AGI Optimisation - AI General Inteligence

Mint Explainer: Is Big Tech’s superintelligence narrative inflating the AI bubble?

Believers claim some form of artificial general intelligence or superintelligence could emerge by the end of the decade, but critics warn this narrative may be further fuelling an already overheated AI market.

Here's How Two Gen Zers Turned Down Millions From Elon Musk And Still Came Out On Top

Young AI researchers William Chen and Guan Wang have turned down a multimillion-dollar offer from Elon Musk to focus on their own revolutionary AI model, Sapient Intelligence.

This duo turned down Elon Musk to build next-generation AI

Two 22-year-old friends from Michigan have rejected a lucrative offer from Elon Musk to focus on their own groundbreaking AI project, which outperforms OpenAI.

Trump's approval rating hits second-term low as Republican support dips

President Donald Trump continues to see his approval rating drop – with a new Gallup poll registering the lowest of his ...

House and Senate launch inquiries into reported second strike on alleged drug boat

Both the House and Senate have started inquiries into a reported second strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean last ...

No backup plan for Olympic ice hockey arena as construction goes down to the wire

MILAN (AP) — There is no backup stadium if the main ice hockey arena for the Milan Cortina Winter Games is not ready on ...

Trump’s Focus on Drug War Means Big Business for Defense Startups

The U.S. military has turned its attention southward, and the defense industry is lining up to sell it the tools for a ...

Rubio and Witkoff are meeting with Ukraine's negotiators in Florida as Trump pushes to broker a deal

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Top Trump administration officials are meeting Ukrainian negotiators in Florida this weekend, ...

AI helps drive record $11.8 billion in Black Friday online spending

By Chandni Shah and Siddharth CavaleNov 29 (Reuters) - AI-powered shopping tools helped drive a surge in U.S. online spending ...

Doctors seek to understand why quitting antidepressants causes withdrawal for some

In early 2023, Liana Shatova began taking low doses of an antidepressant to ease symptoms of a premenstrual disorder marked ...

They Found Relatives on 23andMe—and Asked for a Cut of the Inheritance

When Carmen Thomas was growing up in Boston, her mom told her that her absent dad’s name was Joe Brown. So when she sent a ...

Is America Heading for a Debt Crisis? Look Abroad for Answers

Politics and debt don’t mix well. Americans would be wise to look across the Atlantic to see how tough things can get.The U.K ...

4 dead, 10 wounded in shooting at California banquet hall: Sheriff's office

At least four people were killed and 10 others wounded in a shooting at a banquet hall in Stockton, California on Saturday ...

StepFun AI Releases Step-Audio-R1: A New Audio LLM that Finally Benefits from Test Time Compute Scaling

This uses Direct Preference Optimization on curated preference pairs where correct behavior is to acknowledge and use audio input.Key TakeawaysStep-Audio-R1 is one of the first audio language model that turns longer chain of thought into a consistent accuracy gain for audio tasks, solving the inverted scaling failure seen in previous audio LLMs.The model explicitly targets Textual Surrogate Reasoning by using Modality Grounded Reasoning Distillation, which filters and distills only those reasoni

Everything you need to know about artificial general intelligence

That is why, despite six decades of research and development, we still don’t have AI that rivals the cognitive abilities of a human child, let alone one that can think like an adult. What we do have, ...

A shopping mall shooting wounds 2 and prompts a Black Friday evacuation in the Bay Area

Police in California evacuated a shopping mall Friday, one of the busiest shopping days of the year, after a shooting left ...

Ukrainian soldiers see Trump plan as 'capitulation,' even as they dream of peace

KYIV, Ukraine — From his position on the eastern front lines, the original peace plan backed by President Donald Trump looked ...

An investor called $140,000 the new poverty line. Experts disagreed but said he had a point.

Michael W. Green did some math recently. For a family of four to afford housing, health care, child care and other ...

Ukraine says it hit Russian ‘shadow fleet’ tankers with underwater drones in Black Sea

Ukrainian underwater drones have struck two tankers belonging to Russia’s so-called shadow fleet in the Black Sea, according ...

Zelensky dismissed his right-hand man. Is he weaker or stronger now?

Since before the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, he was rarely far from Volodymyr Zelensky’s side, whether welcoming ...