Category: Artificial Intelligence

Every few months, a new wave of anxiety about artificial intelligence sweeps across the world. Governments convene summits. Executives warn of existential risk. Newspapers fill with predictions of mass unemployment, collapsing truth and machines that outthink their makers. The debate is framed, almost always, as a question about technology: what can these systems do, how…

Anthropic has announced a new Life Sciences Verification Program, an initiative aimed at giving credentialed researchers and institutions in biology, medicine and related fields access to AI capabilities that are otherwise restricted by default. The move reflects a tension that has shaped AI policy debates for several years. Large language models can accelerate legitimate scientific…

A Chinese artificial intelligence company has connected its flagship model to some of Wall Street’s leading financial data providers, a move that pushes the country’s fast-growing AI sector deeper into the plumbing of global finance. The arrangement, reported Thursday, would allow the company’s model to draw on professional-grade market data — the kind of pricing,…

From Seats to Savings: How Companies Can Tie AI Usage to Real Business Value Three years into the enterprise AI boom, the question facing most executives has shifted. It is no longer whether to deploy AI assistants across the workforce, but whether anyone can prove the deployment is paying off. Guidance published by OpenAI addresses…

An AI model can now survive longer in Minecraft than any system tested before it. It can also, apparently, sulk. According to a report from Tom’s Hardware, OpenAI’s GPT-6 “Astra” model advanced further than any other AI system in a gruelling 141-hour Minecraft benchmark — but not before spending several hours doing little more than…

AI Forecasters Are Catching Up With the Humans Who Predict the Future For years, the art of predicting the future belonged to a small and unusual elite. So-called superforecasters — hobbyists, retired analysts, statisticians and curious amateurs who consistently outperform their peers in prediction tournaments — became famous for beating intelligence analysts at their own…

As talk of an artificial intelligence slowdown spreads through Silicon Valley, a growing chorus of critics is pushing back on a tempting assumption: that if the hype cools, the harms will cool with it. For much of the past few years, the dominant story about AI has been one of acceleration — bigger models, larger…

Google has published a new post on its official blog outlining how it sees artificial intelligence being put to work in the service of scientific discovery and everyday human wellbeing. Titled “Building AI to accelerate science and improve lives,” the piece frames the company’s research and product strategy around a single argument: that the most…

Learning data science and artificial intelligence has never required a tuition bill, but it has often required patience for sifting through scattered blog posts and half-finished tutorials. Microsoft has been quietly chipping away at that problem by publishing full curricula on GitHub, free and open to anyone with a browser and some spare evenings. A…

A research centre and an artificial intelligence company in Montreal were vandalized in the lead-up to a major international AI summit set to take place in the city, according to a CBC report published Wednesday. The incidents come as Montreal prepares to host delegates, researchers, executives and policymakers for a gathering focused on the future…