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Readers constantly ask me where AI is headed. Here's my honest take on the future of local AI — private assistants, AI tutors, and laptops smart enough to ask before they search the web.
A new report finds "high-intensity AI adopters” saw headcount increase 10.2%. Among those companies, entry-level headcount rose by 12%, countering the rhetoric that AI kills junior jobs.
Introducing GeneBench-Pro, a new benchmark testing AI performance in genomics, biology, and scientific research using complex, real-world datasets.
OpenAI engineers used large-scale core dump analysis to debug rare infrastructure crashes, uncovering both a hardware fault and a long-standing software bug.
VCs remain thirsty to fund AI coding startups. This one, founded by investor Chamath Palihapitiya, is no exception.
Germany is quietly building its own brain for future air warfare, and it wants Helsing to write the code. Berlin is lining up a €580mn contract for the Munich AI firm. The software would link fighters, drones, satellites and sensors, according to documents seen by Politico. The deal salvages somethi
By focusing on six characteristics, the study claims you could reach "near-perfect accuracy" at detecting AI deepfakes.
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Imagine coming in to work to learn that a new underling will report to you. The worker is not a person but an AI tool—one that your company nonetheless calls Alex
Jacob Andreou, a former Snap and Greylock executive, is leading Microsoft's effort to turn Copilot into a 'Super App' that bridges consumer and enterprise AI. But Microsoft hasn't had much luck with that kind of unification before. Read More
An end-to-end classical NLP experiment on Kaggle’s Spooky Author Identification task: from Vowpal Wabbit and TF-IDF/NB-SVM baselines to a tuned stacked ensemble, with a compact representation survey of Bag-of-Words, BM25, Word2Vec, and FastText for context. The post How Far Can Classical NLP Go? Fro
Two Chinese general-purpose and embodied artificial intelligence firms, AI2 Robotics and X Square Robots, today announced funding rounds that pushed their respective valuations beyond 50 billion RMB, or about $2.8 billion. These Chinese firms continue to push the envelope in developing the next gene
Adobe found that shoppers who reached retail sites through AI chatbots were 40% more likely to buy during Prime Day than those from search, email or social media — the first time AI-referred traffic converted best. Amazon has blocked rival shopping agents from its store while building its own assist
"Where does the threshold live that an action necessitates some proportional reaction?"
Claude Mythos has raised concerns about AI-driven attacks on DeFi protocols. However, the same AI tools are also available to security teams, not just attackers.
Looking to use AI while you browse the web? Here's how the AI tools in Chrome, Edge, and Firefox compare.
Enterprise investment in AI is booming. Gartner is calling 2026 an “inflection year” for organizations to align their AI projects with strategic business objectives. As the pressure to prove ROI mounts, executives and technology leaders are looking to agentic AI to drive the measurable financial out
Target built a generative AI system to improve marketing campaign forecasting by retrieving and ranking similar historical campaigns. Using embeddings, vector search, and LLM ranking, it replaces rule-based workflows. Evaluation shows 75% top-1 and 100% top-3 coverage. The system reduces manual effo
I completed Module 3, Working with your own data and documents in Python. I ran all the code and at the end of each exercise it displayed all tests passed. I submitted the assignment and got zero points per exercise. Each exercise displays the same error message: name ‘key_topics’ is not defined. Th
The tools I use for analytics and reporting have changed more than I expected, yet my questions for any analytics project haven't moved much. The post I Completed Five Years in Analytics Consulting: 5 Lessons That Changed How I Work appeared first on Towards Data Science.
AI is reshaping tech hiring, and smaller companies may offer some of the best opportunities today.
