Waymo has launched new “road trips” to Philadelphia and New York City, signaling the Alphabet-owned company’s interest in expanding into Northeastern cities . While these trips don’t guarantee commercial launches, they follow a pattern that previously led to deployments in cities like Los Angeles. Other road trips this year are Read more…
A study by Anthropic researchers on how human feedback can encourage sycophantic behavior showed that AI assistants will sometimes modify accurate answers when questioned by the user — and ultimately give an inaccurate response.
Google DeepMind’s chief business officer says Alphabet’s drug-discovery company Isomorphic Labs “is preparing to launch human trials of AI-designed drugs,” according to a report in Fortune, “pairing cutting-edge AI with pharma veterans to design medicines faster, cheaper, and more accurately.” “There are people sitting in our office in King’s Cross, Read more…
A computer science degree used to be a golden ticket to the promised land of jobs, that’s no longer the case. The article notes that in the last three years there’s been a 65% drop from companies seeking workers with two years of experience or less (according to an analysis Read more…
No wonder Google is desperate for more power: The company’s data centers more than doubled their electricity use in just four years. The eye-popping stat comes from Google’s most recent sustainability report, which it released late last week. In 2024, Google data centers used 30.8 million megawatt-hours of electricity. That’s Read more…
Google has signed a deal to purchase 200 megawatts of future fusion energy from Commonwealth Fusion Systems, despite the energy source not yet existing. “It’s a sign of how hungry big tech companies are for a virtually unlimited source of clean power that is still years away,” reports CNN. Google Read more…
Microsoft’s new AI diagnostic system achieved 80% accuracy in diagnosing patients compared to 20% for human doctors, while reducing costs by 20%, according to company research published Monday. The MAI Diagnostic Orchestrator queries multiple leading AI models including OpenAI’s GPT, Google’s Gemini, Anthropic’s Claude, Meta’s Llama, and xAI’s Grok in Read more…