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Google Research's new "Polar Peaks" quest teaches students ages 11-14 about AI through a game simulating brain neuron mapping, inspired by the company's connectomics research including the recent complete fruit fly brain map.
Source: blog.google
OpenAI is organizing external expert groups to interpret AI outputs in three fields, using different approaches for each. The company will not claim academic credit for the discoveries and is making some materials public.
openai.com
Anthropic's prospectus devotes 94 pages to risk factors, warning that AI systems automating their own development could advance faster than safeguards can be evaluated, potentially posing existential risks.
wired.com
OpenAI says it has solutions to problems in wave equations, computational complexity and quantum field theory. The company is using external expert groups to examine two claims, while releasing raw AI output for the third.
theverge.com
Analysis of S&P 500 firms excluding seven tech giants shows flat profit margins and revenue per worker despite widespread AI investment, according to Apollo Global Management's chief economist.
techcrunch.com
The longer view
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OpenAI's May 13, 2024, launch of GPT-4o introduced a natively multimodal AI model, offering real-time, emotional, and accessible human-computer interaction.
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How Anthropic's massive November 2025 infrastructure commitment signaled a new phase in enterprise AI competition and domestic manufacturing.
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On November 30, 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT as a free research preview, swiftly reaching 1 million users and igniting global discourse on AI's potential impact.
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