February 22, 2025

US AI Safety Institute could face big cuts

The National Institute of Standards and Technology could fire as many as 500 staffers, according to multiple reports — cuts that further threaten a fledgling AI safety organization. Axios reported this week that the US AI Safety Institute (AISI) and Chips for America, both part of NIST, would be “gutted” by layoffs targeting probationary employees […]

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December 2022

Sam Altman: This is what I learned from DALL-E 2

December 16, 2022
Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, has been at the heart of the San Francisco-based firm since co-founding it with Elon Musk and others in 2015. His vision for the future of AI and how to get there has shaped not only what OpenAI does, but also the direction in which AI research is heading in general.…

Ajna Lens: Stepping into the Metaverse

December 16, 2022
Metaverse will be a game changer to upskill and train the youth, making them more employable. The training enabled by Metaverse can help the students/ individuals to improve their skills, and practice the modules unlimited times, without worrying about cost, time or availability of equipment.

SaaS In 2022: The Wins And the Woes

December 16, 2022
As SaaS companies step into another year of supply chain troubles, geopolitical tensions, and continued inflationary pressure, customer retention should remain at the core.

Twitter pulls its Spaces group audio feature after Musk run-in with banned journalists

December 16, 2022

Twitter has apparently pulled its Spaces group audio feature, at least temporarily, after Elon Musk joined a group conversation that included journalists that had been banned from the platform. The latest drama comes after Twitter suspended several prominent journalists who had covered an earlier story about the Elon Jet Twitter account that was banned for […]

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Artists can now opt out of the next version of Stable Diffusion

December 16, 2022
Artists are now able to opt out of the next version of one of the world’s most popular text-to-image AI generators, Stable Diffusion, the company behind it announced.  Stability.AI will work with Spawning, an organization founded by artist couple Mat Dryhurst and Holly Hendon who have built a website called HaveIBeenTrained, that allows artists to…

Generative AI is changing everything. But what’s left when the hype is gone?

December 16, 2022
It was clear that OpenAI was on to something. In late 2021, a small team of researchers was playing around with an idea at the company’s San Francisco office. They’d built a new version of OpenAI’s text-to-image model, DALL-E, an AI that converts short written descriptions into pictures: a fox painted by Van Gogh, perhaps,…

Mind-altering substances are being overhyped as wonder drugs

December 16, 2022
This article is from The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, sign up here. For the past five years or so, barely a week has gone by without a study, comment, or press release about the potential benefits of psychedelic drugs landing in my inbox. Psychedelics…