AI & Machine Learning

Jeff Dean, who for years was one of Google’s most important executives, is leading the new artificial intelligence company with the backing of Google.

Google Assistant’s days have been numbered for a while, but the company has now settled on a date to retire its pre-AI assistant robot. In an email being sent out to users, Google confirms that Assistant on mobile devices will be shut down starting on September 4, forcing everyone over to Gemini. Google told us

The writer Jasmine Sun joins the Opinion columnist Ezra Klein to discuss whether A.I. will create a permanent economic underclass or if the complexity of human jobs will resist total automation.

Is public backlash to artificial intelligence really about the technology, or is it a resistance to Silicon Valley elites forcing their vision on society? The writer Jasmine Sun joins “The Ezra Klein Show” to discuss the rise of A.I. populism.

In African tech hubs, developers are picking China’s cheap, freely available artificial intelligence models over more powerful U.S. ones.

SpaceX shares dropped on Wednesday after Elon Musk’s plans for blockbuster spending to position his AI and rocket company as a data center developer spooked investors. SpaceX surpassed analysts’ expectations in Tuesday’s debut earnings report, posting quarterly revenues of $7.8 billion, well above analysts’ estimates of $6.82 billion and up 92 percent from a year

The Trump administration’s new safety review guidelines appear to exempt Chinese artificial intelligence models. OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s aren’t.

Introduction Multicloud is often treated as a resilience shortcut. The argument sounds reasonable: if one cloud provider fails, workloads can continue in another. A second provider appears to remove concentration risk, reduce dependence on one vendor, and create an escape path from a major outage. That conclusion is only valid when the application, data, traffic,

Editor’s note: The following is the first profile in a series of articles in coming weeks about startup founders from non-technical backgrounds who have launched successful venture-backed companies. In November 2022, Adeel Khan was doing something rare for a longtime educator: taking time off. Having launched his career as a teacher in Atlanta Public Schools,

It seems that more and more boards and founders view AI as a valuation enhancer and future-proof strategy. While I agree that for some companies this may be true, in other cases I think it may actually be destroying the company’s value. It is difficult to define the extent to which a specific company should