Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
Trump Announces $500 Billion AI “Stargate” Plan for Texas
January 21st, 2025But wait, there’s more. Here’s Larry Ellison, standing next to Trump, talking about how they’ll use AI to make custom mRNA cancer vaccines: Larry Ellison, standing next to Trump: We'll use AI to make custom mRNA cancer vaccines pic.twitter.com/REOG6PWWP2 — cryptogon (@cryptogon) January 22, 2025 Mmm hmm. Also, Larry Ellison: Omnipresent AI Cameras Will Ensure […]
Anduril Industries Will Build Massive Autonomous Weapons Factory in Ohio
January 20th, 2025Via: Interesting Engineering: Anduril Industries – the maker of autonomous systems and weapons – has selected Columbus in Ohio for its first hyperscale manufacturing facility. The facility named Arsenal-1 will be built with the motive of making the United States and its allies self-sufficient in the race for autonomous systems and drones. At full scale, […]
Unitree G1 Bionic
January 17th, 2025Via: Unitree Robotics:
Tethered Russian Attack Drone Can Unwind Six Miles of Fiber Optic Cable, Not Susceptible to Electronic Warfare Jamming
January 10th, 2025Via: Telegraph: Justin Crump, the chief executive of the strategic intelligence company Sibylline, said: “Fibre optic drones were developed by Russia to counter the problems of effective EW. “People think of a drone at the end of a tether pulling off a big spool of wire, but the cable is so lightweight that the drone […]
“AI Friends Are Coming to Facebook and Instagram”
January 2nd, 2025Flashback to 2011: Army of Fake Social Media Friends to Promote Propaganda: It’s recently been revealed that the U.S. government contracted HBGary Federal for the development of software which could create multiple fake social media profiles to manipulate and sway public opinion on controversial issues by promoting propaganda. It could also be used as surveillance […]
Orbit by Mozilla: “AI You Can Trust”
December 31st, 2024“Easily summarize emails, docs, articles, and videos across the web — without sacrificing your privacy.” Mmm hmm. In the first entry of Orbit’s frequently asked questions, “How does Orbit work?” we read: For the current version, we are using a Mistral LLM (Mistral 7B) hosted within Mozilla’s GCP instance. In case you don’t know, and […]
“The Paper Passport’s Days Are Numbered – Despite New Privacy Risks”
December 27th, 2024Via: Wired: In a matter of years, no matter where you live or travel, your face will likely be your new passport. For centuries, people have used some form of passport while moving from place to place. But the widespread standardization of passports as we know them today didn’t really begin until after World War […]
Outsource Your Mind to Your AI Companion
December 23rd, 2024Via: Rob Braxman Tech:
Is OpenAI’s o3 Model AGI?
December 21st, 2024I doubt it’s actually AGI, but it looks impressive. If it’s any consolation, they let it use a very nontrivial amount of compute to pull this off. If/when this thing gets the ability to iterate on itself… Well, that’s probably not going to go well for humanity. In the demo, they show it generating and […]
Ghost Music: Spotify Playlists Contain “Anonymous, Low-Cost Playlist Filler” to Avoid Paying Royalties to Real Musicians
December 20th, 2024Give ’em what they want… Via: Harper’s Magazine: According to a source close to the company, Spotify’s own internal research showed that many users were not coming to the platform to listen to specific artists or albums; they just needed something to serve as a soundtrack for their days, like a study playlist or maybe […]
