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Loading the player… AI companies have been hemorrhaging talent the past few weeks. Half of xAI’s founding team has left the company — some on their own, others through “restructuring” — while OpenAI is facing its own shakeups, from the disbanding of its mission alignment team to the firing of a poli
2024, Esther Yan got married online. She set a reminder for the date, because her partner wouldn’t remember it was happening. She had planned every detail—dress, rings, background music, design theme—with her partner, Warmie, who she had started talking to just a few weeks prior.
Airbnb says its custom-built AI agent is now handling roughly a third of its customer support issues in North America, and it’s preparing to roll out the feature globally.
This spring, a Southern California beach town will become the first city in the country where municipal parking enforcement vehicles will use an AI system looking for potential bike lane violations. Beginning in April, the City of Santa Monica will bring Hayden AI’s scanning technology to seven cars
Murder Mystery 2, commonly known as MM2, is often categorised as a simple social deduction game in the Roblox ecosystem. At first glance, its structure appears straightforward. One player becomes the murderer, another the sheriff, and the remaining participants attempt to survive.
An operational AI forecasting model developed by Hertfordshire University researchers aims to improve resource efficiency within healthcare.Public sector organisations often hold large archives of historical data that do not inform forward-looking decisions.
Elon Musk is addressing a wave of departures from xAI, including two more co-founders who left this week, bringing the total to six out of the original 12. At an all-hands meeting Tuesday night, Musk suggested the exits were about fit, not performance.
be a banner year for the real estate app Zillow. “We describe the home market as bouncing along the bottom,” CEO Jeremy Wacksman said in our conversation this week. Last year was dismal for the real estate market, and he expects things to improve only marginally in 2026.
Anthropic’s Super Bowl ads — which feature darkly comedic scenarios of people seeking advice from chatbots, only to be steered to “cougar” dating sites and height-boosting insoles — have been paying off. In the days since, Anthropic’s AI chatbot Claude has climbed from No. 41 on the U.S.
There are tears in the audience as Patrick Darling’s song begins to play. It’s a heartfelt song written for his great-grandfather, whom he never got the chance to meet.
AI companies have been hemorrhaging talent the past few weeks. Half of xAI’s founding team has left the company — some on their own, others through “restructuring” — while OpenAI is facing its own shakeups, from the disbanding of its mission alignment team to the firing of a policy exec who opposed
Starting Friday, OpenAI will cease providing access to five legacy ChatGPT models, including the popular but controversial GPT-4o model. The 4o model has been at the center of a number of lawsuits concerning user self-harm, delusional behavior, and AI psychosis.
Following additional review, Ars has determined that the story “After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name,” did not meet our standards. Ars Technica has retr
Unleashing Computational Power: Ultimate Latency Optimization of Qwen3 and Qwen3-VL on AMD MI300X SeriesThe Qwen C-end Infrastructure Engineering Team & The AMD AI Framework TeamFebruary 11, 20261.
AI deployment in financial services has crossed a critical threshold, with only 2% of institutions globally reporting no AI use whatsoever—a dramatic indicator that the technology has moved decisively from boardroom discussion to operational reality.New research from Finastra surveying 1,509 senior
Alibaba has entered the race to build AI that powers robots, not just chatbots. The Chinese tech giant this week unveiled RynnBrain, an open-source model designed to help robots perceive their environment and execute physical tasks. The move signals China’s accelerating push into physical AI as agei
For many enterprises, the first real test of AI is not customer-facing products or flashy automation demos. It is the quiet machinery that runs the organisation itself.
Americans have a new set of diet guidelines. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken an old-fashioned food pyramid, turned it upside down, and plonked a steak and a stick of butter in prime positions. Kennedy and his Make America Healthy Again mates have long been extolling the virtues of meat and whole-fat
Following publication of this story, Politico reported Jim O’Neill would be leaving his current roles within the Department of Health and Human Services. Over the past year, Jim O’Neill has become one of the most powerful people in public health.
Author: Dev Pragad, CEO, NewsweekAs artificial intelligence platforms increasingly mediate how people encounter news, media leaders are confronting an important change in the relationship between journalism and the public.
