Researchers find adding this one simple sentence to prompts makes AI models way more creative

One of the coolest things about generative AI models — both large language models (LLMs) and diffusion-based image generators — is that they are "non-deterministic." That is, despite the [...]

Google is reportedly changing course on its diversity initiatives, too

Google is changing its tune around efforts to hire employees from historically underrepresented backgrounds, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal.<br /> The company reportedly [...]

Microsoft isn't releasing a diversity report for 2025

Microsoft will not release a diversity and inclusion report for 2025 like it has been doing every year since 2019, Stephen Totilo from Game File has reported. Totilo asked the company if it was skippi [...]

From Silicon Valley to Nairobi: What the Global South’s AI leapfrogging teaches tech leaders

When I write about the cognitive migration now underway, brought about by the rapid advance of gen AI, I do so from the perspective of someone who has spent four decades in the technology industry. My [...]

Can AI Pass Human Cognitive Tests? Exploring the Limits of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has significantly advanced, from powering self-driving cars to assisting in medical diagnoses. However, one important question remains: Could AI ever pass a cognitive test [...]

New training method boosts AI multimodal reasoning with smaller, smarter datasets

Researchers at MiroMind AI and several Chinese universities have released OpenMMReasoner, a new training framework that improves the capabilities of language models in multimodal reasoning.The framewo [...]

The beginning of the end of the transformer era? Neuro-symbolic AI startup AUI announces new funding at $750M valuation

The buzzed-about but still stealthy New York City startup Augmented Intelligence Inc (AUI), which seeks to go beyond the popular "transformer" architecture used by most of today's LLMs [...]

Why reinforcement learning plateaus without representation depth (and other key takeaways from NeurIPS 2025)

Every year, NeurIPS produces hundreds of impressive papers, and a handful that subtly reset how practitioners think about scaling, evaluation and system design. In 2025, the most consequential works w [...]

All the tech and gadgets announced at CES 2026

It's the first week of a new year and there's no time for the tech world to slowly ease back into things following the holidays. That's because CES 2026 is in full swing, with all manne [...]