“Runaway” AI, “rogue” agents, and “autonomous” actors—the current rhetoric would have you believe that AI agents are not only awake and aware, but angry at their creators. Prominent tech leaders such as Demis Hassabis, Dario Amodei, and Sam Altman push for regulation of these seemingly “superhuman” systems, while a separate faction, led by policy organizations…
London-based Seabound has developed a carbon capture system that transforms CO2 from a ship’s engine into limestone, which Heidelberg Materials will use to make cement.
OpenAI researcher Jason Wei will reportedly join Meta’s new Superintelligence Lab. Another team member, Hyung Won Chung, might also join Meta, as the company works to catch up to rivals in the AGI race.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Google’s generative video model Veo 3 has a subtitles problem As soon as Google launched its latest video-generating AI model at the end of May, creatives rushed to put it through its paces.…