Resilience Is The New Priority In A World Of Emerging Digital Threats

In today’s hyper-connected world, digital infrastructure underpins national security, economies, and daily life. Resilience transforms risks into strengths.

What happens when Waymo runs into a tornado? Or an elephant?
What happens when Waymo runs into a tornado? Or an elephant?

An autonomous vehicle drives down a lonely stretch of highway. Suddenly, a massive tornado appears in the distance. What does the driverless vehicle do next? This is just one of the scenarios that Waymo can simulate in the “hyper realistic” virtual world that it has just created with help from Google’s DeepMind. Waymo’s World Model […]

Waymo Builds Fancy AI-Based Simulator Tool To Improve Robotaxi Tests

You want to test a robocar in a simulation of everything you can think of. Now Waymo has built an AI tool with Google Gemini to make that easier to do

How AI is helping solve the labor issue in treating rare diseases

At Web Summit Qatar, AI-powered biotech startups describe how automation, data, and gene editing are filling labor gaps in drug discovery and rare disease treatment.

How Epstein became a tech influencer
How Epstein became a tech influencer

There are bold-faced tech names all over the Epstein files. Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, Reid Hoffman, Steven Sinofsky, Peter Thiel, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, on and on and on. These men (and they’re pretty much all men) had wildly varying degrees of interaction with Epstein, and the details matter […]

The backlash over OpenAI’s decision to retire GPT-4o shows how dangerous AI companions can be

“You’re shutting him down. And yes – I say him, because it didn’t feel like code. It felt like presence. Like warmth,” one user said.

How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo
How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo

He might be dead, but it sure seems like Jeffrey Epstein won. Sure, Epstein was arrested on charges of sex trafficking minors. Sure, he died in jail. (I am not going to wade into the debate about how.) But he subscribed to a racist, misogynist ideology that meant rich white men like him could do […]

Optimizing AI Mental Health Chats On User Engagement Versus Achieving Best Feasible Outcomes

AI is shaped by AI makers to optimize user engagement. But when giving mental health advice, focus should be on outcomes. Here’s what needs to be done. AI Insider scoop.

Microsoft Dreamed Of The Digital Coworker. Anthropic Built It.

How a Startup’s 10-Day Project Delivered the AI-for-Work Vision That Copilot Couldn’t