AI pioneers including Google DeepMind chief Sir Demis Hassabis, Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei and “godfather of AI” computer scientist Yoshua Bengio used the gathering in Davos to reiterate stark warnings about the AI threats, as commercial interests and geopolitical rivalries steamroller concerns about safety.
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What Are AI ‘Agents’ For?
It’s an early step for OpenAI into the vaguely defined category of AI “ agents ,” which are intended to carry out multi-step tasks on users’ behalf. Agents, and underlying agentic models, are the industry’s obsession of the moment,
SINGAPORE—A Chinese artificial-intelligence company has Silicon Valley marveling at how its programmers nearly matched American rivals despite using inferior chips. AI models from DeepSeek, the Chinese company,
Scientists say AI has crossed a critical 'red line' after demonstrating how two popular large language models could clone themselves.
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Meta's chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, says DeepSeek's success with R1 says more about the value of open source than Chinese competition.
“Six weeks of after-school AI tutoring = two years of typical learning gains, outperforming 80% of other educational interventions,” Mollick writes. This tracks with what a lot of other experts are saying about AI - that it is uniquely positioned to provide good student support.
A standard subscription to Microsoft 365 includes Copilot for an additional $3 per month. Here’s how to get a cheaper Classic plan without the AI features.
On Thursday, OpenAI released a research preview of " Operator ," a web automation tool that uses a new AI model called Computer-Using Agent (CUA) to control computers through a visual interface. The system performs tasks by viewing and interacting with on-screen elements like buttons and text fields similar to how a human would.
Electricity demand on the largest US grid is poised to rise so fast thanks to the AI boom that it’ll be the equivalent of installing two New England networks in the coming decade.
Organizations across multiple industries are ready to build on the success they are achieving with the embedded AI capabilities in Oracle Cloud HCM.