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A study published today in the journal Nature by researchers at Columbia University described a new medical AI model that they say can accurately predict the activity of genes at the cellular level. In theory,

The latest crop of AI-enabled wearables like Bee AI and Omi listen to your conversations to help organize your life. They are also normalizing embedded microphones that are always on.

A multi-model approach gives us new kinds of collaborative architectures that will enhance what AI can do in our world.

In 2025, the evolution of AI will not only go beyond innovation—it will solidify its role as a trendsetter in how businesses compete.

By 2020, the plan called for “iconic advances” in AI to demonstrate its progress. Then in late 2022, OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT took the world by surprise—and caught China flat-footed. At the time, leading Chinese technology companies were still reeling from an 18-month government crackdown that shaved around $1 trillion off China's tech sector.

An AI expert argues AI progress hasn’t stalled, it’s become invisible, which could leave us unprepared for the future.

Also making the list is the immense progress in the world of robots, which can now learn faster thanks to AI. This means we will soon have to wrestle with whether we will trust humanoid robots enough to welcome them into our most private spaces, and how we will feel if they are remotely controlled by human beings working abroad.

This contest to build ever-bigger computing clusters for ever-more-powerful artificial-intelligence ( AI) models cannot continue for ever. Each extra chip adds not only processing power but also to the organisational burden of keeping the whole cluster synchronised.

If you're familiar with Google's Notebook LM tool that generates a customized podcast from an initial text prompt, Daily Listen is similar to this, except the "prompt" is data collected from Search and Discover,

AI startup Anthropic is near a deal to raise an additional $2 billion at a price that values the company at $60 billion, sources said, months after its $4 billion funding from Amazon .