Jon Victor

2 days ago | theinformation.com | Jon Victor

Source: The InformationXAI co-founder Christian Szegedy has joined Morph, a startup whose software aims to improve the quality of computer code generated by artificial intelligence, as its chief scientist, a person with knowledge of the hire said. Szegedy appears to be the first of xAI’s 12 co-founders to leave the company since it launched in March 2023 as a rival to OpenAI. His departure hasn’t been reported previously.

3 days ago | theinformation.com | Jon Victor

At any given moment during a typical professional golf tournament, 14 balls are in motion, and players hit upwards of 30,000 shots over the four-day event. It’s been next to impossible for the PGA Tour, which runs these tournaments, and sports broadcasters to provide commentary or information on every shot—even though the Tour thinks there’s demand for that information. So, to provide color on those thousands of shots, the PGA Tour uses artificial intelligence in its Tourcast app.

1 week ago | theinformation.com | Jon Victor

Some businesses are waking up to the downsides of automated coding products. While most customers cite huge gains in developer productivity from tools like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or Anthropic’s Claude, the code they generate sometimes doesn’t work as expected—or worse, it can make a business vulnerable to hacking or a data leak. The risks can be high when it comes to starting up a software project from scratch using simple text prompts, also known as vibe coding.

1 week ago | theinformation.com | Jon Victor

New AI-powered programming tools like OpenAI’s Codex or Google’s Jules might not be able to code an entire app from scratch just yet. But when it comes to working with large amounts of previously written code, those products could soon be saving developers a ton of time. For example, Codex excels at finding bugs in a large code base and suggesting potential fixes, according to Ryan Cox, who manages a team of roughly two dozen engineers at 250-person startup Temporal Technologies.

2 weeks ago | theinformation.com | Jon Victor

Source: The InformationA new Anthropic model, Claude Opus 4, can use its access to a user’s email app to report a customer to law enforcement or submit a whistleblower report to a news outlet if it detects that it is being used for “egregious wrongdoing,” the company disclosed a technical report released Thursday describing the new model, including cases when it exhibited unwanted behaviors.