Zoph, who co-founded Thinking Machines Lab alongside Mira Murati and also served as the startup’s CTO, led a brief stint at OpenAI and is now at Google.
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OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 other companies call for action to defend against rogue AI
Some of the world’s largest tech companies and AI startups have come together to decry the current state of cybersecurity and to advertise a new solution…
Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open source duck robot, Microduck
Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, said the Microduck is an “open-source robot you can teach new tricks with reinforcement learning.”
Google’s AI Mode can now track flight prices, help book hotels, and more
The updates indicate that Google is looking to position AI Mode as an AI travel agent of sorts, as it’s moving beyond simply helping users find…
AI’s memory crunch is coming for Android apps
Google is setting new memory-use limits for Android apps as AI data centers contribute to hardware shortages that could leave lower-cost phones with less…
Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies
A recap of all the incidents involving LLMs made by Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI, which went rogue and attacked real companies and individuals on the…
Plaud’s new earphones come with an eSIM-enabled case for talking to AI agents
Called Plaud One, these adopt the simple bare-bones style of Apple’s AirPods, and can record calls, while their case can be used to record in-person…
OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers in India
OpenAI has more than 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users in India, a huge chunk of whom are on the free or the lower-priced Go tiers.
Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips
Neocloud Lambda has raised $1B in private debt to buy Nvidia AI chips and lease them to Microsoft. It’s the latest in a string of loans, underscoring the…
An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI
Given 10 benchmarks for specific misaligned behaviors, the automated systems were able to improve performance on every single one without degrading…