Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence

In July 2006, I accepted a job offer at Google that brought me into tech after an arts and humanities education. I climbed the ladder at Google to found Google's Open Research Group, working on issues related to measurement, privacy, and AI. In 2016, I cofounded the AI Now Research Institute at NYU, the first university-based research institute to examine broader social and political economic considerations surrounding AI.

Normally, when you say artificial intelligence, it would typically conjure images of sleek servers and lightning-fast processing. But designer Max Park has taken a radically different approach. His project "Prompting Nowhere" transforms a vintage Singer treadle sewing machine into a thought-provoking AI system that challenges our assumptions about technology, labor, and human values. The project draws its name and inspiration from William Morris's 1890 utopian novel "News from Nowhere," which envisioned an anti-industrialist society where craft and art formed the backbone of civilization .

We're definitely going to build a bunker before we release AGI,

Martinet keeps her eyes peeled for candidates who go beyond listing their AI skills on their resume-she actually loves it when talent uses it in the hiring process. During interview rounds when applicants showcase their skills through mini projects or tests, the executive values prospective hires who enhance their assignments with the tools. Leveraging AI in tandem with their human capabilities feeds back into the killer combination the software giant, which has a market cap of $141 billion, is looking for.

ChatGPT, for example, came back with what felt like a movie script. Tunis started with a sunrise walk through Sidi Bou Saïd, pastries and mint tea in hand, followed by a whirlwind through the Medina and a dramatic half-day at the ruins of Carthage. Then, in Tozeur, it pulled the cinematic card with "Star Wars" filming sets in the desert, and camel rides across dunes at sunset.

Musk's tunneling and infrastructure firm The Boring Companyis accused of nearly 800 violations by Nevada regulators, including digging without approval, dumping untreated water onto city streets, failing to install silt fences, and tracking dirt from construction sites onto nearby roadways, a ProPublica investigation discovered. Then there is Tesla, which was hit with an enforcement action by California's Department of Insurance for routinely denying or delaying customer claims despite years of warnings from the state regulator.

A new survey found that nearly one in five high schoolers in the US - 19 percent - say that they or a friend have used AI to have a romantic relationship, an alarming figure that will surely raise new concerns over how the tech's adoption among kids and teenagers may be impacting their mental health. The findings were published in a new report from the Center for Democracy and Technology, which surveyed 1,000 high school students, 1,000 parents, and around 800 sixth through 12th grade public school teachers.

Parents have one burning question: Does AI collapse the world of possibilities for their kids, or does it open up new ones? I spent two hours in a room with around 30 adults to learn about what it means to raise children with the help of AI. The event took place during Pulse NYC AI Week and was hosted by Build First, an AI workshop company. Concern, confusion, and excitement were the main emotions circulating around the tiny Upper East Side school auditorium

Neurosymbolic AI fuses the statistical power, pattern recognition, and adaptability of neural networks-think large language models (LLMs)-with the logical, rule-based structure of symbolic reasoning that can predict real outcomes while helping prevent the hallucinations generative AI (GenAI) may produce. Correlation isn't causation. Summer is, of course, prime ice cream season in California, and that's also when shark bites are most prevalent-but enjoying your mint chip cone won't make it more likely you'll get bitten. Neurosymbolic AI sorts out the coincidence and lets you dig down into what's really causing those shark bites.

With many years of architecting cloud solutions for Fortune 500 companies, I've wrestled with sprawling Infrastructure as Code (IaC) configurations and dreamed of a magic wand to simplify it all. Enter AI-powered IaC generation - a trend that's sparking debates across the DevOps world. Can AI really replace your meticulously written Terraform modules? Or is it just hype? In this hands-on guide, I'll walk you through how AI tools like AWS CodeStar, HashiCorp's AI integrations, and emerging platforms are reshaping infrastructure management.

Modern telecommunications networks are undergoing a fundamental transformation, evolving from reactive models to proactive, intelligent systems powered by artificial intelligence (AI) that can predict, prevent, and resolve issues before they impact customers. This evolution represents three distinct phases of network intelligence, each building upon the last to create increasingly sophisticated operational capabilities. Detecting Network Anomalies: The Foundation of Smart Operations The first phase focuses on detecting network anomalies through advanced monitoring systems using the current systems' tools and capabilities.

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian says AI isn't here to replace you - it's here to help you keep up. In an interview with the tech newsletter Big Technology, Kurian dismissed the hype that AI will automate so much work that it will cost everyone their jobs. He said AI's role for the foreseeable future is to bridge the gap between what workers can do today and what they aspire to do in the future. "I think there is definitely a middle ground," he said.

AI bots are everywhere now, filling everything from online stores to social media. But that sudden ubiquity could end up being a very bad thing, according to a new paper from Stanford University scientists who unleashedAI models into different environments - including social media - and found that when they were rewarded for success at tasks like boosting likes and other online engagement metrics,the bots increasingly engaged in unethical behavior like lyingand spreading hateful messages or misinformation.

Dreamforce 2025 is imminent, with 50,000 people due to descend on the Moscone Center to hear about the latest advancements across its cloud, data, collaboration, and AI offerings. In the past few years, Salesforce has gone from strength to strength, with sustained growth and an exploding customer base for its offerings. The CRM giant has gone all in on enterprise AI in moves to meet customer demand, recording 120% revenue growth across its Data Cloud & AI segments in FY25.

She told BBC Newsbeat that EA's teams use genAI in the early stages of development "to allow more time and more space to be creative." But Battlefield 6 has no genAI-created content. She is optimistic about the technology overall, though. "If we can break the magic with AI it will help us be more innovative and more creative," she said.

The system runs smoothly for short conversations, but after around 40-50 messages, the response relevance starts dropping. The AI begins repeating phrases or giving vague answers unrelated to the context. Here's what I've already tried: Trimming the old messages to stay within token limits Summarizing older context dynamically Reducing temperature for better control Even tried vector-based context recall - still not consistent

The modern enterprise has more data than it can handle, and AI agents are increasingly stepping in to help. AWS aims to tackle that data overload with its new Amazon Quick Suite, an agentic AI system released Thursday that can conduct deep-dive research, answer questions, analyze and visualize data, and automate workflows. The company claims the AI-driven system has slashed the time required for research analysis from months to 20 minutes, and helped solve complex customer queries in 15 minutes rather than hours.

The consensus holds that AI will inevitably deliver large productivity gains and that's powered deals worth hundreds of billions of dollars into a throwback, 19th-century style (or late 1990s-style) infrastructure boom. This has led to fears of bubble formation, with even Jeff Bezos saying recently it's "kind of an infrastructure bubble," not one purely driven by financial speculation, and it will pay off for years, even generations.

Most content teams blow their AI writing budget on tools they abandon within three months. Ask us, and we'd say the devil is in the details. A startup founder doesn't need the same AI writing setup as a 50-person marketing team. A freelance copywriter has different priorities than an agency managing 12 clients. Yet most people pick AI tools like they pick Netflix shows-based on what everyone else is talking about.

ChatGPT Go includes everything offered in the Free plan with the addition of extended access to GPT-5, image generation tools, file uploads, Python and other data analysis tools, extended file upload access, and longer memory. The Go tier sits between ChatGPT Free, which offers limited access to features like fast response times, memory, data analysis, and vision, and ChatGPT Plus, a $20 monthly subscription with extended access to GPT-5, access to ChatGPT Agent, and more access to different models.

"Bill used to always say that there's only one category: It's called Information Management," CEO Satya Nadella said in the meeting. "In fact, the thing he used to get frustrated by is, why the heck do I have a different app for writing a document, a different app for a website, and a different (development software) for writing an app?"