[Project] CrowdTensor: volunteer LoRA training that survives intermittent GPUs (7B proof + live beta)

On May 31, Sarah Wynn-Williams took the stage as a panelist at the prestigious Hay Festival, alongside law professor Tim Wu and journalist Carole Cadwalladr. Before she said a word, she was greeted by cheers. She never did say a word, sitting in silence as the two other panelists discussed the evils of big tech….

Artificial intelligence has advanced at an extraordinary pace over the past several decades, transforming industries, accelerating scientific discovery, and fundamentally changing how humans interact with technology. Yet despite this remarkable progress, one assumption has remained remarkably consistent throughout every major generation of AI: intelligent systems acquire most of their knowledge before they are deployed. That…

When asked for comment on this story, an OpenAI spokesperson pointed WIRED to a June blog post stating that Brockman’s engagement with Leading the Future was in a personal capacity and not on behalf of the company. The blog also notes that OpenAI “employees are free to participate in the political process in their personal…

There are a lot of things that we have written about at Smart Data Collective since Ryan acquired the site 10 years ago. It is clear that cloud technology is becoming more important for companies that need safer, more organized, and more reliable IT asset recovery services. SentinelOne reports that ransomware attacks hit 78% of…

Topline Chinese startup Moonshot AI on Friday launched what it claims is the world’s largest open AI model, Kimi K3, positioning its product as a direct challenger to leading systems offered by Anthropic and OpenAI in what it calls a “new frontier of intelligence.” The Chinese startup called its AI model the “new frontier of…

As generative AI becomes increasingly capable of producing videos that are nearly indistinguishable from real footage, the race is no longer just about creating synthetic media. It’s about detecting it before it spreads. At SIGGRAPH 2026, NVIDIA unveiled Synthetic Video Detector, a new AI-powered verification tool designed to identify AI-generated videos with remarkable speed and…