AI race enters a new phase
A robot band from LinkerBot performs at a robot 6S store on Jan. 29, 2026 in Shenzhen, Guangdong…
California to impose new AI regulations in defiance of Trump call | California
California will impose new standards on artificial intelligence companies seeking to do business with the state, defying Donald…
A man used AI to call 3,000 Irish bartenders to track Guinness prices
Have you ever overpaid for a beer? Matt Cortland has, and it set him on a path to…
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JPMorgan tells its 65,000 software engineers: You risk falling behind, unless…
JPMorgan Chase is mandating AI adoption for its 65,000 software engineers, demanding measurable improvements in code quality and…
Most People Are on the Losing Side of a New AI Divide, Researcher Says
Are you using AI to think — or letting it think for you? Vivienne Ming, chief scientist at…
AI struggles with true creativity compared to humans, study finds
A page filled with abstract shapes can spark wildly different ideas depending on who is looking at it.…
Data centers are creating ‘heat islands’ and warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees
The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence guzzle huge amounts of energy but they also have another…
TV star’s AI porn allegations spark national debate in Germany | Germany
A high-profile German TV star’s allegations that her ex-husband spread AI-generated pornographic images of her have triggered a…
The mirage of visual understanding in current frontier models
From a damning new Stanford paper on the illusion of visual understanding in LLMs: “Frontier models readily generate…
One man, his dog, and ChatGPT: Australia’s AI vaccine saga
Sydney-based AI consultant Conyngham and his dog Rosie can be seen in this undated image. — X/@paul_conyngham HONG…
Micron Slides 5% as Google’s AI Memory Algorithm Sparks Fresh Fears Across the Semiconductor Sector
Micron Technology (MU) shares fell to $339 Monday as fears over Alphabet’s (GOOGL) TurboQuant AI memory-compression algorithm raised…