Will China’s AI-powered agribots repeat its EV success story?
Chinese tech and mass production capabilities could transform the nation’s farming industry with AI-enabled workforce.
Is ServiceNow the Biggest AI Winner Nobody Is Talking About?
Artificial intelligence was supposed to be negative for ServiceNow. Instead, it may be creating a new opportunity for the company.
Canada’s AI strategy must reckon with the environmental implications of data centres
AI is often described as if it lives in the cloud. The persistent controversies regarding the Wonder Valley project in Alberta illustrate how false...
How Roomba started a robot revolution
If you had a Roomba, especially in the early days of the robot vacuum, it was in many ways a fairly unsophisticated machine. It...
Electric air taxis are stuck in the courtroom
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Age of Empires II’s goats used as AI building blocks to build a neural...
Implying chatbots have some kind of consciousness may just be a good marketing ploy by the companies involved.
Sony’s Xperia 1 VIII is still a phone for the fans
The 1 VIII doesn’t look much like any Xperia that’s come before.
The Xperia 1 VIII marks an attempt at a step change for Sony's...
Signal’s Meredith Whittaker wants you to remember that AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’
"These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.”
In the Weights is your new AI-centric vanity search
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The Atlantic created a searchable database of the music used to train AI
Atlantic reporter Alex Reisner recently uncovered four datasets of music being used to train AI models and made them fully searchable for the public....























