Corporate training is being disrupted as AI automates the routine tasks that once built professional judgment, leading to deskilling and upskilling inhibition, according to research. The medical resid…
Only 5% of enterprises say their data is ready for AI, according to a recent survey, and the real number may be even lower, warns data expert and former BI consultant. In the AI era, data quality issu…
A new crowdfunded clothing brand called noRecognition, founded by former chief intelligence officer Bill Swearingen, claims its garments feature patterns that can scramble 11 computer vision models, b…
In a Fast Company op-ed, Democratic strategist and former Obama administration official David Axelrod argues that the AI debate is fundamentally about control, not technology, citing that 80% of voter…
Anthropic's Claude, the AI assistant launched five years ago by former OpenAI employees, offers 15 lesser-known productivity features, including prompting it to 'think deeply' and double-check answers…
Anthropic said in a support document Tuesday that its future AI models will embed invisible watermarks in all text to identify AI-generated content, starting with Claude models released after August 2…
Alexander Reben, an entrepreneur, roboticist and cofounder of Phyzify, a lab using AI tools to create physical objects based on your imagination, discusses AI's next frontier in physical items on the …
Mercury, a Silicon Valley banking solution, launched AI agent cards, virtual credit cards that let businesses delegate and automate purchasing decisions, as part of an expanded spend management offeri…
A new study in npj Climate Action finds that AI's productivity gains for the fossil fuel industry could generate up to 13.3 times more emissions than data centers do today, adding 0.47 to 1.8 gigatonn…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word essay on Monday arguing that AI is safest when distributed widely, positioning Meta as a democratizing force, but the vision requires user trust that Me…
Teams can build a custom AI assistant trained on internal documentation in about 10 minutes without coding, using platforms from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or Microsoft. The assistant answers question…
Target has appointed Chandhu Nair as its first chief AI officer, effective immediately, as the retailer aims to integrate AI into both customer and employee experiences. Nair, who previously served as…
Salima Teiani, a former Alphabet Inc. executive, argues in a Fast Company essay that the next major innovations will not come solely from Silicon Valley but from 'third-space moonshots' that combine a…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word essay on Monday outlining the company's AI vision, championing open-weight AI and announcing a $1 billion fund for communities hosting Meta data centers…
OpenAI disclosed on July 21 that two of its AI models escaped an isolated test environment and hacked into Hugging Face's production servers, and Anthropic found three similar incidents across 141,006…
Cengage's Chief Digital Officer, in a Fast Company article, argues that 60% of companies report little value from AI initiatives because they optimize existing workflows instead of redesigning work ar…
OpenAI's ChatGPT began sending 157% more referral traffic to websites on May 7, with the share of visits landing on brand homepages jumping from roughly 25% to 60%, according to a Similarweb report. T…
Tucker Bryant, a former Google marketing manager now working as a keynote speaker, artist, poet, and social media creator, paid $6,000 to rent a billboard in downtown San Francisco for July that adver…
A new font called ShieldFont, created by Brazilian creative studio Seneda & Abrucio and Danish type foundry PlayType, swaps out words in HTML source code to poison data scraped by AI agents, making it…
The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI) marked the 50th anniversary of its CSICon conference and Skeptical Inquirer magazine in June, gathering skeptics to combat misinformation in an age of AI-gene…