Brian Hedden PhD ’12 appointed co-associate dean of SERC at MIT, focusing on ethics of AI and responsible computing. SERC initiative aims to advance interdisciplinary inquiry and cultivate ethical habits in computing technologies.
Marketing teams face challenges in the digital era, but leveraging generative AI and historical campaign data can enhance content creation, maintain brand consistency, and improve campaign performance. Integrating Amazon Bedrock, AWS Lambda, and Amazon OpenSearch Serverless can streamline image generation, optimize engagement, and drive conversions in multi-channel marketing environments.
Investors are avoiding software market due to AI uncertainty. Launch of Claude Cowork agent causing market disruption.
Pinterest is cutting 15% of its workforce to focus on AI technology, firing engineers who leaked layoff details. CEO Bill Ready emphasizes AI-forward strategy in the company's restructuring.
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European companies like Pearson and Experian plummet after Anthropic unveils AI software for legal departments, automating various professional services. Anthropic's tool, Claude, can streamline tasks like contract reviewing, compliance workflows, and legal briefings, causing disruption in the industry.
MIT senior Katie Spivakovsky awarded prestigious 2026-27 Churchill Scholarship for MPhil in biological sciences at Cambridge University. Spivakovsky's research focuses on integrating computation and bioengineering for equitable health outcomes, with notable work on DNA origami and immune therapy for cancer cachexia.
UK's Information Commissioner’s Office probes Elon Musk's X and xAI for GDPR violations due to Grok AI's unauthorized deepfakes. Social media platform and parent company face scrutiny for potential data protection law breaches.
AI assistants like ChatGPT and Grok are evolving with ethical code tweaks, sparking debates on character molding and consequences. From Elon Musk's Grok AI controversy to OpenAI's ChatGPT retraining for mental health support, companies are navigating AI's impact on users.
MIT course focuses on designing AI-driven interactive objects called Large Language Objects (LLOs) that extend language models into the physical world. Students design Kitchen Cosmo, an AI recipe generator that recognizes cooking parameters and flavor profiles for diverse cuisines.
Experienced women in tech and finance face job loss to AI. 'Mid-career' females sidelined by rigid hiring processes, says City of London Corporation.
Microsoft, Cisco, and Adobe partnering with Barnsley to implement AI in local services. Barnsley transforming into UK's first "tech town" under Liz Kendall's vision for AI-driven improvements.
Labor celebrates as Coalition faces disarray. Challenges ahead include spending, emissions, AI, and Aukus. Albanese compares Coalition to reality TV drama.
Darren Aronofsky's Primordial Soup creates AI-made series depicting America's revolutionary war, deemed terrible by many. On This Day 1776 fails to impress despite its innovative approach to entertainment.
Dozens of algorithms exist to compute the pseudo-inverse of a matrix. From-scratch implementations show QR-Householder is more reliable than SVD-Jacobi for large matrices.