Warnings about runaway expectations are growing louder throughout the AI industry

Prominent AI researcher Stuart Russell is sounding the alarm about runaway expectations in artificial intelligence, some of which he and others in the field helped create.<br /> The article Warn [...]

Most Americans worry AI will permanently displace workers, poll finds

Poll respondents said they were concerned that “too many people will lose their jobs” because of artificial intelligence [...]

AI Isn’t Coming for Hollywood. It Has Already Arrived

An early winner in the generative AI wars was near collapse—then bet everything on a star-studded comeback. Can Stability AI beat the competition? [...]

Chinese ‘Virtual Human’ Salespeople Are Outperforming Their Real Human Counterparts

Built using AI technology from Baidu and DeepSeek, the virtual livestreamers sell everything from wet wipes to printers 24 hours a day, seven days a week. [...]

Amazon adds dynamic food delivery ordering to Alexa+

Amazon announced that it is adding new capabilities for ordering food delivery with its Alexa+ artificial intelligence assistant. Users will be able to place orders using natural language on Alexa+ th [...]

Evals are the new PRD, Expedia’s AI chief tells VB Transform 2026

“The new PRD are the evals,” Xavi Amatriain, Expedia Group’s first chief AI and data officer, told the VB Transform 2026 audience last week in Menlo Park. “So basically, you encode what you wa [...]

CodeSignal’s new AI tutoring app Cosmo wants to be the ‘Duolingo for job skills’

CodeSignal Inc., the San Francisco-based skills assessment platform trusted by Netflix, Meta, and Capital One, launched Cosmo on Wednesday, a mobile learning application that transforms spare minutes [...]

AI and the future of work: evolution, not extinction

Few technological shifts have generated as much excitement and anxiety as the introduction of artificial intelligence in the workplace. [...]

You can now download and tweak Grok 2.5 for yourself as it goes open source

Unhinged as Grok may be, it's now open source. xAI's CEO, Elon Musk, posted on X that the company made the older Grok 2.5 model available to the public and will do the same with the upcoming [...]