Archive: February 2017

Google started cramming AI features into search in 2024, but last month marked an escalation. With the release of AI Mode, Google previewed a future in which searching the web does not return a list of 10 blue links. Google says it’s getting positive feedback on AI Mode from users, so it’s forging ahead by adding multimodal functionality to its robotic results. AI Mode relies on a custom version of the Gemini large language model (LLM) to produce results.

Shutterstock / Futurism Can AI have good taste? Fashion founder and tastemaker Emily Oberg says no. In a post on her Substack, Emily Loves, Oberg discussed her experiments using AI to help her run Sporty & Rich, the fashion and lifestyle brand she founded in 2018 on the back of a popular moodboard she created. One area where she’s been testing AI, she wrote, is by using AI to generate e-commerce images — and according to the founder’s postmortem, the test

The European Union is moving to force AI companies to be more transparent than ever, publishing a code of practice Thursday that will help tech giants prepare to comply with the EU’s landmark AI Act. These rules—which have not yet been finalized and focus on copyright protections, transparency, and public safety—will initially be voluntary when they take effect for the biggest makers of “general purpose AI” on August 2. But the EU will begin enforcing the

Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 4 Join the conversation Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Meta's Muse is the hottest new AI agent in town right now after the company announced it earlier this month. But despite having been well-received by those who have put the agent through its paces since then, it now appears Muse might not be as private as Meta claims. The com

Google has begun expanding two Gemini artificial intelligence features in Gmail: the conversation summaries from “AI Overview” and the writing assistant “Help me write”. The tools help retrieve important information from lengthy discussions, identify decisions and pending tasks, and draft messages from simple instructions, as well as review text that has already been written.Continued after the advertisementThe two features were already available for perso

Kevin Dietsch / Futurism OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sympathizes with Gen Zers entering the job market. It’s just unfortunate that the AI tools he’s responsible for ushering into the world are completely upending the nature of work and finding a job. “It’s totally true that huge numbers of tasks that people do today will be done better, cheaper, and faster by AI — and completely differently,” Altman said in an interview with Stanford’s Graduate School of Busines

An Easter egg developed in collaboration with The Pokémon Company is now available on Google Search as of April 5. When you enter a monster’s name in Google Search on a smartphone, a Poké Ball appears on the screen, allowing you to catch the Pokémon. Catching Pikachu with a Poké Ball Google Search has a hidden feature called an “Easter egg.” These are jokes or games that appear when you search for certain keywords or perform certain actions. For example, s

Continue after the advertisementThe model scored 49.1% on the FrontierCode 2.0 benchmark, which evaluates coding with AI agents, compared with 45.5% for Opus 5.5 and 42.8% for GPT-6 Astra. In software engineering, it achieved 69.9% on FrontierSWE v2, above Fable 5.1 (56.3%) and Opus 5.5 (62.3%). In the OSWorld 2.1 test, which evaluates computer control, it reached 89.3%.The results also include advances in scientific research and reasoning. On Terminal-Ben

Nvidia pushes cloud customers to cut back on China business Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 3, 2026 Nvidia has told some cloud customers to take on less business from Chinese companies. The guidance is meant to push cloud providers, including Nvidia-backed neoclouds, toward a more diverse customer mix, The Information reports, citing three people familiar with the matter. The directive isn't mandatory and applies

But it is how people are using it and how much they’re spending that has caught CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s attention. Zuckerberg said about 25% of people who set up Muse now use it daily, helping improve retention. He also shared that over a quarter of Muse’s engaged users who were shopping via the AI agent had an average purchase size of over $200, which was surprising even to industry insiders. “Plaid told us that they hadn’t seen activity like they’re seeing

99.4% Takes the Global Top Spot! This Chinese AI Was Trained by World Champions 2026-11-06 13:01:47 Source: QbitAI In one stroke, it broke the CyberGym world record at the "AI Security World Cup" Yishui, reporting from Aofei Temple QbitAI | Official WeChat Account QbitAI 99.4%, No. 1 in the world. Wow—who would have thought that the Silicon Valley firms always basking in the spotlight and expounding on AI security would...? Now, the one breaking the AI sec