I will not let my music be programmed, he told me. I'm not going to use it to do me and do the music I've done. He wasn't rejecting technology. He was protecting what he considers human territory. We can go on and on talking about technology, he said. But he was concerned with a different question. Let's see how you make things better for people in their livesnot to emulate life but to make life better for the living.
OpenAI and training data company Handshake AI are asking third-party contractors to upload real work that they did in past and current jobs, according to a report in Wired. This appears to be part of a larger strategy across AI companies that are hiring contractors to generate high-quality training data in the hopes that this will eventually allow their models to automate more white-collar work.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivered an expectedly lengthy presentation at CES, taking a victory lap for the company's AI-driven successes, setting the stage for 2026, and yes, hanging out with some robots. The Rubin computing architecture, which has been developed to meet the increasing computation demands that AI adoption creates, is set to begin replacing Blackwell architecture in the second half of this year.
Software Architecture and Design Trends Report 2025 This report explores how architects are adapting to a world shaped by AI. As large language models (LLMs) become commonplace, attention is turning toward small, specialized models, agentic systems, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) as practical design patterns. Architects are now being asked to balance efficiency, quality, sustainability, and decentralized decision-making. Culture and Methods Trends Report 2025 This report highlights a parallel tension.
Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Prize winning computer scientist who is often referred to as the "Godfather of AI", famously asserted in 2016 that, "People should stop training radiologists now. It's just completely obvious that in five years deep learning is going to do better than radiologists." The logical expectation would be that the number of radiologists should begin to decline over time as they begin to get replaced by AI.
The weekly two-hour alignment meeting becomes a five-minute async review. My main concern is that as soon as people are out of the trenches of their work, that their motivation for the quality of said work deteriorates. This means we will have to invent better motivations for people to work at all. I can't see this kind of work-people as operators-excites anyone. Why would they work at all, then?
( NewsNation) - Artificial intelligence hasn't changed most jobs yet, but roles tied to AI are already growing fast. AI engineer took the top spot on LinkedIn's annual Jobs on the Rise list, which highlights the fastest-growing roles over the past three years. Other fast-growing AI-related jobs were less technical, with AI consultants and strategists ranking near the top. LinkedIn also flagged a shift toward self-employment, with founders and independent consultants on the rise.
The AI-centric security product demo looked impressive. The vendor spoke confidently about autonomous detection, self-learning defences, and AI-driven remediation. Charts moved in real time, alerts resolved themselves, and threats seemed to vanish before human analysts even noticed them.
Three major large language models (LLMs) generated responses that, in humans, would be seen as signs of anxiety, trauma, shame and post-traumatic stress disorder. Researchers behind the study, published as a preprint last month, argue that the chatbots hold some kind of "internalised narratives" about themselves. Although the LLMs that were tested did not literally experience trauma, they say, their responses to therapy questions were consistent over time and similar in different operatingmodes, suggesting that they are doing more than "role playing".
More artificial intelligence is being implanted into Gmail as Google tries to turn the world's most popular email service into a personal assistant that can improve writing, summarize far-flung information buried in inboxes and deliver daily to-do lists. The new AI features announced Thursday could herald a pivotal moment for Gmail, a service that transformed email when it was introduced nearly 22 years ago.
In response to a question from Nextgov/FCW about how the initiative is helping to bring more AI tools into government, GSA Chief AI Officer and Data Scientist Zach Whitman said that, for those "wanting to see some level of adoption for experimentation purposes on low-risk use cases, this has provided a procurement pathway for a lot of these agencies who may have had early, light contact with some of these technologies."
"We need to be able to bring a new task to bear in a day or two," Playter said. "And that's because, I think in a factory, there's literally hundreds of tasks and the tasks evolve."
The increasing demand for AI among tech companies is one of the reasons why the global shortage of memory chips remains an ongoing issue. And while it's expected to adversely affect the production of smartphones, Samsung Electronics co-CEO T M Roh has warned that TVs and home appliances may also be hit by shortages and increased prices. "As this situation is unprecedented, no company is immune to its impact," said Roh via Reuters.
Meta Platforms didn't have a bad 2025, as its stock rose around 13%. Still, that trails the S&P 500 , as it delivered 16% gains in 2025. However, Meta could have handily outperformed the market if its third quarter earnings report hadn't been so poorly received by the market. That caused the stock to drop in October, and shares haven't recovered since.
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