In an interview, Geoffrey Hinton said Donald Trump's fixation on the word superintelligence shows he knows nothing about AI. The pioneer also discussed whether AI could wipe out humanity and argued that a major challenge will be accepting that humans are not the only intelligent beings.
Jeff Bezos has shared his view of how AI will reshape work, suggesting it could make working almost unnecessary and open the way to a three-day week.
After months on the sidelines of the frontier AI race, Google has launched its long-awaited Gemini 4 Argon model. Google says it offers frontier-level reasoning and better performance on complex workflows, with less hedging, repetition and cliché in its answers.
Meta has released two new models, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, which it says can compete with the industry's best. They follow Muse Spark, the first model from its revamped Superintelligence Labs, and the Muse AI agent.
Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI co-founder now at Anthropic, describes a widening gap: about 75% of people have barely used LLMs, while roughly 5,000 have access to internal frontier systems whose agent swarms do years of expert work. The public, he says, sees at best an odd chatbot.
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