New IBM z17 Mainframe Will ‘Redefine AI at Scale’

The new IBM z17 mainframe features AI capabilities across hardware, software, and systems operations.

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OpenAI launches program to design new ‘domain-specific’ AI benchmarks

OpenAI, like many AI labs, thinks AI benchmarks are broken. It says it wants to fix them through a new program. Called the OpenAI Pioneers Program, the program will focus on creating evaluations for AI models that “set the bar for what good looks like,” as OpenAI phrased it in a blog post. “As the […]

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Anthropic rolls out a $200-per-month Claude subscription

Anthropic announced on Wednesday that it’s launching a new, very expensive subscription plan for its AI chatbot Claude: Max. An answer to OpenAI’s $200-a-month ChatGPT Pro tier, Max comes with higher usage limits than Anthropic’s $20-per-month Claude Pro subscription, as well as priority access to the company’s newest AI models and features. A bit confusingly, […]

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The AI Agent Era Requires a New Kind of Game Theory

Zico Kolter, a Carnegie Mellon professor and board member at OpenAI, tells WIRED about the dangers of AI agents interacting with one another—and why models need to be more resistant to attacks.

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How Musk and Trump Are Working to Consolidate Government Data About You

Elon Musk’s team is leading an effort to link government databases, to the alarm of privacy and security experts.

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Stanford’s 2025 AI Index Reveals an Industry at a Crossroads

Stanford University’s 2025 AI Index shows an industry in flux, with models increasing in complexity but public perception still sometimes negative.

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Kalshi CEO: ‘State law doesn’t really apply’ to us

Last week, prediction market startup Kalshi sued New Jersey and Nevada after they tried to shut down its recently launched sports trading operation. In the lawsuit, Kalshi claimed that, since they’re a federally regulated platform, state gaming commissions don’t have the authority to set rules for them. “We’re not necessarily very concerned [because] we are […]

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MIT study finds that AI doesn’t, in fact, have values

A study went viral several months ago for implying that, as AI becomes increasingly sophisticated, it develops “value systems” — systems that lead it to, for example, prioritize its own well-being over humans. A more recent paper out of MIT pours cold water on that hyperbolic notion, drawing the conclusion that AI doesn’t, in fact, […]

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Apple bounces 3% after worst losing streak since 2000

Apple shares rallied more than 3% Tuesday after the iPhone maker posted its worst four-day stretch in more than two decades.

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US may fine TSMC $1B over chip allegedly used in Huawei AI processor 

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) may have to pay a fine of $1 billion or more to resolve a U.S. export control investigation related to a chip it made that was used in a Huawei AI processor, according to a report by Reuters. TSMC did not provide any further comments as it is now “in […]

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