“I think it’s the right policy, for us to take a national standard,” they said. While the intent of the AI moratorium may not have been to regulate physical infrastructure, the reaction from Massie illustrates just how much of a hot-button issue data centers are becoming across the country. The rapid growth in the number…
Alex Mashinsky, former CEO of bankrupt crypto lender Celsius, has pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud, which together carry a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison. In the wake of the company’s collapse, the US Department of Justice charged Mashinsky with seven counts of fraud, conspiracy, and market manipulation. Having originally pleaded not…
Editor’s note: Ruth Porat recently spoke at the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s Annual Meeting in Chicago. Below is an edited transcription of her remarks. We are living in an extraordinary time for technology, with AI and its application across so many areas being the latest — and by far — the greatest development. Today,…
In another instance of Grok boosting disinformation about the protests, Mike Crispi, chair of America First Republicans of New Jersey and a 2024 Trump delegate to the Republican National Convention, posted a picture of a pile of bricks on the side of the road with the comment: ”The international sign that a very real, organic,…
AI agents are transforming the landscape of customer support by bridging the gap between large language models (LLMs) and real-world applications. These intelligent, autonomous systems are poised to revolutionize customer service across industries, ushering in a new era of human-AI collaboration and problem-solving. By harnessing the power of LLMs and integrating them with specialized tools…
We’re introducing an upgraded preview of Gemini 2.5 Pro, our most intelligent model yet. Building on the version we released in May and showed at I/O, this model will be the generally available, stable version starting in a couple of weeks, ready for enterprise-scale applications. The latest 2.5 Pro reflects a 24-point Elo score jump…
As Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference keynote concluded on Monday, market watchers couldn’t help but notice that the company’s stock price was down, perhaps a reaction to Apple’s relatively low-key approach to incorporating AI compared to most of its competitors. Still, Apple Intelligence-based features and upgrades were plentiful, and while some are powered using the company’s privacy and…
Silicon’s mid-life crisis AI has evolved from classical ML to deep learning to generative AI. The most recent chapter, which took AI mainstream, hinges on two phases—training and inference—that are data and energy-intensive in terms of computation, data movement, and cooling. At the same time, Moore’s Law, which determines that the number of transistors on…
One of the more persistent concerns in the age of AI is that the robots will take our jobs. The extent to which this fear is founded remains to be seen, but we’re already witnessing some level of replacement in certain fields. Even niche occupations are in jeopardy. For example, the world of OnlyFans chatters…
Portraits, a new experiment from Google Labs, lets you interact conversationally with AI representations of trusted experts built in partnership with the experts themselves. Our first Portrait features Kim Scott, bestselling author of “Radical Candor,” and offers AI-powered coaching inspired by her renowned communication and leadership principles. Imagine having direct access to Kim’s guidance to…
