SoftBank seeks $100B from Gulf investors for AI bets

StarTalk Plus interview with Geoffrey Hinton traces modern AI back to a 70-year-old bet that intelligence emerges from brain-like networks rather than pure logic. Hinton, who championed that approach, now warns the digital version may outperform the biological original.

CorporacionRobot built a new exocontrol for its Gevo avatar robot using magnetic encoders and bearings, which the team says are clearly felt when moving the controller. A Codex-built tool displays sensor values.

A developer released a Krea 2 Prompt Writer extension for ComfyUI that expands simple ideas into fuller prompts, after demand from direct messages. It was originally a Patreon post and is now offered at no cost.

Six decision models each played 100 games against the classic scripted ghosts, with a 2-second deadline per junction decision and games capped at 5 minutes. The longest game lasted 2 minutes 24 seconds; rankings use mean score with a 95% margin of error.

George Washington University researchers Neil Johnson and Frank (Yingjie) Huo published a paper on predicting when a chatbot goes rogue, focused on offline personal AI companions. They argue slippage stems from competition in the Attention head between conversation context and competing output basins, and offer a formula estimating the number of good outputs before the first bad one.