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EMACS, the text editor created at MIT's AI Lab, is marking its 50th anniversary. MIT Technology Review traces how the editor's culture of sharing code helped give birth to the free software movement, and developers are reminiscing online about the program that still has a devoted user base half a century on.
- 2AI labs buying data from failed startups to train models▼📰 The Download: dead startups fueling AI and interspecies communication This is today’s edition of The Download, our wee
MIT Technology Review's daily newsletter The Download reports that AI labs are purchasing data from defunct startups to train their models, alongside coverage of interspecies communication research. The practice highlights how companies racing to build AI systems are turning to unconventional sources as the demand for training data outpaces what is freely available on the web.
- 3AI labs claim models refuted Exponential Time Hypothesis●Frontier AI labs say their models refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis. What does that mean? TechCrunch spoke to the
Frontier AI labs, including OpenAI, say their models have refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis, a major assumption in complexity theory with big implications for algorithm efficiency. TechCrunch spoke with an MIT computer scientist tasked with explaining the claimed discovery. Experts are weighing whether the claim is genuine, a misinterpretation, or an error by the models.
- 4MIT Technology Review asks which Anthropic is real●📰 Will the real Anthropic please stand up This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI.
MIT Technology Review's newsletter The Algorithm has published a piece asking 'Will the real Anthropic please stand up', noting that it follows weeks of frenzied speculation about the AI company, and that Anthropic has now filed something, though the snippet cuts off before detailing what. The story has been shared onward via tech news feeds. It signals renewed public scrutiny of the safety-focused AI lab and whatever filing or announcement is at the centre of the speculation.