A new set of much more challenging evals has emerged in response, created by companies, nonprofits, and governments. Yet even on the most advanced evals, AI systems are making astonishing progress. In November,

Meta is the world’s standard bearer for open-weight AI. In a fascinating case study in corporate strategy, while rivals like OpenAI and Google have kept their frontier models closed source and charged for their use, Meta has chosen to give its state-of-the-art Llama models away for free.

The key is well-targeted efforts and regulations to keep AI safe and fair. “Regulations regarding smaller, specialized AI models would make more sense because it is those models that bring the most harm and threats such as models for deepfakes that are creating misinformation,” De Cremer said.

Palantir is a “rare cult with no sex and very little drugs and we’re not poisoning anyone,” quipped its billionaire CEO in a recent sitdown.

Congress will try to spur AI growth and mitigate harms next year. But passing legislation will be an uphill battle

Demand for workers with AI skills is likely to continue to grow in 2025 as tech and non-tech firms seek workers in areas from sales to implementation.

All of the major phone makers are at fault. Samsung opened the year with its Galaxy S24 launch in January, declaring “Galaxy AI is here” at a hockey arena-appropriate volume. To be sure, the devices it announced are good smartphones, and they run a blend of Samsung and Google’s Gemini Nano models on-device, but I wouldn’t call them AI smartphones.

The brain often blurs the senses – a fact that marketers often use in the design of food packaging. And AIs appear to do the same.

Chinese artificial-intelligence startups are using workarounds to challenge OpenAI despite a lack of access to advanced chips.

AI offers business leaders the promise of higher efficiency and productivity. But there is risk in rushing to realize this potential. Nearly half of U.S. (47 percent) workers feel unprepared for its widespread adoption at their respective organizations according to recent SHRM research.

Ishani Singh created Girls Rule AI after attending a computer science competition where she was the only girl.

New AI agents will have far greater power to subtly direct what we buy, where we go, and what we read. That is an extraordinary amount of power. AI agents are designed to make us forget their true allegiance as they whisper to us in humanlike tones.