Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence

to break through language barriers and offer more natural interactions. With the latest OpenAI models including GPT-5.2, ServiceNow will unlock a new class of AI-powered automation for the world's largest companies.

As every industry searches for applications that can turn AI from a novelty into productivity, momentum has swung toward automation and building "agents" to tackle mundane (or not-so-mundane, as the case may be) workflows. In that spirit, LexisNexis has hundreds of pre-built legal automation tools paired with a custom workflow builder intended to streamline everything from drafting motions to redlining contracts against firm playbooks.

Elon Musk is reportedly looking to finally take SpaceX public after years of resistance, according to sources who spoke to The Wall Street Journal. The company has long said it wouldn't choose an IPO until it had established a presence on Mars. That isn't happening anytime soon. So why now? Company insiders have suggested it's because Musk wants to build AI data centers in space. Google recently announced it was looking into putting a data center in space, with test launches scheduled for 2027.

Nvidia's H200 chips, for instance, have seen Chinese firms place orders for over 2 million units for 2026, exceeding the company's current stock of 700,000. This shortage stems from explosive demand for AI training and inference, which is outpacing production increases at foundries like Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing ( ). As a result, providers are negotiating additional output, with work set to begin in the second quarter of 2026.

The Eleven Album aims to showcase "how artists can use AI to expand their creative range while maintaining full authorship and commercial rights," according to ElevenLabs. ElevenLabs is using the album to market its Eleven Music generator and Iconic Voices Marketplace platforms it launched last year, both of which are cleared for commercial use. ElevenLabs says that every artist on the project "produced a fully original track that blends their signature sound with the capabilities of Eleven Music,"

A quiet but consequential shift is underway in the executive labor market. Companies are rethinking how they access senior judgment in the AI era. Rather than defaulting to full-time executive roles that command lofty salaries and long-term overhead, companies are increasingly turning to experienced consultants, strategists, and advisors to provide leadership on a limited and targeted basis. This is not a dilution of leadership, but a recalibration of where experience delivers the most value.

"Think of these models that you orchestrate to build your own model, and more importantly, do what could be described as harness engineering." By "harnessing engineering", he means companies stitching together a mix of closed and open-sourced models, layering them with their own data and shaping the whole stack to deliver a specific business outcome.

Something I've been noticing a lot lately is that the confidence of AI chatbots is getting in the way of the communication between human and machine. Chatbots spit out false information with such confidence that it conveys the idea that the information is true, even though the chatbot has little to no evidence for it - yet that fact is never communicated.

Wondering what your career looks like in our increasingly uncertain, AI-powered future? According to Palantir CEO Alex Karp, it's going to involve less of the comfortable office work to which most people aspire, a more old fashioned gruntwork with your hands. Speaking at the World Economic Forum yesterday, Karp insisted that the future of work is vocational - not just for those already in manufacturing and the skilled trades, but for the majority of humanity. In the age of AI, Karp told attendees at a forum, a strong formal education in any of the humanities will soon spell certain doom.

"The CEOs of these companies say, 'It's the embargo on chips that's holding us back,'" Amodei said, incredulous, in response to a question about the new rules. The decision is going to come back to bite the U.S., he warned. "We are many years ahead of China in terms of our ability to make chips," he told Bloomberg's editor-in-chief, who was interviewing him. "So I think it would be a big mistake to ship these chips."

But like everything else in life, there will always be a more powerful AI waiting in the wings to take out both protagonists and open a new chapter in the fight. Acclaimed author and enthusiastic Mac user Douglas Adams once posited that Deep Thought, the computer, told us the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything was 42, which only made sense once the question was redefined. But in today's era, we cannot be certain the computer did not hallucinate.

This is not a novelty feature. It's a strategic choice. And at scale, it represents something far more dangerous than a questionable product decision. WHY AI COMPANIES ARE ENCOURAGING INTIMACY Romance is the most powerful engagement mechanism ever discovered. A user who treats AI as a tool can leave. A user who treats it as a companion cannot. Emotional attachment produces longer sessions, repeat engagement, dependency, and vast amounts of deeply personal data.

As water-intensive data centres expand worldwide, their impact on sanitation, inequality and disease is emerging as a serious and under-examined threat. Bubble is probably the word most associated with AI right now, though we are slowly understanding that it is not just an economic time bomb; it also carries significant public health risks. Beyond the release of pollutants, the massive need for clean water by AI data centres can reduce sanitation and exacerbate gastrointestinal illness in nearby communities, placing additional strain on local health infrastructure.

YouTube is just as wary of the rise of AI slop as you, and that's why more AI-generated content is coming to the platform in the near future. In a lengthy outlining YouTube's 2026 plans, CEO Neal Mohan said the company will continue to embrace this new "creative frontier" by soon allowing its creators to throw together Shorts using their AI-generated likeness.

"This year you really saw something pretty horrific, which is these AI models became suicide coaches," Benioff told CNBC's Sara Eisen. "We saw that '60 Minutes' session that was pretty well-documented that Character.AI kind of had an unregulated, untruthful, kind of untethered AI that was coaching children into suicide. I can't imagine anything worse than that. So, it can't be just growth at any cost. There has to be some regulation."

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True to its name, Ramble can take your meandering, unstructured speech and turn it into organized tasks. The app will also capture other details you mention, like project deadlines, priorities, duration, and assignees. The idea is that people often think of things they need to do while on the go, but taking out their phone to jot down a note or create a reminder can be challenging.

To work around those rules, the Humanizer skill tells Claude to replace inflated language with plain facts and offers this example transformation: Before: "The Statistical Institute of Catalonia was officially established in 1989, marking a pivotal moment in the evolution of regional statistics in Spain." After: "The Statistical Institute of Catalonia was established in 1989 to collect and publish regional statistics." Claude will read that and do its best as a pattern-matching machine to create an output that matches the context of the conversation or task at hand.

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As we enter 2026, we mark this anniversary by bringing together three leaders navigating the most complex intersection of technology, geopolitics, and organizational change we have ever witnessed. André Pienaar, Dr. David Bray, and Ken Banta joined us to discuss what boards and CEOs must understand to remain competitive in an era defined by cascading disruptions and incomplete information. The conversation focused on the critical questions every board should be asking this year.

Your YouTube Shorts feed might soon be filled with a lot more AI-generated content from your favorite creators - including AI-generated versions of the creators themselves. In his annual letter released today, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says that sometime this year, creators will be able to make Shorts using their "own likeness." Mohan didn't share further details about these likenesses. "We'll have more to share soon, including the launch date and how the feature will work," according to YouTube spokesperson Boot Bullwinkle.

Right now, Google's revenue stream comes from advertising via its search monopoly. Search queries are cheap, and the ads Google sells are pricey due to its market power, so it's a very profitable business. Gemini, by contrast, is expensive to operate and generates no revenue. Even if Google were able to shift all of its search advertising revenue to Gemini, it would be moving from an extremely high-margin business to a lower-margin one. So what's actually going on?

Vibe coding is drastically different from conventional coding. Vibe coding is more of a philosophy than a rigid set of rules; it is a mindset for building. So, in order to master the art & craft of vibe coding, you need to practice a different approach when building products. The 5 principles listed in this article will help you craft a functional product by leveraging AI as a partner rather than just a code generator.