This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the ups and downs of AI, follow Stevie Bonifield. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Most people probably know Grammarly for its browser […]
You may be familiar with Gemini as the thing that’s in every Google service you use – whether you want it or not. While it’s been a constant, sometimes unwelcome presence in Gmail for at least the past year, it’s a relatively new addition to Maps. And you know what? It’s kind of great. To […]
AI music platform Suno’s policy is that it does not permit the use of copyrighted material. You can upload your own tracks to remix or set your original lyrics to AI-generated music. But, it’s supposed to recognize and stop you from using other people’s songs and lyrics. Now, no system is perfect, but it turns […]
Driven by labor shortages, Japan is pushing physical AI from pilot projects into real-world deployment.
On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, we debated Elon Musk’s vision for data centers in space.
Keir Starmer’s government steps up efforts to get American AI start-up to grow its presence in Britain
In January, folk artist Murphy Campbell discovered several songs on her Spotify profile that did not belong there. They were songs that she had recorded, but she’d never uploaded them to Spotify, and something was off about the vocals. She quickly surmised that someone had pulled performances of the songs she posted to YouTube, created […]
Video editing has always had a dirty secret: removing an object from footage is easy; making the scene look like it was never there is brutally hard. Take out a person holding a guitar, and you’re left with a floating instrument that defies gravity. Hollywood VFX teams spend weeks fixing exactly this kind of problem. […]
The post Netflix AI Team Just Open-Sourced VOID: an AI Model That Erases Objects From Videos — Physics and All appeared first on MarkTechPost.
Plus: The FBI says a recent hack of its wiretap tools poses a national security risk, attackers stole Cisco source code as part of an ongoing supply chain hacking spree, and more.
“This looks like AI.” It’s a phrase I dread seeing as a writer who dabbles in illustration and amateur photography. In a world where generative AI technology is increasingly adept at mimicking the work of humans, people are naturally skeptical when online platforms refuse to label even obvious AI content. This leads me to one […]
It’s about to become more expensive for Claude Code subscribers to use Anthropic’s coding assistant with OpenClaw and other third-party tools.
The danger is not that it will replace human-authored books — but that we stop caring about good writing at all
Startup investors kept up the busy dealmaking pace this week with a number of big rounds. Top among them was a $1.75 billion Series D for Austin-based Saronic, developer of autonomous vessels.
Designing algorithms for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) in imperfect-information games — scenarios where players act sequentially and cannot see each other’s private information, like poker — has historically relied on manual iteration. Researchers identify weighting schemes, discounting rules, and equilibrium solvers through intuition and trial-and-error. Google DeepMind researchers proposes AlphaEvolve, an LLM-powered evolutionary coding agent […]
The post Google DeepMind’s Research Lets an LLM Rewrite Its Own Game Theory Algorithms — And It Outperformed the Experts appeared first on MarkTechPost.
In this tutorial, we explore the full capabilities of Z.AI’s GLM-5 model and build a complete understanding of how to use it for real-world, agentic applications. We start from the fundamentals by setting up the environment using the Z.AI SDK and its OpenAI-compatible interface, and then progressively move on to advanced features such as streaming […]
The post How to Build Production-Ready Agentic Systems with Z.AI GLM-5 Using Thinking Mode, Tool Calling, Streaming, and Multi-Turn Workflows appeared first on MarkTechPost.
The company is undergoing major leadership restructuring as its CEO of AGI deployment goes on leave for “several weeks.”
Major AI labs are investigating a security incident that impacted Mercor, a leading data vendor. The incident could have exposed key data about how they train AI models.
OpenAI is undergoing another round of C-suite changes, according to an internal memo viewed by The Verge. Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s CEO of AGI deployment – who was until recently the company’s CEO of applications – says in the memo that she will be stepping away on medical leave “for the next several weeks” due to […]
Using OpenClaw with Claude AI is about to get a lot more expensive, thanks to Anthropic’s new policy changes. Beginning April 4th at 3PM ET, users will “no longer be able to use your Claude subscription limits for third-party harnesses including OpenClaw,” according to an email sent to users on Friday evening. Instead, if users […]
A new poll shows that the debate over data centers is far from settled.
Meta, Microsoft, and Google are all betting big on new natural gas power plants to run their AI data centers. They may regret it.
With the midterms right around the corner, the new group is positioned to back candidates who support the AI company’s policy agenda.
Anthropic has purchased the stealth biotech AI startup Coefficient Bio in a $400 million stock deal, according to The Information and Eric Newcomer.
In addition to Lightcap’s new role, OpenAI CMO Kate Rouch will be stepping away from the company to focus on cancer recovery, with a plan to return when her health allows.
Glen Anderson, president of Rainmaker Securities, says the secondary market for private shares has never been more active — with Anthropic the hottest trade around, OpenAI losing ground, and SpaceX’s looming IPO poised to reshape the landscape for everyone.
Industry explores raising capital from alternative investors to cover AI mega-projects
Billionaire’s trading business is one of the most profitable UK private companies
The experience of past tech revolutions suggests savvy incumbents might muddle through and even thrive
While AI and automation can be powerful, many applications use complex global systems to solve simple problems that could be handled locally. Guest author Itay Sagie shares three risks of undisciplined automation of everything, urging more thoughtful and disciplined use of technology.
A total of 47 seed- and early stage companies joined the unicorn ranks in the first quarter of this year, per Crunchbase data. Barring a major slowdown, that puts 2026 on track to deliver the largest cohort of young unicorns to date.
New research shows AI may be eroding conditions that make sustained performance possible. Most HR leaders have no dashboard for any of it.
The post Why worker focus time is at three-year low appeared first on HR Executive.
When a CPO-CFO partnership directs non-AI, human judgment on where to focus effort together, organizational resilience gets built.
The post Why the CPO-CFO partnership will define the AI era appeared first on HR Executive.
Two major AI studies reveal a strategic disconnect between HR and finance that many organizations haven’t noticed yet.
The post Here’s where HR and finance aren’t in lockstep, according to Deloitte data appeared first on HR Executive.
Employers and benefits professionals could have new hearing videos to watch this summer. How much the hearings would focus on employer health benefits concerns is unclear.
The post Senators push to grill health insurance CEOs over record profits and denials appeared first on HR Executive.
With compensation pressure rising, start-ups are increasingly using higher base pay instead of equity to attract top AI talent.
The post AI talent is getting pricier. Plus, news from Tom Brady, SAP and more appeared first on HR Executive.
A longtime TA healthcare leader says the supercharged healthcare hiring market is “like nothing I’ve ever seen before”
The post Amid job growth surprises in March, healthcare again drives momentum appeared first on HR Executive.
