Gemini AI Ultra is Google's new ultimate 'VIP' plan for AI obsessives – here's what you get for its staggering price tag

Google just announced Google AI Ultra, and it comes with a staggeringly high price tag. [...]

Opening the Black Box on AI Explainability

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become intertwined in almost all facets of our daily lives, from personalized recommendations to critical decision-making. It is a given that AI will continue to advan [...]

Why Are AI Chatbots Often Sycophantic?

Are you imagining things, or do artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots seem too eager to agree with you? Whether it’s telling you that your questionable idea is “brilliant” or backing you up on s [...]

The 13 biggest announcements from Google I/O 2025

Google's big I/O 2025 keynote gave us a massive number of new AI tools including Beam and Flow, plus upgrades for everything from Gemini to AI Search. Here's the lowdown. [...]

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 [...]

a16z has raised $1.1bn to invest in the physical layer of AI

Andreessen Horowitz has closed a $1.1bn fund that will invest exclusively in hardware. The Machine Age Fund, announced on Friday, covers the physical layer artificial intelligence runs on, from chips [...]

How AI is Ushering in a New Era of Robotic Surgery

Medical robotics first entered general surgery in the 1980s with laparoscopic tools that enabled minimally invasive procedures, reducing incision size and recovery time. These early systems extended s [...]

iPhone designer Jony Ive joins OpenAI, but don't expect a new ChatGPT smartphone

Jony Ive is set to join OpenAI and continue work on consumer AI devices and software. [...]

How AI-Powered Workstations Are Rewriting the Rules of Hollywood Production

Hollywood is undergoing a technological renaissance—and artificial intelligence is at the center of it. Since 2018, AI adoption in Hollywood has been increasing by roughly 35% annually—demonstrati [...]