Pioneering researchers Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton received the 2024 Turing Prize for their foundational work on reinforcement learning, a technique that enabled breakthroughs like AlphaGo and ChatGPT by training AI agents through reward-based learning.
An AI tool deployed by the Los Angeles Times analyzes articles for potential biases and perspectives, labeling them as 'Voices' and generating 'Insights' that suggest alternative viewpoints, sparking controversy over questionable results implying biases where none exist.
OpenAI, after hitting scaling limits with its GPT models, is pivoting its core AI strategy, shifting from building larger models to a hybrid approach combining pre-training and 'chain of thought' reasoning techniques, with potential industry-wide implications.
Amazon unveils Alexa+, a smarter, more conversational AI assistant powered by generative AI that can take action across services and devices, remembering user preferences and knowledge across platforms.
Google unveiled an experimental AI 'co-scientist' system that synthesizes research, generates hypotheses, and suggests plans, leveraging large language models and techniques like literature search, with early users enthusiastic but uncertainty around true novelty.
Amid controversy, the US government plans to use an AI language model to analyze federal workers' weekly emails detailing their accomplishments, potentially determining if their jobs are essential, sparking backlash from unions and employees but earning praise from President Trump.
Anthropic unveils Claude 3.7 Sonnet, a hybrid AI model excelling in coding, front-end web development, and complex tasks, along with Claude Code, a command line tool enabling developers to delegate engineering tasks to Claude, achieving state-of-the-art performance on coding benchmarks.
Researchers unveil groundbreaking multimodal AI system that simultaneously processes text, images, and tables from documents, dramatically outperforming traditional search methods by combining advanced parsing technology with hybrid search algorithms and re-ranking capabilities for superior accuracy at reduced costs.