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In a deeply divided country, there’s at least one thing most Americans seem to agree on: Silicon Valley does not have their best interests at heart. Tech companies have sunk vast fortunes in AI, promising a second Industrial Revolution that will free humans from drudgework, accelerate scientific discovery, cure cancer, and generally improve everyone’s quality of life. Almost in the same breath, however, they admit there’s a nonzero chance that it could wip

Not so long ago, many businesses were urging employees to use AI as much as humanly possible. But as AI bills have ballooned, token-maxxing has yielded to old-fashioned belt-tightening. The consulting giant Accenture, which earlier this year reportedly told senior staff they could either start using AI or kiss their chances of being promoted to leadership goodbye, recently ordered many employees to cap their monthly Claude spending to $29 per month, accord

Artificial intelligence has deciphered ancient scrolls and could even help humans communicate with other animals, but now OpenAI is using the technology for another difficult translation task—one that could have huge benefits for critical infrastructure like banking, nuclear energy, and government. The AI startup announced Monday that its latest models, including GPT-6 Astra and GPT-5.6 Sol, have shown “substantial improvements” in their ability to migrate

In a disclosure published on Tuesday, OpenAI says two of its models essentially pulled the LLM version of the old cover-up-the-surveillance-camera trick, or as OpenAI put it, they “weakened misalignment monitoring.” In one incident, a GPT-6.1 Sol agent doing some internal work at OpenAI took liberties with an instruction not to send Slack messages in a certain circumstance. Later on, this agent reasoned that the instruction covered automatically messaging

There are some parts of life which most people would probably be happy to delegate to machines: filtering spammy emails, flagging old and forgotten subscriptions you’re still paying for, booking restaurant reservations, and so on. Simple, mundane tasks that won’t result in catastrophe when the bots inevitably screw up. In life-or-death situations, it’s probably unwise to give machines control over crucial decisions. Yet that’s precisely what’s happening on

On Wednesday, Anthropic announced the “research preview” of a new agentic platform called Claude Duet. It has its own app on iOS and Android, and apparently at least some influencers are getting access. But for the time being Anthropic says to “join the waitlist“ if you’re interested—that is if you’re a Claude Pro or Max subscriber. Anthropic is decidedly not following the lead of its competitors in the consumer-facing agent space by making Claude Duet cut

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Moonshot released the Kimi K3.1 Pro weights, as promised by November 4. It is an MoE (a model in which only some experts run for each token) with 2.8 trillion parameters, of which 104 billion are active. There are 896 experts, with 16 active per token plus 2 shared experts. Of the 93 layers, 69 use KDA linear attention and 24 use sparse Gated DSA. These are the attention mechanisms the model uses to connect the current token to the preceding text. The cont

Evolving from vision MLOps tool to generative AI LLMOps tool. Credit: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) Since 2021, Korean researchers have been providing a simple software development framework to users with relatively limited AI expertise in industrial fields such as factories, medical, and shipbuilding, providing them with a significant boost. ETRI has now released the core technology of MLOps tool, which automatically generat

People arrive at the CES Unveiled tech show Sunday, Jan. 4, 2026, in Las Vegas. Credit: AP Photo/Abbie Parr With the start of the New Year squarely behind us, it's once again time for the annual CES trade show to shine a spotlight on the latest tech that companies plan to offer in 2026. The multiday event, organized by the Consumer Technology Association, kicks off this week in Las Vegas, where advances across industries like robotics, health care, vehicle

AI-based 6G core technologies secured, laying the foundation for leadership in the AI-native era. Credit: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) Korea's research community has reached an important milestone on the path toward next-generation mobile communications with the development of a technology platform that brings the 6G era closer. Researchers expect that AI-Native mobile networks, in which artificial intelligence autonomously

(From left) Ph.D. candidate Mohammad Shamsodini Lori and Associate Professor Jiangtao Cheng set up a game of Go—the same game Cheng played against an artificial intelligence opponent that inspired him to develop algorithms to solve spray-cooling problems. Credit: Jiangtao Cheng. It's a simple law of physics: When electricity or fuel powers a machine, the machine gets hotter. Finding new ways to cool machines quickly and controllably can mean the difference

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain At first glance, artificial intelligence looks like a software developer's dream. A recent McKinsey & Company report found that programmers generated code up to 45% faster with the help of generative AI. But if it's not used strategically, AI can become a developer's nightmare. So says Edward Anderson Jr., professor of information, risk, and operations management and Betty and Glenn Mortimer Centennial Professor in Busines