Meta is adding yet another top A.I. expert to the company’s rapidly growing roster of talent, much of it plucked from rival firms like OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. Apple now joins the mix of disgruntled competitors, with researcher Ruoming Pang leaving the iPhone maker to join Mark Zuckerberg’s push toward advanced forms of A.I. Pang’s…
Silicon Valley is on an acquisition spree—though not in the traditional sense. Instead of outright purchases, major A.I. companies are striking “acqui-hire” deals, poaching top talent from promising startups. The latest example comes from Google, which is bringing on several executives from the A.I. software firm Windsurf in a new multibillion-dollar deal. Among those joining…
America’s education system is dangerously out of sync with the speed and scale of A.I., and if it doesn’t catch up soon, it could trigger the largest unemployment crisis since the Great Depression. In just the first half of 2025, A.I. has already contributed—directly or indirectly—to the elimination of over 80,000 jobs across nearly 400…
The U.S. professional services sector, encompassing law, finance, healthcare, consulting and other knowledge-driven fields, generates over $2.8 trillion in revenue. Yet it now sits at an uncertain nexus: fully embrace the artificial intelligence revolution or risk falling behind in global competitiveness. A.I. is not optional—it’s the defining catalyst for the next chapter of American enterprise….
Generative A.I. is reshaping creativity, but it’s also testing the boundaries of long-standing legal protections, raising new questions about how intellectual property is defined, used and enforced. Among the many lawsuits now facing A.I. companies, the case brought by The Walt Disney Company and NBCUniversal against Midjourney stands apart, both for the commercial stakes involved…
Many people now turn to ChatGPT and other generative A.I. chatbots for everything from weather updates and cooking tips to math help and relationship advice. But that kind of blanket usage may be doing more harm than good, warns Sasha Luccioni, A.I. and climate lead at Hugging Face, an open-source A.I. platform. “I think we…
Around two years ago, Yoshua Bengio, a deep learning researcher who laid the groundwork for today’s A.I. revolution, had a disturbing revelation. The systems he’d played a part in creating were advancing at a rapid clip, one that saw the technology master languages, PhD-level scientific knowledge, and, most worryingly, act in a manner largely unrestrained…
Geoffrey Hinton, an acclaimed computer scientist often dubbed the “Godfather of A.I.” for his pioneering work on artificial neural networks, helped lay the foundation for today’s artificial intelligence revolution. But now, the technology he once championed has become a source of deep concern. “My opinion is we’re in the situation of someone who has a…
With ChatGPT now widely available to students around the globe, concerns about cheating and the erosion of critical thinking skills are growing. OpenAI is well aware of these issues and is working to address them. Speaking today (July 9) at the AI for Good Summit in Geneva, Kevin Mills, OpenAI’s head of education and government,…
The annual Allen & Company conference, often dubbed the “summer camp for billionaires,” is underway in the resort town of Sun Valley, Idaho. Over the next few days, some of the most influential figures in tech and finance will gather for a series of discreet meetings and panels. The mogul-packed event which officially kicked off…
