While early adopters of AI in manufacturing initially faced productivity declines from replacing human workers with robots, over time surviving firms that embraced AI outperformed in sales growth, productivity, and employment, while older and larger companies struggled to adapt and reap AI's long-term benefits.
Airflow AI is a Python SDK that enables seamless integration of large language models (LLMs) and AI agents into Apache Airflow pipelines, allowing users to call LLMs, orchestrate agent tasks, parse outputs, and branch workflows based on LLM responses, all within Airflow's powerful data orchestration framework.
Celebrating 50 years since its startup days, Microsoft's future as a tech titan hinges on embracing emerging technologies like AI and cloud computing while navigating regulatory scrutiny and fostering innovation to stay ahead in an ever-evolving landscape.
Chip stocks plunged despite being exempted from tariffs, signaling persistent industry headwinds stemming from potential semiconductor-specific tariffs, weakening demand due to existing tariffs, uncertainties around export restrictions, AI regulations, and infrastructure project pullbacks.
DeepMind's 145-page paper warns of potential 'severe harm' from advanced AI by 2030, proposing safeguards like access controls and AI interpretability, though some experts dispute the premises.
Agility Robotics secures $400 million funding at $1.75 billion valuation as its 5-foot-9-inch humanoid robot Digit gains enhanced battery life, autonomous charging, and improved grasping capabilities while competing for warehouse automation dominance against rivals in the rapidly expanding humanoid robotics market.
Agility Robotics raised a staggering $400 million to scale its humanoid robot Digit, fueling the race to automate physically demanding tasks across industries with its bipedal robot designed for real-world utility like package delivery and warehouse work alongside humans.
Nvidia's substantial $250 million order for CoreWeave's AI chip-powered computing services is expected to bolster the latter's $40 per share IPO bid, signaling a potential revival for the sluggish IPO market.
Researchers developed an end-to-end neural network trained with reinforcement learning, enabling robots to learn human-like walking in simulation and seamlessly transfer this capability to real hardware without additional tuning, achieving robust and natural locomotion across multiple robots.
Otter unveils AI meeting assistants that actively participate through voice interaction, joining meetings, accessing data, scheduling follow-ups, and drafting emails, initially on Zoom with plans to expand to other virtual platforms.