Eugene comes from an electronic engineering background and loves all things tech. When he takes a break from consuming AI news, you'll find him at the snooker table.
LinkedIn ↗Benchmarks are struggling to keep up with advancing AI model capabilities and the Humanity’s Last Exam project wants your help to fix this. The project is…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
OpenAI’s new “o1” LLMs, nicknamed Strawberry, display significant improvements over GPT-4o, but the company says this comes with increased risks. OpenAI says it is committed to…
By Eugene van der Watt · 4 min read
Welcome to our weekly roundup of human-crafted AI news. This week, AI made game creation child’s play. An AI music scam made $10m. And OpenAI finally…
By Eugene van der Watt · 4 min read
A group of Democrat Senators has asked the FTC and DOJ to investigate whether new generative AI features such as summarizers on search platforms violate US…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
A flawed report by Goldman Sachs analyst Peter Oppenheimer may have been behind the significant negative sentiment for AI shares over the last few days. There…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
HyperWrite founder and CEO Matt Shumer announced that his new model, Reflection 70B, uses a simple trick to solve LLM hallucinations and delivers impressive benchmark results…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
Welcome to our weekly roundup of artisanal AI news. This week OpenAI teased us with “GPT Next”. Elon Musk flipped the switch on Colossus. And AI…
By Eugene van der Watt · 4 min read
Clearview AI provides facial recognition services to law enforcement and other government agencies but, a Dutch data watchdog says its database of 30B images was built…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
Brian Armstrong, CEO of popular cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase, says his company witnessed the first AI-to-AI crypto transaction. The idea of AI acting as an agent…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
Tom Hanks warned his fans not to be duped by ads using his likeness and voice to promote “wonder drugs” that claim to cure diabetes. Scammers…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
