The comment came shortly after analysts peppered Pichai and other Google executives with questions about how AI would affect its core search business and why Google is spending an extra $10 billion on capital expenditures this year to catch up in the AI race.
The Trump administration published its much-anticipated AI Action Plan Wednesday, signaling a sharp shift away from former President Bidenβs cautious approach to addressing the risks of AI, and toward a focus on speed, sovereignty, national security, and competing with China.
Software engineer workflows have been transformed in recent years by an influx of AI coding tools. However, a new study calls into question the extent to which today's AI coding tools enhance productivity for experienced developers.
This raises real questions around how "maximally truth-seeking" Grok is designed to be, versus how much it's designed to just agree with Musk, the world's richest man.
A federal proposal that would ban states and local governments from regulating AI for 10 years could soon be signed into law, as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and other lawmakers work to secure its inclusion into a GOP megabill ahead of a key July 4 deadline.Β Here's what's at stake.
Several weeks after Anthropic released research claiming that its Claude Opus 4 AI model resorted to blackmailing engineers who tried to turn the model off in controlled test scenarios, the company is out with new research suggesting the problem is more widespread among leading AI models. On Friday, Anthropic published new safety research testing 16 [β¦]