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We’ve been wrong about new technology before. Are we wrong about AI?
Why current AI usage data might mislead us about the future.
Adding up the hidden costs of generative AI
Developers are leaning hard into AI coding—but rising costs may slow the momentum.
Japanese girl band AKB48 releases AI-generated single after fans preferred it to song written by human
Top Japanese girl band AKB48 have released a single created using AI, after it proved more popular with fans than a rival song written by famed J-pop producer Yasushi Akimoto.
Most companies admit their current security can’t stop AI cybercrime
IT leaders are increasingly worried about AI-powered attacks
Walmart looks to cash in on agentic AI
The world’s largest retailer seeks to build on its AI-enabled culture and business results by embracing ‘a unified, agentic AI framework that reimagines how our business operates,’ its US CTO...
Younger Workers Will Win the AI Economy
Artificial intelligence is slowing hiring for junior roles, but history suggests young workers are often best placed to adapt to new technology.
Will Agentic AI Avatars Rewire the B2B Sales and Marketing Funnel?
The most transformative B2B shifts tend to alter the rituals of buyer-supplier communication. Fax, for example, gave way to email and texts, which evolved
Helen Toner on the biggest AI risk right now
Helen Toner is taking the helm of a major D.C. tank tank focused on AI.
Researcher uses AI-powered robotic unicycle to study how people learn complex motor skills
The path to recovery for stroke survivors taking their first tentative steps, or individuals navigating daily challenges from
AI is causing anxiety about the future of the workforce. But are there AI-proof jobs?
Can we know which jobs are more or less likely to be “taken” by artificial intelligence? Planet Money looks into what jobs might be immune from a robot takeover.
Europe’s VCs must embrace risk — or resign the AI era to US control
Alex Menn of London-based VC Begin Capital argues risk-averse investors are holding back European AI startups.
Exclusive: AI learning demand surges across industries
GitHub Copilot skills demand increased 13,534% year over year, according to a new report from Udemy.
Therapists Feeling Inadequate When Comparing Themselves To AI That Performs Therapy
Therapists are eyeing AI and realizing that AI is gaining speed as a therapy guidance replacement by clients. It is vital to shift into AI proactive adoption. Here’s how.
Nvidia’s AI Factory Vision Comes Into Focus With Rubin CPX
The Rubin CPX will complement the standard Rubin AI Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) in providing high-value inference content generation at a more cost-efficient price.
What the rapid pace of AI means for China’s threats toward Taiwan
A hearing Wednesday provided more evidence that the U.S. is rapidly falling behind China in AI development, which could increase the possibility of global conflict.
Deepseek trains breakthrough R1 model at a fraction of US costs
How is the Chinese AI start-up Deepseek able to work that much cheaper than other global companies?
FlowRL: Matching Reward Distributions for LLM Reasoning
We propose FlowRL: matching the full reward distribution via flow balancing instead of maximizing rewards in large language model (LLM) reinforcement learning (RL). Recent advanced reasoning…
Inside the Controversy Over Colorado’s AI Law
Negotiations over revising the first-in-the-nation law collapsed and now it won’t be enacted until at least June 2026.
DLA Piper advises Parkway Venture Capital in US$1 billion investment in Figure AI
DLA Piper guided Parkway Venture Capital, a New York-based venture capital firm, as the lead investor in a US$1 billion Series C fundraising round at a US$39 billion post-money valuation...
Luma AI created an AI video model that ‘reasons’ – what it does differently
The company is setting high expectations for this latest AI-powered creator tool.
Huawei announces new AI infrastructure as Nvidia gets locked out of China
Huawei’s SuperPoD interconnect technology creates clusters of chips, including AI chips, to increase compute.
WebExplorer trains expert web agents without human-labeled examples
By focusing on data quality, WebExplorer trains smaller, more efficient models that achieve state-of-the-art results and outperform open-source agents ten times their size.
OpenAI’s research on AI models deliberately lying is wild
AI models don’t just hallucinate. They also “scheme,” meaning deliberately lie or hide their true intensions.
SoftBank Vision Fund to lay off 20% of employees in shift to bold AI bets, source and memo say
SoftBank Group will lay off nearly 20% of its Vision Fund team globally as it shifts resources to founder Masayoshi Son’s large-scale artificial intelligence bets in the United States, according...
Nvidia’s $5bn stake in Intel is a shrewd political move
But it deepens the incestuousness of the AI industry
Prompting for precision with Stability AI Image Services in Amazon Bedrock
Amazon Bedrock now offers Stability AI Image Services: 9 tools that improve how businesses create and modify images. The technology extends Stable Diffusion and Stable Image models to give you...
Scale visual production using Stability AI Image Services in Amazon Bedrock
This post was written with Alex Gnibus of Stability AI. Stability AI Image Services are now available in Amazon Bedrock, offering ready-to-use media editing capabilities delivered through the Amazon Bedrock...
Prices for high-capacity HDDs soar while shipping delays stretch up to ten weeks amid the AI boom
32TB and larger HDDs now face nearly year-long wait times
AI Alliance forges agent-native language, knowledge base
Dana is an AI agent-native language and runtime to empower intent-driven development. Other projects include an AI-native wiki for creating shared human-agent knowledge bases.
Gemini in Chrome no longer requires a subscription
After first rolling out AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers, Gemini in Chrome is now available to all Chrome users in the US.
Trump’s AI plan supports antitrust enforcement, DOJ official says
NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. antitrust enforcers are on guard against anticompetitive behavior in the artificial intelligence sector as part of the Trump administration’s plan to cement U.S. AI dominance, a...
Youth mental health org asks AI developers to slow down, weigh safety risks for teens
An open letter from The Jed Foundation (JED), a youth mental health organization, calls for protections against potentially dangerous AI chatbots.
Meta will let outside developers create AI-powered apps for its smart glasses
Meta’s lineup of smart glasses could soon get a lot more capabilities as it opens its glasses to outside developers.
Lyric’s $43.5m Investment: Fueling AI-driven Supply Chains
Lyric has secured a $43.5 million Series B round to fuel the growth of its AI-driven supply chain intelligence platform, a sign of both the company’s Lyric secures $43.5M to...
Artificial intelligence reveals hidden facial cues of mild depression
An artificial intelligence system can detect hidden signs of mild depression by analyzing facial expressions in short videos. A new study in Scientific Reports shows specific eye and mouth movements...
$42B US-UK pact offers ‘shot in the arm’ for British tech
Multibillion-dollar commitments in AI, cloud, and quantum from US tech giants aim to revive UK competitiveness and open new opportunities for startups and private capital.
4 four ways to overcome the skills crisis and prepare your workforce for the age of AI
HR leaders say skilled experts are tough to find. The answer is a learning program that embraces measurement, exploration, and, unsurprisingly, AI.
Meta Intros Ray-Ban AR Display Glasses, Tik Tok’s New Deal, $200 Million For Nothing
Meta launches Ray-Ban AR Display Glasses with Neural Band, TikTok faces forced U.S. sale, Nothing raises $200M for AI smartphones, Snap bets big on Specs AR.
Inside AI’s rapid expansion: What every investor should know | Insights
For investors, AI is not simply another technology trend but a structural shift that is already reshaping revenue streams across industries.