Image Credits:Justin Sullivan / Getty ImagesGoogle is preparing to host its biggest developer event of the year, Google I/O 2025, on May 20 and 21. Major announcements from CEO Sundar Pichai, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, and other top executives overseeing Search, Cloud, and Android are expected to showcase significant product updates.AI will be a...
Credit: PixabayAllTrails, the popular hiking and biking app crowned 2023’s iPhone App of the Year, is launching a new premium tier called “Peak.” Priced at $80 annually, the subscription adds advanced features like AI-generated custom routes, real-time trail condition updates, trail traffic heatmaps, and a tool to identify trees and plants using your phone’s...
Credit: PixabayTwo University of Waterloo graduates are reshaping Major League Baseball (MLB) with a data-powered pitching simulator that mimics the experience of facing a pro pitcher.Joshua Pope (BASc) and Rowan Ferrabee (BASc) founded Trajekt Sports in their fourth year with support from Dr. John McPhee. The technology idea, however, originated during Pope's time as...
The tech world appears to have two main views on where human workers fit in an AI-dominated future: one assumes that nearly all jobs—aside from their own—will be handled by bots. (Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, for example, seems confident his role as an investor is beyond automation.)
Credit: PixabayThe tech industry appears divided on the role of human workers in the AI-driven world they're shaping. Some believe that bots will take over all jobs, except maybe their own. (For example, VC Marc Andreessen thinks his work as an investor is immune to automation).Some believe bots will handle tedious tasks, allowing humans...
Credit: PixabayA recent study by French AI testing platform Giskard found that asking popular chatbots to give more concise responses "dramatically impacts hallucination rates." The analysis, which included models like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama, Grok, and DeepSeek, revealed that brevity requests "specifically degraded factual reliability across most models tested," according to a blog post...
Mastercard and Visa Launch AI Solutions to Automate Payments and ShoppinGlobal payment leaders Mastercard and Visa have unveiled new AI-driven solutions aimed at transforming how consumers make payments and shop online. Both companies are fully embracing the AI agent trend, with systems capable of performing automated tasks based on user commands.With these innovations, Visa...
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainApple Inc. is "actively exploring" a major overhaul of its Safari web browser to prioritize AI-driven search engines—a significant industry shift accelerated by the possible conclusion of its long-standing deal with Google.Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of services, revealed the information on Wednesday while testifying in the U.S. Justice Department’s...
Credit: PixabayA disturbing video circulating on social media seems to show a chilling scenario: a rogue killer robot. In the short clip, a humanoid robot malfunctions, thrashing its limbs and coming dangerously close to two nearby technicians.A Powerful and Potentially Dangerous Humanoid RobotPeople believe the robot is a Unitree H1, a versatile humanoid model...
Image Credits:Hugging FaceA team at Hugging Face has launched a free, cloud-based AI "agent" capable of operating a computer — though it's relatively slow and sometimes prone to errors.A Web-Based Linux Tool for Automated Task ExecutionKnown as the Open Computer Agent, the tool is available through a web interface and runs on a Linux...
