Should The U.S. Risk Its AI Edge By Letting Nvidia Sell Chips To China?

Should the U.S. allow Nvidia to sell advanced AI chips to China? A clear-eyed look at export controls, national security, innovation and America’s long-term AI leadership.

Gemini Preps For Your SAT: Implications Of AI-Powered Education

Google’s move to put a free, AI-powered SAT tutor into every student’s pocket promises to help learners, but it may also corrode self-motivated learning.

Google’s AI Mode can now tap into your Gmail and Photos to provide tailored responses

The company notes that AI Mode doesn’t train directly on your Gmail inbox or Google Photos library. Instead, it trains on specific prompts and the model’s responses. 

Google Search AI Mode can use Gmail and Photos to get to know you
Google Search AI Mode can use Gmail and Photos to get to know you

Google is helping AI Mode to provide more personalized responses in Search by allowing the chatbot to analyze your Gmail and Google Photos accounts. After launching for Gemini AI last week, “Personal Intelligence” is now coming to tailor AI Mode search results to your interests and daily life by gathering information from your emails and […]

Anthropic Releases A New “Constitution” For Claude

With a newly published constitution for its Claude model, the company is teaching AI not just what to avoid, but why certain boundaries exist, marking a subtle but important shift in how machine behavior is shaped.

Google reportedly snags up team behind AI voice startup Hume AI

Google has hired the CEO and top top behind voice AI startup Hume AI, signaling that voice is increasingly becoming the preferred interface over screens.

From invisibility cloaks to AI chips: Neurophos raises $110M to build tiny optical processors for inferencing

Neurophos is taking a crack at solving the AI industry’s power efficiency problem with an optical chip that uses a composite material to do the math required in AI inferencing tasks.

These AI Models Might Take Down Superbugs

In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at using AI to find new drugs, quantum biotechnology, the ROI of generative AI and more.

Anthropic has to keep revising its technical interview test so you can’t cheat on it with Claude

Since 2024, Anthropic’s performance optimization team has given job seekers a take-home test to make sure they know their stuff — but as AI coding tools have gotten better, the test has had to change a lot to stay ahead of AI-assisted cheating.

This plugin uses Wikipedia’s AI-spotting guide to make AI writing sound more human
This plugin uses Wikipedia’s AI-spotting guide to make AI writing sound more human

A new tool aims to help AI chatbots generate more human-sounding text – with the help of Wikipedia’s guide for detecting AI, as reported by Ars Technica. Developer Siqi Chen says he created the tool, called Humanizer, by feeding Anthropic’s Claude the list of tells that Wikipedia’s volunteer editors put together as part of an […]