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Wednesday April 16, 2025. 08:53 AM
Diablo Canyon, California’s last operating nuclear power plant, is making history as the first in the US to deploy generative AI on-site — even as it moves toward decommissioning by the decade’s end. The plant’s owner, Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), announced a deal w...
Tuesday April 15, 2025. 01:53 AM
Las Vegas is about to get a lot more magical thanks to AI. This summer, “The Wizard of Oz” will return to the screen, but not just any screen. The iconic 1939 film is being transformed into a fully immersive experience at the Sphere, the massive, high-tech entertainment...
An AI coding tool called Cursor has done what most startups only dream of — attracting more than one million users without any marketing budget, driven purely by word of mouth. Cursor, developed by a small 60-person startup called Anysphere, is rapidly becoming one of the...
Companies of all sizes are finding it increasingly difficult to differentiate between real and fake job applications — and much of the challenge is due to AI. Generative AI tools can easily be used to create headshots, mimic voices, and even fabricate credentials; in...
Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former executive who served as Meta’s Director of Global Public Policy, testified before Congress on April 9 regarding the company’s alleged involvement in aiding China’s advancement in the AI race — posing a threat to U.S. national interests....
Friday April 11, 2025. 12:18 AM
As artificial intelligence transforms the workplace at an unprecedented pace, business schools are facing a critical challenge: preparing tomorrow’s leaders for a world where algorithms, automation, and ethics collide. The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania,...
Wednesday April 9, 2025. 08:03 PM
Two Microsoft employees were dismissed on Monday, April 7, following high-profile protests surrounding the Israeli military’s usage of Microsoft AI products. Ibtihal Aboussad, a former AI software engineer with Microsoft, was fired for disobedience, willful misconduct,...
Tuesday April 8, 2025. 09:54 PM
In today’s hospitals and clinics, AI is rapidly becoming a powerful diagnostic partner for radiologists, transforming how medical images are read and understood. It’s turning medical scans into faster, more accurate, and sharper diagnoses. From spotting tiny tumors on ma...
Microsoft announced on April 4 its new generative AI model for gaming called WHAMM (World and Human Action MaskGIT Model), which is capable of supporting real-time gameplay.WHAMM is an updated version of the original WHAM-1.6B model and has significantly faster visual...
Since Google introduced AI Overviews in search results last year, website owners have experienced declines of up to 70% in web traffic, sometimes resulting in tens of thousands of dollars in lost revenue. Many of these publishers blame Google’s use of AI for their drop in...
Imagine asking your phone for fashion advice while staring at your closet or getting instant tips on how to organize a messy room just by pointing your camera. That’s exactly what Samsung’s latest AI update brings to the Galaxy S25 series, which began rolling out...
The legal battle between Elon Musk and OpenAI, the company he co-founded alongside CEO Sam Altman and others, has been ongoing for a while. After recently agreeing to expedite the process, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers has officially scheduled a jury trial to...
Monday April 7, 2025. 11:11 PM
A new report from a United Nations agency warns that AI is widening global income inequality and outlines a plan to harness its potential more equitably. In addition, the Technology and Innovation Report 2025 by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) predicts...
A 74-year-old man has apologized to a panel of appellate New York State judges after presenting an AI-generated digital avatar in a legal appeal — a move that has sparked concerns over transparency and ethics in the courtroom. At the March 26 hearing, plaintiff Jerome...
Meta recently faced accusations of training its AI models on pirated content; now, OpenAI finds itself entangled in a similar controversy. A new study claims that one of OpenAI’s latest large language models (LLMs) was trained on non-public, copyrighted-projected material...
Saturday April 5, 2025. 08:18 PM
OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 model has definitively beaten the Turing test, after it was found to be human 73% of the instances where it was prompted to adopt a human-like persona. The Turing test, named after British computer scientist Alan Turing in 1950, measures a machine’s...
AI experts are more likely to be optimistic about the technology than the general public, according to a study released April 3 by the Pew Research Center. They surveyed 5,410 U.S. adults and 1,013 AI experts throughout 2024. Despite their differences, both groups agreed on...
Friday April 4, 2025. 10:17 PM
Vana, a decentralized platform that started as an MIT project, offers an opportunity to those who want more say in how their data is utilized. Users can decide where they want their data to be allocated and receive a stake in the AI models that are trained on it. The fully...
The new Dreamer AI system, developed by Google’s DeepMind team, has successfully learned how to mine diamonds in Minecraft — without any direct instruction on how to play the game. Mining diamonds is a challenging, multi-phase task that the AI model mastered through a...
Thursday April 3, 2025. 10:49 PM
Although movement is underway to get AI to think more like humans, researchers at Elon University are exploring the reverse — how AI might reshape human thinking. A newly released university report, “Being Human in 2035: How Are We Changing in the Age of AI?” offers a...
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