Microsoft has decided to discontinue the Real Talk feature in Copilot, just a few months after it launched, reports Windows Latest. All existing conversations with the tool have now been archived and it’s no longer…
It’s hard to think of any other company that has shaped the labor market as much as Amazon has over the past two decades. Now, internal documents and interviews obtained by the New York Times…
Federal prosecutors have seized $15 billion from the alleged kingpin of an operation that used imprisoned laborers to trick unsuspecting people into making investments in phony funds, often after spending months faking romantic relationships with…
Humain has unveiled the Horizon Pro PC, a laptop powered by agentic AI and a Snapdragon chip that the company claims “can operate 100 times faster than human thought.” Humain says the laptop will run…
Knowledge emerges from understanding how ideas relate to each other. LLMs operate on these contextual relationships, linking concepts in potentially novel ways—what you might call a type of non-human “reasoning” through pattern recognition. Whether the…
Real stakes, not science fiction While media coverage focuses on the science fiction aspects, actual risks are still there. AI models that produce “harmful” outputs—whether attempting blackmail or refusing safety protocols—represent failures in design and…
Wyoming’s data center boom Cheyenne is no stranger to data centers, having attracted facilities from Microsoft and Meta since 2012 due to its cool climate and energy access. However, the new project pushes the state…
“Like any product of human creativity, AI can be directed toward positive or negative ends,” Francis said in January. “When used in ways that respect human dignity and promote the well-being of individuals and communities,…
Cultivating the future So what might a sustainable ecosystem for human creativity actually involve? Legal and economic approaches will likely be key. Governments could legislate that AI training must be opt-in, or at the very…
It’s worth clarifying that AI models did not generate the images used in the study. Instead, researchers used popular, pre-existing meme templates, and GPT-4o or human participants generated captions for them. More memes, not better…