Three experts in the power of technology to drive economic growth have been awarded this year's Nobel prize in economics. Joel Mokyr of Northwestern University secured half of the 11m Swedish kronor (867,000) prize, with the rest split between two other academics: Philippe Aghion of the College de France, Insead business school and the London School of Economics; and Peter Howitt of Brown University.
Since it takes after its sibling, the rotatable Yamaha MOTOROiD:Λ motorcycle can also bring back itself to its original position without the rider's help. It uses AI to control its movement, and the system adjusts the vehicle's balance and turns as well as collects data on how it performs on the road so it can improve itself. In this case, the vehicle learns from its own patterns and, on top of that, learns from the cruising habits of its owners.
German Minister for Digital Affairs Karsten Wildberger emphasizes that Europe's call for digital sovereignty should not be confused with protectionism. According to him, Europe must develop its own digital infrastructure. This is to reduce dependence on American technology companies. That does not mean that cooperation with the United States should be ruled out. In an interview with Reuters, Wildberger explains that Germany and the European Union can no longer be mere spectators or customers in the digital sector, but must play an active role themselves.
Ellison, the founder of the tech giant Oracle, is quickly emerging as the new face of oligarchic power in the U.S. Oracle has become an AI powerhouse at the same time Ellison and his son David have acquired Paramount and its vast media empire. With Donald Trump's recent executive order, Ellison and Oracle will also now oversee TikTok's algorithms, shaping a platform that reaches 150 million U.S. users.
Instagram head Adam Mosseri said AI will change who can be creative, as the new tools and technology will give people who couldn't be creators before the ability to produce content at a certain quality and scale. However, he also admitted that bad actors will use the technology for "nefarious purposes" and that kids growing up today will have to be taught that you can't believe something just because you saw a video of it.
The smart home revolution has reached a thrilling crescendo this October, with technology finally catching up to our most ambitious visions of connected living. Gone are the days when smart devices felt like awkward additions to your space; today's innovations blend seamlessly into your daily routine while delivering unprecedented functionality. From AI-powered cleaning solutions to health-monitoring mirrors, the latest wave of smart home gadgets doesn't just automate tasks-it anticipates your needs, learns from your habits, and creates environments that respond intuitively to your lifestyle.
Few names in automotive history carry the weight of Pininfarina. The studio has shaped some of the world's most iconic cars - from Ferraris to Alfa Romeos - blending emotional design with aerodynamic precision. With the Turbio, Pininfarina moves into uncharted territory, merging its hand-drawn elegance with AI-assisted engineering. The design team leveraged machine learning and generative modeling to refine the car's proportions, downforce, and weight distribution, using algorithms to simulate thousands of variations before arriving at a final form.
Consumer spending, while solid, is slowing, as tariffs are being imposed worldwide. The United States is finally responding to tariffs imposed upon it, and a host of additional factors are fanning the flames of another 2025 correction. Job gains have plummeted, as much of the data is perceived to be inaccurate. To be frank, it is high time that a correction similar to the one earlier this year comes in to help cleanse the market of the recklessness ignited by artificial intelligence almost three years ago.
Sceptics long saw this as just an amusing theory, an intriguing piece of sci-fi speculation. Yet science generally and AI specifically are now advancing at such a breakneck pace that some people are speculating that the Singularity is real and is almost upon us. Be that as it may, galloping technological change is throwing up new ethical problems almost faster than we can write them down, let alone solve them.
The 23-year-old's career didn't exactly start auspiciously: He spent time at the philanthropy arm of Sam Bankman-Fried's now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange before a controversial year at OpenAI, where he was ultimately fired. Then, just two months after being booted out of the most influential company in AI, he penned an AI manifesto that went viral-President Trump's daughter Ivanka even praised it on social media-and used it as a launching pad for a hedge fund that now manages more than $1.5 billion.
Cyberpsychology investigates the psychological processes related to technologically interconnected human behavior, informing disciplines such as human-computer interaction (HCI), computer science, engineering, psychology, and media and communications studies.5 The field explores how digital technologies influence and transform human cognition, emotion, and social interaction, as well as the reciprocal impact these human elements have on technologies. At its core, cyberpsychology seeks to understand the dynamic interplay between humans and technology.
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Insurance companies will always be held responsible for any decisions made with help from artificial intelligence even as the technology becomes more widely adopted and may someday be used to pay claims, insurance experts told a panel of state legislators on Tuesday. The Florida House of Representative's Subcommittee on Insurance and Banking invited several national insurance advisers to provide an overview of insurers' use of AI in their industry, in
A frenzy around AI has been one of the main reasons Wall Street has been hitting record after record, though that's also raising worries that prices have potentially shot too high. Much of the furor around AI in the last couple weeks has come from OpenAI, which has quickly grown into a $500 billion company, announcing deals with businesses around the world to develop more AI infrastructure.
Together, these teams would operate as intelligence arms of ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations division. They will receive tips and incoming cases, research individuals online, and package the results into dossiers that could be used by field offices to plan arrests. The scope of information contractors are expected to collect is broad. Draft instructions specify open-source intelligence: public posts, photos, and messages on platforms from Facebook to Reddit to TikTok.
Chambers took a similarly meteoric ride in his early days running Cisco, which had a market value of about $15 billion in 1995, when networking equipment suddenly became must-have components for the buildup of the internet. The feverish demand briefly turned the firm into the world's most valuable company - worth $550 billion in March 2000 - before the investment bubble burst. The crash caused Cisco's stock price to plunge more than 80% during a period that Chambers still recalls as the worst of his career.
When people get very excited, as they are today about artificial intelligence for example, is every experiment gets funded, every company gets funded, the good ideas and the bad ideas, Bezos said, pointing to companies getting billions of dollars of funding before they have a product. Investors have a hard time in the middle of this excitement distinguishing between the good ideas and the bad ideas.
Never assume that a technology's current limitations are its inherent limitations. Whoopi Goldberg on The View assured viewers this week that AI actors like Tilly are no threat to humans because "you can always tell them from us. We move differently, our faces move differently, our bodies move differently." It's true, that's the best AI can do-today. But Goldberg is making the same error as the highly intelligent computer scientists of decades past who believed computers would never translate languages very well.
Artificial intelligence is bringing new power and capabilities to forecasting models, enabling scientists to detect extreme weather events with greater speed and accuracy. In August, when Google DeepMind's hurricane-forecasting tech was tested on Hurricane Erin, it not only beat out the "official" forecast from the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) for the first 72 hours but also bested a number of physics-based models.