpenAI researcher Tian Yonglong to work on visual-language models, marking its second recruitment from OpenAI. Tian, who holds a PhD from MIT and previously worked at DeepMind…
Researchers from MIT, NYU, and Sakana AI replicated the Picbreeder experiment using vision-language model agents, finding that while AI can generate diverse images without predefined goals, it struggl…
The 70th anniversary of the coining of "artificial intelligence" at the 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project also marks the birth of cognitive science and the cognitive revolution in psychology, as …
A 44-author robotics group led by Tianxing Chen released RoboDojo, an open benchmark for testing generalist robot manipulation policies across simulation and physical robots, evaluating 30 policies an…
A developer built a family of MCP servers enabling AI agents to accept payments across 30 countries, including Pix in Brazil and UPI in India. After a Reddit user suggested adding guardrails for agent…
General Intuition, a Bezos-backed startup valued at $2.3 billion, raised $320 million to train AI agents using video game data, arguing that gaming data better teaches models about physical movement a…
The ELIZA Archaeology Project is restoring and contextualizing the original 1960s ELIZA chatbot, created by Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT, which pioneered human-computer conversation and revealed the 'Eliz…
A startup called MorphMind has released Academic Humanizer, a tool that uses AI to rewrite AI-generated academic papers to sound more human, raising concerns about academic integrity. The tool, built …
The ELIZA Archaeology Project, an interdisciplinary research initiative, explores the history and cultural impact of the ELIZA chatbot, created by Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT in the 1960s. The project ai…
General Intuition, a Bezos-backed startup valued at $2.3 billion, closed a $320 million funding round to develop AGI using gaming data, arguing that large language models lack the spatial-temporal und…
Mobilerun launched an open-source AI agent framework that lets developers automate mobile app workflows on real Android and iOS devices in the cloud. The tool supports natural language commands, paral…
Turing Award winner and Postgres creator Mike Stonebraker revealed that large language models score 0% accuracy on real-world data warehouse queries, despite achieving 80-85% on popular benchmarks lik…
Rlm-Workflow, a new agent skill for coding assistants like Codex, implements a structured kanban-style workflow to improve code quality, traceability, and context management by keeping specifications …
Developer Ashutosh Rath released Atrophy, a command-line tool that treats coding skills like Elo chess ratings and offers drills in five areas to combat skill decay from over-reliance on AI coding ass…
Researchers warn that generative AI may weaken critical thinking, memory, and creativity, echoing past fears about the Google effect and calculators. MIT researcher Nataliya Kosmyna argues AI poses a …
Goldman Sachs researchers warn that college graduates could be the first to feel AI's impact on the job market, as adoption accelerates in white-collar industries like finance and professional service…
A developer argues that AI's lack of memory across sessions is a structural design flaw, not a communication problem, and that adding more rules has a ceiling. Surveys show only 4% of companies report…
A man walked into the White House in 2023 with an AI chatbot-generated recipe for a pandemic, and by 2026 the New York Times reported that leading AI models like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude can now gu…
VulcanForms appointed Matthew Rose as executive vice president of Mission Systems to expand its metal manufacturing services for government, defense, and national-security customers. Rose, formerly of…
Major technology companies including Uber and Microsoft are pulling back on AI spending after discovering that replacing human workers with AI is more expensive than anticipated, with Nvidia's VP noti…