8,000 pounds of invasive Burmese python removed from the Florida Everglades

The annual Florida Python Challenge is only a few weeks away, but participants will have trouble matching a new record set ...

Conservancy group removes over 8,000 pounds of invasive pythons from Florida county, breaks record

The average weight of removed female pythons was 95 pounds, with the largest female captured this season weighing 153 pounds ...
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Scientist sounds alert over Burmese python predations in Naples

Ian Bartoszek may know more about Burmese pythons than anyone who has ever walked Earth. Program director for the Conservancy of Southwest Florida's world-renowned Burmese python capture and removal ...
New Scientist

You don't need to worry about recursive-self-improving AI – yet

One of the world’s leading artificial intelligence companies has implored the industry to pause development on AI, because the latest models could be reaching a tipping point where they become capable ...
Scientific American

Anthropic warns AI could soon start improving itself. Critics aren’t convinced

The companies at the frontier of artificial intelligence should be ready to slow down, one of the fastest-moving among them says. Anthropic, the maker of the Claude chatbot, has claimed AI systems may ...
The Verge

Anthropic made a statement about recursive self-improvement, a big AI industry talking point (and concern).

RSI is also defined as an “AI system capable of fully autonomously designing and developing its own successor,” per Anthropic’s blog post. “We are not there yet, and recursive self-improvement is not ...
Time

Google Shifts to AI Search, Heralding Major Change in How People Use the Internet

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USA Today

Your Google Search bar isn't drastically changing. Here's what is

Google Search is getting a facelift − the "biggest update" to the platform in more than 25 years, the tech giant claims. At Google I/O on May 19, Google announced its iconic search bar will change to ...
TechCrunch

Google Search as you know it is over

The era of the “ten blue links” is officially over. At its Google I/O conference on Tuesday, Google unveiled an AI-powered overhaul of Search centered around a reimagined “intelligent search box” — ...
Crowdfund Insider

AI Startup Recursive Superintelligence Secures $650M

Recursive Superintelligence has raised $650 million at a $4.65 billion valuation in a funding round led by GV and Greycroft, according to the company. The round also included participation from AMD ...
SiliconANGLE

Recursive Superintelligence raises $650M to build self-improving AI models

Recursive Superintelligence Inc., a startup that hopes to develop self-improving artificial intelligence models, launched today with $650 million in funding. Alphabet Inc.’s GV fund and Greycroft led ...
The New York Times

Notable Researchers Join $4 Billion Effort to Build Self-Improving A.I.

Recursive Superintelligence, founded by former Google, Meta and OpenAI researchers, is part of a growing effort to automate the creation of artificial intelligence. By Cade Metz Reporting from San ...