These days, the frontier AI labs are all racing to build self-improving models. Some believe it’s the surest route to superintelligence—as AI improves itself in a mind-melting loop, the thinking goes, ...

Alex L. Zhang was 13 years old when he published a video game that went viral. More than 100,000 people bought the game for $1 to $3 each—a solid income for a middle schooler. Zhang is now a graduate ...

The companies at the frontier of artificial intelligence should be ready to slow down, one of the fastest-moving among them says. Anthropic, the maker of the Claude chatbot, has claimed AI systems may ...

AI models are rapidly improving – so fast that they may soon be able to develop themselves without human involvement. That’s why Anthropic is warning the AI industry: It needs to build a “brake pedal, ...

RSI is also defined as an “AI system capable of fully autonomously designing and developing its own successor,” per Anthropic’s blog post. “We are not there yet, and recursive self-improvement is not ...

Companies have been developing AI very quickly to stay ahead of the market, but Favaro and Clark argue that a slowdown would allow more time to deal with the technology’s implications. US-based AI ...

Richard Socher has been a major figure in AI for some time, best known for founding the early chatbot startup You.com and, before that, his work on ImageNet. Now he’s joining the current generation of ...

The FDA is reporting that the nation’s supply of infant formula is safe after the “most rigorous examination” of products ever undertaken. The testing program did not include foodborne pathogens such ...

Eric Schmidt and other AI leaders (Karpathy, Musk, Anthropic executives) have described recursive self-improvement (RSI)—AI autonomously designing, testing, and deploying better versions of itself—as ...

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Some popular baby formula brands contain heavy metals, including arsenic, lead and PFAS, or "forever" chemicals, according to a new report from Consumer Reports. The nonprofit consumer advocacy ...