Claude is the best AI for writing. This has been true since its humble beginnings in 2023. I’ve used Claude as soon as it was available and felt the difference immediately. I would have loved to pay for it, but there was no paid plan in the first few months. When Anthropic added Claude Pro …
AI data centers consume roughly 0.04 percent of all freshwater used in the United States each year. That figure, including both water used inside data centers and water used by power plants to generate their electricity, comes from Andy Masley, writing for his own publication. He argues that fears about AI draining water supplies are …
Artificial intelligence is changing what jobs exist, what they require, and what they pay. New roles are emerging at AI companies and across industries, while researchers and economists debate how fast and how deeply automation will affect employment overall. Business Insider has identified several new or resurgent job categories driven by AI adoption. At the …
Google has announced a series of updates to its AI-powered creative platforms, Google Flow and Google Flow Music. The changes were revealed at Google I/O, the company’s annual developer conference, and include a new AI model, an agentic assistant, custom tool-building and mobile applications. Google Flow is an AI creative studio that lets users generate, …
Stability AI has released Stable Audio 3.0, a new family of generative audio models trained on fully licensed music data. The release includes four models designed for different devices and use cases, three of which are available as open-weight models that anyone can download and modify. The four models are: The small and medium models …
Google has launched Gemini Omni, a new artificial intelligence model that accepts text, images, audio, and video as input and produces video output. The company describes it as natively multimodal, meaning a single model handles all content types rather than passing tasks between separate systems. The first release in the family, Gemini Omni Flash, is …
Google has launched Gemini 3.5 Flash, a new artificial intelligence model designed to execute complex tasks quickly and at a lower cost. The technology aims to solve a common challenge in the industry, where organizations previously had to choose between fast, cheap models and slower, more capable ones. Google claims the new model outperforms its …
A new study from Microsoft Research reveals that large language models (LLMs) silently corrupt documents during extended, multi-step workflows, often in ways that are nearly impossible for humans to detect. Ben Dickson reports for VentureBeat that even the best-performing AI models degrade an average of 25% of document content across these workflows. The research team …
A California jury has rejected all of Elon Musk’s claims against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Microsoft, and other defendants after a three-week trial in Oakland. The jury reached its unanimous verdict in under two hours. The case centered on Musk’s claim that Altman and OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman had “stolen a charity” by transforming OpenAI …
If you want to use a tool effectively, it is important to first understand its capabilities and limitations. AI is no different. I even find it exciting to learn more about these systems that are able to do so many things but also fail at other tasks completely. It is often less than obvious what …