By 2030, Kaplan predicts, or as soon as 2027, humanity will have to decide whether to take the "ultimate risk" of letting AI models train themselves. The ensuing "intelligence explosion" could elevate the tech to new heights, birthing a so-called artificial general intelligence (AGI) which equals or surpasses human intellect and benefits humankind with all sorts of scientific and medical advancements. Or it could allow AI's power to snowball beyond our control, leaving us at the mercy of its whims.
2025's words of the year reflect a generation frustrated with job prospects, AI, and online culture. Platforms have chosen terms like "fatigue," "AI slop," and "rage bait." For the first time, Dictionary.com chose a word that is also a number as its Word of the Year. Everyone is over 2025. Various platforms and dictionaries released their word of the year in December, and the choices widely reflect a sense of inescapable uncertainty, exhaustion, and skepticism of the tech world.
While the artificial intelligence-fueled tech rally sputtered when tariff concerns grew, it seems to have resumed. Companies that can diversify to address the many demands the industry faces ultimately are poised to profit. Supermicro is one of those companies. The San Jose-based tech firm specializes in high-performance and high-efficiency servers, but it also provides software solutions as well as storage systems for data centers and enterprises focused on cloud computing, AI, 5G, and edge computing.
"I recently saw a CBS Sunday video of actor Ethan Hawke saying he's "so bored" by AI, and that one thing he loves about theater is that AI can't do it. "I feel I couldn't be less interested in computers and fake things," he said. "I like people. I like the way they smell. I like the way they talk, and I like the way they think. I like to think of AI as a plagiarizing mechanism. You know, that's all it is."
Digital platforms in the Middle East increasingly integrate AI, virtual reality, and augmented reality to document, visualize, and translate cultural heritage across social media channels analyzed between January and December 2024; institutions deploy AI for automated tagging and multilingual captions, VR for reconstructed tours, and AR for on-site layered interpretation, expanding access and preservation capacities while often treating these technologies primarily as content-delivery mechanisms rather than tools for collaborative interpretation or co-curation.
One of the twists in the AI wars has been Google sort of bouncing back, this surge by Gemini versus OpenAI's ChatGPT. Sam Altman calling this code red. You've said before that it's hard to know who a winner will be. Interestingly, on Pivot, we thought Google was going to do this because they had all the pieces. If they didn't, what a bunch of idiots, that kind of thing.
The U.S. Olympic men's and women's sprinting teams have won more gold medals than any other country in history, but the men's 4×100-meter relay team has suffered four blistering defeats in the past two decades. Why? An absolute whiff at the critical point when a runner has to instinctively reach back and trust their squadmate enough to perfectly place the baton in their hand.
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
The new intelligent dialogue application developed by HKChat OmniServe achieved a significant milestone within five days of its trial launch release on November 20. In that short time, HKChat claimed the top spot on the city's app store free app rankings, a success which underscores the strong demand in the local market for homegrown artificial intelligence (AI) services.
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.
A new global survey encompassing the views of 1,540 board members and C-suite executives reveals that while corporate leaders are embracing artificial intelligence (AI) with optimism, a far more profound and existential talent crisis is emerging: the disappearance of the pathways that traditionally developed senior-level strategic expertise. AI is exposing not merely a lack of technical skills, but a critical thinking gap threatening the organizational pipeline needed to oversee and optimize these powerful new systems. In a moderated discussion with Joe Kornik, Senior Director, Editorial Programs, Protiviti, a series of experts and top executives from the consulting firm revealed the biggest concerns on executives' minds heading into 2026, during a lunchtime panel in New York City.
The firm said in November it was testing the "first-of-its-kind" tool in the US to help viewers catch up on some of its shows on streaming service Prime Video - including Fallout, its adaptation of the popular video game franchise. But it has since disappeared from the site after users highlighted mistakes in its video summarising the events of Fallout season one - including claiming one scene was set more than 100 years earlier than it was.
Disney's billion-dollar OpenAI deal isn't the only way the company is embracing AI. In recent months, the Mouse House has been quietly adding new AI tools to its arsenal and encouraging staff to use them. "They clearly see where things are headed," a longtime software engineer at Disney said. This marked a shift from this summer, when Disney had seemed "hesitant to rely on AI tools," they said.
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.
AI Overviews are AI-generated answers to the questions you ask on Google search. Google said AI Overviews would start appearing at the top of Google search starting May 14 whenever Google's search systems determine that these types of AI-generative responses can quickly provide useful information. For example, if you typed, "What's the shortest war in history?" in Google search, you may see something about the Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896, thanks to AI Overviews.
No company in the technology industry has benefited from the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) as much as Nvidia . Over the last three years, shares of the semiconductor giant have soared by more than 970% -- propelling its market cap to $4.5 trillion and making it the most valuable company in the world. By contrast, Alphabet's price action was fairly muted throughout much of the AI revolution -- up until recently.
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.
