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The Download: Making AI fairer, and why everyone’s talking about AGI
What’s new: A new pair of AI benchmarks could help developers reduce bias in AI models, potentially making them…
Two new benchmarks could help make AI models less biased
“We have been sort of stuck with outdated notions of what fairness and bias means for a long time,” says Divya…
AGI is suddenly a dinner table topic
First, let’s get the pesky business of defining AGI out of the way. In practice, it’s a deeply hazy and…
The Download: Supercharging the power grid, and a new Chinese AI agent
“The US won the internet and the US should win crypto.” —Tyler Winklevoss, who runs crypto exchange Gemini with…
The cheapest way to supercharge America’s power grid
So why are we not seeing an explosion in ATT investment and deployment in the US? Because despite their…
The Download: Gene de-extinction, and Ukraine’s Starlink connection
This week saw the release of some fascinating news about some very furry rodents—so-called “woolly…
The short, strange history of gene de-extinction
To be sure, there is a long way to go. The mice Colossal created include several genetic changes previously…
The Download: Denmark’s robot city, and Google’s AI-only search…
The city of Odense, in Denmark, is best known as the site where King Canute, Denmark’s last Viking king, was…
The Download: AI can cheat at chess, and the future of search
The news: Facing defeat in chess, the latest generation of AI reasoning models sometimes cheat without being…
AI reasoning models can cheat to win chess games
Palisade’s team found that OpenAI’s o1-preview attempted to hack 45 of its 122 games, while DeepSeek’s R1 model…