Pope Leo XIV, pledging to uphold Catholic values, has identified artificial intelligence as a crucial challenge in safeguarding human dignity and workers' rights, signaling a humble and fraternal approach to his papacy.
While tech giants pour billions into AI infrastructure, industry leaders caution that the hype surrounding AI capabilities is outpacing reality, potentially raising unrealistic expectations despite the technology's promising future in various applications.
MBZUAI unveils the Institute of Digital Public Health, harnessing AI foundation models and a data-driven approach to drive innovation across computational biology, precision medicine, infectious disease monitoring, and the UAE Genome Atlas for transformative public health solutions.
Google's new Gemini Code Assist leverages AI to provide coding assistance, code generation, and natural language chat for developers, offering features like local codebase awareness, code customization, and app development within IDEs and Google Cloud services, aiming to accelerate development while ensuring enterprise-grade security and privacy.
Meta's plans for 'super sensing' facial recognition glasses that can identify people by name and track activities have reignited privacy debates, as the tech giant re-evaluates policies after previously scrapping similar technology due to concerns.
Anthropic's AI model Claude now boasts web search capabilities, enabling it to access real-time data and specialized knowledge from the internet, allowing developers to create innovative applications that incorporate up-to-date information for use cases like financial analysis and legal research.
Google pledges ambitious climate goals, vowing to achieve net-zero emissions across operations and supply chain by 2030, halve emissions compared to 2019 levels, transition to round-the-clock carbon-free energy, and invest in carbon removal technologies.
As climate risks intensify, renewables and nuclear power are poised to meet surging global electricity demand through 2026, displacing fossil fuels and reducing emissions, underscoring the need for resilient and diversified power systems.
Introducing 'ty', a lightning-fast Python type checker and language server crafted in Rust, offering a preview experience through an online playground and the uvx command, open-source under MIT license with contributions welcomed in the Ruff repository.
OpenAI's reasoning models like o3 are rapidly improving, but it's uncertain how much further they can scale, with current training compute likely below the frontier but not drastically behind, suggesting potential for continued rapid scaling in the near term before growth slows.