From crackdowns on discriminatory facial recognition to protections against deepfakes, 2024 was quietly an important year for AI regulation.

Congress will try to spur AI growth and mitigate harms next year. But passing legislation will be an uphill battle

A new set of much more challenging evals has emerged in response, created by companies, nonprofits, and governments. Yet even on the most advanced evals, AI systems are making astonishing progress. In November,

AI combines all of today’s top models into one platform, and a lifetime subscription is on sale for four more days.

Our tech columnist visits a doctor assisted by AI. He finds potential and worrisome questions about whether it’s accurate, biased or always useful in health care.

The brain often blurs the senses – a fact that marketers often use in the design of food packaging. And AIs appear to do the same.

All of the major phone makers are at fault. Samsung opened the year with its Galaxy S24 launch in January, declaring “Galaxy AI is here” at a hockey arena-appropriate volume. To be sure, the devices it announced are good smartphones, and they run a blend of Samsung and Google’s Gemini Nano models on-device, but I wouldn’t call them AI smartphones.

Ishani Singh created Girls Rule AI after attending a computer science competition where she was the only girl.

AI offers business leaders the promise of higher efficiency and productivity. But there is risk in rushing to realize this potential. Nearly half of U.S. (47 percent) workers feel unprepared for its widespread adoption at their respective organizations according to recent SHRM research.

New AI agents will have far greater power to subtly direct what we buy, where we go, and what we read. That is an extraordinary amount of power. AI agents are designed to make us forget their true allegiance as they whisper to us in humanlike tones.

Agentic AI refers to systems that can autonomously take actions to solve problems or accomplish multi-step tasks on behalf of humans.