AI & Robotics

Qualcomm made headlines when it was named the chipmaker for Microsoft’s Copilot+ PCs. However, that hasn’t deterred Intel from innovating for this new form of computing. The company had been working on chips to power AI PCs long before Microsoft’s news. In fact, on that very same day, Intel announced its Lunar Lake processor, a chip that would power more than 80 new laptop designs from 20…

Nvidia unveiled new RTX technology to power AI assistants and digital humans running on new GeForce RTX AI laptops. The big AI and graphics tech company unveiled Project G-Assist — an RTX-powered AI assistant tech demo that provides context-aware help for PC games and apps. The Project G-Assist tech demo debuted with ARK: Survival Ascended from Studio Wildcard. Nvidia also introduced the first…

Anthropic, a leading AI company, has announced the general availability of Tool Use for its AI assistant, Claude. This powerful new feature allows Claude to autonomously interact with external data sources, APIs, and tools, revolutionizing the way businesses can leverage AI to automate tasks, personalize recommendations, and streamline data analysis. Tool Use is now available across the entire…

Let’s make one thing clear up front: I’m generally pro-generative AI. At least, I am a lot more amenable to it — and use it myself daily in the form of parsing information via ChatGPT and generating images with it and Midjourney — than many of my peers in the journalism industry. Nonetheless, I am curious and concerned about the recent trend of OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT and its underlying…