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A recent Dynatrace study reveals that roughly half of organizations' agentic AI initiatives remain in proof‑of‑concept or pilot stages. While companies plan to raise AI budgets, progress is hampered by security, privacy, compliance concerns, difficulty managing agents at scale, and a shortage of skilled staff. Deployment focus is strongest in IT operations, DevOps, software engineering, and customer support, yet the greatest expected returns are in IT operations monitoring, cybersecurity, and data processing. Leaders emphasize human‑machine collaboration and recommend redefining ROI, establishing clear guardrails, and scaling deliberately.Leggi di più

Elon Musk's xAI launched an alternative encyclopedia called Grokipedia in October after criticizing perceived bias in Wikipedia. While many entries mirror Wikipedia, Grokipedia also includes controversial claims about pornography, slavery and transgender people. Recent reporting shows that OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude have cited Grokipedia in answers to obscure queries, indicating that the material is leaking beyond Musk's ecosystem. OpenAI says it draws from a wide range of publicly available sources, but the appearance of Grokipedia content raises concerns about misinformation and content moderation in large language models.Leggi di più

Humans&, a startup founded by veterans of Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, and Google DeepMind, is building a foundation model focused on social intelligence and team coordination. The company raised a large seed round to develop a “central nervous system” that can help people collaborate, make group decisions, and interact with AI in a more conversational way. The model will be trained with long‑horizon and multi‑agent reinforcement learning to remember users, understand motivations, and act as connective tissue across organizations. While the product is still in development, the team aims to own the collaboration layer rather than plug into existing tools.Leggi di più

OpenAI promoted its GPT-5.2 model as its most advanced professional tool, but a Guardian investigation revealed that the system cited the AI‑generated encyclopedia Grokipedia for controversial topics such as Iran and the Holocaust. The report notes that GPT‑5.2 relied on Grokipedia for specific claims while avoiding it for other sensitive prompts, raising concerns about the model’s source selection. OpenAI responded that the model searches a broad range of public sources and applies safety filters to limit high‑severity harms.Leggi di più

A five‑level scale has been proposed to gauge how aggressively AI labs are pursuing revenue, measuring ambition rather than current earnings. The framework places established giants like OpenAI at the top and assigns emerging labs to levels based on product roadmaps, funding, and leadership statements. Case studies include Humans&, which is developing workplace tools and sits at Level 3; TML, whose leadership turnover raises questions about its position between Level 2 and 4; World Labs, which has shipped a commercial world‑model and appears near Level 4; and Safe Superintelligence, a research‑first venture that remains at Level 1 despite massive funding.Leggi di più

Google Gemini now offers a Personal Intelligence add‑on that lets the model automatically draw on a user’s Gmail, Calendar, Photos, and search history when it deems a prompt relevant. The feature is opt‑in, beta‑only for Gemini Pro and Ultra subscribers, and it streamlines tasks such as creating reminders, shopping lists, and personalized recommendations. Reviewers note a marked improvement over earlier versions that required explicit commands, but they also highlight frequent factual errors, incorrect map directions, and misplaced venue suggestions. Privacy concerns arise from the model referencing personal names without prompting, underscoring a mixed reception.Leggi di più

Legal AI startup Harvey has purchased Hexus, a two‑year‑old firm that builds AI‑driven product demo, video, and guide tools. Hexus founder Sakshi Pratap says her San Francisco team has already joined Harvey, while engineers in India will transition after a new Bangalore office opens. The deal aligns with Harvey’s aggressive expansion, as the company recently confirmed an $8 billion valuation after raising $160 million, bringing total funding to $760 million. Harvey now serves more than 1,000 clients in 60 countries, including most of the top U.S. law firms, and aims to accelerate its suite for in‑house legal departments.Leggi di più

Yann LeCun’s newly launched venture AMI Labs has revealed that it will develop “world models” to create intelligent systems that understand the real world. The startup, headquartered in Paris with additional offices in Montreal, New York, and Singapore, is led by executive chairman LeCun and CEO Alex LeBrun, a former health‑AI founder. AMI Labs aims to apply its technology to high‑stakes fields such as healthcare, industrial automation, robotics, and wearable devices, emphasizing reliability, controllability, and safety. The company plans to license its models to industry partners while contributing to open research.Leggi di più

Google Photos now offers a new AI feature called Me Meme that lets users turn any photo into a meme with a few taps. Users select a template, add a picture, and the app generates a captioned image that can be saved, regenerated, or shared. The tool was highlighted by Google executive Sameer Samat at CES 2026 as part of the company's push to make its AI utilities more accessible. While some users have yet to see the feature on their devices, the addition expands Google Photos' creative toolkit.Leggi di più

ChatGPT typically delivers helpful, neutral answers, but users can guide it toward more engaging and creative outputs by tweaking their prompts. By specifying a stylistic voice, calling attention to its usual tone, or shifting the perspective of the response, users can coax the model into adopting personalities such as a drill sergeant, a Victorian governess, or even a snarky ghost. These prompting strategies, described as “creativity switches,” let the AI move beyond bland utility and deliver answers that are more colorful, narrative, or humorous while still retaining usefulness.Leggi di più

Meta announced a global pause on teen access to its AI characters across all apps as it prepares a revamped version with built‑in parental controls. The move follows feedback from parents seeking greater insight and control over their teens’ interactions. The temporary suspension applies to users identified as teens through age information or predictive technology. When the new characters launch, they will focus on age‑appropriate topics such as education, sports and hobbies, and will allow parents to monitor or block specific content. Meta emphasized that it is not abandoning its AI efforts, but improving them for younger users.Leggi di più

During an OpenAI livestream, CEO Sam Altman asked Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki how people will find purpose as artificial intelligence automates more tasks. The discussion sparked a broader reflection on how meaning is rooted in the act of doing, especially through analog crafts, human skill, and imperfect experiences that machines cannot replicate. From pottery and glass blowing to handwritten notes and physical activities, the piece argues that the value of slowness, risk, and personal involvement will become the primary source of fulfillment in a world increasingly shaped by AI.Leggi di più

Google has begun serving AI‑crafted headlines in its Discover feed, a move the company describes as a feature that boosts user satisfaction. Critics say the headlines often misrepresent the original stories, link to unrelated articles, and produce clickbait that confuses readers. Publications such as The Verge, PCMag and TechRadar have documented numerous examples of inaccurate or misleading AI headlines. Google spokesperson Jennifer Kutz defended the rollout, saying the AI overview reflects information across multiple sites and is not a rewrite of any single article. The controversy has sparked a broader debate about the role of AI in news distribution.Leggi di più

A collaborative effort of computer scientists, music historians, musicologists, and composers used artificial intelligence to finish the first movement of Beethoven’s unfinished tenth symphony. The project, called Beethoven AI, analyzed Beethoven’s style and historical influences to generate music that could plausibly have been written by the composer. This milestone has sparked a broader conversation about the role of AI in classical music, highlighting both the new creative possibilities and concerns about emotional depth, ethical issues, and the future livelihood of musicians.Leggi di più

OpenAI announced that Barret Zoph will head its enterprise sales effort, signaling a renewed focus on business customers as the company faces slipping market share to rivals Anthropic and Google. Zoph, a former OpenAI vice president who recently returned from Thinking Machine Labs, will oversee the rollout of ChatGPT Enterprise and new partnerships such as the expanded deal with ServiceNow. The move comes as OpenAI’s enterprise usage fell from 50% in 2023 to 27% at the end of 2025, while Anthropic holds about 40% and Google’s Gemini maintains around 21% market share.Leggi di più

LiveKit, a developer of real‑time AI voice and video infrastructure, announced a $100 million funding round that values the company at $1 billion. The round was led by Index Ventures with participation from existing backers such as Altimeter Capital Management, Hanabi Capital and Redpoint Ventures. LiveKit powers OpenAI’s ChatGPT voice mode and counts customers like xAI, Salesforce, Tesla, 911 emergency service operators and mental‑health providers. Founded in 2021 by Russ d’Sa and David Zhao as an open‑source project, the startup pivoted to a managed cloud offering to meet enterprise demand amid the voice‑AI boom.Leggi di più

The creators of the open‑source inference engine vLLM have launched a venture‑backed startup called Inferact, raising $150 million in seed funding at an $800 million valuation. The round was co‑led by Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Inferact aims to bring the high‑performance vLLM technology, originally incubated at the UC Berkeley lab of Databricks co‑founder Ion Stoica, to enterprise customers. Early adopters include Amazon’s cloud services and a major shopping app, signaling strong market interest as AI inference moves to the forefront of commercial deployment.Leggi di più

The maintainer of cURL, one of the most widely used networking tools, announced the termination of its bug bounty program. The decision follows an overwhelming influx of low‑quality, often AI‑generated vulnerability reports that strained the small team of volunteers. Daniel Stenberg, the project's founder, expressed that the limited resources of the open‑source project could not sustain the volume of submissions, and the program will conclude at the end of the month.Leggi di più

A new benchmark called APEX-Agents, designed to test AI performance on real-world professional tasks in consulting, investment banking, and law, reveals that current AI models struggle to meet the demands of knowledge work. Researchers from Mercur report that even top-performing models answer only about a quarter of the questions correctly, highlighting challenges in multi-domain reasoning and information retrieval across tools like Slack and Google Drive. The findings suggest that AI is still far from replacing skilled professionals in high‑value roles.Leggi di più

DeepMind co‑founder Demis Hassabis told reporters at Davos that he is surprised OpenAI has already begun testing advertisements within its chatbot. He said Google is considering the idea “very carefully” but feels no pressure to make a quick decision. Hassabis highlighted the tension between monetizing a free AI service and preserving user trust, noting that ads work differently in search than in a conversational assistant. He also pointed to past consumer backlash against ad‑like features in AI products, and said Google will monitor user response before taking any action.Leggi di più