Category: AI

• Agentic AI deployment is slow, but the tech itself isn’t at fault
• Privacy, compliance, managing and skills shortages are all creating hurdles
• Dynatrace says the way forward is to redefine ROI and focus on human-machine collaboration

A new…

Open the website of one explicit deepfake generator and you’ll be presented with a menu of horrors. With just a couple of clicks, it offers you the ability to convert a single photo into an eight-second explicit videoclip, inserting women into…

Last month, Pamela Griffin and two other residents of Taylor, Texas, took to the lectern at a city council meeting to object to a data center project. But later, they sat back as council members discussed a proposed tech factory. Griffin didn’t…

• You’re more likely to get an ROI from AI after modernizing your apps, Cloudflare report finds
• Security should also be built into your strategy for a more comprehensive approach
• Most leaders think their infrastructure is sufficient – don’t be…

British startup Synthesia, whose AI platform helps companies create interactive training videos, has raised a $200 million Series E round of funding that brings its valuation to $4 billion — up from $2.1 billion just a year ago.

Unlike some…

Clawdbot is an open source personal AI assistant that you run on your own hardware. It connects large language models from providers such as Anthropic and OpenAI to real tools such as messaging apps, files, shell, browser and smart…

Sunny Sethi, founder of HEN Technologies, doesn’t sound like someone who’s disrupted an industry that has remained largely unchanged since the 1960s. His company builds fire nozzles — specifically, nozzles that it says increase suppression…

Information from the conservative-leaning, AI-generated encyclopedia developed by Elon Musk’s xAI is beginning to appear in answers from ChatGPT.

xAI launched Grokipedia in October, after Musk had been complaining that Wikipedia was biased…

In recent months, some of the major players in science fiction and popular culture have been taking firmer stances against generative AI.

Separate decisions by San Diego Comic-Con and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA)…

StepFun has introduced Step-DeepResearch, a 32B parameter end to end deep research agent that aims to turn web search into actual research workflows with long horizon reasoning, tool use and structured reporting. The model is built…