Major sports leagues like the NBA, MLB, and ATP are using AI-powered motion capture and algorithms to assist referees, but limitations in speed, accuracy, and visual processing remain, requiring continued human oversight for key calls.
Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing hurricane forecasting, providing accurate predictions days in advance and enabling better resource allocation, but experts caution against solely relying on AI due to potential inaccuracies, stressing the need for a balanced approach integrating traditional models.
Obvio, a startup funded by Bain Capital Ventures, deploys AI-powered cameras at stop signs that locally process footage to detect violations like running stops or distracted driving, sharing only verified clips with law enforcement to curb unsafe behaviors while limiting surveillance concerns.
The National Hurricane Center has been utilizing AI for years to streamline data analysis and coordination, resulting in more accurate and timely hurricane forecasts while extending the tropical outlook from 5 to 7 days without sacrificing reliability.
SAP announces massive Business AI expansion to over 400 scenarios by 2025, transforming Joule into an AI-powered interface with autonomous workflow agents that can execute complex tasks across multiple applications while eliminating manual prompt engineering.
DeepMind's CEO Hassabis predicts human-level artificial general intelligence (AGI) within a decade, heralding a 'golden era' where AGI solves major global challenges like disease and energy scarcity, though potential risks remain.
Anthropic has launched Claude Explains, a blog featuring AI-generated content with human oversight, showcasing its Claude model's writing abilities while emphasizing collaboration between AI and human expertise to create educational resources across diverse topics.
The FDA's new AI tool for reviewing medical devices, CDRH-GPT, is struggling with basic tasks like uploading documents and accessing recent studies, raising concerns about rushing AI adoption before it's ready to handle complex regulatory work accurately and safely.
Paradromics, a neurotech startup rivaling Elon Musk's Neuralink, successfully implanted and removed its brain-computer interface device during human surgery, marking a major milestone as it prepares for broader clinical trials to help people with severe motor impairments like paralysis.
Researchers speculate that DeepSeek, a Chinese AI lab, may have trained its latest model using outputs from Google's Gemini AI, raising concerns about potential misuse of proprietary data and highlighting the challenges of preventing distillation in the rapidly evolving AI landscape.