Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence

The country's top internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), requires that any company launching an AI tool with "public opinion properties or social mobilization capabilities" first file it in a public database: the algorithm registry. In a submission, developers must show how their products avoid 31 categories of risk, from age and gender discrimination to psychological harm to "violating core socialist values."

In the early days, VAST Data's focus was primarily on storing enormous amounts of data. "Even before we talked about AI, data had to be stored somewhere," Pernsteiner notes. The company started out in the world of HPC (High Performance Computing). The choice of this sector was strategic: in that world, the scale and performance requirements are enormous. With this choice, VAST more or less forced itself to set the bar very high.

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companies reduce staff through automating routine work while still struggling to hire AI specialists, despite a surge in client demand for AI. "Top five Indian IT firms added only 17 net employees in the first nine months of FY26 versus 17,764 in the same period last year," said Chirag Mehta, vice president and principal analyst at Constellation Research. "That is what AI-era productivity looks like in practice: more output per employee, fewer benches, and tighter utilization."

Employees opening ChatGPT across the UK won't find promotions sitting beneath answers, nudging their purchases and reframing advice. Details like this matter, because clarity matters, and confusion breeds bad decisions. Right now, advertising inside ChatGPT is being tested in the United States on free and low cost tiers. UK rollout has not been announced, but you can guarantee mistakes will happen as history has shown us time and time again. Complacency would be the wrong response.

process AI is the integration of AI and ML (with optional natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision, including optical character recognition (OCR) in one platform) into business workflows with the aim of automating tasks that need and require human-like judgment. Also straightforward to define, document AI (occasionally known as intelligent document processing) is a set of technologies designed to enable enterprise applications to ingest, interpret and contextually understand documents with human-like judgment.

That model no longer fits how tech leaders work today. Over the past years, I have spent time in conversations with founders, executives, and operators who carry real responsibility inside their organizations. As a community builder, I often speak with them before they commit to attending events. Their questions are direct. They want to know who will be in the room, how discussions are structured, and whether the environment allows honest exchange.

Let's say in drug discovery, if we licensed our technology, you have a breakthrough. The drug takes off, and we get a licensed portion of all its sales,

OpenAI said on Friday that free and Go users of ChatGPT would start seeing ads "in the coming weeks." OpenAI also laid out its advertising principles, such as clearly labeling them and not sharing user conversations with advertisers. "A path to generating several billion dollars in ad revenue in 2026, going to $25B+ by 2030, seems reasonable," Mahaney wrote in a note to investors. That's based on the likely scale of ChatGPT by that time, the proven monetization of high-intent performance marketing platforms, and the current size of this market, the analyst added.

Balancing gut feelings with hard data isn't a soft skill. It's a strategic advantage. In an era where AI, automation, and ubiquitous dashboards flood us with metrics, it's tempting to believe that better spreadsheets alone will yield better decisions. But our most consequential choices rarely emerge from a cell in column D. They arise from an ongoing negotiation between intuition and rational analysis.

He's the perfect outsider figure: the eccentric loner who saw all this coming and screamed from the sidelines that the sky was falling, but nobody would listen. Just as Christian Bale portrayed Michael Burry, the investor who predicted the 2008 financial crash, in The Big Short, you can well imagine Robert Pattinson fighting Paul Mescal, say, to portray Zitron, the animated, colourfully obnoxious but doggedly detail-oriented Brit, who's become one of big tech's noisiest critics.

Against that backdrop, Europe's reliance on American-made AI begins to look more and more like a liability. In a worst case scenario, though experts consider the possibility remote, the US could choose to withhold access to AI services and crucial digital infrastructure. More plausibly, the Trump administration could use Europe's dependence as leverage as the two sides continue to iron out a trade deal. "That dependency is a liability in any negotiation-and we are going to be negotiating increasingly with the US," says Taddeo.

Artificial intelligence is no longer futuristic-it's functional. Hotels are already utilizing AI to integrate siloed systems, such as PMS, accounting, CRM, and forecasting platforms, to drive faster and smarter decisions. Tools like Placer.ai and PredictHQ help identify ideal customers through demographic, behavioral, and geolocation data. As automation expands, the next opportunity lies in strategic human oversight: consultants and managers will interpret AI outputs, guiding capital investments and operational priorities rather than being replaced by algorithms.

In a few short years, artificial intelligence has transformed from what many viewed as a moonshot to the source of countless real-world benefits. At Pinterest, for instance, we're deploying AI to flip the script on social media, using it to more aggressively promote user well being rather than the alternative formula of triggering engagement by enragement. I believe AI can benefit our 600 million users for years to come and at a fraction the cost that many associate with the technology.

I've learned which skill sets software engineers need to land a job offer in the AI era. Tech companies agree that AI makes engineers more productive, so engineers are expected to use it to build things more quickly and reliably. I personally make heavy use of AI to help me with boilerplate stuff so that I can concentrate on the hard stuff, like system design and complex business logic.

OpenAI calls this disconnect the "capability overhang," and it's the company's focus for the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. In a report set to be released Wednesday at an OpenAI event, "Ending the Capability Overhang," execs will argue that the capability gap must be closed for AI to deliver social and economic benefits. Without that shift, the biggest gains from AI will flow to the countries, companies and workers who are testing and pushing AI's limits.

Gartner predicts that global spending on AI will reach $2.52 trillion in 2026. That is an increase of 44 percent compared to the previous year. Much of the growth is expected to be driven by AI infrastructure, particularly investments in AI-optimized servers, which are expected to increase by 49 percent and account for 17 percent of the total AI spend.

Elon Musk is building a recruitment strike force at xAI. The AI startup is hiring a team of "talent engineers" to supercharge its hiring of top engineers as the AI boom fuels a red-hot race for talent. The "small, elite unit" will report directly to Musk and focus on creating "novel approaches" to identify and hire the "absolute best people in the world," according to a job listing posted on xAI's website. Successful applicants need to be comfortable with vibe coding, have a history of building cool products, "even as a kid," and must be a "nerdy engineer" at heart - even though their friends see them as a "people person."

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. OpenAI will be testing ads in ChatGPT very soon. Google's Gemini 3 Pro now powers some AI Overviews. Surprise, surprise, Google is appealing the search monopoly ruling. Google warns that using free subdomian hosts is not a good idea. Google also said that comment link spam won't help or hurt your site.

The consulting giant questioned 4,454 chief executives across 95 countries and territories about their strategic priorities and outlook in the year up to November 2025. More than half of the CEOs surveyed, 56%, said AI hasn't produced revenue or cost benefits for their businesses to date. Some reported benefits for either revenue or costs: around a third said their revenue was up in the last year, and 26% said they were seeing lower costs from AI.

Advertisements are coming to ChatGPT. The world's most popular chatbot will soon serve up advertisements influenced by its conversations with users. OpenAI says it will not sell user data to advertisers and that conversations will be kept private, but the decision reorients the financial incentives of one of the most widely used products in artificial intelligence.