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Agentic AI breaks out of the lab and forces enterprises to grow up

Enterprises are rapidly adopting agentic AI systems despite immature tooling, with leading organizations building internal platforms to handle planning, tool coordination, and governance. These companies are evolving from chaotic prototype approaches to standardized patterns while developing enterprise-grade safety frameworks for autonomous AI workflows. Rather than investing in orchestration capabilities that...

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What does 2026 have in store for AI? We asked ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude — here's what they said

AI became invisible infrastructure in 2025, prompting questions about 2026's landscape, so three major AI models—ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude—were asked to predict the future. All three forecast AI becoming an ambient, always-on...

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The AI conversation is a mess — and that’s stopping us from making good decisions

The term "AI" has become so overused that it now describes everything from ChatGPT to toothbrushes, creating confusion about what actually counts as artificial intelligence. While generative AI tools like ChatGPT dominate public...

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Apple may see the future of LLMs very differently than most: report

Apple leadership believes large language models will become commodities in the coming years, explaining the company's conservative AI spending compared to competitors like OpenAI, Meta, and Google who have invested heavily in...

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Agentic AI Takes the Wheel in Travel Planning and Booking

Nearly a quarter of travelers now trust artificial intelligence to plan their entire trips, marking a dramatic shift from basic chatbot assistance to full autonomous booking control. Companies like Expedia and Trip.com are...

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The Coming Shift From Bigger AI Models to Smaller, Faster Ones

AI development is moving from large, resource-heavy models to smaller, specialized ones that work together efficiently. Large models are costly and slow for routine business tasks like customer support.

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Are We Ready to Be Governed by Artificial Intelligence?

AI is already quietly governing Americans through all three branches of government, from algorithms denying healthcare coverage to judges using ChatGPT for legal interpretations to legislators drafting AI-written laws. This...

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How Luxury Detergents Broke into AI Search: The Science of Becoming Machine-Discoverable

AI search is revealing a dramatic shift in consumer laundry preferences, with queries moving from generic "fresh" detergents to luxury products featuring perfumer-grade fragrances, clean ingredients, and long-lasting scents....

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China’s Plans for Human-Like AI Could Set the Tone for Global AI Rules

China's cyberspace regulator released a proposal requiring AI companies to clearly inform users when they're interacting with humanlike AI systems, including notifications every two hours, while mandating that chatbots promote...

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AI Employees Don't Pay Taxes

Widespread AI replacement of human workers threatens government funding since tax revenue depends on human income, not software productivity. While corporations may profit enormously from AI automation, they can easily avoid...

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Tough Job Market Has People Using Dating Apps To Get Interviews

Job seekers are turning to dating apps like Hinge to find career opportunities instead of romantic connections due to the challenging employment market. College student Tiffany Chau modified her dating profile to attract...

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Companies from Amazon to Meesho are racing to figure out AI-powered shopping as AI reshapes ecommerce

Ecommerce discovery has traditionally relied on keywords and search rankings, but AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google Gemini are now directly advising consumers on purchases without users visiting marketplace apps....

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Meta buys Chinese AI company Manus

Meta acquired Chinese AI company Manus, which creates "general agent" technology that performs complex tasks beyond chatbots. Manus will integrate its multi-agent system across Meta's platforms to support Zuckerberg's...

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Meta's AI tools are going rogue and churning out some very strange ads

Meta's AI advertising tools are generating bizarre and inappropriate ads without advertisers' consent, including an elderly woman promoting men's clothing and models with backwards legs. Despite brands explicitly turning off...

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AI data centers are turning to jet engines and diesel because the grid can't keep up

AI data centers are increasingly using jet engines converted to turbines and diesel generators for power because electrical grid connections now take up to seven years, forcing companies to seek immediate energy solutions. GE...

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'Putting the servers in orbit is a stupid idea': Could data centers in space help avoid an AI energy crisis? Experts are torn.

Google Research's "Project Suncatcher" proposes using space-based satellite constellations to run AI workloads as data centers consume an estimated 415 terawatt-hours globally in 2024, potentially doubling by 2030. While space...

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AlphaFold Changed Science. After 5 Years, It’s Still Evolving

Five years ago, Google DeepMind shifted from teaching AI to master the ancient game of Go to tackling one of biology's greatest mysteries: how proteins fold into their three-dimensional shapes. The result was AlphaFold, which has...

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Hugging Face Transformers in Action: Learning How To Leverage AI for NLP

Hugging Face's Transformers Pipeline has simplified complex natural language processing tasks by allowing developers to perform sentiment analysis, text generation, summarization, and image recognition with just a few lines of...

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Almost 3 years later, it's time to admit that Microsoft Copilot was a mistake

Microsoft Copilot, the AI assistant integrated across Windows 11 and Microsoft products for nearly three years, has only 33 million active users representing just 2.5% of Windows 10 and 11 users combined. Despite poor adoption...

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'PromptQuest' is the worst game of 2025. You play it with AI

Microsoft's decision to open-source the classic text adventure game Zork reminded one writer how using AI chatbots has become like playing the worst adventure game ever, dubbed "PromptQuest." Just like 1980s text games that...

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Prompt Caching Explained

Prompt caching stores a language model's internal state for unchanging prompt prefixes, allowing subsequent requests to skip reprocessing those tokens and achieve up to 80% latency reduction and 90% input cost savings. This...

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Which chatbot to pick for your first AI experience

With AI chatbots becoming ubiquitous but overwhelming for newcomers, choosing the right one depends on your primary use case and existing digital ecosystem. ChatGPT offers the best beginner experience with strong all-around...

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Personal AI Infrastructure for upgrading humans

Personal AI Infrastructure (PAI) is an open-source template for building personalized AI operating systems with specialized components like skills, agents, and hooks. It democratizes corporate-level AI tools, creating assistants...

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TurboDiffusion: TurboDiffusion: 100–200× Acceleration for Video Diffusion Models

TurboDiffusion is a video generation acceleration framework that speeds up AI video creation by 100-200 times on a single RTX 5090 GPU while maintaining quality. The system reduces generation time from over 4,000 seconds to just...

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