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Andrej Karpathy has some advice for AI users trying to write beautifully crafted prompts.Stop. Instead, you should just ramble. On, and on, and on.In a Tuesday post on X, Karpathy — a leading AI researcher at Anthropic who coined the term “vibe-coding” — said he sometimes turns on voice mode and prattles at a large language model for about 10 minutes.He called the sessions a “total mess, anything goes, full stream of consciousness.””Sometimes the LLM needs more bits to understand what you’re trying to achieve,” he wrote.The approach helps properly divide responsibilities between the human and the bot, he said:…

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says it’s time for the so-called AI doomers to turn the page.”Listen, if you want to warn the world about the incredible capabilities of this technology, I think it’s been achieved,” Huang told Axios’ Mike Allen in a wide-ranging interview that was released in full on Thursday.Huang said some of his fellow AI leaders are scaring the American people by raising concerns about widespread job losses. He said their fears about China’s standing in the AI race are similarly spooking policymakers in Washington.”We just all have to be thoughtful and careful,” Huang said, adding, “We’re scaring…

Elon Musk built Tesla into the world’s most valuable carmaker. Now he’s betting the company’s future on a robot that walks on two legs.Musk predicts its robot, Optimus, could become “the biggest product ever,” with legions of the humanoid robots working in factories, doing household chores, and eventually building more robots. He even has a name for them in the plural: “Optimi.”But Tesla has yet to prove the robot can navigate the physical world or perform useful work autonomously, much less that it can be manufactured by the millions.On Tesla’s earnings call this week, Musk offered few details about Optimus…

Elon Musk says one of his biggest efforts to slow the concentration of AI power may have had the opposite effect.Speaking to Zanny Minton Beddoes, The Economist’s editor in chief, the xAI founder said he originally helped create OpenAI as “essentially a counterweight to Google” when the tech giant “had more or less a monopoly on AI,” but it did not go as he had expected.”In creating OpenAI and then having Anthropic spin out of that, and now currently Anthropics is leader in AI, I mean, these actions have actually resulted in knock-on effects that accelerated AI, which wasn’t really…

For months, AI giants have devised special vetted programs and strict guardrails to limit the use of their models by malicious hackers. But these limits are now hindering the work of legitimate network defenders, as well as that of offensive cybersecurity researchers.  In June, the U.S. government slapped export control restrictions on Anthropic’s much-hyped AI models Mythos and Fable. The move was prompted at least in part by a report that claimed it was possible to bypass the models’ guardrails designed to prevent users from using them to build and execute malicious cyberattacks. Regardless of whether the incident was really…

ATLANTA (AP) — A teenager accused of killing four people nearly two years ago at Apalachee High School in Georgia is due in court Friday for a plea and sentencing hearing.Colt Gray, 16, previously pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges in the Sept. 4, 2024, shooting that killed two students and two teachers, and left several others wounded, at the high school about 45 miles (73 kilometers) northeast of Atlanta.Barrow County Superior Court Judge Nicholas Primm has set a “Non-Negotiated Plea and Sentencing Hearing” to begin Friday. Gray’s trial had been scheduled to start in mid-October in Columbia…

OpenAI just handed software stocks a beating with its latest push into enterprise work.After the company revealed a new product on Wednesday meant to make AI agents more effective for customers, software stocks like Workday, Atlassian, and HubSpot tumbled.The product, called Presence, ramps up OpenAI’s competition with established software vendors. As Business Insider first reported, the tool lets companies create guardrails, permissions, and policies around how AI agents use company data. It’s meant to automate work in customer support, sales, internal processes, and other areas.The release is part of OpenAI’s broader strategy to build software capabilities and governance on top…

Not long ago, Intel looked like a fallen giant. Now, the chipmaker has posted its “strongest revenue growth in more than fifteen years,” CEO Lip-Bu Tan said Thursday.The company’s second-quarter results sent shares up more than 11% in after-hours trading.The company reported revenue of $16.1 billion, up 25% from a year earlier. It also reported adjusted earnings of $0.42 per share, nearly double Wall Street’s expectations.The company’s data center and AI (DCAI) business — an area where it has struggled to keep pace with category leader Nvidia — grew 59% year over year to $6.3 billion.The results come days after…

Patreon, a platform for creators that paywalls their content, is laying off staff.In a publicly shared note addressed to Patreon’s content creators, CEO Jack Conte announced that the creator-economy startup is laying off 93 employees, about 20% of its staff.Conte said in a separate memo to staffers that the “market in which we operate has undergone profound change over the last 6 months,” and that the company needs to cut costs to “remain a stable, dependable rock for our creators.”And yes, AI does play a role in it, Conte said.”AI has fundamentally transformed the tech industry, the pace of change…

Chipmaker AMD is taking aim at competitor Nvidia with its latest hardware release: a rack-scale system designed to power computing needs of the world’s largest AI labs. At the company’s sold-out Advancing AI conference in San Francisco on Thursday, AMD Chair and CEO Dr. Lisa Su promoted the new AI rack system known as Helios — along with its growing list of customers, including Microsoft — as the company prepares to ship it later this year. Su also pitched the company’s newest chips that are designed to feed the compute-hungry dragon that is the AI industry. Rack systems combine many…