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A new lawsuit is just the latest example of why AI probably shouldn’t be used for everything. A Pizza Hut franchisee claims the chain’s AI-powered delivery system, meant to optimize orders and speed up deliveries, instead backfired and cost it more than $100 million. Earlier this month, in the Texas Business Court, Chaac Pizza Northeast sued Pizza Hut after its restaurants were forced to use an AI delivery management platform known as Dragontail. Pizza Hut

Anthropic was founded by OpenAI exiles. It’s adding one more. On Tuesday, former OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy announced on X that he will be joining Anthropic, seemingly to work on the lab’s research and development team. “Personal update: I’ve joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative,” he wrote. “I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about educa

Softbank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son is Japan’s undisputed king of tech VC, but his personality contrasts sharply with the image you probably have of U.S. based tech investors. Descriptions from people who know him make him sound gentle and soft. He talks often about being sad and crying when things aren’t going well. Judging from a new report from Bloomberg, it sounds like insiders at Softbank are worried he’s about to do some of his worst crying in yea

Over the past two weeks, apparent leaks have given us a peek inside the drafting of a Trump Administration executive order aimed at creating safeguards around frontier AI models. The latest report, which is from Axios, says the most significant of those safeguards may now be voluntary. The order initially sounded like it was going to be a fairly sweeping change that would have put a government agency, possibly the federal government’s Center for AI Standar

Jeff Bezos says utopia is right around the corner; we should just keep pushing and, importantly, keep funding companies like the ones he runs. In a wide-ranging interview with CNBC, the founder of Amazon and Blue Origin didn’t deny that artificial intelligence will be disruptive; he just happens to think that it’ll be in a way that creates endless abundance. Easy for a guy who already has infinite wealth to say. “If you’ve been digging out a basement for y

OpenAI, one of the companies most responsible for pushing generative AI into the mainstream with its popular ChatGPT LLM, could file for an initial public offering (IPO) by the end of this week. The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter, that OpenAI is working with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley on paperwork for an IPO. The company reportedly plans to file confidentially with the U.S. Securities and Excha

A handful of big tech companies operate a large, global network of massive AI data centers. Those companies, chief among them Meta, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle, are often referred to as hyperscalers. As the top AI chipmaker, Nvidia provides the hardware for these hyperscalers, and in turn, the hyperscalers are the chip giant’s biggest customers. During the rise of the AI hype era, any investment made into AI infrastructure by these hyperscalers w

When there was social media chatter on Monday about an AI-written short story supposedly having won a “prestigious literary prize,” I opted not to blog about it. I hadn’t heard of the Commonwealth Prize, so how prestigious was it really? Plus, there was nothing even close to proof of what was being alleged—just some complaints, and people trying to prove their point with extremely fallible AI detectors. But the social media allegations have metastasized in

Apple CEO Tim Cook waves to attendees during an event on the Apple campus in Cupertino, Calif., Monday, June 9, 2025. Credit: AP Photo/Jeff Chiu After stumbling out of the starting gate in Big Tech's pivotal race to capitalize on artificial intelligence, Apple tried to regain its footing Monday during an annual developers conference that focused mostly on incremental advances and cosmetic changes in its technology. The presummer rite, which attracted thous

Credit: GitHub: https://github.com/yeliudev/VideoMind While Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is evolving rapidly, AI models still struggle with understanding long videos. A research team from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has developed a novel video-language agent, VideoMind, that enables AI models to perform long video reasoning and question-answering tasks by emulating humans' way of thinking. The VideoMind framework incorporates an

Comparison between F-TAC Hand and human hand. Credit: Zhao et al. Over the past decades, roboticists have developed increasingly advanced systems that can emulate some human capabilities and effectively tackle various real-world tasks. To reliably grasp, manipulate and utilize objects in their surroundings, robots should be able to detect and process tactile information, replicating the processes underpinning the human sense of touch. Researchers at Peking

Scans of the painting during various stages in its restoration. At left is the damaged piece, with the middle panel showing a map of the different kinds of damage present; green lines show full splits in the underlying panel support, thin red lines depict major paint craquelure, blue areas correspond to large paint losses, while pink regions show smaller defects like scratches. At right is the restored painting with the applied laminate mask. Credit: Alex

A sign is displayed on a Google building at their campus in Mountain View, Calif., Sept. 24, 2019. Credit: AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File Google has offered buyouts to another swath of its workforce across several key divisions in a fresh round of cost cutting coming ahead of a court decision that could order a breakup of its internet empire. The Mountain View, California, company confirmed the streamlining that was reported by several news outlets. It's not cle

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As more connected devices demand an increasing amount of bandwidth for tasks like teleworking and cloud computing, it will become extremely challenging to manage the finite amount of wireless spectrum available for all users to share. Engineers are employing artificial intelligence to dynamically manage the available wireless spectrum, with an eye towards reducing latency and boosting performance. But most AI methods for c

Amini AI chief Kate Kallot sees opportunity in every day emerging-world challenges. Away from the heady rush to build ultra-capable, sci-fi style artificial intelligence in Silicon Valley, ambitious Nairobi-based startup Amini AI is betting on the technology addressing emerging countries' prosaic problems in the here and now. Chief executive Kate Kallot aims for Amini—still a relatively small firm with $6 million in funding and 25 employees—to become "the