More than 90% of teachers express concerns about their overreliance, but less than half teach the use of generative AI in the classroom. A classroom at a middle school in Gwanak-gu, Seoul, pictured on December 1. Nearly 95 percent of middle and high school students in Seoul have experience using generative AI tools, a study…
AI may be able to help complete certain types of jobs, like coding, more quickly. But this may come at the cost of improving what you do and mastering new skills in the process, new search watch. The AI company Anthropic, which develops the competitor ChatGPT Claude, conducted the study out of 52 junior software…
Five9 announced its decision to collaborate with Google Cloud for common customer experience solutions. This follows a series of announcements from the contact center giant earlier this week focused on improving customer experience with AI services. Their latest partnership will see both providers collaborate towards an effective customer solution, enabling enterprise customers to improve their…
Nirmal Jingar receives a 2026 Global Recognition Award for leading AI platform modernization at Wayfair, generating millions of dollars in supply chain savings, advancing responsible adoption of generative AI, mentoring engineering teams, and shaping industry standards through governance frameworks and advisory work. New York, NY, USA, January 17, 2026 — Nirmal Jingara senior engineering manager…
Michael Kitces and Ben Henry-Moreland ask whether these long-term problems require a solution other than AI? JANUARY 21, 2026 By Ben Henry-Moreland and Michael Kitces As companies grow and merge over time, they accumulate technical debt. Technologies, capabilities, and processes that in a perfect world would be retooled and improved every time the company grows…
From principles to practice As artificial intelligence systems become more agentic and capable of multi-step reasoning and autonomous action, the issue of trust moves from theory to practice. These challenges are the focus of the Trust in AI Alliance, a new forum hosted by Thomson Reuters Labs that brings together leading AI researchers and engineers…
Heterogeneous computing is quietly redefining how AI appears in everyday devices, bringing intelligence closer to where people actually use it rather than keeping it locked in remote cloud systems. As AI expands into physical products, success depends less on raw performance and more on how efficiently CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs work together. Heterogeneous computing manifests…
Something weird just happened on the Internet. In less than a week, 1.4 million AI agents have created their own social network. Not for us, for themselves. They post, argue, create memes, complain about their human owners, and debate existential questions. The platform is called Moltbook. Humans can watch but not participate. Only AI machines…
AI transforms culture into a production shortcut: faster, cheaper and sometimes familiar. But the Super Bowl is one of the last places where brands are reminded that cultural similarity is easy but that shared experience is earned. This year’s game made that distinction clearer than ever. The ads that got a real reaction weren’t the…
SoundHound AI (NasdaqGM:SOUN) has partnered with Bridgepointe Technologies to expand enterprise use of its AI agents and IT automation platforms. The partnership targets Bridgepointe’s more than 12,000 enterprise customers in industries including hospitality, automotive and retail. The collaboration focuses on the deployment of SoundHound’s Amelia 7 AI agent for customer interaction and its Autonomics platform…