Meta's $14.3 billion AI investment faces hurdles as its partnership with Scale AI strains, prompting Meta to work with Scale's rivals for data labeling while struggling to retain top AI talent and navigate bureaucracy after poaching researchers from OpenAI and Scale.
Meta faces an AI talent exodus as lucrative offers lure employees away, while a former xAI engineer allegedly stole trade secrets before joining OpenAI, prompting a lawsuit, and federal workers gain access to the controversial Grok AI chatbot.
AI tools like ChatGPT have become ubiquitous in high schools and colleges, enabling students to generate essays and assignments with ease, raising concerns about normalized cheating and exposing flaws in the education system that may require a redesign of teaching practices.
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.