Every technological revolution brings both opportunity and uncertainty. The rapid rise of AI is no exception. It’s no wonder, then, that alongside the excitement and experimentation comes a familiar question: are we heading towards an AI…
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From invisibility cloaks to AI chips: Neurophos raises $110M to build tiny optical processors for inferencing
Twenty years ago, a Duke University professor, David R. Smith, used artificial composite materials called “metamaterials” to make a real-life invisibility cloak. While this cloak didn’t really work like Harry Potter’s, exhibiting limited…
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Anthropic has to keep revising its technical interview test as Claude improves
Since 2024, Anthropic’s performance optimization team has given job applicants a take-home test to make sure they know their stuff. But as AI coding tools have gotten better, the test has had to change a lot to keep candidates from simply…
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Spotify brings AI-powered Prompted Playlists to the U.S. and Canada
Spotify is rolling out Prompted Playlists, a new AI playlist creation tool, to Premium subscribers in the U.S. and Canada. The feature, which was originally tested in New Zealand, allows users to make a playlist by describing what they want to…
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‘This is the single largest infrastructure buildout in human history. Get involved’: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says AI and robotics offers ‘once in a lifetime’ opportunity
- Jensen Huang and Satya Nadella have ruled out fear of an AI bubble
- AI and robotics touch every industry, not just the tech sector
- New jobs could be created, but upskilling and adapting is a must
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has asserted that humanity…
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A Wikipedia Group Made a Guide to Detect AI Writing. Now a Plug-In Uses It to ‘Humanize’ Chatbots
On Saturday, tech entrepreneur Siqi Chen released an open source plug-in for Anthropic’s Claude Code AI assistant that instructs the AI model to stop writing like an AI model.
Called Humanizer, the simple prompt plug-in feeds Claude a list of 24…
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Google Acquires Top Talent From AI Voice Startup Hume AI in Licensing Deal
Google DeepMind is hiring the CEO and several top engineers from Hume AI, a startup working on emotionally intelligent voice interfaces, as part of a new licensing agreement, WIRED has learned.
Financial details of the deal are confidential, but…
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Not every actor is anti-AI — Chris Pratt says ‘a lot more movies will be made’ thanks to the tech, even if new sci-fi thriller Mercy doesn’t agree
A positive angle on AI in film? I wouldn’t have believed it unless I was writing it myself. This Friday (January 23), the new Amazon MGM studios movie Mercy is released in theaters, following detective Chris (Chris Pratt) after his imprisonment…
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Former Google trio is building an interactive AI-powered learning app for kids
Big tech companies and upcoming startups want to use generative AI to build software and hardware for kids. A lot of those experiences are limited to text or voice, and kids might not find that captivating. Three former Google employees want to…
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Logitech’s new AI-powered webcam will let you really take center stage at your meetings
- Logitech unveils two new business webcams
- New Rally AI Camera and AI Camera Pro offer AI smarts and more
- The devices can even be built into your office wall
If you’ve ever wanted to truly dominate a meeting room or video conference space, then
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