2025-01-31

Meta Safety Advisory Council says the company's moderation changes prioritize politics over safety

The Meta Safety Advisory Council has written the company a letter about its concerns with its recent policy changes, including its decision to suspend its fact-checking program. In it, the council sai [...]

2025-01-31

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 secures a movie adaptation before it's even released

Hollywood has been turning to video games for source material quite a bit in recent years. And while their success rate has been improving (mostly), it's a surprise to see a a movie adaptation an [...]

2025-01-31

AI-driven battery brain promises to jumpstart European EVs

A German startup plans to jumpstart European EVs with an AI-powered brain. Sphere Energy built the system to simulate battery behaviour. The company then predicts a power source’s lifetime in numero [...]

2025-01-30

Ai2 releases Tülu 3, a fully open source model that bests DeepSeek v3, GPT-4o with novel post-training approach

DeepSeek-R1 released model code and pre-trained weights but not training data. Ai2 is taking a different approach to be more open. [...]

2025-01-30

Summer Game Fest returns to the YouTube Theater on June 6

This year’s Summer Game Fest livestream is set for June 6 at 5PM ET. The two-hour event will be held at the YouTube theater in Los Angeles. The organizers say gamers should expect “world premieres [...]

2025-01-30

Mistral Small 3 brings open-source AI to the masses — smaller, faster and cheaper

French AI startup Mistral unveils a breakthrough 24B parameter language model that matches the performance of models three times its size, challenging tech giants with faster speeds and lower computin [...]

2025-01-30

North Korean Lazarus hackers launch large-scale cyberattack by cloning open source software

Lazarus hopes devs would pick up the wrong version by mistake. [...]

2025-01-30

Mistral AI says its Small 3 model is a local, open-source alternative to GPT-4o mini

The new 24B-parameter LLM 'excels in scenarios where quick, accurate responses are critical.' In fact, the model can be run on a MacBook with 32GB RAM. [...]

2025-01-30

Trump's FCC is coming from NPR and PBS now too

In one of his first major acts since taking over as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr has directed the agency to open an investigation into NPR and PBS. Carr informed inf [...]