A faster way to solve complex planning problems
When some commuter trains arrive at the end of the line, they must travel to a switching platform to be turned around so they can depart the station later, often...
A small US city experiments with AI to find out what residents want
Bowling Green, Kentucky, is home to 75,000 residents who recently wrapped up an experiment in using AI for democracy: Can an online polling platform, powered by machine learning, capture what...
Five things you should never reveal to ChatGPT if you want to protect your privacy
People turn to ChatGPT for all kinds of things — couples therapy, help with writing a professional email, turning pictures of their dogs into humans — letting the artificial intelligence...
There’s AI Inside Windows Paint and Notepad Now. Here’s How to Use It
Note that while Generative Erase and Remove Background can be used for free, Image Creator uses up AI credits associated with your Microsoft account. You can’t buy these separately, they...
Training LLMs to self-detoxify their language
As we mature from childhood, our vocabulary — as well as the ways we use it — grows, and our experiences become richer, allowing us to think, reason, and interact...
Phase two of military AI has arrived
Last week, I spoke with two US Marines who spent much of last year deployed in the Pacific, conducting training exercises from South Korea to the Philippines. Both were responsible...
Nvidia vows to spend up to $500B to build AI servers in US amid Trump pressure
Nvidia said it is planning to build AI servers worth as much as $500 billion in the US over the next four years with help from partners such as TSMC, the...
OpenAI’s New GPT 4.1 Models Excel at Coding
OpenAI announced today that it is releasing a new family of artificial intelligence models optimized to excel at coding, as it ramps up efforts to fend off increasingly stiff competition...
Vana is letting users own a piece of the AI models trained on their data
In February 2024, Reddit struck a $60 million deal with Google to let the search giant use data on the platform to train its artificial intelligence models. Notably absent from...
