AI News Brief: today roundup
- TechCrunch's Equity podcast examined the AI industry's debate over whether artificial intelligence poses an existential threat to humanity.
- A MarkTechPost tutorial details how to construct an end-to-end hierarchical Neural Radiance Field using JAX, Flax, and jax3d.
- Princeton researcher Yifan Zhang proposed the Recurrent Looped Transformer, an architecture that carries decoder state across every token.
- Former President Barack Obama urged Democrats to establish a clear policy agenda addressing AI safety and economic impacts.
- House Speaker Mike Johnson opposed an AI moratorium, proposing a White House meeting with industry leaders on safety guardrails.
- ElevenLabs released Music v2.5, an upgraded AI music generation model trained on licensed tracks and available via app and API.
- Nscale appointed former OpenAI executive and Instacart CEO Fidji Simo to its board ahead of a potential public offering.
- The AllSpark team launched Iris-mini and Iris-pro, leading open-weight search agents constructed on top of Qwen models.
- OpenAI expanded its Habitat storage platform to handle 22 million requests per second for one billion ChatGPT users.
- GPT-6 Astra beat rival models on business agent benchmarks and outperformed human baselines in autonomous drone flight tasks.
Sources
- What’s behind the AI industry’s latest warnings of doom?
- Hierarchical NeRF with JAX3D for Volumetric Rendering, Novel-View Synthesis, and 3D Reconstruction
- A Princeton Researcher Proposes Recurrent Looped Transformer (RLT) that Carries Decoder State across Every Token, Fixing 96 Blocks per Token with Unbounded Temporal Depth
- Obama urges Democrats to have a ‘clear plan’ for AI safeguards
- Johnson Proposes White House Meeting of AI Leaders on Guardrails
- Elevenlabs makes Music v2.5 available via app and API with free and pro tier options
- Nscale adds former OpenAI exec Fidji Simo to its board ahead of potential IPO
- Iris-mini and Iris-pro are the strongest open-weight search agents in their class
- Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users
- GPT-6 Astra pilots a surveillance drone and runs a business on its own