Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence

Musk has talked repeatedly about the need to speed development of technology that will allow data centers to operate in space to solve the problem of overcoming the huge costs in electricity and other resources in building and running AI systems on Earth. It's a goal that Musk said in his announcement of the deal could become much easier to reach with a combined company.

If you love using Firefly, Adobe's AI-first content creation suite, the company is opening up access for the next six weeks to give you even more generations. Through March 16, users can create unlimited images and videos up to 2K resolution via Firefly's website, Firefly Boards, and the free Firefly app for iOS and Android (more on each below). Firefly lets users generate royalty-free music, sound effects, and try features like the viral Generative Fill.

Anxieties about AI putting people out of jobs is bubbling over: A Reuters/Ipsos poll from August 2025 found 71% of Americans feared permanent job loss as a result of AI. Last week, Amazon announced 16,000 roles across the company would be slashed, adding to a total of more than 30,000 job cuts since October 2025. The move coincided with Amazon's push toward AI development, though the tech giant attributed the reductions to an attempt to slash bureaucracy, not the technology.

Artificial intelligence (AI) seems to be constantly marching forward across nearly every industry. While food service is an area that has long relied on human touch (be it via skilled cooks or friendly faces interacting with customers), it too is facing a new wave of AI-powered technologies. These innovations are often sold as being a means to improve working conditions by increasing efficiency and reducing stress - particularly in hectic fast food kitchens -

According to the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's memorandum on the Strategy, this AI-first status is to be achieved through four broad aims: Incentivizing internal DOD experimentation with AI models. Identifying and eliminating bureaucratic obstacles in the way of model integration. Focusing the U.S.'s military investment to shore up the U.S.'s "asymmetric advantages" in areas including AI computing, model innovation, entrepreneurial dynamism, capital markets, and operational data.

OpenAI has released Open Responses, an open specification to standardize agentic AI workflows and reduce API fragmentation. Supported by partners like Hugging Face and Vercel and local inference providers, the spec introduces unified standards for agentic loops, reasoning visibility, and internal versus external tool execution. It aims to enable developers to easily switch between proprietary models and open-source models without rewriting integration code.

For decades, HR professionals were denied their "seat at the table" in company leadership. But during the COVID pandemic, it became abundantly clear that the C-suite could no longer ignore chief people officers, who guided companies through existential business challenges, including lockdowns, remote work, and the Great Resignation. Now, a quieter and more structural shift is underway. The seat remains, but the authority attached to it is moving elsewhere.

It feels like an episode of The Jetsons come to life, but the truth is that the AI boom has officially entered the physical world. Most of us interact with artificial intelligence through screens- Gemini drafts our emails, ChatGPT summarizes our docs-but behind the scenes, engineers are racing to give AI hands and feet. Robots already pack boxes in warehouses and make guacamole in fast-food kitchens. Soon, they will be washing dishes, taking care of pets, and performing your manicure.

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Cowork was introduced earlier this month as an agentic tool that builds on the capabilities of Claude Code, but is intended for a much broader audience than just developers. By adding plug-ins, Anthropic aims to improve practical usability. The plug-ins are designed to automate specific tasks within organizations. Examples include drafting marketing texts, checking legal documents for risks, or preparing answers to customer questions. According to Anthropic, standardizing these tasks allows teams to work more consistently and efficiently.

A whole bunch more Epstein Files dropped over the weekend if you hadn't noticed, and , they sure are chock full of mentions of Tesla CEO Elon Musk. This is obviously uncomfortable for Musk, because the emails show him practically begging for invites to the notorious Epstein island, despite the fact that Musk has long claimed that he refused such invites, and the fact that Musk has fancied himself some sort of advocate for releasing the Epstein Files.

Baidu has reportedly invested 20 billion RMB ($2.9 billion) in research and development in recent years, with the majority of this money going to AI. Last year alone, Baidu allocated $200 million to AI and AR development through its Baidu Research arm, which includes dedicated research divisions the Big Data Lab, Silicon Valley Lab, Institute of Deep Learning, and the Augmented Reality Lab, which it launched in February.

Oracle Corp. plans to raise $45 billion to $50 billion this year through a combination of debt and equity sales to build additional cloud infrastructure capacity, reflecting the scale of financing needed to feed AI's growth. The company is raising money to build additional capacity to meet the contracted demand from the company's largest cloud customers, including Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Meta Platforms Inc., Nvidia Corp., OpenAI, TikTok Inc. and xAI Corp., the company said in a statement Sunday.

Traffic. Focusing on traffic obscures the purpose of AI answers: to satisfy a need on-site, not to generate clicks. AI-generated solutions do not typically include links to branded websites. Google's AI Overviews, for example, sometimes links product names to organic search listings. Thus visibility does not equate to traffic. A merchant's products could appear in an AI answer and receive no clicks.

Brain implants are beginning to help people with severe disabilities to speak and even sing in near-real time. Now, a company wants to read people's minds and treat mental conditions without implanting electrodes deep into the brain by using ultrasound - high-frequency sound waves above the range of human hearing. Merge Labs, which launched last month with only a vague description of its goals, is one of many companies in a booming brain-computer interface (BCI) market.

DRAM contract prices are now expected to rise around 90 to 95 percent quarter-over-quarter. NAND flash similarly sees a huge jump, with expected prices ballooning by 55 to 60 percent compared to Q4 2025. Specifically, PC DRAM prices could more than double even from their elevated positions late last year. This will invariably result in overall price increases across all product categories, though varying in significance depending on component costs.

Daggr allows developers to define workflows programmatically in Python while automatically generating a visual canvas that exposes intermediate states, inputs, and outputs for each step in the pipeline. Daggr simplifies applied AI development by organizing workflows as directed graphs, allowing for independent inspection and re-execution of each node. This method enhances debugging and speeds up iteration by tackling the issue of slow and unclear experimentation,