Semiconductor startup Positron has secured $230 million in Series B funding, TechCrunch has learned exclusively. The company plans to use the capital to accelerate the deployment of its high-speed memory chips, a critical component for chips used for AI workloads, sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. Among the investors participating in the round is…
In 2024, around the time of Davos, you wrote an article titled “AI will transform the economy. Let’s make it work for humanity” that focused largely on the implications of AI for the job market. What is the verdict? We certainly see benefits for humanity in the penetration of many applications of AI into the…
Devising AI personas that are therapists of all types is handy for many reasons. getty In today’s column, I examine in-depth the use of AI personas to craft synthetic mental health therapists. This is readily undertaken via modern-era generative AI and large language models (LLMs). With a few detailed instructions in a prompt, you can…
Executives like David Solomon of Goldman Sachs say experience trumps everything in business, including brains. But Ricardo Amper, founder and CEO of the $1.25 billion software company Incode Technologies, believes Gen Z’s naivety is a professional blessing rather than a career curse. “My belief [is] that it is important to come out with a fresh…
We may not have a killswitch for AI as a whole, but Mozilla gives users the option to disable AI in its Firefox browser (even though it could have simply not included these features in the first place). In a blog postthe company announced that it would include a toggle in the next version of…
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…
Zen-AI-Pentest provides an open source framework for analyzing and testing systems using a combination of autonomous agents and standard security utilities. The project aims to enable users to execute an orchestrated sequence of reconnaissance, vulnerability analysis, exploitation and reporting using AI guidance and industry tools such as Nmap and Metasploit. It is written to support…
Le Vietnam accélère ses efforts pour devenir une puissance technologique régionale, avec des investissements stratégiques dans intelligence artificielle et semi-conducteurs soulignant cette ambition. Les responsables gouvernementaux ont souligné que les technologies sont deux moteurs de l’innovation et de la compétitivité mondiale, visant à développer les talents et à construire des centres de fabrication intelligents. Pour…
AMA News Feed Using big data and AI to boost doctor training January 15, 2026 Winners of the AMA’s new Transforming Lifelong Learning Through Precision Education grant program plan to harness and make sense of big data and apply augmented intelligence (AI) to provide medical students and residents in training, as well as practicing physicians,…
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…