Even If You Hate AI, You Will Use Google AI Search
The search giant’s AI-crafted answers are so convenient, you’ll be sucked in—to the detriment of the web and the artists and thinkers behind it.
The search giant’s AI-crafted answers are so convenient, you’ll be sucked in—to the detriment of the web and the artists and thinkers behind it.
There is a harsh truth about Elon Musk’s “truth-seeking” AI chatbot Grok: It’s not very good, and not many people are using it. That’s the takeaway of a new Reuters report, which found that Grok barely appears in federal records of how the US government used AI last year. It’s not the only sign xAI’s […]
Google’s AI Overviews are running into an interesting problem right now. Earlier on Friday, if you searched for the term “disregard,” the AI Overview section would include a response like what you’d see from a more traditional AI chatbot instead of the typical AI summary, as spotted on X. As you can see in the […]
The SpaceX S-1 is finally here, and the story it tells goes way further than rockets. The filing runs to 36 pages of risk factors alone, and the numbers inside match the ambition: a $28 trillion total addressable market, a pay package tied to establishing a Mars colony, and a valuation target that would make it the largest IPO in American […]
Google demoed prototype Android XR glasses that overlay Gemini-powered translation, navigation, and other information directly into your field of view.
After Google Search’s AI update, the word “disregard” now effectively breaks the search interface.
The SpaceX S-1 is finally here, and the story it tells goes way further than rockets. The filing runs to 36 pages of risk factors alone, and the numbers inside match the ambition: a $28 trillion total addressable market, a pay package tied to establishing a Mars colony, and a valuation target that would make it the largest IPO in American […]
Some AI startups are stretching traditional revenue metrics when talking about progress publicly. And their investors are fully aware.
You can now disco ball-ify your entire Pixel home screen, says Google.
People used AI on a spectrogram image of cockpit recordings to reconstruct them, forcing the NTSB to temporarily block access to its docket system.
The ceremony was scheduled. The CEOs were on the guest list. And then it wasn’t happening. On Thursday, US President Donald Trump scrapped a planned AI executive order, which had already been delayed multiple times, citing concerns that it might erode America’s competitive edge over China. “We’re leading China, we’re leading everybody, and I don’t […]
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OpenAI will open its first Applied AI Lab outside the US in Singapore. The lab is part of a new partnership with the Ministry of Digital Development and Information. The initiative, called OpenAI for Singapore, was announced at the ATx Summit and is backed by a commitment of more than S$300 million. The lab will […]
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Every major economy is staring at the same problem right now. Artificial intelligence is consuming electricity at a pace that grids were never designed to handle. In the US, capacity market prices in PJM, the country’s largest grid operator, have risen more than tenfold in two years, with data-centre growth identified as a primary driver. […]
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In this tutorial, we explore OpenMythos by building an advanced recurrent-depth transformer workflow that runs end-to-end in Google Colab. We create both MLA and GQA model variants, compare their parameter counts, and check the stability of the recurrent injection matrix through its spectral radius.
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Microsoft Research released Fara1.5, a family of browser computer-use agents in 4B, 9B, and 27B sizes. Fara1.5-27B scores 72% on Online-Mind2Web, outperforming OpenAI Operator, Gemini 2.5 Computer Use, and Yutori Navigator n1. The release also includes FaraGen1.5, a synthetic data pipeline that trains agents on gated
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Hidden inefficiency with hiring is now directly affecting how work translates into revenue, and it can be made worse by introducing AI.
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Merit pay held at 3.1% in 2026, just under forecast, as across-the-board raises stayed rare, Mercer finds.
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Cisco and Standard Chartered both announced major job cuts this week, even as each reported strong revenue or earnings results.
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Two-thirds of small and mid-sized businesses surveyed paid fees they didn’t anticipate when selecting their current retirement plan provider.
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Low uptake of mental health benefits across Asia points to cultural and trust challenges rather than access, according to Howden’s Dr Maria S Suva.
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During Tuesday’s Google I/O keynote, Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind, proclaimed that we are currently “standing in the foothills of the singularity.” It was a striking statement—the singularity is the theoretical future moment when AI rapidly exceeds human intelligence and dramatically transforms the world. But what struck me as I listened in the…
Hyperscalers are pushing the Gulf to rethink internet infrastructure as AI raises the stakes of cable disruptions.
Details have emerged about a tentative deal struck between Samsung and semiconductor employees who had threatened to strike. The deal reportedly makes some workers eligible for average annual bonuses of $340,000. The proposed 18-day strike had hinged on Samsung’s bonus cap for employees in the semiconductor division and followed a substantial rise in the possible […]
AI covers and remixes of songs are already a blight on the internet. Spotify, YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram are awash in flat reggae versions of “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” dinky country renditions of The Weeknd, and monotonous Motown reimaginings of AC/DC. Now, a new tool from Spotify will make them even easier to generate and […]
Since 2012, the British literary magazine Granta has published the regional winners of the annual Commonwealth Short Story Prize. This year, however, there was something off about one of the selections for the prestigious award: It appears to have been written by AI. Jamir Nazir’s “The Serpent in the Grove” has many of the hallmarks […]
Cohere releases Command A+, an open-source 218B Sparse Mixture-of-Experts model consolidating four prior Command A variants into one. It runs on as few as two H100 GPUs at W4A4 quantization, supports 48 languages, and is Cohere’s first multimodal reasoning model.
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Alibaba’s Qwen team introduced Qwen3.7-Max at the 2026 Alibaba Cloud Summit, describing it as its most advanced and comprehensive agent model to date. The model features a 1M-token context window, extended-thinking mode, and is designed for long-horizon tasks including coding, debugging, and multi-step workflow automation. It scored 56.6 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, ranking fifth overall among proprietary models.
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An inside look at CopilotKit’s 2026 shipping cycle. Learn how the new AG-UI protocol, AIMock testing suite, and Pathfinder server are providing the production architecture developers need for agentic AI.
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President refuses to approve order hours before planned signing due to fears US innovators will lose out to China
SpaceX filed its public IPO prospectus Wednesday, highlighting many amazing things that it has accomplished in its reach for a trillion-dollar-plus valuation. For a sense of how the company compares at IPO time to other members of the trillion-plus-club, we took a look at their original S-1s from the 1980s and onward.
The vibes were strong at Code with Claude, Anthropic’s two-day event for software developers in London that kicked off on May 19, the same day as Google’s I/O in Palo Alto. (A coincidence, not a flex, Anthropic staffers assured me.) “Who here has shipped a pull request in the last week that was completely written…
Storytelling is core to humanity’s DNA, stemming from our impulse to express ideals, warnings, hopes, and experiences. Technology has always been woven through the medium and the distribution: from early humans’ innovation of natural pigments and charcoals for cave paintings to literal representation by the camera. The landscape of storytelling continues to shift under our…
Listen to the session or watch below AI companies want to build systems that understand the external world and overcome the limitations of LLMs. Recent developments have brought world models to the forefront of the AI discussion. Watch a conversation with editor in chief Mat Honan, senior AI editor Will Douglas Heaven, and AI reporter…
AdventHealth is using ChatGPT for Healthcare to streamline workflows, reduce administrative burden, and return more time to patient care.
I used the Gemini app to generate lifelike videos featuring a digital clone of myself. Google sees this as the future of creation. I’m still creeped out.
In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we unpack the mass layoffs at Meta, big announcements at Google I/O, and the latest backlash against AI.