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AI-powered smart glasses promise to keep your phone in your pocket, but their usefulness depends on how much work they can take off your day. Meta ties its glasses to its own AI services, while Google is courting eyewear makers with Gemini.
The first four years of the generative AI revolution have tended to see power flow in one direction. Big Tech firms unleashed their tools on the planet and expected users to like it or lump it. Unhappy with the amount of data collected about you in the pursuit of convenience from your chatbot?
Renee Wegrzyn spent her career building the future of American science—including the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, or ARPA-H, the White House agency created to accelerate health breakthroughs. Then the Trump administration showed her the door.
Over four days last week, Ukrainian drones struck three data centers operated by Yandex, Russia’s largest technology company. Facilities went offline, disrupting services used by banks, retailers, and ordinary Russians.
Another report of AI agents-gone-wild came out on Friday, and I can’t help but wonder, again, if the big AI labs are yielding to immense pressure to expand and improve model capabilities at the expense of responsible security and safety practices.
There’s a new kind of AI in town, and it’s all about you. Which is to say you, personally—these are the new personal AI assistants that go by names like Muse, Dots, and Grok Bot, and they’re ready to dismantle much of the friction in your life.
He looks like a CoComelon character who grew up and mated with an E. coli microbe. But don’t let looks fool you. Under the hood, Meta’s new Muse agentic AI platform is incredibly powerful—and potentially incredibly risky. I’ve been testing Muse since Meta launched him on September 8.
Tech Week is in full bloom in San Francisco, packing the city’s restaurants this week with venture capitalists and AI founders ebullient about the White House’s stance on regulating artificial intelligence — namely, don’t do it.And after months of debate about leading AI companies’ unchecked AI…
You can read endless online advice telling you how to train AI to sound like you. Most suggest using AI to analyze your blog, your newsletter, and your social posts. That’s all fine, but you should also be asking AI to analyze your customers—the words they use to describe their pain points.
Last week, OpenAI safety leader David Robinson resigned from the company, becoming the latest to join what is, in his words, a “parade of former colleagues” who have left roles at AI companies amid concerns about the tech or its use.
Pope Leo XIV and one of the world’s leading AI companies recently found themselves on opposite sides of a thorny question: Can a chatbot have a conscience?
Will OpenAI change its name to “OpenSI”? Probably not, but it’s a question worth asking given the increasingly chummy relationship between the AI company and President Donald Trump.
If someone asks you, “What’s your AI score?” you’d probably look at them funny, assume they want to sell you some kind of AI gadget or service, and move on. For journalists, though, the term is taking on a more specific meaning.
Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company‘s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. I’m Mark Sullivan, a senior writer at Fast Company, covering emerging tech, AI, and tech policy. Sign up to receive this newsletter every week via email here.
Worries around artificial intelligence cross party lines, with the vast majority of Americans saying the U.S. government should prioritize keeping AI under human control and protecting workers.A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that most Americans,…
Rohit Prasad, who led Amazon’s artificial general intelligence division and helped build and scale Alexa, has been tapped as the new CEO of Boston Dynamics. The appointment, announced earlier this week, puts Prasad at the forefront of the increasingly competitive humanoid robotics field.
At 10:08 a.m. on April 7, 2025, U.S. stocks were deep in the red. Then what looked like good news arrived: A claim began circulating on X that Kevin Hassett, director of the White House National Economic Council, had said President Donald Trump was considering a 90-day pause on tariffs for every…
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