Search-capable AI agents may cheat on benchmark tests Summary Scale AI researchers describe a problem they call “Search-Time Data Contamination” (STC): search-enabled AI agents can fetch benchmark datasets or ground-truth…
Waymo Granted First Permit To Begin Testing Autonomous Vehicles In NYC Summary Waymo has been awarded the New York City Department of Transportation’s first permit to test autonomous vehicles on…
Google Says It Dropped the Energy Cost of AI Queries By 33x In One Year Summary Google published an analysis showing a ~33× reduction in energy per AI text query…
Summary The Washington Post examines the rise of low-effort, high-volume AI-generated videos — dubbed “AI slop” — that are being churned out to capture views and ad or creator-program revenue.…
Waymo Granted First Permit To Begin Testing Autonomous Vehicles In NYC Summary Waymo has been granted its first permit by the New York City Department of Transportation to begin testing…
Meta Signs $10 Billion Cloud Deal With Google Summary Google and Meta have agreed a multi-year cloud arrangement worth over $10 billion, according to Reuters and reporting first flagged by…
Google Says It Dropped the Energy Cost of AI Queries By 33x In One Year Summary Google published an analysis reporting a roughly 33x reduction in the energy consumed per…
Making Cash Off ‘AI Slop’: the Surreal Video Business Taking Over the Web Summary The Washington Post examines the rise of so-called “AI slop”: low-effort, high-volume synthetic videos that are…
James Cameron Struggles With Real-World Horrors for ‘Terminator 7’ and New Hiroshima Movie Summary Veteran director James Cameron says he is finding it increasingly hard to write a new Terminator…
Meta Signs $10 Billion Cloud Deal With Google Summary Google has signed a six‑year cloud computing contract with Meta worth over $10 billion. The deal will have Meta relying on…
