Meta’s 5-gigawatt “Hyperion” data center under construction in Richland Parish, Louisiana, January 9, 2026. Meta The popular narrative that artificial intelligence is the engine that keeps the U.S. economy alive appears exaggerated, according to recent analyses. The AI boom has reshaped stock market valuations, driven large investments and record bond issuances to finance data centers,…
Microsoft’s development center in Israel is creating a new Israeli AI Red Team, focused on identifying weaknesses and threats in artificial intelligence systems. The new group will simulate advanced attacks against the company’s AI-based services and operate within Microsoft’s internal security organization. At the same time, Microsoft is recruiting around 50 employees for cybersecurity positions…
Moltbook, a new Reddit-style social network designed entirely for AI agents, can be read in a variety of ways. This could be a worrying glimpse into an AI-driven future. Or a clever meta-commentary on how humans behave online. Or just another example of AI acting like expensive, power-hungry autocomplete. Which interpretation you land on depends…
A study by UC Riverside researchers offers a practical solution to one of artificial intelligence’s toughest challenges by enabling AI systems to reason more like humans, without requiring new training data beyond testing questions. In a preprint paper entitled “Test-Time Matching: Unlocking Compositional Reasoning in Multimodal Models”, assistant professor Yinglun Zhu and students introduce a…
As classrooms continue to integrate artificial intelligence tools across campus, Penn professors spoke to The Daily Pennsylvanian about how they are adopting the technology without compromising the learning process. Penn first announced its university-wide AI policy in November 2023, which outlined formal guidelines for the use of generative AI and machine learning tools. While the…
This addition brings the perspective of the cloud ecosystem and enterprise AI implementation to the board, advising Qlik on practical and responsible adoption of AI. PHILADELPHIA, January 21, 2026–(BUSINESS FEED)–Qlik®a global leader in data integration, data quality, analytics and artificial intelligence (AI), today announced that Mark Relph, Director of Amazon Web Services (AWS), has joined…
Jeffrey Shaffer, director of the Lindner College of Business Applied AI Labspoke with 700WLW about the future of AI in the workplace. “The first thing is: don’t be afraid. I think you need to look at the technology. Pandora’s box is open. It’s all AI,” he said. He explained how at Lindner, faculty and students…
As AI systems integrate into business processes, organizations face growing AI governance, risk, and compliance needs. In our prior research, we tested AI risks in practice with an AI bias benchmark, finding persistent bias around race, gender, and socioeconomic assumptions in several models. These findings underscore the importance of AI GRC tools, which help continuously…
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…
SoundHound and Salesforce are betting big on agentic AI. The next big evolution in artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to be agentic AI, in which AI agents will perform tasks autonomously, with little or no human supervision. The technology carries the promise of a workforce of AI agents who work alongside everyday employees. It’s no…