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It’s no surprise that educators have an uneasy relationship with generative AI. They fear the impact of plagiarism and machine-generated essays and the “hallucinations” — where the system confidently asserts something is true that isn’t simply because it doesn’t know

It's becoming increasingly clear that businesses of all sizes and across all sectors can benefit from generative AI. From code generation and content creation to data analytics and chatbots, the possibilities are vast — and the rewards abundant. McKinsey estimates generative AI will add $2.6

If I had to characterize 2023, I'd say it was the year of the great venture divide. Many aspects of venture didn’t follow one trend, but instead saw the emergence of extremes on either side of the spectrum. Most startups continued to struggle to fundraise, but if you happened to be buildi

Canva has crafted a wildly successful business model on the idea that graphic design should be accessible to everyone. The Australian company has raised $560 million since its founding in 2012, and is currently bringing in an annualized recurring revenue of around $1.7 billion, according to co-foun

The New York Times is suing OpenAI and its close collaborator (and investor), Microsoft, for allegedly violating copyright law by training generative AI models on Times’ content. In the lawsuit, filed in the Federal District Court in Manhattan, The Times contends that millions of its articles

As the lynchpin of digital innovation, artificial intelligence holds the future for every forward-leaning business. But while AI and generative AI pave a path toward opportunity, they come with financial sustainability risks that can threaten the durable use of these technologies. Unpacking this is

"">Keeping up with an industry as fast-moving as AI is a tall order. So until an AI can do it for you, here's a handy roundup of recent stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn't cover on their own. This week in AI, the news cycle finall

Application programming interfaces (APIs) power the modern internet, including most websites, mobile apps, and IoT devices we use. And, thanks to the ubiquity of the internet in nearly all parts of the planet, it is APIs that give people the power to connect to almost any functionality they want. T

“Shall I say thou art a man, that hast all the symptoms of a beast? How shall I know thee to be a man? By thy shape? That affrights me more, when I see a beast in likeness of a man.” — Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy I propose that software be prohibited from engaging in p

Rite Aid has been banned from using facial recognition software for five years, after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) found that the U.S. drugstore giant’s “reckless use of facial surveillance systems” left customers humiliated and put their “sensitive information at risk

A European Union plan to support homegrown AI startups by providing them with access to processing power for model training on the bloc’s supercomputers, which was announced back in September and kicked off last month, has seen France’s Mistral AI participate in an early pilot phase, ac

This last year was a banger for AI as the technology went from niche to mainstream about as fast as anything ever has. 2024, however, will be the year when the hype runs full-steam into reality as people reckon with the capabilities and limitations of AI at large. Here are a few ways we think that&

OpenAI is expanding its internal safety processes to fend off the threat of harmful AI. A new “safety advisory group” will sit above the technical teams and make recommendations to leadership, and the board has been granted veto power — of course, whether it will actually use it is an

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies fueled by breakthroughs in machine learning (ML) and data management has propelled organizations into a new era of innovation and automation. As AI applications continue to proliferate across industries, they hold the promise of rev