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Businesses are experimenting with cheaper Chinese AI models as U.S. rivals get more expensive
1+ hour, 34+ min ago (659+ words) Take for example DoorDash, which, according to a post on X on Wednesday by co-founder and CTO Andy Fang, will be launching DoorDash CLI, an experimental tool in limited beta that will allow users to order DoorDash through an AI…...
Boston Dynamics CEO: America's next 250 years will be built by robots. Here's what's standing in the way
2+ week, 3+ day ago (154+ words) Boston Dynamics CEO: America’s next 250 years will be built by robots. Here’s what’s standing in the way The U.S. has always led the world’s great industrial leaps. Robotics is next — but only if Washington, industry, and workers move together....
Abridge wants to be the operating system for medicine—and NVIDIA and Eli Lilly are helping build it
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (399+ words) On Thursday morning in New York City, Dr. Shiv Rao stood before a room of health system executives and made a case that ambient AI—a technology that began largely as a transcription tool—was ready to do something far…...
AI disruption arrived 6 years early—now executives are drawing the line
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (574+ words) Three years ago, Cisco piloted an AI agent designed to analyze employee communications and diagnose the root causes of workplace conflict. It never made it out of the test phase. Why? “We believe that’s a conversation that a leader needs…...
Exclusive: a top mathematician almost quit when AI got good at math. Now he's using it to rewrite economics
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (670+ words) “They all sort of said, ‘Oh, well, that makes sense. Aumann knows this,'” Kominers told Fortune in a recent interview. The problem: Aumann never proved it. And almost every theorem built on top of it — in information economics, in platform…...
Why the AI field's biggest names are betting billions on 'world models"
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (846+ words) Playing peekaboo isn’t just a game for babies. It’s also one of the first ways they learn that something is still there, even if they can’t see it. When you hide your face and suddenly reappear—peekaboo!—the delightful surprise…...
Creativity is as important as data literacy in the AI era, says IBM exec
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (530+ words) Good morning. AI is reshaping jobs faster than workers can retrain for them. “The skills we need in the AI age are fundamentally different from before,” said Charu Mahajan, senior partner and VP of IBM Consulting APAC, during a panel…...
Anthropic's Mythos is a wake up call, but experts say the era of AI-driven hacking is already here
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (612+ words) Some researcher say is not clear, however, how much the new models increase the chances of this kind of cyber-Armageddon. But the reason for their skepticism is not reassuring: they say that much of what Mythos can do may already…...
Is AI's visual understanding mostly a 'mirage'? New research suggests so.
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (193+ words) Ok, now, if you own a dog, as I do, there will be moments you’ll recognize that we fundamentally don’t understand how dogs perceive the world. So interacting with an LLM is probably the closest thing we’ve had so far…...
Anthropic leaks its own AI coding tool’s source code in second major security breach
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (218+ words) Anthropic has accidentally leaked the source code for its popular coding tool Claude Code. A spokesperson said: “No sensitive customer data or credentials were involved or exposed. This was a release packaging issue caused by human error, not a security…...