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MLCommons 发布 Croissant 1.1，这是社区共建的机器学习数据集元数据格式最新版本。在 Croissant 1.0 标准化机器可读结构基础上，1.1 版新增机器可操作来源追踪、全方位词汇互操作性、结构化使用政策以及复杂多维数据集增强建模。这些功能专为 AI '代理时代' 设计，支持链式保管审计、W3C PROV-O 模型、DUO 和 ODRL 政策集成。目前已有 70 万数据集采用 Croissant 元数据，主要框架如 TensorFlow、PyTorch 和仓库如 Hugging Face 已原生支持，推动数据自治发现与合规使用。（128 字）
On Thursday, OpenAI announced the release of a light-weight version of its agentic coding tool Codex, the latest model of which OpenAI launched earlier this month. GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark is described by the company as a “smaller version” of that model, one that is designed for faster inference.
Has AI coding reached a tipping point? That seems to be the case for Spotify at least, which shared this week during its fourth-quarter earnings call that the best developers at the company “have not written a single line of code since December.” That statement, from Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström
cofounder Greg Brockman doesn’t consider himself political, which is surprising, because he was one of President Trump’s biggest individual donors of 2025.Greg and his wife, Anna Brockman, gave $25 million to MAGA Inc—a super PAC that supports President Trump—in September of last year.
On Thursday, Google announced that “commercially motivated” actors have attempted to clone knowledge from its Gemini AI chatbot by simply prompting it.
moment in October, Alejandro Quintero thought he had made it big in China. The Bogotá-based data analyst owns and manages a website that publishes articles about paranormal activities, like ghosts and aliens.
Anthropic has just concluded a $30 billion Series G fundraising round, the company announced on Thursday.
Tim Spencer realized just how complicated manufacturing procurement can be while running Markai, an e-commerce startup in Asia, during the pandemic. “We had thousands of suppliers, and we were distributing products into dozens of countries around the world,” Spencer (pictured left) told TechCrunch.
“Join xAI if the idea of mass drivers on the Moon appeals to you,” CEO Elon Musk proclaimed yesterday following a restructuring that saw a stream of former executives exit the AI lab. This is an interesting recruitment strategy after the company’s merger with Musk’s rocket maker, SpaceX, and the com
Brian Barrett, Leah Feiger, and Zoë Schiffer discuss WIRED’s big scoop on ICE’s startling plans to expand to nearly every state in the US. Then they unpack Alex Karp’s nearly-hour-long non-response to Palantir employees with ethical concerns about collaborating with ICE.
State-sponsored hackers are exploiting highly-advanced tooling to accelerate their particular flavours of cyberattacks, with threat actors from Iran, North Korea, China, and Russia using models like Google’s Gemini to further their campaigns.
MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of them here. The past year has marked a turning point for Chinese AI.
doing some gig work to make ends meet. In my life, I’ve worked snack food pop-ups in a grocery store, ran the cash register for random merch booths, and even hawked my own plasma at $35 per vial.So, when I saw RentAHuman, a new site where AI agents hire humans to perform physical work in the real wo
EVs are getting cheaper and more common all over the world. But the technology still faces major challenges in some markets, including many countries in Africa. Some regions across the continent still have limited grid and charging infrastructure, and those that do have widespread electricity access
Anton Cherepanov is always on the lookout for something interesting. And in late August last year, he spotted just that.
We are now a few years into the AI revolution, and talk has shifted from who has the best chatbot to whose AI agent can do the most things on your behalf. Unfortunately, AI agents are still rough around the edges, so tasking them with anything important is not a great idea.
low-regulation transactions have long promised the ability to pay anyone in the world for anything. More than ever before, that anything includes human beings: victims of human trafficking forced into scam compounds and the sex trade on an industrial scale, bought and sold in crypto deals carried ou
This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. AI is already making online crimes easier.
and Border Protection plans to spend $225,000 for a year of access to Clearview AI, a face recognition tool that compares photos against billions of images scraped from the internet.The deal extends access to Clearview tools to Border Patrol’s headquarters intelligence division (INTEL) and the Natio
Threads is introducing an AI-powered feature that lets users personalize their feed, the Meta-owned social network announced on Wednesday.
