Letters
This week, Coursera held its annual conference in Las Vegas. A major theme was the shift from knowledge- to skills-based education, which will help many individuals, businesses, and educational institutions.
Business
AI companies that aspire to compete with Google in search and other information-retrieval applications got a boost from the United States government.
Tech & Society
Meta and OpenAI promised to place more controls on their chatbots’ conversations with children and teenagers, as worrisome interactions with minors come under increasing scrutiny.
Business
Hangzhou, a longtime manufacturing hub in eastern China, is blossoming into a center of AI innovation.
AI Careers
Large language models may have advantages over human recruiters when conducting job interviews, a study shows.
Hardware
Google’s latest smartphone sports an AI assistant that anticipates the user’s needs and presents helpful information without prompting.
Business
OpenAI is working with Oracle to build its next chunk of processing power, a $30 billion outgrowth of the partners’ $500 billion Stargate project and a sign of OpenAI’s ongoing thirst for computation.
Business
Nvidia and AMD, having obtained the U.S. government’s permission to resume selling AI processors in China, received a cool welcome there.
Business
Generated video clips are capturing eyeballs in viral videos, ad campaigns, and a Netflix show.
Tech & Society
India, which has limited funding and large numbers of languages and dialects, is redoubling its efforts to build native large language models.
Machine Learning Research
OpenAI launched GPT-5, the highly anticipated successor to its groundbreaking series of large language models, but glitches in the rollout left many early users disappointed and frustrated.
Letters
Recently Meta made headlines with unprecedented, massive compensation packages for AI model builders exceeding $100M (sometimes spread over multiple years).