Archive: January 2017

Microsoft says its medical AI system can diagnose difficult cases more than twice as accurately as practicing doctors. Dubbed the Microsoft AI Diagnostic Orchestrator (MAI-DxO), the system “substantially outperformed practicing generalist physicians” in diagnostic accuracy while ordering fewer tests and procedures, according to a newly published paper. The Microsoft study, titled “Sequential Diagnosis with Language Models,” was first posted online last yea

The Fitbit Air itself is a small plastic puck about 1.4 inches long and 0.7 inches wide. It slots into various bands that hold the bottom-mounted sensors against your wrist. There’s no display pointing upward, so the entire device is covered by the fabric or plastic of the band. It’s a streamlined and potentially stylish look—in uncharacteristic fashion, Google has plenty of colors and style options available, including a special-edition Steph Curry versio

Everything about Artificial Intelligence see more The DeepSeek Harness platform, designed for the creation and operation of artificial intelligence agents, reached 1.54 million daily users and processes 92.1 trillion tokens every 24 hours, according to official data released by the Chinese startup on X.Growth was driven by the launch of the desktop version. The platform also has 5.48 million monthly active users and records an average of 261 daily requests

President Donald Trump’s plan to “fill the digital potholes” and use AI to quickly redesign every government website isn’t going very well. Last August, Trump created the National Design Studio, or NDS, by executive order. A temporary DOGE-like entity that answers only to the president, NDS was tasked with creating new standards to update the US Web Design System (USWDS) and overhaul 27,000 dot-gov websites in just three years. At the end of this so-called

Ahead of a July 2 deadline to submit public comments, advocates are warning the Federal Trade Commission that it must keep close watch over Elon Musk’s X and firmly reject a recent bid to end the agency’s ongoing audits of the platform’s data handling. Last month, the FTC posted a notice explaining that X had argued that an FTC order was no longer necessary due to changes Musk had made to the platform. The initial order came as a penalty after the FTC foun

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 6 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Most open-source projects have meager resources, and the inrush of AI-provided bug reports and "fixes" has been a bane on their respective maintainers. However, the Linux kernel is well-manned, and code for it generally has a higher barrier to entry than in other places. Linu

The startup was founded by Carlo Edoardo Ferraris, who previously founded tech accessories company Rolling Square. After years of building consumer hardware, he became convinced that rapidly advancing AI needed a new kind of interface that lets people ask for what they want the way they’d ask a person. The idea behind Interface is to help people look up from their phones while getting everyday tasks done more quickly and naturally. At launch, the ring will

AI agents take over at SETI's Allen Telescope Array, scanning for extraterrestrial intelligence Manuel Uth Nov 3, 2026 The search for extraterrestrial intelligence is getting help from AI. At the Allen Telescope Array in Northern California, AI agents can now steer the telescope and analyze incoming radio signals on the fly. Researchers still type in their commands for now. Behind the system is Nvidia's Holoscan platform, which the SETI Institute and Break

Apple is racing to make Siri more agenticFuture versions of Siri will be able to control third-party apps and perform more complex tasks.Future versions of Siri will be able to control third-party apps and perform more complex tasks.Photo: David Imel / The VergeBloomberg’s Mark Gurman says CEO John Ternus is pressuring AI czar Craig Federighi to accelerate the Siri roadmap and deliver a powerful AI agent that can compete with OpenAI’s Dots or Meta’s Muse.

Zhidx (WeChat official account: zhidxcom) Author | Yang Jingli Editor | Li Shuiqing Zhidx reported on November 5 that today, Sand.ai (Sandai Technology), a Shanghai-based video generation foundation model startup, announced the completion of US$200 million (approximately RMB 1.334 billion) in a Series A+ funding round. This was the third funding round the company completed in 2026, bringing its cumulative fundraising over 10 months to US$300 million (appro