Tag: AI research

In 2026, the act of “Googling” has fundamentally shifted. We no longer just hunt for links; we collaborate with AI agents to synthesize answers. Perplexity AI stands at the forefront of this shift, offering a “conversational answer engine” that turns raw real-time data into trustworthy, cited reports. Perplexity’s factual search accuracy is proven through technical […]

Two Anti-AI activists are currently more than 10 days into hunger strikes outside major AI company headquarters, refusing to eat until their demands about artificial intelligence development are heard. Guido Reichstadter has been camped outside Anthropic’s offices while Michael Trazzi protests at DeepMind, both arguing that the path toward artificial general intelligence poses existential threats […]

One in four young adults is now having regular conversations with AI romantic partners, spending an average of 50 minutes per week chatting with artificial companions. This is happening right now, according to a new research lead by Brian Willoughby, a professor at Brigham Young University. The team surveyed nearly 3,000 American adults about their […]

The question hanging over Silicon Valley right now is one that makes investors nervous – are we living through another tech bubble? With AI companies burning through hundreds of billions in funding and Nvidia alone worth more than the entire GDP of Canada, the scale of investment feels weirdly familiar to anyone who lived through […]

Predicting the future has always felt like something out of science fiction, but AI models are now being tested on exactly that – and the results are quite surprising. Two new benchmarks, Prophet Arena and FutureX, have been putting leading AI models through their challenges on real-world prediction tasks, from sports outcomes to political events […]

In what may be the most expensive job rejection in tech history, an AI researcher at San Francisco startup Thinking Machines turned down a staggering $1 billion offer from Mark Zuckerberg‘s Meta. The offer was part of a systematic recruitment blitz targeting the entire company. According to a Wired report, Meta approached multiple researchers at […]