Millions of users are worried their digital companions will be deleted after the world’s largest AI character creation site filed for bankruptcy. Character.AI had roughly 12 million monthly users when it…
Hottest toy for Christmas? Nvidia CEO plays with adorable Microduck robots, 20,000 sell
Earlier this week, a video of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang playing with a flock of waddling Microducks during his keynote at the company’s GTC Berlin conference went viral. The robots, stomping their…
London Baker Announces Controversial Policy on AI-Generated Cake Requests
A London-based baker has officially put her foot down on AI-generated cake orders. On Oct. 15, Reshmi Bennett, founder and head chef of bakery Anges de Sucre, posted about a very lengthy…
Microsoft AI tool diagnoses complex cases twice as well as doctors
Apollon Wealth Management CIO Eric Sterner discusses how technology is driving gains in the healthcare sector on ‘The Claman Countdown.’ Microsoft researchers said in a study that a new artificial intelligence (AI)…
Developer Of “Ecosocialist” Game Offers Refunds After Using AI
You’d think that an “ecosocialist utopia” game made by a prominent leftist game developer who developed it “with locally sourced talent and minimal involvement from capitalists, marketers, or profiteers” would be free…
Sam Altman: ‘I No Longer Think We’re Gonna Be Able to Just Patch All the Bugs’
It seems like every day a new, potentially internet-shattering cybersecurity issue is discovered or exploited by artificial intelligence. It’s gotten bad enough that even OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, one of the people…
California startup says it has injected AI-designed virus into humans for first time
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Using AI Agents to Teach Robots Like Microduck to Walk in Simulation
Teaching a robot to navigate an obstacle course requires more than a walking policy. It must perceive its surroundings, maintain balance, and adjust its actions when obstacles block the path ahead. Developing…
The AI Rout: Sorting CAPEX Fact From Fiction
Funding Fears Threaten AI Bull Market Early in the year, investors rushed into tech stocks as AI innovations, investment, and rapid growth expectations drew attention away from the rest of the market….
‘A cyclical downturn is inevitable’ in an AI crash: Strategist Dario Perkins
If the weakness in tech stocks continues to gain steam, it could end up being really ugly for investors, given how aggressively they have gone into tech stocks in recent years. That’s…