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Forget prompt engineering: 'Loop engineering' is all the rage now
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (336+ words) Claude Code creator Boris Cherny says he doesn't "write the prompt anymore." Here's how loop engineering is changing coding....
Autonomous labs are running science experiments 24/7
5+ day, 8+ hour ago (512+ words) "We want a better material," says Gerbrand Ceder, the U. C. Berkeley materials scientist who runs the A-Lab. "But we're also really interested in: Can you build an AI that acts like a scientist?" A robotic gripper moves cup-shaped containers among trays…...
AI Exec Says Catastrophic Outcome Can't Be Ruled Out: "Killing Everyone'
2+ week, 2+ day ago (563+ words) An executive at artificial intelligence (AI) giant Anthropic offered a dire possibility about AI's potential, as well as several concrete predictions about the technology's future. Jack Clark, co-founder of Anthropic and head of the company's research arm, studies what AI…...
The robot puppeteers of Silicon Valley teaching humanoids how to make your morning coffee
3+ week, 3+ hour ago (1212+ words) Fernando Flores can spend eight hours a day pouring the same cup of coffee. He is not a barista. He's a robot puppeteer, trying to train humanoids. He manipulates mechanical arms remotely, using hand and arm sensors to make them…...
The Double Life of AI
4+ week, 1+ day ago (906+ words) For Gen-Xers like me who no longer have time to keep up with the pace of every type of technology, AI seemed to happen overnight. No build-up. No giant Motorola brick phones, then flip phones, then smart phone progression. Of…...
AI Godfather Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic's Pre-Training Team
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (319+ words) Legendary researcher left You Tube tutorials behind to build recursive self-improvement systems at one of Amazon's biggest investments'Anthropic. Our analysts just identified a stock with the potential to be the next Nvidia. Tell us how you invest and we'll show…...
Behold! The latest Texas Instruments graphing calculator is the TI-84 Evo
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (275+ words) Yahoo Tech If you buy something through a link in this article, we may earn commission. If the mere mention of "TI-84" hits a certain nostalgic part of your brain, you might want to pay attention to Texas Instruments" latest…...
Review: A Cognitive Neuroscientist's Take on How AI Models Think (opinion)
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (199+ words) Yahoo Tech These Strange New Minds is a comprehensive book for lay readers wondering how large language models (LLMs) work and how they might help or harm human culture. Its author, the cognitive neuroscientist Christopher Summerfield, faces an inherent challenge:…...
Quiz: Which AI personality is your true match?
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (703+ words) There are now more AI tools worth taking seriously than most people have time to properly evaluate. Chat GPT, Gemini and Claude are all readily available, but they aren't interchangeable (and, of course, there's Grok who we have included for…...
Google's Paper Orchestra AI Converts Lab Notes Into Publication-Ready Research Papers
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (283+ words) Yahoo Tech Researchers from the Google Cloud AI team have introduced Paper Orchestra, an AI framework that autonomously transforms messy lab notes and scattered research data into submission-ready academic manuscripts. Unlike existing AI writing tools that focus on text generation,…...