Kayak and Expedia race to build AI travel agents that turn social posts into itineraries
Planning a trip may soon be more agentic as companies like Kayak and Expedia reimagine the travel agent as an AI agent.Read More
Senator Blackburn Pulls Support for AI Moratorium in Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Amid Backlash
After critics called the bill a “get-out-jail-free-card” for Big Tech that could make it nearly impossible to rein in social media platforms, Senator Marsha Blackburn killed her own compromise.
Quantum computers just beat classical ones — Exponentially and unconditionally
A research team has achieved the holy grail of quantum computing: an exponential speedup that’s unconditional. By using clever error correction and IBM’s powerful 127-qubit processors, they tackled a variation of Simon’s problem, showing quantum machines are now breaking free from classical limitations, for real.
Using generative AI to help robots jump higher and land safely
Diffusion models like OpenAI’s DALL-E are becoming increasingly useful in helping brainstorm new designs. Humans can prompt these systems to generate an image, create a video, or refine a blueprint, and come back with ideas they hadn’t considered before.
Between utopia and collapse: Navigating AI’s murky middle future
AI is disrupting the world, but it also presents an opportunity to ask what we are here for, and our role as stewards of meaning.Read More
OpenAI Leadership Responds to Meta Offers: ‘Someone Has Broken Into Our Home’
As Mark Zuckerberg lures away top research talent to Meta, OpenAI executives say they’re “recalibrating comp,” according to an internal memo.
China’s humanoid robots generate more soccer excitement than their human counterparts
While China’s men’s soccer team hasn’t generated much excitement in recent years, humanoid robot teams have won over fans in Beijing based more on the AI technology involved than any athletic prowess shown.
From hallucinations to hardware: Lessons from a real-world computer vision project gone sideways
What we tried, what didn’t work and how a combination of approaches eventually helped us build a reliable computer vision model.Read More
OpenAI Loses 4 Key Researchers to Meta
Mark Zuckerberg has been working to poach talent from rival labs for his new superintelligence team.
CTGT wins Best Presentation Style award at VB Transform 2025
San Francisco-based CTGT, a startup focused on making AI more trustworthy through feature-level model customization, won the Best Presentation Style award at VB Transform 2025 in San Francisco. Founded by 23-year-old Cyril Gorlla, the company showcased how its technology helps enterprises overcome AI trust barriers by directly modifying model featu…Read More