OpenAI Is Training Robots in Secret, and It Starts With Toasters and Clothes

Highlights: OpenAI has set up a secret robotics lab in San Francisco focused on training robotic arms The company is collecting massive amounts of human-operated data for household tasks Full humanoid ...
Tech Xplore

Making AI smarter without more training data

A study led by UC Riverside researchers offers a practical fix to one of artificial intelligence's toughest challenges by enabling AI systems to reason more like humans—without requiring new training ...
Government TechnologyOpinion

Using Secure Small Language Models to Navigate Big Data Sets

How agencies can use on-premises AI models to detect fraud faster, prove control effectiveness and turn overwhelming data ...

In the AI economy, the ‘weirdness premium’ will set you apart. Lean into it, says expert on tech change economics

Brandeis economics professor Benjamin Shiller says the stranger you are, the more employable you’ll be. Just look at ...
Tech Xplore

New RoboReward dataset and models automate robotic training and evaluation

The advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms has opened new possibilities for the development of robots that ...
Cult of Mac

New fitness app Reps & Sets 26 gets serious about strength training

Reps & Sets 26 is a new fitness app designed exclusively for iOS 26, iPadOS 26 and watchOS 26. Reps & Sets 26 is a brand-new strength training app designed exclusively for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch ...
ZDNet

Could you be an AI data trainer? How to prepare and what it pays

Organizations seek domain experts to train AI datasets. AI data training is becoming high-level, cognitive work. Pay rates for these specialists range very broadly. AI data trainers who ensure the ...
Reuters

With freebies, OpenAI, Google vie for Indian users and training data

Gemini, ChatGPT see surge in downloads and daily users in India Free AI trials aim to create user reliance and fill data gaps ChatGPT has 73 million daily users in India, twice its US base, Sensor ...
TechCrunch

India proposes charging OpenAI, Google for training AI on copyrighted content

India has proposed a mandatory royalty system for AI companies that train their models on copyrighted content — a move that could reshape how OpenAI and Google operate in what has already become one ...
IEEE

Multi-Task Faces (MTF) Data Set: A Legally and Ethically Compliant Collection of Face Images for Various Classification Tasks

Abstract: Human facial data offers valuable potential for tackling classification problems, including face recognition, age estimation, gender identification, emotion analysis, and race classification ...
The Atlantic

The Company Quietly Funneling Paywalled Articles to AI Developers

Editor’s note: This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry. The Common Crawl Foundation is little known outside of Silicon Valley. For more ...
Computer Weekly

What are the storage requirements for AI training and inference?

Despite ongoing speculation around an investment bubble that may be set to burst, artificial intelligence (AI) technology is here to stay. And while an over-inflated market may exist at the level of ...