#generative-ai

#generative-ai

Over the years, we've seen that people increasingly use Google to search for helpful content on Reddit to find product recommendations, travel advice and much more. We know people find this information useful, so we're developing ways to make it even easier to access across Google products. This partnership will facilitate more content-forward displays of Reddit information that will make our products more helpful for our users and make it easier to participate in Reddit communities and conversations.

When we put it in perspective, think of everything currently running on servers in the world, the traditional ones: every bank, every transaction through Visa or ATMs, everything that the government does for you, every retail purchase, the entire coordination of the supply chains around the world, every piece of payroll, unified communication, social streaming services and gaming. They all run on servers.

For years,mainframes were synonymous with stability, but rarely with innovation. That image seems to be changing rapidly. New figures from BMC's annual mainframe survey show that confidence in the future of the platform has never been higher. No less than 97 percent of the professionals surveyed indicate that mainframes will remain part of their IT infrastructure. Increasingly, the system is even seen as a driver for new workloads.

When Google started talking to marketers about AI Max - its suite of AI-powered tools to improve results for advertisers' search campaigns - ahead of its initial roll out over summer, the platform's 11-page pitch deck left them with more concerns than clarity. Which is why Google has recently been circulating an updated (and detailed) 26-page pitch deck which aims to address those issues. The deck, unsurprisingly starts off similarly to its earlier iteration, with facts and stats about search and reach across Google.

Pega Smart Investigate Agentic Automation promises banks faster and cheaper handling of payment exceptions. These are cases in which payment is not or cannot be made. The updated version primarily adds extra generative AI capabilities to the existing offering. This should lead to better automated handling of cases requiring investigation. Many banks still rely on manual processes to handle cases where payment has not been made. This is despite the growing complexity of the market.

Sanford used extensive public records of ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot logs from city employees to show, among other things, the city of Bellingham's draft AI policy was written with the help of ChatGPT. I get excited when I see an intriguing use of FOIA to demystify local government. And leading Poynter's AI work, you can imagine how I geeked out when I saw Sanford's investigations. Here is how they start:

UK marketers are proving that AI success isn't about chasing hype, it's about embedding the right tools into existing workflows to deliver meaningful value. What we're seeing in this data is a shift from experimentation to purposeful adoption,

I stepped out of a cab in Graz, Austria, at 10 a.m. with five very jetlagged hours to kill before I could check in to my hotel. I had a few options: I could have asked the person at the front desk for some things to do, or I could have Googled it, but instead I decided to use generative artificial intelligence (AI). In seconds, it produced a five-hour itinerary of Graz's top tourist sites, arranged in a walking order with built-in stops at recommended coffee and lunch spots. Generative AI can feel pretty miraculous when it does things like this, and it is easy to see why people are tempted to use it for other tasks, including for schoolwork and learning.

By now, everyone knows that generative AI can be flaky. If you're using it to edit your novel or to create an image, the AI might add elements that are inconsistent with your narrative or lose track of what it's supposed to do with the picture. Sometimes, flakiness is worth the time taken if it helps you iterate on an idea.

And he feels the call urgently: Indeed economists recently found that 61% of the skills listed in job postings within the HR sector have the potential to be at least partially transformed by generative AI - well above the average of 44% of the skills listed in an average U.S. job posting. Idekoba, who is also the CEO of Indeed parent company Recruit Holdings, said he wants to help HR leaders develop the parts of their job that are uniquely human.

Databricks finds itself in an awkward situation following the departure of Naveen Rao, its head of artificial intelligence, as rivals like Snowflake, Teradata, and hyperscalers such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, intensify their push to develop offerings for building generative AI applications. Rao's exit comes at a time when Databricks is aggressively trying to expand its offerings inside the Data Intelligence Platform, mainly with Lakebase and Agent Bricks, thanks to the infusion of capital from this week's $1 billion Series K funding round.

The internet was built to connect machines, not people. Its basic architecture maps servers to domain names and uses cryptographic certificates to prove websites are authentic. Yet it lacks a built-in way to bridge the gap between our offline identities - citizen, taxpayer, patient, employee, student - and the digital systems on which we increasingly rely to conduct our economic, civic, and personal lives.

Artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized everything from copywriting to medical imaging, but it's a huge time-saver for development teams, too. If your DevOps team is looking for a magic wand to boost security and accuracy, you need an AI tool. This isn't just a nice-to-have, either. AI-powered coding tools enhance the software development lifecycle, making continuous integration and delivery more efficient. They even have the firepower to automate workflows for the most complex development projects.

I would use it for almost everything, like math problems.

Winning attention and establishing authority as a brand is about ensuring your brand resonates with the algorithms that power large language models (LLMs)-the backbone of generative AI (GenAI) engines such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot or DeepSeek. A Forrester Buyers' Journey Survey revealed that a vast majority of B2B buyers have begun using GenAI- as many as 89%. This once-emergent technology is quickly becoming mainstream, being utilized at every stage of the buying process.

The high-contrast footage was scrutinized for evidence that it had been manipulated by artificial intelligence, and some viewers claimed they found undeniable proof. At one point in the clip, Trump's left pinky finger appears to merge with the others as he clasps his hands on the desk. Conspiracy theorists have seized on this, arguing it showed the president as proof that Trump didn't make the statement at all, or that it was highly doctored.

Progress Software has announced Progress Agentic RAG, a RAG-as-a-Service platform that helps companies extract meaningful information from unstructured data. With the help of Nuclia, which it acquired in July, Progress is focusing on democratizing generative AI for organizations. The platform supports all leading LLMs and offers support for different languages. This flexibility is crucial in a market where companies have often already made investments in specific AI models.

The short version: IT is broken. It's not working, to the point where people are ready to give it up, just like they would a mangled hammer. I think the brokenness is rooted in a lack of humanism: it doesn't work for people; it uses people towards the builders' ends. It's also more complicated than that, which I parse through while also giving a clue about how to get out of being stuck.

In 2019, as an entrepreneur in residence at Alphabet's X, the Moonshot Factory, Sarah Russell created Bellwether, which harnesses AI and data to assess natural disaster risk and mitigate impact on communities. Bellwether forecasts probabilities for severe weather, provides aerial images to first responders, and helps insurers understand disaster risk. When Hurricane Helene struck last September, the tool processed 75,000 images from Civil Air Patrol in a matter of minutes rather than days.

For 25 years, search engines like and Microsoft's Bing crawled and indexed websites, sending users to relevant pages. This drove traffic, supporting the web's grand bargain: sites let tech firms copy their data for free in exchange for referrals. Ads and subscriptions funded content creation, which in turn improved search results. In today's new AI era, products such as Google's AI Overviews and , OpenAI's , and Perplexity deliver answers directly, often eliminating the need to visit the original source.

Homework has always played a key role in learning. It helps reinforce what students learn in class and gives them a chance to practice skills on their own. For years, homework has been seen as a way to build discipline, improve problem-solving skills, and encourage independent thinking. However, not everyone views homework positively. Many people argue that much of it feels like a chore, and it doesn't promote real learning.