KICAIAS Curated AI News
The proliferation of AI articles and news stories can be overwhelming. Here is a subset that might be of particular interest. Two sources are likely to be overrepresented, the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, because although they are behind a paywall, this is not the case for Missouri University of Science and Technology people, by using the links provided from the library to establish a free account. Some other paywall sites might allow a small number of articles to be read before blocking the rest. While not absent from this list, they will be represented less frequently.
Some of the stories linked here are from the New York Times or Wall Street Journal, and behind a paywall. These are available for free for Missouri S&T students, faculty, and staff by using the library’s links, repeated below for convenience:
Gemini in Workspace apps and the Gemini app are first to achieve FedRAMP High authorization
March 31, 2025
Building on Google’s commitment to provide secure and innovative AI solutions for the public sector, Gemini in Workspace apps and the Gemini app are the first generative AI assistants for productivity and collaboration suites to have achieved FedRAMP High authorization. This enables agencies to confidently deploy Gemini’s advanced AI capabilities today, within the stringent FedRAMP High security framework and without the need for expensive AI add-ons and complex configurations.
Interview: Thinking through the ethics of AI assistants with Iason Gabriel from Google DeepMind
March 30, 2025
AI assistants are in the air at Google. In recent months, we’ve introduced multiple products and features with agentic capabilities, meaning they can act on a user’s behalf (a few examples: Google Cloud’s Agentspace, Gemini’s Deep Research, and custom Gems in Google Workspace with Gemini). Meanwhile, the dream of a universal AI assistant continues to evolve with Project Astra.
Read more at workspace.google.com
The Secrets and Misdirection Behind Sam Altman’s Firing From OpenAI
March 29, 2025
On a balmy mid-November evening in 2023, billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel threw a birthday party for his husband at YESS, an avant-garde Japanese restaurant located in a century-old converted bank building in Los Angeles’s Arts District. Seated next to him was his friend Sam Altman.
Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science
March 29, 2025
Modern science wouldn’t exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can’t let it go.
NotebookLM can now generate Mind Maps, and studying will never be the same
March 24, 2025
Frankly, most AI tools that students swear by aren’t all that great. Half the time, they generate inaccurate information, give incorrect answers, or overcomplicate things for no reason. NotebookLM doesn’t do any of that.
Read more at xda-developers.com
Cutting AI down to size
March 21, 2025
Many artificial intelligence models are power hungry and expensive. Researchers in the Global South are increasingly embracing low-cost, low-power alternatives.
How A.I. Is Changing the Way the World Builds Computers
March 17, 2025
This is the most fundamental change to computing since the early days of the World Wide Web. Just as companies completely rebuilt their computer systems to accommodate the new commercial internet in the 1990s, they are now rebuilding from the bottom up — from tiny components to the way that computers are housed and powered — to accommodate artificial intelligence.
Big Tech’s big bet on nuclear power to fuel artificial intelligence
March 10, 2025
It might have seemed like one of the weirder headlines of 2024: Microsoft is paying $1.6 billion to restart Three Mile Island. That’s the nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania whose reactor #2 had a partial meltdown in 1979. There were no injuries, and nobody died, but it set the nuclear industry back years. Only two new plants have been started since that accident.
The Ethics of AI by Stuart Russell, Berkeley
March 7, 2025
Turing Award Goes to 2 Pioneers of Artificial Intelligence
March 6, 2025
In 1977, Andrew Barto, as a researcher at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, began exploring a new theory that neurons behaved like hedonists. The basic idea was that the human brain was driven by billions of nerve cells that were each trying to maximize pleasure and minimize pain. A year later, he was joined by another young researcher, Richard Sutton. Together, they worked to explain human intelligence using this simple concept and applied it to artificial intelligence. The result was “reinforcement learning,” a way for A.I. systems to learn from the digital equivalent of pleasure and pain.
Banks Loan $2 Billion to Build a 100-Acre AI Data Center in Utah
March 6, 2025
Developers of a Utah data center have secured one of the biggest construction loans in recent years, the latest sign of the market’s enormous appetite for facilities that provide the backbone for artificial intelligence. JPMorgan Chase and Starwood Property Trust have agreed to lend $2 billion for the 100-acre data center campus in West Jordan, Utah, outside Salt Lake City.
A Call to HPC Action
February 22, 2025
The article below is by distinguished Missouri S&T Alumnus Dan Reed.
Our State and Nation urgently need to follow his advice!
The ‘Spy Sheikh’ Taking the AI World by Storm
February 27, 2025
Abu Dhabi’s Tahnoon bin Zayed al Nahyan has more than $1.5 trillion to spend and he’s in a hurry; grappling with Mark Zuckerberg
Learning from Reward-Free Offline Data: A Case for Planning with Latent Dynamics Models
February 26, 2025
A long-standing goal in AI is to build agents that can solve a variety of tasks across different environments, including previously unseen ones. Two dominant approaches tackle this challenge: (i) reinforcement learning (RL), which learns policies through trial and error, and (ii) optimal control, which plans actions using a learned or known dynamics model. However, their relative strengths and weaknesses remain underexplored in the setting where agents must learn from offline trajectories without reward annotations.
Read more at latent-planning.github.io
Stanford Researchers Introduce OctoTools: A Training-Free Open-Source Agentic AI Framework Designed to Tackle Complex Reasoning Across Diverse Domains
February 23, 2025
Researchers from Stanford University introduced OctoTools to overcome the above limitations, a novel framework that enhances AI reasoning capabilities by enabling dynamic and structured external tool usage. OctoTools is a modular, training-free, and extensible framework that standardizes how AI models interact with external tools.
Microsoft’s Satya Nadella Pumps the Brakes on AI Hype
February 22, 2025
The world has yet to turn any of today’s AI hype and spending into a meaningful lift in the actual economy, says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. The comments were made during a podcast interview in which he put a yardstick on AI’s true impact: Success will be measured through tangible, global economic growth rather than arbitrary benchmarks of how well AI programs can complete challenges like obscure math puzzles. Those are interesting in isolation but do not have practical utility.
Microsoft CEO says there is an ‘overbuild’ of AI systems, dismisses AGI milestones as show of progress
February 21, 2025
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sat at an interview where he outlined the company’s plan for artificial intelligence, surprising some in the space in an hour-long session with Dwarkesh Patel. Nadella talked about how AI’s impact should be measured, the exponential growth for compute demand, its practical applications, and how it will affect humans — and Microsoft’s recent quantum breakthrough. However, one of the biggest revelations in the interview was his approach to building more hardware for AI.
Well, it looks like Meta’s Yann LeCun may have been right about AI – again
February 21, 2025
A new study led by Meta’s Head of AI Yann LeCun demonstrates how artificial intelligence can develop basic physics understanding just by watching videos. The findings support LeCun’s alternative vision to generative AI and challenge approaches like OpenAI’s Sora.
National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource Pilot
February 19, 2025
The National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) is a vision for a shared national research infrastructure for responsible discovery and innovation in AI.
DeepSeek Doesn’t Scare OpenAI, Thanks to the ‘Jevons Paradox’
February 19, 2025
The economic theory, which traces to 1865, says that as a resource becomes more efficient to use, demand will increase. It came up a lot in A.I. circles last month.
Meta Plans Major Investment Into AI-Powered Humanoid Robots
February 15, 2025
The company is making a significant investment into the category — futuristic robots that can act like humans and assist with physical tasks — and is forming a new team within its Reality Labs hardware division to conduct the work, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
Data Center Market Witnessing a Rise in Revenue of US$ 876.8 Billion by 2032
February 10, 2025
New Delhi, Feb. 07, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — As detailed in the latest research from Astute Analytica, the global data center market was valued at US$ 352.93 billion in 2024 and is projected to hit the market valuation of US$ 876.80 billion by 2033 at a CAGR of 10.64% during the forecast period 2025–2033.
What DeepSeek? Big Tech Keeps Its A.I. Building Boom Alive.
February 10, 2025
An apparent breakthrough in efficiency from the Chinese start-up did not make tech’s biggest companies question their extravagant spending on new data centers.
New Data Center Developments: February 2025
February 10, 2025
The demand for new data centers isn’t showing any sign of slowing. With new projects announced each week, keeping track of the latest data center developments is not always easy. To keep you informed about the latest data center news involving design, construction, and related developments, we bring you the highlights from the past month.
Read more at datacenterknowledge.com
Is DeepSeek safe to use?
February 8, 2025
A message from the IT department at Missouri S&T regarding the use of DeepSeek for its students, faculty and staff.
All About Transformer Inference
February 6, 2025
Performing inference on a Transformer can be very different from training. Partly this is because inference adds a new factor to consider: latency. In this section, we will go all the way from sampling a single new token from a model to efficiently scaling a large Transformer across many slices of accelerators as part of an inference engine.
Washington Takes Aim at DeepSeek
February 6, 2025
Lawmakers are said to be working on a bill to block the Chinese chatbot app from government devices, underscoring concerns about the artificial intelligence race.
WA governor orders team to study data centers’ energy, tax, jobs impact
February 5, 2025
In one of his earliest actions as Washington’s new governor, Bob Ferguson on Tuesday signed an executive order forming a team to evaluate the impact of data centers on energy use, state tax revenue and job creation. The order follows a Seattle Times and ProPublica investigation last year into the clean-energy and economic impacts of the state’s power-guzzling data center industry, the backbone of the modern internet. Data centers — warehouse like structures filled with computer servers — receive some of Washington’s largest corporate tax breaks. They require enormous amounts of electricity, a need that is only expected to grow with increasing reliance on artificial intelligence.
AI Generated Content May Now Be Copyrighted
February 5, 2025
I’m happy to report that the U.S. Copyright Office has come around to my way of thinking about AI and copyrights. Before a recent ruling, anything generated by AI could not be copyrighted. Copyrights are granted only to works created by human beings. But I argued that AI used as a tool by humans during their creative process should be able to be copyrighted. And now the US Copyright Office agrees.
Meta says it may stop development of AI systems it deems too risky
February 5, 2025
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has pledged to make artificial general intelligence (AGI) — which is roughly defined as AI that can accomplish any task a human can — openly available one day. But in a new policy document, Meta suggests that there are certain scenarios in which it may not release a highly capable AI system it developed internally.
OpenAI used this subreddit to test AI persuasion
February 2, 2025
OpenAI used the subreddit, r/ChangeMyView, to create a test for measuring the persuasive abilities of its AI reasoning models. The company revealed this in a system card — a document outlining how an AI system works — that was released along with its new “reasoning” model, o3-mini, on Friday.
DeepSeek might not be as disruptive as claimed, firm reportedly has 50,000 Nvidia GPUs and spent $1.6 billion on buildouts
February 2, 2025
Chinese startup DeepSeek recently took center stage in the tech world with its startlingly low usage of compute resources for its advanced AI model called R1, a model that is believed to be competitive with Open AI’s o1 despite the company’s claims that DeepSeek only cost $6 million and 2,048 GPUs to train. However, industry analyst firm SemiAnalysis reports that the company behind DeepSeek incurred $1.6 billion in hardware costs and has a fleet of 50,000 Nvidia Hopper GPUs, a finding that undermines the idea that DeepSeek reinvented AI training and inference with dramatically lower investments than the leaders of the AI industry.
DeepSeek’s Safety Guardrails Failed Every Test Researchers Threw at Its AI Chatbot
February 2, 2025
Ever since OpenAI released ChatGPT at the end of 2022, hackers and security researchers have tried to find holes in large language models (LLMs) to get around their guardrails and trick them into spewing out hate speech, bomb-making instructions, propaganda, and other harmful content.
DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng puts focus on Chinese innovation
January 28, 2025
BEIJING (Reuters) – Liang Wenfeng, the 39-year-old founder of Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, has in the matter of weeks become the face of China’s tech industry and its hope of overcoming an ever-tightening noose of export controls imposed by the United States
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Meta’s chief AI scientist says DeepSeek’s success shows that ‘open source models are surpassing proprietary ones’
January 26, 2025
Silicon Valley was on edge this week after DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company, released its R1 model. In third-party benchmarks, it outperformed leading American AI companies like OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic.
OpenAI has created an AI model for longevity science
January 18, 2025
The company is making a foray into scientific discovery with an AI built to help manufacture stem cells.
Read more at technologyreview.com
OpenAI’s AI reasoning model ‘thinks’ in Chinese sometimes and no one really knows why
January 18, 2025
Shortly after OpenAI released o1, its first “reasoning” AI model, people began noting a curious phenomenon. The model would sometimes begin “thinking” in Chinese, Persian, or some other language — even when asked a question in English.
Amid a flurry of hype, Microsoft reorganizes entire dev team around AI
January 15, 2025
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has announced a dramatic restructuring of the company’s engineering organization, which is pivoting the company’s focus to developing the tools that will underpin agentic AI.
A look at Vatican City’s new artificial intelligence law
January 15, 2025
The Vatican City State’s first decree regulating the use of artificial intelligence quietly came into effect this month prohibiting discriminatory uses of AI and establishing a special commission to oversee “experimentation” with the new technology at the Vatican.
Read more at catholicnewsagency.com
‘Bad Likert Judge’ Jailbreak Bypasses Guardrails of OpenAI, Other Top LLMs
January 3, 2025
A new jailbreak technique for OpenAI and other large language models (LLMs) increases the chance that attackers can circumvent cybersecurity guardrails and abuse the system to deliver malicious content.
This AI Paper from Tencent AI Lab and Shanghai Jiao Tong University Explores Overthinking in o1-Like Models for Smarter Computation
January 3, 2025
A new AI research paper by Tencent AI Lab and Shanghai Jiao Tong University explores the issue of overthinking in o1-like models and focuses on optimizing test-time computational resources.
How A.I. Could Reshape the Economic Geography of America
December 30, 2024
As the technology is widely adopted, some once-struggling midsize cities in the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic and South may benefit, new research predicts.
How Hallucinatory A.I. Helps Science Dream Up Big Breakthroughs
December 30, 2024
Artificial intelligence often gets criticized because it makes up information that appears to be factual, known as hallucinations. The plausible fakes have roiled not only chatbot sessions but lawsuits and medical records. For a time last year, a patently false claim from a new Google chatbot helped drive down the company’s market value by an estimated $100 billion.
FDA Perspective on the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care and Biomedicine
December 30, 2024
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) must be matched by efforts to better understand and evaluate how AI performs across health care and biomedicine as well as develop appropriate regulatory frameworks. This Special Communication reviews the history of the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) regulation of AI; presents potential uses of AI in medical product development, clinical research, and clinical care; and presents concepts that merit consideration as the regulatory system adapts to AI’s unique challenges.
Tech That Will Change Your Life in 2025
December 30, 2024
Every December for the past decade, we’ve put on our futuristic glasses to predict the year ahead in tech. Looking back, we’ve gotten a lot right—and, OK, a few things wrong. Come on, who didn’t think Harry Potter’s augmented-reality adventure would be a smash hit?
Will AI Help or Hurt Workers? One 26-Year-Old Found an Unexpected Answer.
December 30, 2024
Daron Acemoglu, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who recently won the Nobel Prize in economics, worries that artificial intelligence will worsen income inequality and not do all that much for productivity. His friend and colleague David Autor is more hopeful, believing that AI could do just the opposite.
AEP US-China AI Paper
December 30, 2024
This American Edge Project (AEP) issue brief details the growing threat of China’s artificial intelligence (AI) strategy, including its open-source approach, to America’s national security, economic prosperity and core values. China is leveraging its open-source efforts to counter U.S. AI innovation, dominate key industries, embed Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-values into the globe’s infrastructure and align global technology governance with authoritarian principles.
China wants to dominate in AI — and some of its models are already beating their U.S. rivals
December 30, 2024
China’s attempts to dominate the world of artificial intelligence could be paying off, with industry insiders and technology analysts telling CNBC that Chinese AI models are already hugely popular and are keeping pace with — and even surpassing — those from the U.S. in terms of performance.
12 Days of OpenAI
December 30, 2024
Is the Tech Industry Already on the Cusp of an A.I. Slowdown?
December 30, 2024
Companies like OpenAI and Google are running out of the data used to train artificial intelligence systems. Can new methods continue years of rapid progress?
60 of our biggest AI announcements in 2024
December 30, 2024
It’s been a big year for Google AI. It may seem as though features like Circle to Search and NotebookLM’s Audio Overviews have been around for as long as you can remember, but they only launched in 2024. Joining them were a slew of other product releases and updates meant to make your day-to-day life even a little bit easier. So, as we say goodbye to 2024 (and prepare for the exciting AI news that’s sure to come in 2025), take a look at some of the top Google AI news stories that resonated with readers this year.
The 19th-Century Technology That Threatens A.I.
Whatever you hear about the United States as a fading power, it is ahead in the race to gain dominance in artificial intelligence over China, its major rival. That’s a product of Silicon Valley’s unique ability to bring together scientists, entrepreneurs and risk capital. Yet the prospect of continuing dominance in this 21st-century technology hinges on harnessing a 19th-century one: electricity.
MIT researchers introduce Boltz-1, a fully open-source model for predicting biomolecular structures
MIT scientists have released a powerful, open-source AI model, called Boltz-1, that could significantly accelerate biomedical research and drug development.
Artificial Intelligence in 2030
At the DealBook Summit, ten experts in artificial intelligence discussed the greatest opportunities and risks posed by the technology.