Playing with AI: My Sweet 16 is still pretty sweet

(NOTE: This article is part of an ongoing series documenting an experiment with using AI to fill the NCAA brackets and see how it fares against years of human experience. The original article is as follows.) After the first two rounds, I am at the top …

Pentagon formalizes Palantir’s Maven AI as a core military system with multi-year funding — platform’s investment grows to $13 billion from $480 million in 2024

The Pentagon intends to designate Palantir’s Maven Smart System as an official program of record, locking in multi-year funding for the AI-enabled targeting platform.

NeuReality taps former Google AI director to steer its inference operating system into the market
NeuReality taps former Google AI director to steer its inference operating system into the market

When Jensen Huang told 30,000 attendees at GTC last week that the future data centre is a “token factory,” he was describing a world that a small Israeli startup has been quietly building toward for months. NeuReality, the Caesarea-based company behind…

Agile Robots becomes the latest robotics company to partner with Google DeepMind

Agile Robots will incorporate Google DeepMind’s robotics foundation models into its bots while collecting data for the AI research lab.

Agents for finance startup Zalos raises $3.6M to transform finance departments

A startup looking to ease the manual workload of finance teams through deploying AI agents has raised $3.6m in a seed funding round. The funding round in the London and San Francisco-based Zalos was l…

You may start seeing ads in ChatGPT but brands aren’t sure they work

OpenAI’s early ChatGPT ads are raising concerns as advertisers struggle to measure performance.

YouTuber upgrades 14-year-old ThinkPad laptop with a $25 DIY IPS display — simple panel swap breathes new life into 2012-era machine with ‘visually noticeable’ results

A YouTuber has given a 2012-era Lenovo ThinkPad X230 a “visually noticeable upgrade” by swapping out its TN panel for an IPS replacement that cost just $25.

The hardest question to answer about AI-fueled delusions

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. I was originally going to write this week’s newsletter about AI and Iran, particularly the news we broke last Tuesday that the Pentagon is making plans for AI companies to train on…

Idomoo launches Strata – the first AI foundation model for layered video
Idomoo launches Strata – the first AI foundation model for layered video

The Israeli video personalisation company is launching Strata, a foundation model it says produces separate, editable layers for text, animation, footage, and actors rather than a single flat file. It’s a direct challenge to the architectural limits of…