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Interop Tokyo 2026 · Voices from the Conference

Interop Tokyo 2026 · Voices from the Conference

Defending Truth, Building Trust: An Information Trust Infrastructure for the AI Age Professor Thomas Patterson — Harvard Kennedy School At Interop Tokyo 2026, Professor Thomas Patterson warned that the gravest threat of the AI age is not any single deepfake, but the...

When intelligence begins to build itself

When intelligence begins to build itself

Recursive Self-Improvement, Multi-Agent Emergence, and the Architecture of Trust A new discussion paper from the AIWS Lumina Lab explores one of the most consequential questions of the AI Age: What happens when intelligence begins to build itself? Triggered by recent...

Bruce Schneier Talks at “AIWS – New Democracy” Conference

On November 25, 2024, at the "AI World Society (AIWS) - New Democracy" Conference, organized at Harvard University Loeb House, Harvard Distinguished Scholar Bruce Schneier delivered an insightful talk on AI for Politics and Democracy. Schneier discussed the...

OpenAI announces new o3 models

OpenAI announces new o3 models

OpenAI saved its biggest announcement for the last day of its 12-day “shipmas” event. On Friday, December 20, the company unveiled o3, the successor to the o1 “reasoning” model it released earlier in the year. o3 is a model family, to be more precise — as was the case...

Google says it has cracked a quantum computing challenge with new chip

Google says it has cracked a quantum computing challenge with new chip

Google (GOOGL.O), opens new tab on Monday December 9, 2024 said that it has overcome a key challenge in quantum computing with a new generation of chip, solving a computing problem in five minutes that would take a classical computer more time than the history of the...

AI Action Summit: Launch of the “AI Convergence” Challenges

AI Action Summit: Launch of the “AI Convergence” Challenges

Boston, December 9, 2024 – As part of the AI Action Summit, which will take place in Paris on February 10–11, 2025, France has launched the “AI Convergence” Challenges to showcase the dynamism of academic and industrial ecosystems and the global foundation of their...