Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence

In a new study, Gartner claimed AI will "touch all IT work by 2030" as enterprises ramp up adoption of new tools to drive productivity and alleviate strain placed on stretched IT teams. The extent of AI's influence in IT departments will vary, according to the consultancy. In a survey, CIOs said they expect around 75% of work to be done "by humans augmented with AI" by 2030, while around 25% of tasks will be carried out by AI alone.

More than $1tn (760bn) has been wiped off the value of the cryptocurrency market in the past six weeks amid fears of a tech bubble and fading expectations for a US rate cut next month. Tracking more than 18,500 coins, the value of the crypto market has fallen by a quarter since a high in early October, according to the data company CoinGecko.

AI inference is the process by which a trained large language model (LLM) applies what it has learned to new data to make predictions, decisions, or classifications. In practical terms, the process goes like this. After a model is trained, say the new GPT 5.1, we use it during the inference phase, where it analyzes data (like a new image) and produces an output (identifying what's in the image) without being explicitly programmed for each fresh image. These inference workloads bridge the gap between LLMs and AI chatbots and agents.

Alibaba Cloud is not inherently a security threat, but its ties to China and the legal environment create potential risks that Western companies must carefully evaluate. For low-risk applications (e.g., serving customers in Asia), it may be a viable option. For high-sensitivity operations, most security-conscious organizations opt for cloud providers based in allied countries with strong rule-of-law protections (e.g., AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud).

Throughout the past few years, I've observed that many people in the marketing world have moved past their initial worries about AI. A common theme I'm hearing these days? It isn't that AI will take over, but rather that we're moving toward incorporation. I see AI as a fast, intuitive tool. But as marketers, how should we use it?

IBM attributes those improved characteristics vs. larger models to its hybrid architecture that combines a small amount of standard transformer-style attention layers with a majority of Mamba layers-more specifically, Mamba-2. With 9 Mamba blocks per 1 Transformer block, Granite gets linear scaling vs. context length for the Mamba parts (vs. quadratic scaling in transformers), plus local contextual dependencies from transformer attention (important for in-context learning or few-shots prompting).

Google appears to be preparing for the introduction of Gemini 3.0. The new AI model briefly appeared in AI Studio, the development platform where programmers, researchers, and students work with the various Gemini models. According to BleepingComputer, the fact that the model is now visible there indicates that the official rollout is not far off. The update is expected to go live within a few hours to days.

The launch of ChatGPT by OpenAI in November 2022 marked a turning point in the AI landscape, igniting the broader AI boom. This generative AI tool demonstrated practical applications for everyday users, from content creation to coding assistance, sparking massive public interest and investment. Tech giants poured billions into AI development, while startups flooded the ...

We are living through a moment of profound transformation as military imperatives and corporate interests are no longer separate threads in the fabric of technological innovation. Instead they are inseparably interwoven. Innovation is increasingly framed not as a response to a concrete human need, but in terms of strategic advantage, deterrence, and national security. States and corporations alike are turning to technology which blurs the line between civilian life and military power to advance foreign policy agendas and to assert geopolitical dominance.

"I think I'm deeply uncomfortable with these decisions being made by a few companies, by a few people," Amodei told Anderson Cooper in a "60 Minutes" episode that aired Sunday. "Like who elected you and Sam Altman?" asked Anderson. "No one. Honestly, no one," Amodei replied.

Speaking to CBS News, Amodei said a lack of transparency about the impact of powerful AI would replay the errors of cigarette and opioid firms that failed to raise a red flag over the potential health damage of their own products. You could end up in the world of, like, the cigarette companies, or the opioid companies, where they knew there were dangers, and they didn't talk about them, and certainly did not prevent them, he said.

Welcome to the very first installment of Cool AI Patents of the Month. Each month, we'll look at some of the more eye-catching and creative ways Artificial Intelligence (AI) is showing up in innovations that themselves wind up represented in patents or patent applications. The goal isn't to get overly technical, but to highlight technology that's genuinely cool and thought-provoking - the kind of inventions that make you say, "Wow, that's clever."

The New Relic platform provides AI-driven operational capabilities through sophisticated streaming and at-rest alert pipelines and advanced correlation engines.New Relic delivers demonstrated improvements including up to 5x faster MTTR and downtime reduction through AI-powered correlation and agentic integrations. The vendor's emerging agentic AI strategy encompasses LLM/RAG-based operations with bidirectional orchestration into ITSM and SDLC workflows, positioning organizations for autonomous observability operations.

Early on, AI can make workers more productive - helping them do more, faster - which tends to lift wages before automation starts to replace some of those jobs.

Current and former OpenAI employees have grown increasingly frustrated by the fact that the company hasn't allowed them to donate their equity to charity in years. But OpenAI has finally seemed to bow to pressure, sending out an email from the company's equity team stating that current and former employees with eligible shares will be able to participate, according to a memo viewed by The Verge.

If you pay attention to what the biggest tech companies are saying about AI demand, you'll notice a common thread: they're running short of compute capacity. That means the large language models underpinning AI products today need even more data centers to be trained and for inferencing, and therefore, they need more power. Against that backdrop, energy efficiency has suddenly become a critical priority for semiconductor manufacturers.

Grandiosely named Project Prometheus (and not to be confused with the NASA project of the same name), the company will focus on using AI to pursue breakthroughs in research, engineering, manufacturing, and other fields that are dubbed part of "the physical economy"-in contrast to the software applications that are likely the first thing most people in the general public think of when they hear "AI."

For all the book smarts of LLMs, they currently have little sense for how the real world works. Driving the news: Some of the biggest names in AI are working on world models, including Fei-Fei Li whose World Labs announced Marble, its first commercial release. Machine learning veteran Yann LeCun plans to launch a world model startup when he leaves Meta, reportedly in the coming months.

In a new blog post, Google touted the latest shopping skills available through AI Mode, Gemini, and even AI agents. You can strike up a conversation in Google's AI mode to discuss your shopping needs. You can get shopping ideas via the Gemini app on your mobile device. You can even send an AI agent on a shopping spree to find out which items are in stock and on sale.

Of the five hyperscalers-which include Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta-Oracle is the only one with negative free cash flow. Its debt-to-equity ratio has surged to 500 percent, far higher than Amazon's 50 percent and Microsoft's 30 percent, according to JPMorgan. While all five companies have seen their cash-to-assets ratios decline significantly in recent years amid a boom in spending, Oracle's is by far the lowest, JPMorgan found.

On Monday, a new Model Context Protocol security startup called Runlayer launched out of stealth with $11 million in seed funding from Khosla Ventures' Keith Rabois and Felicis. It was created by third-time founder Andrew Berman (previous companies: baby-monitor maker Nanit and an AI video conferencing tool, Vowel, that sold to Zapier in 2024). In the four months since Runlayer launched its product in stealth, it has signed dozens of customers, including eight unicorns or public companies like Gusto, Rippling, dbt Labs, Instacart, Opendoor, and Ramp, it says.

Google users can now describe their next trip to its AI Mode in search and select the option to "Create with Canvas," which will build out an itinerary in a side panel complete with data on flights and hotels. The document it puts together can lay out potential plans, with suggestions based on the user's inputs, as well as photos and reviews from Google Maps.

I am really excited about this post as it's one of the most powerful changes I've seen to Google's Gemini APIs in quite some time. For a while now it's been really easy to perform searches against a document, or a group of documents. You would upload the file (or files), ask your questions, and that was all you needed.

Starbuck's claims against Google came after he filed a similar lawsuit against Meta, whose AI he claimed falsely asserted that he'd participated in the January 6th riot at the US Capitol. But Meta settled that lawsuit in August and even hired Starbuck as an advisor to help address "ideological and political bias" in its AI chatbot, The Wall Street Journal reported. The outlet noted last month that so far, no US court had awarded damages for defamation by an AI chatbot.

At first, Padilla was overjoyed to see her father (played by the night's host, Glen Powell, who threw himself into every sketch) smiling and waving, looking young again. But it wasn't long before things went wrong, as the next photo animation found Padilla's mother (Veronika Slowikowska) smoking a hot-dog-like a cigarette while Powell tried to roast Sadie, the family dog (which, incidentally, didn't have a head) on the grill.