Geoffrey Hinton, the “godfather of AI,” is warning of a Chernobyl-like AI event, saying humanity has roughly a decade to know whether AI can be safely developed and deployed. Hinton’s work into AI and neural networks is widely credited with laying the groundwork for the modern AI industry and frontier models being developed. Despite his

Perplexity announced the launch of “teammates, personal agents that can take on that long-running work.” According to Perplexity, teammates are designed to free people from the mundane job of coordinating individual tasks, allowing them to focus on outcomes and the big picture. To achieve this, teammates are designed to plan and coordinate projects, adapt to

Anthropic packed roughly two years of benchmark gains into the last 12 months, and an outside reviewer that spent 11 weeks with the company’s internal data thinks most of that speedup came from Anthropic’s own AI doing research work. The review, published Thursday by the nonprofit METR, tries to put a number on a question

A conjecture that has shaped arguments about quantum speedups since 2008 now has a machine-checked proof, Physical Superintelligence said Friday. The physics research lab reported that an internal research system, running instances of a non-public Anthropic model on PSI’s own infrastructure, produced a complete proof of the Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture on the third day of a

Two AI agents, with about 20 short messages from a human researcher, reran a recent attack on 1024-bit RSA signatures in under four days and used about 3.5 times less CPU time than the academic team that first pulled it off. Google DeepMind released that result Friday alongside a second paper that lowers the theoretical

Google is taking direct control of a southeast Wyoming data center site that Crusoe had been preparing, the AI infrastructure company said Friday. The handoff lands one day after Google described a long-term $17 billion plan for its first data center in the state. Crusoe did not disclose the purchase price. In a statement, it