Microsoft fixes CVE-2025–21415 (CVSS 9.9) and CVE-2025–21396 flaws, addressing privilege escalation risks in Azure AI Face Service and Microsoft Account that could allow a malicious actor to escalate their privileges under certain conditions.
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Outer Space, Inner Space, and the Future of Networks.
Synopsis: Does the History, Dynamics, and Structure of our Universe give any evidence that it is inherently “Good”? Does it appear to be statistically protective of adapted complexity and intelligence? Which aspects of the big history of our universe appear to be random? Which are predictable? What drives universal and societal accelerating change, and why have they both been so stable? What has developed progressively in our universe, as opposed to merely evolving randomly? Will humanity’s future be to venture to the stars (outer space) or will we increasingly escape our physical universe, into physical and virtual inner space (the transcension hypothesis)? In Earth’s big history, what can we say about what has survived and improved? Do we see any progressive improvement in humanity’s thoughts or actions? When is anthropogenic risk existential or developmental (growing pains)? In either case, how can we minimize such risk? What values do well-built networks have? What can we learn about the nature of our most adaptive complex networks, to improve our personal, team, organizational, societal, global, and universal futures? I’ll touch on each of these vital questions, which I’ve been researching and writing about since 1999, and discussing with a community of scholars at Evo-Devo Universe (join us!) since 2008.
For fun background reading, see John’s Goodness of the Universe post on Centauri Dreams, and “Evolutionary Development: A Universal Perspective”, 2019.
John writes about Foresight Development (personal, team, organizational, societal, global, and universal), Accelerating Change, Evolutionary Development (Evo-Devo), Complex Adaptive Systems, Big History, Astrobiology, Outer and Inner Space, Human-Machine Merger, the Future of AI, Neuroscience, Mind Uploading, Cryonics and Brain Preservation, Postbiological Life, and the Values of Well-Built Networks.
He is CEO of Foresight University, founder of the Acceleration Studies Foundation, and co-founder of the Evo-Devo Universe research community, and the Brain Preservation Foundation. He is editor of Evolution, Development, and Complexity (Springer 2019), and Introduction to Foresight: Personal, Team, and Organizational Adaptiveness (Foresight U Press 2022). He is also author of The Transcension Hypothesis (2011), the proposal that universal development guides leading adaptive networks increasingly into physical and virtual inner space.
A talk for the ‘Stepping into the Future‘conference (April 2022).
The Goodness of the Universe: Outer Space, Inner Space, and the Future of Networks /w John Smart
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However, despite these advances, human progress is never without risks. Therefore, we must address urgent challenges, including the lack of transparency in algorithms, potential intrinsic biases and the possibility of AI usage for destructive purposes.
Philosophical And Ethical Implications
The singularity and transcendence of AI could imply a radical redefinition of the relationship between humans and technology in our society. A typical key question that may arise in this context is, “If AI surpasses human intelligence, who—or what—should make critical decisions about the planet’s future?” Looking even further, the concretization of transcendent AI could challenge the very concept of the soul, prompting theologians, philosophers and scientists to reconsider the basic foundations of beliefs established for centuries over human history.
Energy-efficient, task-agnostic continual learning is a key challenge in Artificial Intelligence frameworks. Here, authors propose a hybrid neural network that emulates dual representations in corticohippocampal circuits, reducing the effect of catastrophic forgetting.
Aurora consists of four photonically interconnected modular and independent server racks, containing 35 photonic chips and 13km of fiber optics. The system operates at room temperature and is fully automated, which Xanadu says makes it capable of running “for hours without any human intervention.”
The company added that in principle, Aurora could be scaled up to “thousands of server racks and millions of qubits today, realizing the ultimate goal of a quantum data center.” In a blog post detailing Aurora, Xanadu CTO Zachary Vernon said the machine represents the “very first time [Xanadu] – or anyone else for that matter – have combined all the subsystems necessary to implement universal and fault-tolerant quantum computation in a photonic architecture.”
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Sam Altman admitted OpenAI might have been wrong about keeping its AI models private and acknowledged DeepSeek’s open-source approach is making waves in the industry. Meanwhile, DeepSeek claims to have built an AI model as powerful as OpenAI’s GPT-o1 for a fraction of the cost, raising concerns about potential data theft and U.S. chip restrictions. At the same time, Altman is pushing a $500 billion AI data center project called “Stargate” while facing a personal lawsuit, as Google quietly adjusts its AI strategy and Microsoft investigates DeepSeek’s rapid rise.
*Key Topics:*
- *Sam Altman’s shocking admission* about OpenAI’s past mistakes and DeepSeek’s rising influence.
- How *DeepSeek claims to rival OpenAI’s GPT-o1* at a fraction of the cost, raising legal concerns.
- The *AI arms race escalates* as OpenAI, DeepSeek, Microsoft, and Google battle for dominance.
*What You’ll Learn:*
- Why *OpenAI might change its stance on open-source AI* after DeepSeek’s disruptive impact.
- How *Microsoft is investigating DeepSeek* over alleged unauthorized use of OpenAI’s data.
- The *$500 billion “Stargate” project* and why experts doubt Altman’s ambitious AI infrastructure plans.
*Why It Matters:*
This video explores the *intensifying AI war, where **DeepSeek’s bold claims* challenge industry giants, forcing OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft to rethink their strategies while massive investments reshape the future of artificial intelligence.
*DISCLAIMER:*
This video analyzes the latest AI developments, including *OpenAI’s internal struggles, DeepSeek’s rapid rise, and the shifting landscape of AI innovation and competition*.
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Unitree, a Chinese robotics company competing with outfits like Boston Dynamics, Tesla, Agility Robotics and others, has unveiled a new video of its humanoid G1 and H1 robots, showing off some new moves.
The smaller, more affordable G1 robot is shown running, navigating uneven terrain and walking in a more natural way. Unitree told us that because the robots were operating in environments it hadn’t mapped with LIDAR, these demos were remote controlled.
Unitree’s taller H1 humanoid robot also showed off some new moves at a Spring Festival Gala. The robots performed a preset routine learned from data produced by human dancers. The company says “whole body AI motion control” kept the robots in sync and allowed the robots to respond to any unplanned changes or events.
At the heart of language neuroscience lies a fundamental question: How does the human brain process the rich variety of languages? Recent developments in Natural Language Processing, particularly in multilingual neural network language models, offer a promising avenue to answer this question by providing a theory-agnostic way of representing linguistic content across languages. Our study leverages these advances to ask how the brains of native speakers of 21 languages respond to linguistic stimuli, and to what extent linguistic representations are similar across languages. We combined existing (12 languages across 4 language families; n=24 participants) and newly collected fMRI data (9 languages across 4 language families; n=27 participants) to evaluate a series of encoding models predicting brain activity in the language network based on representations from diverse multilingual language models (20 models across 8 model classes). We found evidence of cross-lingual robustness in the alignment between language representations in artificial and biological neural networks. Critically, we showed that the encoding models can be transferred zero-shot across languages, so that a model trained to predict brain activity in a set of languages can account for brain responses in a held-out language, even across language families. These results imply a shared component in the processing of different languages, plausibly related to a shared meaning space.
The authors have declared no competing interest.
When it comes to AI research, the company leading the way is undoubtedly OpenAI. Having successfully launched ChatGPT, the San Fransisco-based organisation has bigger targets in mind now.
In December 2024, it launched its latest version, o3, which has shown significant progress when it comes to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). In other words, it has launched an AI system that can understand, learn and apply knowledge across a wide variety of tasks just like a human being.
But now, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has revealed in his latest blog that the focus has shifted towards Superintelligence.
Pipistrel Aircraft has announced the successful completion of the first hover flight for its Nuuva V300, a hybrid-electric vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) unmanned aircraft designed for long-range logistics and specialized defense operations.
The milestone brings the company closer to deploying its autonomous cargo drone, which promises to revolutionize aerial deliveries with a 600-pound payload capacity and a 300-nautical-mile range.
The Nuuva V300 represents a leap forward in hybrid-electric propulsion, combining eight battery-powered electric motors for vertical takeoff with an internal combustion engine for forward flight. This dual-power system enhances fuel efficiency, minimizes maintenance costs, and provides greater operational flexibility. The aircraft’s design allows it to carry up to three Euro pallets (EPAL) through a nose-loading fuselage, offering a streamlined solution for cargo logistics, humanitarian aid, and defense applications.