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Forget the Nanny, Check the Chatbot. AI May Soon Help With Parenting

The AI revolution means new startups can address some unexpected markets, like easing the challenges of caring for kids.

Business - Inc. - 6 days ago

Anthropic, Amazon, and Palantir Team Up to Bring AI to the Defense Department

Government workers will be able to sift through classified information up to the ‘secret’ level using AI.

Business - Inc. - 6 days ago

I Went Birding With the World’s First AI-Powered Binoculars

Swarovski Optik’s new AX Visio binoculars use image-recognition algorithms and GPS data to discern the species of whatever bird you point them at. And they work anywhere in the world.

Tech - Wired - 5 days ago

AI groups rush to redesign model testing and create new benchmarks

Rapidly advancing technology is surpassing current methods of evaluating and comparing large language models

Business - Financial Times - 3 days ago

The images of Spain’s floods weren’t created by AI. The trouble is, people think they were

The rapid growth of ‘AI slop’ – content created by artificial tools – is starting to warp our perception of what is, or could be, real. My eye was caught by a striking photograph in the most recent ...

World - The Guardian - 5 days ago

Here are 3 critical LLM compression strategies to supercharge AI performance

How techniques like model pruning, quantization and knowledge distillation can optimize LLMs for faster, cheaper predictions.

Tech - VentureBeat - 5 days ago

When you combine AI and nuclear power, the results can be catastrophic

Big tech needs to find more energy-efficient ways to run AI data centers, and direct their major energy investments, along with the government, to clean renewable energy that doesn’t make our world ...

Politics - The Hill - 4 days ago

‘It gets more and more confused’: can AI replace translators?

A Dutch publisher has announced that it will use AI to translate some of its books – but those in the industry are worried about the consequences if this becomes the norm . As anyone who has tried ...

World - The Guardian - 3 days ago

Petition urges Trump to make Musk special adviser on AI

Americans for Responsible Innovation (ARI), an artificial intelligence (AI) advocacy group, is calling on President-elect Trump to make Elon Musk a special adviser on AI in his second ...

Politics - The Hill - 3 days ago

Why OpenAI Is Trying New Strategies to Deal With an AI Development Slowdown

As quantum leaps in AI capabilities get harder to pull off, the market leader is pivoting to progress. Meanwhile, Elon Musk’s Grok AI may be opening to more X users.

Business - Inc. - 3 days ago

Amazon steps up effort to build AI chips that can rival Nvidia

Big Tech group’s Annapurna Labs is spending big to build custom chips that lessen its reliance on market leader

Business - Financial Times - 2 days ago

China’s Baidu joins Meta in race to make AI-integrated smart glasses

Launch comes as Chinese internet groups jostle for dominance in hardware

Business - Financial Times - 2 days ago

China's Alibaba releases AI search tool for small businesses in Europe and the Americas

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba unveiled an artificial intelligence-powered search engine for small businesses in Europe and the Americas to source supplies.

Business - CNBC - 2 days ago

AI is changing our money and investing habits — and it’s just the beginning

Financial markets will need much stronger firewalls if regulators hope to control AI’s impact.

Business - MarketWatch - Yesterday

SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son: AI will become ‘super wisdom’ for the happiness of all humanity

In gunmetal grey jacket and a Jobs-esque black turtleneck, Masayoshi Son has a heartening message for the world.

Business - MarketWatch - 2 days ago

On lame-duck AI bill, Congress shouldn’t push too far

Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds the potential to bring a commercial and economic rebirth for the United States and its allies, but Congress is negotiating a lame-duck bill to regulate the AI ...

Politics - The Hill - 2 days ago

Qwen2.5-Coder just changed the game for AI programming—and it’s free

Alibaba's new AI coding assistant, Qwen2.5-Coder, challenges GPT-4o with state-of-the-art code generation, offering free and open-source AI tools to developers worldwide despite U.S. chip ...

Tech - VentureBeat - 2 days ago

SoundHound diversifies its business beyond cars, but the hot AI stock retreats

The voice-based AI company is becoming less concentrated, as its top customer made up a far lower portion of overall revenue relative to a year before.