nuriaoliver

PhD from @MIT @MediaLab. ACM Fellow, EurAI Fellow, IEEE Fellow, Scientific Director, Board member. Passionate about having positive world impact through tech

[MIT Technology Review @techreview]

Tobacco bans are starting to look a lot less radical, despite a lack of evidence. https://t.co/b5ADdvoMLv

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Mark Zuckerberg tells staff that AI agents haven’t progressed as quickly as he’d hoped https://t.co/sCj1cVOyAs

[Financial Times @FT]

Altman’s AI safety proposal: let us win, or everybody loses https://t.co/nFrupW5UVG

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

Society bombards us with instructions to be happier, fitter and richer. Why have we become so dissatisfied with being ordinary? https://t.co/aGMsFotstq

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Scientists have created a synthetic cell that can eat, grow and reproduce. The lab-made cell, called SpudCell, could help researchers better understand the basic building blocks of life. https://t.co/VNw61gFWYo

[Reuters @Reuters]

UN report sees enormous potential benefits and big risks from AI https://t.co/FWx0830moF https://t.co/FWx0830moF

[WIRED @WIRED]

But the deal meant there were strings attached. The company agreed to extend an existing guardrail to prevent users from trying to access certain restricted capabilities, sending certain queries to the less-advanced Opus 4.8 AI model.
https://t.co/g3b74zf8eR

[WIRED @WIRED]

Yesterday, the White House lifted export controls on Anthropic’s two most powerful AI models, Mythos 5 and Fable 5, weeks after ordering the company to suspend access for foreign nationals due to national security concerns.
https://t.co/Atrfhojqor

[Engadget @engadget]

Selling server infrastructure would put Meta in competition with Amazon and Google. https://t.co/VV6ORMv2IR

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Trump drops restrictions on Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable models https://t.co/OqvgJma9HN

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5 as a cheaper way to run agents https://t.co/bZD6jzmaB5

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: A research program at the National Institutes of Health released the world’s largest database of human genomes, officials said, paving the way for a new era of study in personalized medicine.
https://t.co/N29D0YhJVp

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

The administration now controls who gets access to the best models https://t.co/Zrgcns6b5E

[WIRED @WIRED]

For decades, Bernie Sanders has told Americans that this country can radically change. He wants to bring billionaires to heel, implement universal, government-run health care, and abolish college tuition. Now, he’s taking on Big Tech.
https://t.co/1lSKaGJsqp

[WIRED @WIRED]

The effort, which was managed by Meta contractor Covalen, was active as recently as April 21. Known internally as Cannes, it targeted OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Character[.]AI.
https://t.co/75mR10ZavC

[WIRED @WIRED]

Scoop: Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta pretended to be kids in order to see how other chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT would respond to high-risk subjects like suicide, sex, and eating disorders, WIRED found.
https://t.co/75mR10ZavC

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

A new book argues that many of the world’s oldest people aren’t so old after all. https://t.co/nzaqLUKC1B

[Scientific American @sciam]

Training people to pay attention to the right visual cues nearly doubled how accurately they could spot AI-generated faces
https://t.co/U3knKDt0mW

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Western Europe should expect many more extreme heat waves over the coming decades.

“This isn’t a fluke, but simply part of the new normal,” a climate scientist said. https://t.co/DzKQbzjYDd

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Researchers find millions more insect species https://t.co/xrK6IZAfFb