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Are You Ready to Let an AI Agent Use Your Computer?

February 13, 2025
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Two years after the generative AI boom really began with the launch of ChatGPT, it no longer seems that exciting to have a phenomenally helpful AI assistant hanging around in your web browser or phone, just waiting for you to ask it questions. The next big push in AI is…

January 25, 2025
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

In a news conference on Tuesday, President Trump announced the Stargate Project, which he called “the largest AI infrastructure project, by far, in history.” With the CEOs of OpenAI, Oracle, and Softbank at his side, Trump said that these companies and other private sector partners will invest up to US…

October 15, 2024
Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Emteq Labs wants eyewear to be the next frontier of wearable health technology.The Brighton, England-based company introduced today its emotion-sensing eyewear, Sense. The glasses contain nine optical sensors distributed across the rims that detect subtle changes in facial expression with more than 93 percent accuracy when paired with Emteq’s current…

24 Mar 24

Grokking X.ai’s Grok—Real Advance or Just Real Troll?

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Last weekend, X.ai released the world’s largest “open-source” large language model (LLM), Grok-1. At 314 billion parameters, it’s the largest open-source model yet, far exceeding predecessors like Falcon 180B at 180 billion. That’s impressive, but the timing of X.ai’s release—just a few weeks after Elon Musk, founder of X.ai, filed…

29 Feb 24

Figure Raises $675M for Its Humanoid Robot Development

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Today, Figure is announcing an astonishing US $675 million Series B raise, which values the company at an even more astonishing $2.6 billion. Figure is one of the companies working towards a multi or general purpose (depending on who you ask) bipedal or humanoid (depending on who you ask) robot.…

24 Feb 24

Perplexity.ai Revamps Google SEO Model For LLM Era

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

ChatGPT’s release on 30 Nov. 2022 was met with much fanfare and plenty of pushback. It quickly became clear people wanted to ask AI the same questions they asked Google—and ChatGPT often wasn’t capable of an answer. The problems were numerous. ChatGPT’s replies were out of date, didn’t cite sources,…

12 Jan 24

Open-Source AI Is Uniquely Dangerous

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE.When people think of AI applications these days, they likely think of “closed-source” AI applications like OpenAI’s ChatGPT—where the system’s software is securely held by…

06 Jan 24

Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the authors and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE.The degree to which large language models (LLMs) might “memorize” some of their training inputs has long been a question, raised by scholars including Google…

27 Dec 23

Spectrum’s Top AI Stories of 2023

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

2023 may well go down in history as one of the most wild and dramatic years in the history of artificial intelligence. People were still struggling to understand the power of OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which had been introduced in late 2022, when the company released its newest large language model, GPT-4,…

14 Dec 23

OpenAI Demos a Control Method for Superintelligent AI

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

One day, the theory goes, we humans will create AI systems that outmatch us intellectually. That could be great if they solve problems that we’ve been thus far unable to crack (think cancer or climate change), or really bad if they begin to act in ways that are not in…

Are You Ready to Let an AI Agent Use Your Computer?

Experts Weigh in on $500B Stargate Project for AI

This Eyewear Offers a Buckshot Method to Monitor Health

Figure Raises $675M for Its Humanoid Robot Development

Perplexity.ai Revamps Google SEO Model For LLM Era

Open-Source AI Is Uniquely Dangerous

Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem

Spectrum’s Top AI Stories of 2023

OpenAI Demos a Control Method for Superintelligent AI

Google won two major awards at MWC Barcelona 2025.

Expanding AI Overviews and introducing AI Mode

This MRI Can Run on Batteries

The Tiny Star Explosions Powering Moore’s Law