Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence

What I didn't know was that the role would require me to assume multiple fabricated identities, and use pseudo profiles created by the company to engage in intimate and explicit conversations with lonely men and women,

The rise of GenAI tools has introduced a new paradigm for design work - rather than crafting interfaces by directly manipulating elements in design tools, designers can prompt AI-prototyping tools to generate designs. When you're working with AI, the output quality will be largely dependent on the specificity of the prompt. This article discusses common issues with vague text prompts and offers recommendations on how to achieve better results from AI-prototyping tools without undertaking the bulk of the design work yourself.

through Google's new Interactions API, which is designed to give devs more control in the coming agentic AI era. The new Gemini Deep Research tool is an agent equipped to synthesize mountains of information and handle a large context dump in the prompt. Google says it's used by customers for tasks ranging from due diligence to drug toxicity safety research. Google also says it will

Google has released a new version of Gemini Deep Research. This is an agent designed to automate complex research tasks. The agent runs on Gemini 3 Pro. The model can process handwriting, graphs, and mathematical notation. It incorporates this visual information directly into reports and search queries. As a result, the system can not only search textual sources, but also retrieve data that was previously difficult to automate, according to SiliconANGLE.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff last week came closer to answering a multibillion-dollar question when he said seat-based pricing - with some caveats - was becoming the norm for its AI agents after flirting with pricing based on consumption and per-conversation payments. While there is much debate about how users will get money back from investing in AI agents, the stakes are also high when it comes to how they pay for them.

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order aimed at blocking states from enforcing their own artificial intelligence (AI) regulations. "We want to have one central source of approval," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday. It will give the Trump administration tools to push back on the most "onerous" state rules, said White House AI adviser David Sacks. The government will not oppose AI regulations around children's safety, he added.

It's hard to believe that just a few short years ago a video of Will Smith eating spaghetti generated by ModelScope, a text-to-video AI model, was the peak of AI slop. Fast-forward to today and our trust for CCTV footage of cute animals has been eroded, slop is showing up across marketing and music playlists, and Sora 2 deepfakes are fooling both grandparents and politicians nationwide.

"I expect to be in 10-plus markets by next year. And we want those markets to be in the Asia-Pacific region as well," Khosrowshahi said.

The numbers looked solid on the surface. Q4 revenue hit $18.02B, topping the $17.49B estimate, while adjusted EPS of $1.95 beat the $1.87 consensus. AI semiconductor revenue surged 74% year over year, and management guided Q1 revenue to $19.1B, well above the $18.27B Street estimate. Tan projected AI chip sales would double to $8.2B next quarter. But CFO Kirsten Spears flagged a problem that sent the stock lower.

To use the interface, ChatGPT users need to make an Instacart account and then surface Instacart within their chat thread using a prompt like, "Instacart, help me shop for apple pie ingredients." From there, they can discuss recipes, ingredient swaps, and their preferred store with ChatGPT, which will help them order all of the items they need from Instacart without ever changing tabs or leaving the chat.

Dynatrace started collecting trace data from applications in 2005. Organizations wanted to know why an application was slow and what was happening exactly. That first generation was mainly manual and technical. "It was about collecting data and understanding what was going on," explains Spitzbart. APM has remained the company's foundation for a long time and remains a core component today.

The rivalry between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos is shifting from rockets to AI infrastructure. Both entrepreneurs envision a future in which data centers no longer operate on Earth but in orbit around the planet, a market with potentially enormous value. Blue Origin has been researching the technology needed to operate computing clusters in space for some time.

Amid this change, agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) becomes a critical asset. Whereas classic RAG grounded models in trusted data; agentic RAG adds multi-step reasoning, tool use and secure system coordination on top. In short, agentic RAG provides the scaffolding businesses usually can't construct themselves. Especially in the mid-market and for SMBs, obstacles like aging infrastructure, overextended teams and limited resources often stand in the way of custom-built AI.

The Intelligent Others is a riveting DW Learning by Ear audio drama written by James Muhando that explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping daily life in an imaginary African country. Follow cousins Jennifer, Faith, and Rahim in Inzuna as Rahim's bold AI inventions collide with a mysterious company offering "free money," a shocking government ban, and a devastating earthquake that pushes technologyand human relationshipsto their limits.

Katharine Jarmul challenged five common AI security and privacy myths in her keynote at InfoQ Dev Summit Munich 2025: that guardrails will protect us, better model performance improves security, risk taxonomies solve problems, one-time red teaming suffices, and the next model version will fix current issues. Jarmul argued that current approaches to AI safety rely too heavily on technical solutions while ignoring fundamental risks, calling for interdisciplinary collaboration and continuous testing rather than one-time fixes.

It includes the potential for a new AI system, Gemini for Government, which the government hopes will cut bureaucracy, automate routine tasks and free up civil servants to focus on improving services for people. Through the partnership, Google DeepMind said its existing cutting-edge AI models will be made available to UK scientists. These include tools like AlphaGenome, which uses AI to sequence strands of DNA and spot potential weaknesses; and AI Co-scientist, supporting researchers to generate new theories and research proposals.

This was the year when artificial intelligence's full potential roared into view, and when it became clear that there will be no turning back or opting out,

The episode featured the Honorable Sue Gordon, former principal deputy director of National Intelligence, Dr. David Bray, distinguished chair of the accelerator at the Stimson Center, and Prof. Barry O'Sullivan, vice chair of the European Commission's High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence. Their combined experience, spanning intelligence, technology, and organizational transformation, offered a compelling vision for executives navigating the AI era.

Leaders need to make themselves vulnerable when it comes to AI. As Rajan observed, there is power in saying I don't know. Of admitting that I don't know what the future will hold or what the best AI use cases will be. That's a hard pill for most lawyers to swallow and for managing partners of a firm full of aggressive lawyers to admit.

It may sound like a trip through the produce aisle, but leading AI companies have something much more important on their lists. Meta, OpenAI, and Google have all relied on food-related names for their sometimes secretive plans for future AI models. Thinking with your stomach is nothing new for Silicon Valley, just look at the assortment of desserts Android assembled over the years before Google had its fill.

On Wednesday, Oracle announced revenue and profit forecasts that fell short of analysts' expectations. At the same time, the company announced it would increase spending by $15 billion (€12.8 billion). Oracle's share price fell by 10 percent in after-hours trading. Oracle plays a prominent role in the AI race with ambitious plans to build AI cloud data centers. The company previously signed a five-year, $300 billion contract with OpenAI.

ChatGPT has a new feature allowing users to browse and shop products directly through AI-generated recommendations, without a search engine, shopping site, or even a scroll. It's the biggest shift in digital commerce since the algorithm killed the homepage. And if brands don't adapt fast, they'll be left behind in a conversation they're no longer part of. This isn't just about ecommerce. It's about how people choose what matters.