The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a smoke-filled tavern to discuss a secret plan: If they raise prices together instead…
Someone needs to say it. Someone has to speak up in defense of being mid. I am a mid runner. Most of us are, as that is the definition of being mid. I work out every day, but I have a full-time job, two kids, a dog, and a spouse. I volunteer, and I have…
OpenAI employees in San Francisco were told to stay inside the office on Friday afternoon after the company purportedly received a threat from an individual who was previously associated with the Stop AI activist group. “Our information indicates that [name] from StopAI has expressed interest in causing physical harm to OpenAI employees,” a member of…
As organizations increasingly adopt AI capabilities across their applications, the need for centralized management, security, and cost control of AI model access is a required step in scaling AI solutions. The Generative AI Gateway on AWS guidance addresses these challenges by providing guidance for a unified gateway that supports multiple AI providers while offering comprehensive…
Simplify the cooking process 8. Rely on Gemini for Home as your right-hand helper Gemini for Home replaces Google Assistant on your smart displays and speakers and also upgrades devices in your home like your cameras and doorbells. There are plenty of ways to use it for holiday hosting. Just say “Hey Google,” then ask…
Organizations have used geospatial machine learning (ML) for property risk assessment, disaster response, and infrastructure planning. These systems worked well but couldn’t scale beyond specialized use cases. Each question required multiple geospatial datasets, each with its own model and often its own workflow, limiting these capabilities to a handful of high-value use cases at the…
This post is co-written with Rejin Surendran from Wipro Enterprises Limited and Bakrudeen K from ShellKode. In manufacturing environments, industrial automation engineers face a significant challenge: how to rapidly convert complex process requirements into Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) ladder text code. This traditional, manual process typically requires 3-4 days per query, creating bottlenecks in production…
It all began, as many things do, with Elon Musk. In the early 2010s he realized that AI was on a track to become perhaps the most powerful technology of all time. But he had deep suspicion that if it were to fall under the control of powerful profit-driven forces, humanity would suffer. Musk had…
It turns out that when an AI-friendly super PAC with $100 million in backing from Silicon Valley bigwigs identifies you as its first target, it ends up generating a lot of attention. “I want to thank [the PAC] for their partnership in raising up the issue of how we regulate an incredibly powerful technology so…
As sentences go, “Apple Intelligence now works in Apple Shortcuts” isn’t the most likely to inspire a lot of people to click a link. And that’s too bad: This change, one of the more overlooked new features in macOS 26, means you can use Apple’s on-board AI to do all kinds of things while designing…
