Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence

Many businesses have had to learn in recent years that adopting AI to automate certain organizational tasks or employees' day-to-day workflows won't necessarily translate to financial gain. The technology may make workers more productive in some respects, but it also presents a whole host of risks -- some of them involving cybersecurity, some of them legal, some of them psychological. In some cases, AI actually creates more work for supervisors.

It's a phenomenon tied to the prevalence of text-based apps in dating. Recent surveys show that one in fiveadults under 30 met their partner on a dating app like Tinder or Hinge, and more than half are using dating apps. For years, app-based dating has been regarded as a profoundly alienating experience, a paradigm shift which coincides with a rapid rise in social isolation and loneliness.

"It happens too fast," he said, referring to sudden, disruptive technological change. He urged society, government and business to "figure out how we can save jobs," whether that's retraining, a new form of income, early retirement, he said there's a need for "something. You can't just take all these people and throw them on the street ... making $30,000 a year when they were making ($150,000), you'll have a revolution."

A research team from Stanford University has released Paper2Agent, a framework that automatically converts scientific papers into interactive AI agents. The system, introduced in a recent paper, aims to make research methods more accessible by transforming traditional publications into dynamic entities that can execute analyses, reproduce results, and respond to new scientific queries through natural language interaction. Paper2Agent builds on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a standard that allows large language models to connect with external tools and datasets.

Although our focus is industrial, we work with a focus that is multi-vertical. We will always work with energy as our anchor-vertical and our focus in this market is on performance and mission-criticality as we work to fuel artificial intelligence deployments on upstream, midstream and downstream assets,

Gmail's "Help me schedule" feature utilizes Gemini to automatically set meeting times with people whose calendars you cannot view. According to Google, this feature should eliminate the need to send multiple emails to coordinate meeting times, especially with people who don't make their calendars visible to others. This feature only works when both participants are communicating via Gmail and using Google Calendar to schedule meetings. Additionally, this feature is limited to scheduling meetings with individual contacts, and does not work for multiple people or group meetings.

Beyond just ChatGPT, Shah is talking about going to apps like Google Gemini, Perplexity, and Anthropic's Claude to get information when you're researching an important purchase. While all of these platforms cite the places where they got the information in their natural language responses, in some cases they make their sources less prominent and not as easy to click through and verify. But Shah recommended that consumers go on that journey to make sure they understand which sources are shaping the information they are being fed by the chatbots in such a quick and digestible format.

It's fair to say that belief is rarely rational. We organize information into patterns that "feel" internally stable. Emotional coherence may be best explained as the "quiet logic" that makes a story satisfying, somewhat like a leader being convincing or a conspiracy being oddly reassuring. And here's what's so powerful-It's not about accuracy, it's the psychological comfort or even that "gut" feeling. When the pieces fit, the mind relaxes into complacency (or perhaps coherence).

"As we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our 'treat adult users like adults' principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults," Altman writes. Earlier this month, OpenAI hinted at allowing developers to create "mature" ChatGPT apps after it implements the "appropriate age verification and controls." OpenAI isn't the only company dipping into erotica, as Elon Musk's xAI previously launched flirty AI companions, which appear as 3D anime models in the Grok app.

We've already had a couple of big announcements from Salesforce ahead of the event kicking off, which is a great way to get heads turning and tongues wagging. Chief among these is the launch of Agentforce 360, a new platform for building, deploying, and managing enterprise AI agents. The new service is essentially a rebranded Agentforce Builder, but Salesforce hopes to simplify and streamline the creation and testing of agents for enterprise users. You can read more on the announcement below.

"You all prove the point that so much of the internet is now dead," he told the hosts. Ohanian said that much of the internet was "botted" or "quasi-AI," referencing the proliferation of "LinkedIn slop." The Reddit cofounder referenced "dead internet theory," which asserts that there is more bot activity than human activity on the web. In September, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted on X that he "never took the dead internet theory that seriously," but that now he sees "a lot of LLM-run twitter accounts."

Oracle on Tuesday revealed it would field more than 18 zettaFLOPS worth of AI infrastructure from Nvidia and AMD by the second half of next year. This includes a cluster of 800,000 Nvidia GPUs capable of delivering up to 16 zettaFLOPS of peak AI performance - that's sparse FP4 in case you're wondering. The cluster, part of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's Zettascale10 offering, is a big win for Nvidia, which isn't only furnishing the GPUs and rack systems, but also the networking.

While AI companies, startups, and others are rolling out their own web browsers that embed AI services deep into the web surfing experience, Mozilla's Firefox is instead allowing its customers to swap out their default search engine for an AI-powered search option in the browser they already use. The company on Tuesday announced that it's bringing AI answer engine Perplexity to Firefox, letting customers decide whether they want to use AI to search the web and find new information.

Dell Technologies founder and CEO Michael Dell said that good leaders act as if in a crisis - even if the going is good. "You get people excited, motivated, and to drive the necessary change," Dell said on the "Founders" podcast. Dell said that companies need to adapt to new technology. Dell recently laid out a top-secret AI plan, "Project Maverick." People work best under pressure. A good leader applies it.

CoreWeave started life in 2017 as Atlantic Crypto, mining Ethereum with racks of GPUs, but the real acceleration hit in 2024, driven by deals with AI labs and enterprises needing scalable compute without building their own data centers. Revenue jumped from $229 million in 2023 to $1.9 billion. The March IPO priced at $40 per share but debuted flat at $23 billion valuation amid market jitters. Shares bottomed at $33 in April before rocketing 322% on AI hype, peaking at $187 per share in June.

But the machine is far from the fastest GPU in Nvidia's lineup. It's not going to beat out an RTX 5090 in large language model (LLM) inference, fine tuning, or even image generation - never mind gaming. What the DGX Spark, and the slew of GB10-based systems hitting the market tomorrow, can do is run models the 5090 or any other consumer graphics card on the market today simply can't.

The cryptocurrency market has undergone a fundamental transformation, with automation now dominating trading activity across major exchanges. Industry data reveals that over 70% of institutional crypto trading volume flows through automated systems, while retail adoption accelerates as technologies become more accessible. The emergence of bot trading crypto platforms has democratized institutional-grade strategies, enabling individual investors to compete in markets that operate continuously. This shift fundamentally changes how participants approach portfolio management and trade execution.

Google is launching a new tool that uses AI to make it easier for Gmail users with Google Calendar to schedule their meetings. On Tuesday, the company launched a Gemini-powered "Help me schedule" feature that will surface ideal meeting times based on calendar availability and then display them to the person you're emailing to set up a meeting. The company notes that the feature is designed to work for one-on-one meetings, not those with multiple contacts or group meetings.

The challenging U.S. labor market is entering a new normal, according to Goldman Sachs economists David Mericle and Pierfrancesco Mei, who tackled the phenomenon of "jobless growth" in an October 13 note. It resonates with what Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell memorably described in September as a " low-hire, low-fire " labor market and the fact that, for some reason, "kids coming out of college and younger people, minorities, are having a hard time finding jobs."