#artificial-intelligence

As AI agents begin handling travel bookings, purchases, and negotiations autonomously, the quality of their underlying information and contextual awareness is emerging as the critical constraint on whether they can be trusted with real decisions.

Apple's new RubiCap training framework enables 7-billion-parameter models to outperform AI systems with 72 billion parameters on image captioning benchmarks, using reinforcement learning instead of costly manual annotation.

A new MIT Technology Review roundup captures a moment when artificial intelligence is no longer just a consumer technology story, but a flashpoint for war, protest, platform backlash, and agent culture.

Meta's chief executive is reportedly developing AI systems capable of performing executive decision-making functions traditionally reserved for human managers — raising questions about the future of corporate leadership, the concentration of AI capability in a handful of technology platforms, and what it means when the architect of an AI-powered company is also its human face.

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has publicly expressed skepticism about AI's ability to replace human cognition, saying he uses AI tools infrequently and is often left disappointed by results that fail to match the genuine creativity of human intelligence.

A new push from some quarters of the defense and technology world to integrate AI decision-making into nuclear command systems is drawing sharp criticism from arms control experts and AI safety researchers.

Researchers warn that exposing young children to AI-generated content during critical developmental windows could have lasting consequences for cognitive and social development.

Amazon employees say AI tools are adding to their workload, and a new study confirms the pattern is widespread across industries adopting AI productivity tools.

A new study finds that large language models are narrowing the diversity of human written expression, raising concerns about cultural and intellectual homogenization.

Top AI executives including Palantir's Karp and OpenAI's Altman are openly discussing the possibility that the U.S. government could nationalize artificial intelligence companies.

SETI researchers say artificial intelligence tools could dramatically improve the chances of detecting extraterrestrial signals by sifting through vast radio data more effectively.

Artificial intelligence is reshaping how mathematicians discover proofs and explore conjectures, triggering what experts call the biggest shift in the field's history.

Amazon has rolled out an AI-powered health assistant across its website and mobile app, offering medical guidance to hundreds of millions of customers.

Dozens of AI-powered intelligence dashboards tracking the U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran have emerged, raising questions about the gamification of war and the reliability of open-source intelligence.

OpenAI has released GPT-5.4, the latest and most powerful model in its GPT family, featuring enhanced reasoning capabilities and a new thinking mode for complex problem-solving tasks.

From factory floors to warehouses, physical AI is emerging as the next frontier as nations and corporations compete to build intelligent robots.

JPMorgan Chase is expanding its artificial intelligence investments as the bank's total technology budget approaches $20 billion annually.

Apple researchers ran an A/B test using AI-generated relevance labels to improve App Store search results, revealing measurable changes in download patterns.

Artificial intelligence tools are enabling new forms of online harassment at unprecedented scale, from deepfake imagery to AI-generated abuse campaigns.

Block CEO Jack Dorsey has eliminated roughly 4,000 positions, halving the payments company's employee base. Dorsey framed the cuts as an inevitable consequence of AI-driven efficiency, warning that other companies will follow suit.