Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence

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.

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.

"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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

Steve Jobs probably didn't remember how many times he skinned his knees learning to ride a bike before describing a personal computer as a "bicycle for the mind." Jobs' point was that both tools help us to go further, faster, with just a little extra effort. Today, the remark serves as a reminder that it's not possible to immediately become productive using a technology you've never used before.

Artificial intelligence will soon transform our world in ways we can only begin to imagine. That's the message from Big Tech, which is channeling vast resources into building the infrastructure to enable this new relationship between humans and our technology. Witness the exponential growth of consumer AI tools such as ChatGPT. Less visible to the public is how AI is poised to radically transform war planning and combat.

Anthropic launched Claude Haiku 4.5 today. It is the most compact variant of this generation of LLMs from Anthropic and promises to deliver performance close to that of GPT-5. Claude Sonnet 4.5 remains the better-performing model by a considerable margin, but Haiku's benchmark scores are not too far off from the larger LLM. Claude Haiku 4.5 "gives users a new option for when they want near-frontier performance with much greater cost efficiency."

That's just likely the straight -line extrapolation from it gets what it most wants. And the thing that it most wants is not us living happily ever after. So we're dead. Like, it's not that humans have been trying to cause side effects. When we build a skyscraper on top of where there used to be an ant heap, we're not trying to kill the ants. We're trying to build the skyscraper.

"Firstly, accounting is governed by rules, the focus is compliance, the focus is ensuring things are done right [and] that's a big part of the role of finance," said Sankar. "I want to make sure that I sign on the dotted line saying these numbers are accurate that I'm complying with rules and regulations. "That will never change but if you look at how it is performed today it's a very labour intensive process so we believe there's a lot of opportunity for automation."

"I know it's tempting to write the bubble story," Mr Altman told me as he sat flanked by his top lieutenants. "In fact, there are many parts of AI that I think are kind of bubbly right now."

The social app draws entirely from artificial intelligence: Instead of sharing photos and videos of themselves, users can opt in for "cameos" and create fake clips that depict themselves or their friends in any scenario imaginable. It's mostly being used to make viral meme content and the type of short-form videos you'd scroll past on TikTok, albeit with deepfakes. Sora doesn't allow you to make videos of other living people ( dead celebrities and SpongeBob SquarePants characters are fair game) unless given express permission.

It's getting harder to know what's real on the Internet, and Google is not helping one bit with the announcement of Veo 3.1. The company's new video model supposedly offers better audio and realism, along with greater prompt accuracy. The updated video AI will be available throughout the Google ecosystem, including the Flow filmmaking tool, where the new model will unlock additional features.

"The MSPs that are going to stand out in the future are certainly going to be the MSPs that simplify the complex,"

During these uncertain times-shaped by shifts in trade policy and geopolitics-keeping the consumer top of mind is vital. "Our focus is just maniacally on the customer," said Corie Barry, CEO of Best Buy, during a fireside chat with Fortune 's Emma Hinchliffe on Tuesday. Barry noted that it has never been more important for her to understand and adapt to the distinct behaviors of different consumers.

ChatGPT prices were inflated since the service's inception, with price levels reaching an eye-popping 100 to 200 times competitors' prices on a per-token basis amidst a February 2025 price war. A secretive agreement struck between OpenAI and Microsoft early in OpenAI's development allowed Microsoft to control the supply of compute to its horizontal competitor's products. It used an exclusivity clause to restrict OpenAI's product output, and to impose a price-or, conversely, output and quality-floor on its competitor OpenAI's ChatGPT products.

Figuring out how and where to find every feature in Windows can be challenging, even for advanced users. If only we had a guide that could direct us to a specific setting just by asking about it. Well, that's the idea behind a new skill coming to Microsoft's Copilot app for Windows. Rolling out to Insiders Now rolling out to Windows Insiders is a cool new feature that aims to help you better navigate Windows.

"If we look back on the last 10, 15 years on social media, I think we'd be hard pressed to say that the velocity and the impact and the adverse effect of social media is equal to, or more than, the benefits that have occurred," he said. "And one of the reasons is the fact that there wasn't regulation, and the regulation that has come is too late." He said AI is progressing so fast and "the regulators are so far behind, they don't even know what the questions are because of the speed of this thing."

Meta Platforms is likely to deliver one of the most closely watched quarterly reports of the upcoming earnings season. With the company spending heavily to transition the social media giant into a more artificial intelligence (AI)-focused operation, investors will have all the more reason to focus on the " Magnificent Seven" stock. Investors might recall the 20% gain in the stock following the release of the February 2024 numbers.

These experiments led to two key discoveries, according to the paper. Tuning only the self-attention projection layers (SA Proj), the part of the model that helps it decide which input elements to focus on, allowed the models to learn new tasks with little or no measurable forgetting. Also, what initially appeared as forgotten knowledge often resurfaced when the model was later trained on another specialized task.

Some law firms are handing out recruiting entertainment budgets to law students. While we don't fault law students some sweet walking around money, placing that power in the hands of students highlights the breakdown in the law school recruiting process and a real risk of baking more bias into hiring.

More recently, Lumen partnered with IBM to unlock scalable AI for businesses, as well as with Google Cloud to provide advanced cloud and network solutions to meet the growing demands of AI workloads. Lumen strengthened its financial position and freed up capital for long-term growth by refinancing its term loans, as well as selling off its fiber-to-the-home business to AT&T. CEO Kate Johnson projected the company's return to growth by 2029.

A company's opaque plan to build a massive data center outside Tucson, Arizona has roiled the desert city over the past few months, the latest US community to push back as tech companies aggressively seek to build out infrastructure for cloud computing and to power the AI boom. The proposed data center, known as Project Blue, would span 290 acres in Pima county, and become the biggest development ever in the county, or anywhere in the southern part of the state.