For many, AIās promises of transformation have yet to materialize meaningfully. A machine-generated summary of a Google search or an AI-suggested comment on social media isnāt a revolution. But that may soon change. The defining shift in AI during 2025 wonāt just be about bigger or better models, but about making them truly useful in…
The Center for AI Safety (CAIS) and Scale AI collaborated to create what they called āHumanityās Last Exam,ā a test stuffed with 3,000 PhD-level questions from mathematics, humanities and life sciences. A new Turing Test for the age of AI, only three models got scores close to 10%: OpenAI o1, Googleās Gemini 2, and an…
The problem is that even though lawmakers come to this process with a clear sense of what they want to achieve, the outcomes of this approach are often not what they intended. Take the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (PAFACA), a law designed to ban TikTok in the US. Once the Supreme…
Mr Trumpās hosting the next day of the launch of āthe largest AI infrastructure project in history” shows he grasps the potential. But so does the rest of the worldāand most of all, China. Even as Mr Trump was giving his inaugural oration, a Chinese firm released the latest impressive large language model (LLM). Suddenly,…
Shares of Intel plunged a vertiginous 25%, Microsoft and Google both dipped on their seemingly stellar earnings reports, and even the mighty Nvidia lost hundreds of billions of dollars from the dizzying high of its $3.2 trillion valuation.Ā Investors got unnerved when companies like Microsoft and Google each committed to spending upwards of $50 billion…
The internet provided not only the images, but also the resources for labelling them. Once search engines had delivered pictures of what they took to be dogs, cats, chairs or whatever, these images were inspected and annotated by humans recruited through Mechanical Turk, a crowdsourcing service provided by Amazon which allows people to earn money…
As we all know, one player dominates this lucrative market: Google, with a highly enviable 90%-plus market share. No one has been able to get anywhere close, with even mighty Microsoftās Bing a light year behind at No. 2 with a 3.7% share.Ā Besides the acclaimed superiority of Googleās search algorithms and its effective use…
In 2023 Apple released the iPhone 15 Pro, powered by the a17 bionic chip, with 19bn transistors. The density of transistors has doubled 34 times over 56 years. That exponential progress, loosely referred to as Mooreās law, has been one of the engines of the computing revolution. As transistors became smaller they got cheaper (more…
