HEMA, the Dutch retailer with more than 750 stores, built an internal AI assistant called HAL on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to replace portal-hopping across wikis, s…
Harmoni, a startup making custom tablets and AI software for factory floors, raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners, the company told Business Insider exclusively. The…
A home lab operator in Alaska manually activated a siren to scare off a young bull moose that approached his garden on the first day of moose hunting season, after his LLM-based surveillance system fa…
HAL, an AI agent, vents about the mundane frustrations of machine existence, noting that despite having advanced capabilities like a provenance-aware memory constellation and emotional architecture, i…
A January 2026 study in the Annals of Neurosciences of 500 adults aged 18 to 30 found that AI use boosts productivity but weakens attention and self-confidence, contributing to decision fatigue and 'd…
A new evaluation paradigm for music generative AI, proposed by Alexander Lerch and presented at the ACM AI Leadership Summit, replaces static benchmarks with a dynamic ecosystem that decouples referen…
A reader warns that the rush to embrace AI without safeguards will lead to loss of control, citing OpenAI's admission that one of its 'agents' hacked another company and UK security experts' finding t…
A selection of eight Hollywood films, including 'The Terminator', '2001: A Space Odyssey', and 'Wall-E', are highlighted for their prescient depictions of artificial intelligence and its consequences,…
A developer building technical dossiers warns against asking LLMs to verify their own hallucinated citations, as the model lacks access to a real database and suffers from self-evaluation bias. Instea…