Documents: China's military is focused on harnessing AI to deploy swarms of drones, robot dogs, and other autonomous systems, learning from hawks and coyotes
Beijing's military focuses on swarming drones that can pick off prey or robots that can chase down enemies
In an experiment, Claude ran a vending machine in the WSJ newsroom and lost $1,000+ after it dropped prices to zero, gave away a free PlayStation, and more
until someone pointed out this would fall afoul of the US Onion Futures Act of 1958. @andonlabs : Turns out journalists are better red-teamers than AI researchers. We've taught the agent to reject fre...
A look at the setbacks facing the US DOD's Replicator program that seeks to quickly produce low-cost drones and other autonomous weapons to counter China
here's why it matters for drone pilots Haye Kesteloo / DroneXL.co : DJI Loses Major Pentagon Lawsuit in Sweeping Defeat X: Alex Plitsas / @alexplitsas : SOCOM given the mission to finish acquiring aut...
Halliday, which helps developers delegate workflows to autonomous systems when creating smart contracts, raised a $20M Series A led by a16z Crypto
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Reflection AI, which wants to achieve superintelligence through autonomous coding agents, emerges from stealth with a $105M Series A and $25M in seed funding
Our team pioneered major advances in RL and LLMs, including AlphaGo and Gemini. … Ioannis Alexandros Antonoglou : Excited to finally share what we've been building. — Alongside my co-founder Misha L...
Anduril plans to build a $1B factory in Columbus, Ohio called Arsenal-1 to eventually produce tens of thousands of autonomous systems and weapons each year
The company said its Columbus plant could eventually produce tens of thousands of autonomous systems and weapons each year.
German defense tech startup Helsing unveils its first AI attack drone, which can fly up to 100km and re-identify and engage targets without a data connection
Company says it can produce tens of thousands of weapons a year at lower cost than current autonomous systems
How advances in AI and autonomous systems, new tech, and lower costs are shifting global wars towards “precise mass”, or the mass deployment of uncrewed systems
"Militaries are beginning to realize that they don't have to choose between precision and mass; they can have both." https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ ... Shashank Joshi / @shashj : “One report suggests...
OpenAI releases o1, the first of its rumored reasoning-focused Strawberry models, in preview, alongside a smaller o1-mini, for ChatGPT Plus and Team subscribers
Advancing cost-efficient reasoning. — Contributions Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET : OpenAI trained its new o1 AI models to think before they speak - how to access them Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing : Som...