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Cornell professor says mathematicians need 'rizz' in the AI era

Mathematicians need to develop their oft-neglected social skills as AI does the solving legwork, a top professor at Cornell said.

Inside Microsoft, a powerful new AI executive is shaking up some of the company's most important businesses

Microsoft's head of the Copilot platform, AI agents, and now Office is making good on his promise to reshape how his teams work.

He called for an AI slowdown, then told investors he’d race ahead

SAN FRANCISCO — After Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei released a 3,800-word essay that called for the artificial intelligence industry to “slow down” to reduce the chance of disaster, two of his top rivals in the AI race quickly agreed.

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You could be forgiven for reading recent headlines about massive and easily exploitable security vulnerabilities in the internet’s core infrastructure and thinking: Stop the web, I want to log off.

How NVIDIA and Pinterest Power Real-Time Visual AI

Pinterest and NVIDIA partnered on Blackwell GPUs to scale multimodal vision-language AI for 640 million users while cutting costs and latency

Scott Bessent says neocloud debt isn't problematic at all

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said AI-related debt was contained to a small part of the AI ecosystem, and he wasn't concerned.

Google has a plan to keep ads alive even when AI agents do the shopping

Google said that AI agents can automate shopping, but users will still want choices.

One Tech Tip: How to get started with AI agents, and which are best for specific tasks

Agentic artificial intelligence is gaining popularity far beyond tech circles, with Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic and other companies going head-to-head in the surging market for consumer-friendly AI agents.

Shopify CEO turned his wine cellar into an AI rack

Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke runs a personal AI assistant in his wine cellar that uses his Fitbit data to identify his most stressful meetings.

Samsung Keeps Shattering Profit Records as AI Boom Lifts Chip Demand

SEOUL, South Korea — Samsung Electronics said Thursday that its operating profit for the last quarter reached a record 107.4 trillion won ($80.5 billion), fueled by surging demands for its computer memory chips used in artificial intelligence systems.

Searching for Jobs, Gen Z Feels Like It’s Staring Into ‘the Void’

Hundreds of applications later, even being rejected by an actual human being counts as a victory.

Epic is using AI to help build Unreal Engine.

Epic’s VP of development, Marcus Wassmer, told This Week in Videogames that “we are definitely using AI to develop code and features for Unreal Engine.” Wassmer says that the UE team has seen benefits like “faster” development of features, and the ability for engineers to “explore ideas” that they haven’t had “the time to tackle.”