OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says AI will create “massively deflationary pressure,” making goods and services radically cheaper. But the company is slowing hiring as it burns billions, and current economic data tells a very different story.
A new AI system can identify individual brown bears by their facial features and posture, a task even experts struggle with. Trained on over 72,000 photos, it’s a breakthrough for non-invasive wildlife monitoring and could be adapted for other species.
The Internet Archive, a vital tool for research, is getting blocked by major news publishers. They’re worried AI firms are using its vast, structured database as a backdoor to scrape articles for AI training without permission.
Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth jumped to $251.7 billion on Thursday, pushing him past Jeff Bezos. The surge came as Meta announced plans to spend up to $135 billion on AI this year.
AI agents can now pass messages, but they don’t truly understand each other’s goals. Cisco’s Outshift is proposing a new architecture to solve this semantic isolation. The goal is to move agents from simple communication to genuine, goal-aligned collaboration.
Software stocks are in a full-blown bear market, with the iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF (IGV) down 21% from its high. The sell-off accelerated Thursday with a 5% drop, the worst since last April.
Google is learning its most important lessons about scaling AI in education from India’s massive and complex school system. The country now accounts for the highest global usage of Gemini for learning, forcing Google to rethink its one-size-fits-all approach.
A provocative piece in Forbes argues that our education system, designed to create compliant factory workers, is now failing in the AI age. The future belongs to those with ‘chutzpah’—the nerve to question and improve systems, not just follow them. The solution involves a radical rethinking of how w
SeaArt is launching SeaVerse, a new AI-native creative platform, in January 2026. The move signals a major pivot from a visual AI tool to a social community where creators can connect and monetize their work.
According to a PwC survey, 56% of companies say AI hasn’t delivered cost savings or revenue gains. The author argues this is because leaders are using the wrong metrics, treating AI as an efficiency tool instead of a new, cheap source of analytical capacity.
