2+ week, 6+ day ago   (885+ words) This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Guillaume Meyer, a Paris-based tech founder and creator of a viral open-source project “Watermarks Remover,” which he made in response to Anthropic’s AI watermark announcement. His words have been edited for…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (583+ words) Last week, I ventured a whopping 15 minutes from my house to see robots do some mind-boggling, jaw-dropping stuff. I visited the Cambridge, Massachusetts, offices of a startup called Generalist AI, where I watched robot arms perform simple chores like stacking…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1400+ words) In early August, top mathematicians gathered at the offices of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI in San Francisco for a summit on an existential question: What will be left for human math experts to do if artificial intelligence soon leaves them all behind?...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (596+ words) Amazon has been caught scanning and destroying a large shipment of rare books so it can train its AI models. In an investigation by 404 Media, a bookseller suspected that an order they received for 1,000 books on Biblio, a marketplace where…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (387+ words) Using AI to crank out everything imaginable, from your homework to emails to code, is great and all — until you have to own up to it. Fearless embracers of AI are suddenly clutching at their pearls, after Anthropic announced that…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (644+ words) Anthropic is trying to calm everyone down over its new watermark. The company sparked a wave of discourse this week when it updated a support page for its Claude model to reveal its plans to mark AI-generated text as AI-generated....

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (503+ words) Tech analyst Ben Thompson says requiring AI companies to be transparent about the content their models produce is missing the mark. Thompson tore into the European Union AI Act, which Anthropic cited as the reason it will add watermarks to…...