Reddit has filed a lawsuit against AI startup Anthropic, alleging unauthorized use of Reddit's data to train AI models without proper licensing, violating the site's user agreement and ignoring requests to stop scraping content.
McKinsey's AI tool Lilli, used by over 75% of its employees monthly, creates PowerPoints and handles tasks traditionally done by junior workers, allowing them to focus on higher-value work for clients.
AI's revolutionary potential in agriculture, from boosting crop health and yields to accelerating research, is being stifled by red tape and lack of government support, hindering innovation and adoption that could transform farming.
The CEO of AI firm Anthropic, Dario Amodei, warns that AI could eliminate 50% of entry-level office jobs soon, part of a Silicon Valley script hyping AI's potential to fix everything after ruining everything first, despite lack of evidence to support such dramatic claims.
Audi is leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to boost efficiency in production and logistics, integrating over 100 AI projects to enable major gains through AI-supported quality monitoring, generative AI tools like 'Tender Toucan', and systematic data organization.
Sumner County Schools in Tennessee is using AI to provide personalized literacy support, helping teachers focus on individual student needs while receiving real-time data to guide instruction and address achievement gaps, according to Director of Schools Scott Langford.
Databricks launches Lakebase, a fully managed serverless Postgres database integrated with its lakehouse platform, offering one-click data sync, autoscaling, and instant branching to power AI agents and real-time applications without complex ETL pipelines.
A panel of health leaders warns that by 2050, an alarming 1.3 billion people could have diabetes and over 5 billion may be insulin resistant, but AI technology tracking food composition and personalized health data offers hope for prevention and early intervention.
Salesforce, a leading customer relationship management software company, is acquiring cloud data management firm Informatica in an $8 billion deal, paying $25 per share to bolster its push into artificial intelligence and enable autonomous AI agents to deliver smarter and safer outcomes.
Data centers consume enormous amounts of water for cooling servers and equipment, posing new challenges and opportunities for civil engineers to design efficient water systems, minimize consumption, and collaborate with utilities for sustainable operations.