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Solving the generative AI app experience challenge

Generative AI holds incredible promise, but its potential is often blocked by poor app experiences.  AI leaders aren’t just grappling with model performance — they’re contending with the practical realities of turning generative AI into user-friendly applications that deliver measurable enterprise value. Infrastructure demands, unclear output expectations, and complex prototyping processes stall progress and frustrate … Read more

The Download: OpenAI’s lobbying, and making ammonia below the Earth’s surface

OpenAI spent $1.76 million on government lobbying in 2024 and $510,000 in the last three months of the year alone, according to a new disclosure filed on Tuesday—a significant jump from 2023, when the company spent just $260,000 on Capitol Hill. The disclosure is a clear signal of the company’s arrival as a political player, … Read more

Implementing responsible AI in the generative age

Validity and reliability  Safety Security and resiliency  Accountability and transparency  Explainability and interpretability  Privacy Fairness with mitigation of harmful bias  To investigate the current landscape of responsible AI across the enterprise, MIT Technology Review Insights surveyed 250 business leaders about how they’re implementing principles that ensure AI trustworthiness. The poll found that responsible AI is … Read more

Neuromorphic semiconductor chip that learns and corrects itself?

Existing computer systems have separate data processing and storage devices, making them inefficient for processing complex data like AI. A KAIST research team has developed a memristor-based integrated system similar to the way our brain processes information. It is now ready for application in various devices including smart security cameras, allowing them to recognize suspicious … Read more

The multifaceted challenge of powering AI | MIT News

Artificial intelligence has become vital in business and financial dealings, medical care, technology development, research, and much more. Without realizing it, consumers rely on AI when they stream a video, do online banking, or perform an online search. Behind these capabilities are more than 10,000 data centers globally, each one a huge warehouse containing thousands … Read more

There can be no winners in a US-China AI arms race

Fortunately, a glimmer of hope for a responsible approach to AI collaboration is appearing now as Donald Trump recently  posted on January 17 that he’d restarted direct dialogue with Chairman Xi Jinping regarding various areas of collaboration, and given past cooperation should continue to be “partners and friends.” The outcome of the TikTok drama, putting Trump at … Read more

A new company plans to use Earth as a chemical reactor

While the reactions tend to go faster at high temperature and pressure, the researchers found that ammonia production could be an economically viable process even at 130 °C (266 °F) and a little over two atmospheres of pressure, conditions that would be accessible at depths reachable with existing drilling technology.  While the reactions work in … Read more