MIT Learn offers “a whole new front door to the Institute”
In 2001, MIT became the first higher education institution to provide educational resources for free to anyone in the world. Fast forward 24 years: The Institute has now launched a...
The two people shaping the future of OpenAI’s research
For the past couple of years, OpenAI has felt like a one-man brand. With his showbiz style and fundraising glitz, CEO Sam Altman overshadows all other big names on the...
Meta’s $250M whiz kid’s previous AI product ‘sucks at Google Chrome’
Meta’s newest whiz kid has bagged himself a mighty $250 million pay packet, but users of the 24-year-old researcher’s last AI offering have labelled it “clunky” and complained it “sucks...
Anthropic Revokes OpenAI’s Access to Claude
Anthropic revoked OpenAI’s API access to its models on Tuesday, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell WIRED. OpenAI was informed that its access was cut off due to violating...
“FUTURE PHASES” showcases new frontiers in music technology and interactive performance
Music technology took center stage at MIT during “FUTURE PHASES,” an evening of works for string orchestra and electronics, presented by the MIT Music Technology and Computation Graduate Program as part...
Forcing LLMs to be evil during training can make them nicer in the long run
A new study from Anthropic suggests that traits such as sycophancy or evilness are associated with specific patterns of activity in large language models—and turning on those patterns during training...
Amazon posts weak cloud growth while rivals Google, Microsoft thrive
Amazon on Thursday forecast third-quarter sales above market estimates, but failed to live up to lofty expectations for its Amazon Web Services cloud computing unit after rivals handily beat expectations. Shares fell by...
Inside the Summit Where China Pitched Its AI Agenda to the World
Three days after the Trump administration published its much-anticipated AI action plan, the Chinese government put out its own AI policy blueprint. Was the timing a coincidence? I doubt it....
New algorithms enable efficient machine learning with symmetric data
If you rotate an image of a molecular structure, a human can tell the rotated image is still the same molecule, but a machine-learning model might think it is a...
