Samsung AI researcher's new, open reasoning model TRM outperforms models 10,000X larger — on specific problems

The trend of AI researchers developing new, small open source generative models that outperform far larger, proprietary peers continued this week with yet another staggering advancement.Alexia Jolicoe [...]

Engadget Podcast: iPhone 16e review and Amazon's AI-powered Alexa+

The keyword for the iPhone 16e seems to be "compromise." In this episode, Devindra chats with Cherlynn about her iPhone 16e review and try to figure out who this phone is actually for. Also, [...]

AI Sucks at Sudoku. Much More Troubling Is That It Can't Explain Why

Research into how chatbots solve simple puzzles demonstrates one of the technology's big ethical concerns. [...]

Surprising no one, researchers confirm that AI chatbots are incredibly sycophantic

We all have anecdotal evidence of chatbots blowing smoke up our butts, but now we have science to back it up. Researchers at Stanford, Harvard and other institutions just published a study in Nature a [...]

Meta reportedly allowed unauthorized celebrity AI chatbots on its services

Meta hosted several AI chatbots with the names and likenesses of celebrities without their permission, according to Reuters. The unauthorized chatbots that Reuters discovered during its investigation [...]

Narwal's first mattress vacuum heats, taps, UV-blasts and sucks up all the ick living in your bed

Narwal brought new cleaning robots with it to CES this year, including the Narwal Flow 2, it’s latest flagship robo mop-vac, and the Narwal U50, an automatic mattress vac designed for “deep mite [...]

AI Is Bad at Sudoku. It's Even Worse at Showing Its Work

Researchers did more than ask chatbots to play games. They tested whether AI models could describe their thinking. The results were troubling. [...]

Mark Zuckerberg was initially opposed to parental controls for AI chatbots, according to legal filing

Meta has faced some serious questions about how it allows its underage users to interact with AI-powered chatbots. Most recently, internal communications obtained by the New Mexico Attorney General� [...]

Google's DiffusionGemma generates 256 tokens in parallel and self-corrects as it goes

GenAI image generators like Stable Diffusion do not draw a picture pixel by pixel from left to right. They start with noise and iteratively refine the entire image in parallel until it converges, in a [...]