AI & ML

The European Union is ramping up pressure on Meta to make big changes to Facebook and Instagram after the European Commission preliminarily found that features like auto-play, infinite scroll, and highly personalized content recommendations were addictive. On Thursday, the EC said its investigation indicated that “Meta did not adequately assess the risks of its addictive […]

The White House is sidestepping Congress to make huge decisions for even the most important private industries.

Jessica Cantlon had a grant with the U.S. Navy to explore whether people could improve spatial problem-solving skills through training. Then the program was cut.

Near the midpoint of the year, stocks and bonds both report good returns. But the global stock market has become highly concentrated, our columnist says.

Start-ups are paying white-collar professionals to teach their jobs to artificial intelligence models. It’s a bonanza. It’s bleak. Where will it end?

A.I. chatbots are not just a propaganda tool for violent extremists but are aiding in bomb construction and attack planning, new research finds.

The first step in modernizing VCF Operations dashboards is changing the entry point from tools to services. The next step is harder. You have to decide what “healthy” actually means. That is where private cloud SLOs become useful. Not because infrastructure teams need to copy every SRE practice from application engineering, but because VCF operations

The world’s most valuable company is chasing Intel and Apple as it tries to bring A.I. agents to laptops and desktops.

This is a monthly column that runs down five interesting startup funding deals that may have flown under the radar. Check out our previous entry here. Our inboxes overflowed with interesting deals in the past month, but we managed to sift through them all to find the five most intriguing ones. They include a startup

Servers should be powered by off-grid renewables, argues Envision founder Zhang Lei