'AI tools could lead to nothing less than the death of astrophysics': Researchers predict bleak future for thousands who study black holes, galaxies, and supernovae

Astrophysicists increasingly fear artificial intelligence could weaken scientific reasoning while transforming research, publishing, training, and academic culture worldwide. [...]

Can AI level the playing field for working class content creators?

At VidCon, Roberto Blake argues in favor of artificial intelligence, while supporting "human value." [...]

IBM bets $240m on cheap, open-source inference to take on the hyperscalers

A multi-year deal with the startup Together AI will put Nvidia Blackwell systems on IBM Cloud, and the wager is that enterprises now care more about the cost of running AI than the prestige of the mod [...]

OmniGen 2 blends image and text generation like GPT-4o, but is open source

Researchers at the Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence have released OmniGen 2, an open-source system for text-to-image generation, image editing, and contextual image creation.<br /> The [...]

EXL Completes iMerit Acquisition to Expand Its End-to-End Enterprise AI Capabilities

ExlService Holdings , better known as EXL, has completed its acquisition of AI data specialist iMerit, bringing together two companies focused on different but closely connected parts of the enterpris [...]

A Tesla robotaxi inexplicably drove into a parked car

One of Tesla's fully autonomous robotaxis grazed a parked car after completing a ride recently in Austin, Texas. In a video recorded by YouTuber DirtyTesla, a self-driving Model Y is seen turning [...]

AI Can Make Our Food Safer and Healthier

Artificial intelligence is transforming everything: how we shop, how we work, and now, it's revolutionising what we eat. AI has already helped farmers increase yields by 20-30% and optimised glob [...]

The curious case of the missing Alexa+ users – many are still waiting for 'early access'

Amazon's Alexa+ rollout appears to be happening far slower than anticipated. [...]

See, Think, Explain: The Rise of Vision Language Models in AI

About a decade ago, artificial intelligence was split between image recognition and language understanding. Vision models could spot objects but couldn’t describe them, and language models generate [...]