AI
Meta is using AI to make NPCs more human, less robotic and hopefully not quite as ridiculous
Patent application reveals plans to give non-player characters the ability to speak and behave realistically using LLMs and GenAI.
Jasper Hamill
Airbnb reveals plan to build AI-powered "Amazon of travel" super app
"A place to stay is, frankly, a very small part of the overall equation."
Cyberwar
The rise of Four Eyes: New coalition could pose "profound" security threat to the West
Ex-CISA chief warns that a quartet of rival nations are forming an axis to rival the Five Eyes alliance.
Money Machine: Open Banking vs Elon Musk & dire warnings from the BoE
Brace for shocks and systemic risk as DOGE continues to savage America's public sector...
Existential Risk
Hugging Face: Autonomous AI agents should NOT be unleashed
"The history of nuclear close calls provides a sobering lesson about the dangers of ceding human control to autonomous systems..."
Internet
Elon Musk offers $100 billion to buy OpenAI, renames himself Harry Bōlz
"It’s time for OpenAI to return to a open-source, safety-focused force for good."
Altman's Law: OpenAI boss sets out three rules of AI economics
"The future will come at us in a way that is impossible to ignore and the long-term changes will be huge."
AI
Academics and industry leaders share wishlists for the Paris AI summit
"We must allow innovators to innovate, builders to build and developers to develop."
Is Elon Musk trying to meme Gamergate back into existence?
The Edgelord-in-Chief has waded into yet another controversial issue and slammed the state of today's video games journalism industry.
Robots
Amazon prepares for the "next wave" of its robotics revolution
A glimpse of the automated future of e-commerce (and the risk of technological unemployment awaiting humans).
Financial Systems
Coinbase "clamps down on crypto payments to dark web drug dealers"
Crypto exchange takes steps which appear to be intended to stop people sending funds to criminals' accounts.
Existential Risk
Humanity faces "gradual disempowerment" rather than an AI apocalypse, researchers warn
Academics predict our species won't suffer an "abrupt takeover" by superintelligence but a slow lingering death from a thousand cuts.