If you’ve asked an AI tool to help you write a social media post lately, you may have gotten more than a grammar fix. New research from the Oxford Internet Institute and the Hasso Plattner Institute found that AI models can push the tone of a post toward one side of a debate, even when…
Anthropic says Claude Fable 5 won’t be accessible via Claude subscriptions after July 7, but it’s not a permanent change, and the company expects the model to return outside the usage-based plan soon. Fable 5 was recently restored after the US government lifted export controls on Anthropic’s most powerful models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5….
It reportedly hasn’t been “fully finalised” yet. There’s obviously been a lot of talk over the past few days about Sony’s decision to cease physical discs for PlayStation consoles as of 2028, and some people have been urging Xbox to not make the same “mistake” in the process. It’s been a belief for a while…
An AI companion sounds dystopian, but it has become a common thread in the wider conversation about the perils of generative AI. What it refers to is essentially a conversational agent built to sustain an ongoing, personal relationship with a user, with the memory and steady persona that keep it consistent from one session to…
According to many true-believers, the biggest promise of AI is its potential to accelerate scientific discovery; once-in-a-generation breakthroughs could one day become routine, thanks to algorithms. By extracting patterns from troves of data far too vast for any human mind to fathom, so the thinking goes, AI scientists could eventually help solve some of humanity’s…
Most Americans don’t trust AI. It’s proven that it doesn’t know what safe toppings for pizza are. People don’t even want to listen to AI music. But none of that matters for some of America’s wealthy, who are turning to AI to teach their kids instead of traditional schools. Companies like Forge Prep and Alpha…
LIT solidifies its position in the top 100 alts after a major surge today. Bitcoin’s price jumped to $64,000 earlier today for the first time in roughly two weeks, but it was rejected there and now sits over a grand lower. Most larger-cap alts have remained relatively stagnant on a daily scale. Pi Network’s…
Sakana AI has added a new feature called Sakana Translate to its chat service, Sakana Chat. It handles bidirectional translation across Japanese, English, and Chinese. The translation engine is Namazu, the company’s model series adapted for Japanese. Sakana Translate ships as a free web app. A single account unlocks all…
Remember when you were a baby, and someone would cover their face with their hands, thusly disappearing entirely from existence, only to return and scream at you? This is to do with something called object permanence, an idea of understanding that even when you can’t see something, it still exists, something that babies genuinely…
Kayla Solino/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. July 4th weekend is here, and while it’s a great excuse to stay offline, there are some enticing reasons to consider some online shopping. One of the best deals I’ve seen so far is my Hisense Canvas S7 TV on sale for under $1,000, and…