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Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course

Klarna CEO warns AI may cause a recession as the technology comes for white-collar jobs

Gmail now shows AI-generated summaries by default on mobile

Student demands $8,000 refund after catching professor using ChatGPT in class materials

A hot potato: Recent reports suggest that students' use of generative AI to cheat on school assignments is approaching endemic levels. While many worry that tools like ChatGPT erode young people's critical thinking skills, some students have also caught teachers using the same tools, often with unsatisfactory results.

Woman divorces husband after ChatGPT reads his coffee grounds and predicts affair

Klarna is hiring humans again as AI replacements offer "lower quality" output

Wikipedia turns to generative AI to support its volunteer community

Adobe Firefly now supports partner AI models, moodboards, and enterprise APIs

Google is shelling out big bucks to put Gemini AI on Samsung devices

You can now generate AI videos with just 6GB of VRAM

OpenAI's newest o3 and o4-mini models excel at coding and math – but hallucinate more often

Microsoft research shows AI coding tools fall short in key debugging tasks

WordPress launches AI website builder for fast, easy creation

Want realistic AI images in Midjourney? Just add a camera filename

Shopify CEO: justify new hires by proving AI can't do the job better

A hot potato: In another example of the impact AI is having on jobs, Shopify's CEO has issued a warning to the company's managers: show that AI can't do the job better than a human before hiring new workers. Shopify previously laid off staff after it started using generative AI to complete some customer support tasks.

Futurist says the key to living longer is making it to the 2030s – AI will take it from there

New research shows your AI chatbot might be lying to you - convincingly

In context: These days, plenty of AI chatbots walk you through their reasoning step by step, laying out their "thought process" before delivering an answer, as if showing their homework. It's all about making that final response feel earned rather than pulled out of thin air, instilling a sense of transparency and even reassurance – until you realize those explanations are fake.

Google AI falls for April Fools' prank story, presents it as real news

Gartner projects $644 billion in 2025 AI spending, but few understand GenAI's actual value

Lawyers may soon charge $10,000 an hour thanks to AI, says LexisNexis CEO

Intel shows off in-game AI assistant running on Core Ultra 200HX

We are finally beginning to understand how LLMs work: No, they don't simply predict word after word

People are turning iconic photos into art in the style of Studio Ghibli after ChatGPT update

Before ChatGPT, there was AlexNet: the AI code that started it all is now open source

The big picture: You can't go five minutes these days without hearing about AI this and AI that. But have you ever wondered how we got here? The credit largely goes to a groundbreaking neural network from 2012 called AlexNet. While it didn't cause an immediate sensation, it ultimately became the foundation for the deep learning revolution we're experiencing today. Now, after years of negotiations, the original source code has finally been released to the public.