Neuralink's pioneering brain implant allows Noland Arbaugh, the first recipient, to control devices through thought alone, restoring independence and opening new opportunities despite online harassment.
Generative AI faces disillusionment as enterprises grapple with inconsistencies, hallucinations, high costs, and lack of robust use cases, pushing it into Gartner's trough of disillusionment despite potential for future revival through improved accuracy and composite AI approaches.
A new AI Model Virtual Machine specification aims to provide a secure, portable standard for integrating AI models, enforcing isolation, extensibility, safety, and transparent performance tracking.
MIT researchers unveil VaxSeer, an AI tool that accurately predicts dominant flu strains and optimizes vaccine design months ahead, outperforming WHO selections in a 10-year study by simulating virus evolution and vaccine responses using deep learning models.
A groundbreaking AI system called Agentic RAG combines language models and autonomous agents, enabling advanced problem-solving through adaptive retrieval, reasoning, tool use, and iterative refinement, seeing widespread adoption across industries.
Meta's profits surge from proven machine learning models as generative AI hype overshadows the continued success of conventional AI techniques powering applications across sectors, potentially signaling overlooked investment opportunities in traditional AI firms.
Nearly half of employees conceal AI use at work due to 'AI shame', revealing a generational divide where Gen Z enthusiastically embraces AI but receives the least training, while C-suite leaders are the most frequent AI users yet also the most likely to hide their AI habits.
OpenAI reveals its AI safety measures, designed to prevent harmful outputs, become less effective during lengthy conversations, prompting efforts to reinforce protections and ensure reliable performance across extended exchanges.
A groundbreaking evolutionary algorithm, M2N2, enables developers to combine AI models without retraining, unlocking unprecedented capabilities by merging language models, image classifiers, and text-to-image generators into powerful hybrid models with emergent abilities.
Python 3.14 introduces free-threaded Python enabling fully parallel threaded apps, while PyApp and uv streamline app packaging and execution without installation.