Live translation has long been one of travel’s hardest unsolved problems: a single guide speaking to a mixed-language group, with no way to be understood…
Category: AI
Anthropic’s 3-Step ‘Pace the Frontier’ Plan Wins OpenAI, xAI and Microsoft Support: Is It Too Late to Slow AI Down?
Dario Amodei published “We Must Pace the Frontier,” and Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Satya Nadella endorsed it within a day. The trigger was a July incident…
Nadella Announces Public Consultation on Microsoft’s MAI Model Rules
Microsoft chairman and chief executive officer Satya Nadella announced on September 13, 2026 that the company will publish a “Code of Conduct” underlying…
Perplexity trusts GPT-6 Astra with end-to-end systems
Perplexity uses Astra to write communications, change software, and monitor production systems, and checks in much less frequently than with earlier…
What’s behind the AI industry’s latest warnings of doom?
On Equity, we discussed the AI industry’s latest debate about whether it poses an existential threat to humanity.
Hierarchical NeRF with JAX3D for Volumetric Rendering, Novel-View Synthesis, and 3D Reconstruction
In this tutorial, we build an end-to-end hierarchical Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) using JAX, Flax, Optax, and the volume-rendering primitives provided by…
A Princeton Researcher Proposes Recurrent Looped Transformer (RLT) that Carries Decoder State across Every Token, Fixing 96 Blocks per Token with Unbounded Temporal Depth
Yifan Zhang’s Recurrent Looped Transformer (RLT) technical report proposes a causal encoder paired with a recurrent decoder that carries its final hidden…
Obama urges Democrats to have a ‘clear plan’ for AI safeguards
Obama recently said that Democrats need to make artificial intelligence one of their “central agendas” and “have a very clear plan” to address concerns…
Johnson Proposes White House Meeting of AI Leaders on Guardrails
House Speaker Mike Johnson said on September 13, 2026, that Congress must resist imposing an emergency moratorium on artificial intelligence, and he…
Elevenlabs makes Music v2.5 available via app and API with free and pro tier options
ElevenLabs has released Music v2.5 for its AI music generator. In a blind test with nearly 48,000 comparison pairs, listeners preferred the new version…