Integral Ad Science announced on December 16, 2025, the launch of IAS Agent, an artificial intelligence-powered assistant designed to accelerate campaign activation, extract deeper insights from advertising data, and optimize performance at scale. The platform will demonstrate the technology at CES 2026 from January 5-8 and expects to roll it out globally at no additional…
In a place that’s easy to miss thread shared on Mastodon of all platforms, Archibald said that in addition to all the AI features promised by the new CEO, will also come a dedicated option to completely disable anything and everything AI, dubbed the “AI kill switch” by Firefox developers. “I’m sure it will be…
Online reaction to my recent opinion piece in Times Higher Education The failure of universities to strategically engage with artificial intelligence (AI) has been both fierce and illuminating. Some criticism was measured and thoughtful; others were reflexive, polemical, or rooted in deeply held beliefs about what universities are – and what they must never become….
Royal Hansen, vice president of privacy, safety and security engineering at Google, weighs in on efforts to slow AI development, questioning whether the United States is equipped to win the AI race on the energy front and the next frontier of innovation. Google executive Royal Hansen has responded to calls from some lawmakers to slow…
As demand for artificial intelligence (AI) remains strong, investors are wondering who the biggest winners will be next year. The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has been an unprecedented indicator for technology stocks over the past three years. In particular, semiconductor stocks including Nvidia, Semiconductor manufacturing in TaiwanAnd Broadcom have all been ushered into the…
Al Jazeera Media Network today announced a major expansion of its strategic collaboration with Google Cloud, naming the company as its primary technology provider for Al Jazeera’s transformation initiative, ‘The Core’. This new collaboration aims to redefine the future of journalism by integrating Google’s advanced generative AI and agentic capabilities at the heart of news…
When everyone is digging for gold, sell shovels. This old maxim reflects the same logic as the current boom in artificial intelligence: the profits go to those who provide the chips and infrastructure, not the money-losing labs that build the models. Nvidia’s record profits last year, which pushed the chipmaker’s market value past $5 trillion,…
Figure 1. Joyeux ShipMas et Joyeux Noël. Toujours à partir de la démo OpenAI de ChatGPT Images 1.5, où ils ont montré comment des caractères cohérents dans les images pouvaient être transformés en littéralement des centaines de scènes. Ce fut une grande semaine de sorties, alors que les fournisseurs d’IA ont publié leurs meilleurs modèles…
The warning arrived on December 20, 2025, from Esther Paniagua, a technology analyst and journalist writing in El País. “The paradox is that we have access to more sources of information than ever, and we end up resorting to only one,” she stated. “Chatbots and AI results are the information jail of our time.” Paniagua’s…
Brendan Gourmand a 22 ans et dirige une entreprise valant des milliards. En août dernier, j’ai rencontré le jeune PDG dans une salle de conférence vitrée surplombant la baie de San Francisco. Pendant que ses pairs recherchent leur premier emploi, Foody poursuit un «plan directeur“, comme il l’appelle, pour bouleverser le marché du travail mondial….