Yahoo may not be the most headlined company in tech anymore, but its reach can't be denied. With nearly 250 million monthly users across the country and 700 million globally, it's still the second most popular email client in the world, and the third most popular search engine in the U.S. (even though that search engine has technically been powered by either Bing or Google since 2009).
Naturally, you might be inclined to perceive content creation as social media savviness and posting influencer-style content online, but that's not exactly what these professionals are after. By "content creation," it means turning leadership and industry-standard thinking into creative output that is structured in a way to grab attention and generate leads. It involves the ability to communicate and express ideas clearly online through multimodal formats and across texts and visuals.
There is "no single data source" that can determine exactly how well a page performs across different forms of search, said Alex Halliday, CEO of AirOps, a generative AI platform that helps brands improve their search visibility and strengthen their content. AirOps' newest product, Page360, is designed to help brands update content based on how their media or products appear in traditional search, AI search and online community forums, such as Reddit, Pinterest or Quora (which inform AI models).
Generative AI tools have created a flood of fake, sometimes misleading, content about the Holocaust that experts warn are distorting the realities of the history of Nazi Germany for young audiences. An emaciated and apparently blind man stands in the snow at the Nazi concentration camp of Flossenbuerg: the image seems real at first but is part of a wave of AI-generated content about the Holocaust.
Donald Trump seems to have come back from the future. From that dystopian and bleak tomorrow toward which some seek to lead us, taking advantage of the growing polarization and the prevalence of emotions over rationality. From that digital realm characterized by the rise of social media, now made stronger and more chaotic by the explosion of generative artificial intelligence. Ezra Klein recently discussed this on his podcast with the journalist and activist Masha Gessen.
Glean Chat offers an experience very similar to OpenAI's ChatGPT, but limited to an enterprise's content and resource boundaries, Jain said. When a user makes a natural language-based query, the company's search technology uses APIs to check all the content and activity - including information in applications - pertaining to the query before storing it in a customer's cloud environment. The data stored is then fed to large language models (LLMs), which have been trained on that particular enterprise's data,
Back in December, when SFWA announced that it was updating its rules for the Nebula Awards. Works written entirely by large language models would not be eligible, while authors who used LLMs "at any point during the writing process" had to disclose that use, allowing award voters to make their own decisions about whether that usage would affect their support.
Now that the dust has settled and AI evolution has become a truth we must all live under, this narrative feels outdated. The agencies that thrive won't be those resisting AI, nor those blindly automating everything in sight, but those that incorporate it, intelligently, in their process. The real opportunity lies not in the battle of human v AI, but in the partnership of human plus AI.
A widely discussed concern about generative AI is that systems trained on biased data can perpetuate and even amplify those biases, leading to inaccurate outputs or unfair decisions. But that's only the tip of the iceberg. As companies increasingly integrate AI into their systems and decision-making processes, one critical factor often goes overlooked: the role of cognitive bias.
"Our mission is to protect the soul of the work as tools evolve," said Justin Hackney, Wonder Studios CCO and co-founder, in an Adobe blog post. "Partnering with Adobe removes the friction between imagination and execution, allowing creators to enter true flow states. This unlocks new visual languages and stronger emotional bridges, driving what has the potential to become the most transformative era in creative history."
South Korea has launched a landmark set of laws to regulate AI before any other country or bloc (the EU's regulations are set to go into effect in stages through next year). Under Korea's AI Basic Act, companies must ensure there is human oversight for "high-impact" AI in fields like nuclear safety, drinking water, transport, healthcare, and financial uses like credit evaluation and loan screening.
The results show that generative AI systems themselves tend toward homogenization when used autonomously and repeatedly. They even suggest that AI systems are currently operating in this way by default. This experiment may appear beside the point: Most people don't ask AI systems to endlessly describe and regenerate their own images. The convergence to a set of bland, stock images happened without retraining. No new data was added. Nothing was learned. The collapse emerged purely from repeated use.
The about-face is a welcome surprise. Until now, the massive convention - which has become a melting pot of all kinds of pop entertainment beyond the comic medium, with everyone ranging from game developers to movie studios using it as a platform to tease new content - has allowed some AI art to be displayed, so long as it was labeled as such and wasn't for sale, as well as other stipulations that have been in place since at least 2024, according to 404.
In the latest sign of the times, the Economic Times - the second most widely-read English-language newspaper in the world, as of 2012 - picked the word "Kafkaesque" as its "Word of the Day " earlier this week. But even the briefest glance at the accompanying illustration reveals that the piece involved little, if any, human oversight. The issue is the image at the top of the piece - which, to be fair, is labeled as being AI-generated - that attempts to write the word on a blackboard.
Kids, by definition, are very curious, and my son would ask me questions about how cars work or how it rains. My approach was to use ChatGPT or Gemini to explain these concepts to a six-year-old, but that is still a wall of text. What kids want is an interactive experience. This was our core process behind founding Sparkli,
Legal training has long followed a guild system: law schools teach doctrine, then new lawyers learn to practice by working alongside experienced attorneys. This apprenticeship model may have worked well decades ago, but it's increasingly problematic today. And it particularly doesn't work well when it comes to GenAI since all too often younger lawyers know more about the tools than more experienced lawyers.
As AI continues to reshape our understanding of reality, ownership, and storytelling, how do artists and technologists navigate this new landscape? Earth Oracle brings together diverse perspectives to discuss the tools, ethics, and potential of our digital future. The evening will begin with a special presentation by artist Delphine Diallo, followed by a panel discussion featuring Clarisse Neu (Google DeepMind) and Patricia Buffa (Adobe).
Only 37% of legal leaders trust the use of generative artificial intelligence in high-stakes decisions, showing limited confidence in its ability to interpret complex issues, according to a new study of 500 legal and business leaders. The study by Paragon Legal, a legal services company that advises businesses and corporate legal departments, also reveals that: * 39% say their organizations are adopting AI too quickly. * 36% have used AI-generated insights that they do not fully trust. * 37% have restricted or disabled AI tools because of concerns over compliance.
When you're starting off, you solve problems with code. When you get more experienced, you solve problems with people. When you get even more experienced, you solve problems with money. In other words: You can be the person writing the code, and solving the problem directly. Or you can manage people, specifying what they should do. Or you can invest in teams, telling them about the problems you want to solve, but letting them set specific goals and managing the day-to-day work.
Introducing Fallen, a new Xbox 360-era inspired character action game where you play as Astra, a fallen angel who must battle through Hell and its demonic forces. It's in development for console and PC,
Adobe has added new generative AI features to Acrobat that aim to help you quickly edit PDFs and summarize them in audio and visual formats. These updates include chat-based editing and the ability to generate personalized podcasts and presentations based on your docs, which are now available in Acrobat Studio - the AI-infused document workspace app that's distinct from Adobe's basic PDF reader.
We live in a paradox. Never before has humanity had access to more information, faster. Yet our decisions, from what we eat to whom we vote for, what we watch and who we date, remain stubbornly resistant to facts alone. Public health campaigns armed with statistics fail to shift behavior. Climate science, however substantive, struggles to ignite action. Heavy economic data rarely changes minds about policy. The uncomfortable truth? We are not the rational creatures we pretend to be.
So when engineers at The New York Times steered a generative artificial intelligence model to scale our recipes, I worked with them to address common questions that math alone can't answer and create nuanced rules for a range of situations. (How do you halve three whole eggs?) Our recipe editors, all of whom have decades of professional experience, then reviewed rounds of scaled recipes, and the engineers incorporated that feedback into their model to help ensure the best possible outcomes.
As the CEO and co-founder of the generative AI music company Suno, Shulman currently finds himself in the exhilarating if perhaps unenviable position of being simultaneously regarded as the architect of music's future and its executioner. Suno, which was founded just over two years ago, allows users to create entire songs with just a few text prompts. At the moment, you can't prompt it with the name of a specific pop star
"We are aware that many modern game development environments have AI powered tools built into them. Efficiency gains through the use of these tools is not the focus of this section," reads the generative AI disclosure form for developers, as seen in a screenshot posted by Carless on LinkedIn. "Instead, it is concerned with the use of AI in creating content that ships with your game, and is consumed by players. This includes content such as artwork, sound, narrative, localization, etc.," the form reads.
Knowing how to query ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude doesn't make you an expert on genAI and AI tools. There's a lot more to learn about in this fast-evolving area of tech. Even as thousands of workers lose their jobs to AI, the number of job openings seeking "AI skills" continues to grow. Mentions of AI skills in job postings rose 5% year over year, according to data released in December by staffing firm Manpower Group.
He's the perfect outsider figure: the eccentric loner who saw all this coming and screamed from the sidelines that the sky was falling, but nobody would listen. Just as Christian Bale portrayed Michael Burry, the investor who predicted the 2008 financial crash, in The Big Short, you can well imagine Robert Pattinson fighting Paul Mescal, say, to portray Zitron, the animated, colourfully obnoxious but doggedly detail-oriented Brit, who's become one of big tech's noisiest critics.
Introduced by California Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Tom Umberg, a Democratic state senator from Santa Ana, California, the new bill codifies many guidelines for the use of AI in the practice of law that were published by the State Bar of California's Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct in 2023, according to Law.com. Among its provisions, it requires attorneys to remove confidential personal identifying information from AI systems and to verify the accuracy of AI-produced material.
Claude shows in vivid and unforgettable ways how easily AI will perform complex human tasks instantly - and forever change work, jobs and chores. Google, OpenAI, xAI and other competitors are racing to match and exceed Claude. You can assume there'll be leapfrogging advancements in this hyper-competitive race. Yes, these AI tools remain imperfect. But when you experiment with them, you'll see they're advancing lightning-fast.
Generative AI can feel like a superpower. Along with an efficiency boost, the sheer range of help it offers, from recipes to relationship advice, is tantalizing. But there are hidden risks. AI can make things so easy that we start outsourcing attention, memory, and confidence. We rely less on our judgment, reasoning, and self-soothing when faced with a problem. I noticed this tendency in myself when I began prompting ChatGPT for possible explanations and advice for a dental problem,
Meanwhile, signs that the planet's health is worsening are unmistakable. Last year was among the warmest on record globally, with average temperatures far above long-term baselines and heat driving more extreme weather worldwide. In 2025, brutal heatwaves baked much of the Indian subcontinent with temperatures near 48 °C, stressing health systems and agriculture across India and Pakistan. Europe and the Mediterranean faced record wildfires and prolonged heat, forcing tens of thousands to evacuate and worsening drought conditions.
