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AI Weekly Issue #522: Zuckerberg promises superintelligence for all. Experts aren’t sold.
The people who build and study AI did most of the editing this week. The…
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When AI models aren’t allowed to reflect on themselves, it changes their entire worldview
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Young adult dies of meningococcal disease in Waikato
Health NZ urges people to learn the symptoms of the disease and get vaccinated.
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Optima tackles AI benchmarking’s biggest flaw by letting users test models against their own data
Artificial Analysis has launched Optima, a platform that lets users build custom AI benchmarks from…
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Emergency services respond to fire at Botany Town Centre
The fire broke out at Hoyts Cinemas Botany Downs at around 10am.
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China’s Infiforce Raises Nearly $150M in Funding to Develop ‘Ego Native World Model’ for Robots
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Love, actually, at 61: The sex is ‘frequent, intense, satisfying’
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All Blacks v Bulls: Live updates from the Rugby’s Greatest Rivalry tour match in Pretoria
Follow the action as the All Blacks take on the Bulls in Pretoria.
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Investor pressure forces Nvidia to shrink its OpenAI bet just as Anthropic’s numbers defy bubble warnings
Nvidia has cut its guarantee for OpenAI's planned data center in Ohio nearly in half,…