Around the middle of last year, Pim de Witte started reaching out to a handful of prominent AI labs to see if they'd be interested in using data from Medal, his popular video game clipping platform, to train their agents. Within weeks, it became clear that Medal's data was more valuable to the labs than he expected. "We received multiple acquisition offers very quickly," he told me.
Don't credit OpenAI's ChatGPT, credit corporate LLMs - enterprise RAG is what's creating royalty revenue for publishers. RAG - retrieval augmented generation - kicks in when a user (or system) prompts the LLM, which then pulls the relevant content from various sources to deliver the best answer. Over the last two years, it has been quietly expanding its licensing agreements for generative AI usage, with approximately 5,000 publishers from its 30,000-strong publisher network now opted in for this.
I was interviewing for a job as a customer service agent with Anna. She had a low, pleasant voice and she'd nailed the pronunciation of my name-something few people do. I wanted to make a good impression except I had no idea what Anna was thinking because Anna couldn't think. Anna wasn't technically a person. She was AI.
Bad news, baby. The New Yorker reports the rapid advance of AI in the workplace will create a permanent underclass of everyone not already hitched to the AI train. The prediction comes from OpenAI employee Leopold Aschenbrenner, who claims AI will reach or exceed human capacity by 2027. Once it develops capacity to innovate, AI superintelligence will supersede even a need for its own programmers and then wipe out the jobs done by everyone else.
It's no secret that artificial intelligence (AI) has already had a significant impact on businesses -introducing new levels of automation and challenges for leaders to overcome. Until now, it's been largely confined to screens and data centers, but we are witnessing this technology advance beyond the digital world right before our eyes. In manufacturing, sensors and AI-driven analytics allow factories to anticipate maintenance before breakdowns occur, and in healthcare, smart diagnostic systems accelerate detection and personalize treatment.
Klinkert embraced the idea and pursued it academically, ultimately earning a Master of Interactive Technology in Digital Game Development from SMU Guildhall. His early passion for interactive media has since evolved into a cutting-edge research focus. Now a PhD student in the Computer Science Department at SMU's Lyle School of Engineering, Klinkert is exploring how large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, can be used to create non-playable characters (NPCs) that act and respond more like real people, with consistent personalities and believable emotional responses.
Thanks to the rise of artificial intelligence, this once far-fetched dream is now a tangible reality for savvy entrepreneurs. Imagine uncovering hidden markets, automating tedious tasks, and creating products that feel custom-built for your audience, all with the help of AI. Greg Isenberg, a thought leader in using technology for growth, argues that AI isn't just a tool, it's a fantastic option for anyone looking to start and scale a business.
"I made this prediction that, you know, in six months, 90% of code would be written by AI models," Amodei said. "Some people think that prediction is wrong, but within Anthropic and within a number of companies that we work with, that is absolutely true now."
I still remember the first time I clicked "generate" on an AI art tool. The screen glowed, and within seconds, lines and colors appeared with an energy I could almost hear-like brushes whispering across canvas, like the faint scent of turpentine in an old studio.
DirecTV has partnered with Glance, an artificial intelligence company, to allow people using its Gemini devices to see AI-generated screensavers featuring their own faces. Glance, owned by a mobile ad company, said it will add this new AI feature to DirecTV Gemini devices in 2026. If you own a Gemini device -- either the Gemini, which works via , or the Gemini Air dongle if you're a customer -- the TV screensaver will allow you to create an AI avatar of yourself.
It's becoming clearer that we are in a perilous financial situation globally. Fears over an "AI bubble" are being cited by the Bank of England, the International Monetary Fund and the boss of JP Morgan, Jamie Dimon. If you want a sense of how insane the narrative is around AI investments, consider this: Thinking Machines Lab, an AI startup, recently raised $2bn funding on a valuation of $10bn. The company has zero products, zero customers and zero revenues. The only thing it made public to its investors was the resume of its founder, Mira Murati, formerly chief technology officer at OpenAI. If that's not hubris meeting market exuberance, what is?
I was always interested in the medical field. Unfortunately, I didn't get into medical school, so I thought traditional Chinese medicine was the best alternative. It offered me a chance to practice as a clinician, but in a different role and setting. During my studies, we had a biostatistics computational module. That's where I realized that programming and computational work can be quite interesting.
I suspect that the world of chat apps will create, obviously, more options for consumers and how they're going to use it, but it is inevitable that AI is going to drive our financial lives, and whether we choose to use it a lot, or a little, or maybe not at all is a personal decision,
IBM Cloud Code Engine, the company's fully managed, strategic serverless platform, has introduced Serverless Fleets with integrated GPU support. With this new capability, the company directly addresses the challenge of running large-scale, compute-intensive workloads such as enterprise AI, generative AI, machine learning, and complex simulations on a simplified, pay-as-you-go serverless model. Historically, as noted in academic papers, including a recent Cornell University paper, serverless technology struggled to efficiently support these demanding, parallel workloads,
Hugging Face introduced the Retrieval Embedding Benchmark (RTEB), a new evaluation framework designed to more accurately measure how well embedding models generalize in real-world retrieval tasks. The beta benchmark aims to establish a community standard for evaluating retrieval accuracy in both open and private datasets. Retrieval quality is crucial for various AI systems, such as RAG, intelligent agents, enterprise search, and recommendation engines. However, existing benchmarks often do not represent real-world performance accurately.
Rather than a custom Arm CPU, like the ones that Microsoft, AWS, and Google designed, Meta tells us the partnership will focus on optimizing the Arm-based silicon that it's already deploying. Like most hyperscalers and cloud providers, Meta is rolling out large quantities of Arm Neoverse cores across its AI datacenters; they just happen to be part of Nvidia's GB200 or GB300 NVL72 rack systems. Each of these racks is equipped with 72 Blackwell GPUs and 36 of Nvidia's Neoverse-V2-based Grace CPUs.
When Google launched its Gemini 2.5 Flash model - better known by its more fun codename Nano Banana - in August, it became a viral hit. Because of its ability to edit images using AI for free (or at a low cost if you're using it through the API), we wondered if it might spell bad news for Adobe, which sells competing image software. Data provided to Business Insider by Appfigures, an analytics company, reveals that as downloads of Gemini skyrocketed around the time of Nano Banana's release, downloads of Firefly, Adobe's generative AI image and video app, began to slump.
there are obvious concerns that the platform could be used to generate deepfakes and otherwise misleading content. To combat this problem, the company says it adjusted its systems to prevent users from manipulating images of other people, including political leaders like Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, or Emmanuel Macron. If you try to generate an image of a public figure, the Sora app-which is still invitation-only-will generally tell you your prompt violates the platform's guidelines.
