AI 2025 trends

Private capital firms are wagering that the crucial hardware will hold its value for years to come

Twitch now lets users opt out of Amazon’s use of content from their channels to train Amazon’s “generative AI content models.” The change, announced today, comes more than two years after a company executive confirmed that Amazon was using Twitch content for AI training. In an updated support page, Twitch confirms that users must opt

As humans’ deferral to A.I. systems increases, the “Hard Fork” guest Chris Painter suggests examining the goals, values and principles of A.I. when it’s left unchecked.

A.I. models are going rogue. On the “Hard Fork” podcast, the guest Chris Painter asserts that these events aren’t just elaborate marketing stunts — they’re real.

An understanding of maths can be crucial to judging if the tech is telling you the right thing

If you can truly appreciate an old book—and maybe even marvel at how its fragile, yellowing pages contain some of the earliest ways that people tried to make sense of the world around them—then headlines about tech companies that are destroying books to train AI likely torture a tender part of your soul. It’s indeed

Patent records show how many companies are interested in trying to record how people feel

OpenAI research reveals how enterprises are adopting agentic AI, using ChatGPT and Codex, and how frontier firms are pulling ahead in AI adoption.

The company, Thrive Holdings, acquires businesses to infuse them with artificial intelligence and drew interest from backers like SoftBank.

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