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 ↗On Monday the United Nations General Assembly adopted a Chinese-sponsored resolution calling for richer countries to help developing nations benefit from AI. The non-binding resolution, entitled…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
A new study shows that while humans struggle to distinguish human and AI voices, our brains respond differently when we hear them. As AI voice cloning…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
Welcome to this week’s roundup of hand-assembled bespoke AI news. This week Anthropic knocked OpenAI off pole position. AI audio generators face the music in court.…
By Eugene van der Watt · 4 min read
Researchers from the University of Reading in the UK conducted a blind study to see if human educators were able to detect AI-generated content. The results…
By Eugene van der Watt · 5 min read
AI startup EvolutionaryScale has released ESM3, a 98B-parameter generative LLM for “programming biology”. The company is focused on proteomics, the study of the interactions, function, composition,…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
Large language models like GPT-4o can perform incredibly complex tasks, but even the top models struggle with some basic reasoning challenges that children can solve. In…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 3.5 which is more powerful, faster, and cheaper than its larger Claude 3 Opus model. When Anthropic released its Claude 3 family…
By Eugene van der Watt · 2 min read
Welcome to this week’s roundup of handcrafted AI news. This week AI eavesdropped on elephants. Big Tech companies pulled the plug on their AI plans. And…
By Eugene van der Watt · 5 min read
A study conducted by Anthropic and other academics found that misspecified training goals and tolerance of sycophancy can cause AI models to game the system to…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
Runway unveiled its latest text-to-video (T2V) generator, called Gen 3 Alpha, and the demos hint that this could be the best AI video generator yet. OpenAI’s…
By Eugene van der Watt · 3 min read
