Back in 2023, software engineer Matt Rickard wrote a short post titled, “The model is not the product.” It’s looking like he was absolutely right. He published it not long after the first wave of AI ...

Data science is everywhere, a driving force behind modern decisions. When a streaming service suggests a movie, a bank sends a warning about unusual activity on an account, or a weather app predicts ...

As I highlighted in my last article, two decades after the DARPA Grand Challenge, the autonomous vehicle (AV) industry is still waiting for breakthroughs—particularly in addressing the “long tail ...

Cybersecurity today faces a key challenge: It lacks context. Modern threats—advanced persistent threats (APTs), polymorphic malware, insider attacks—don’t follow static patterns. They hide in plain ...

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An exclusive conversation with Mark Chen and Jakub Pachocki, OpenAI’s twin heads of research, about the path toward more capable reasoning models—and superalignment. For the past couple of years, ...

“Our projections about future energy use are developed using models, and the models are used to make policy. But if we don’t understand how these models work, then we have to believe what we’re told.