THE AI TIMES

Picture it: I’m minding my business at a party, parked by the snack table (of course). A friend of a friend wanders up, and we strike up a conversation. It quickly turns to work, and upon learning that I’m a climate technology reporter, my new acquaintance says something like: “Should I be using AI? I’ve…

In a recent newsletter, Ben Thompson suggested paying attention to a portion of Jensen Huang’s keynote at NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in DC, calling it “an excellent articulation of the thesis that the AI market is orders of magnitude bigger than the software market.” While I’m reluctant to contradict as astute an observer as […]

CRED is transforming premium customer experiences in India with OpenAI. Using GPT-powered tools, the company is improving support accuracy, reducing response times, and boosting customer satisfaction.

Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon are investing tens of billions in data centers. AI infrastructure is now a key driver of US economic growth.

AgiBot is using AI-powered robots to do new manufacturing tasks. Smarter machines may transform physical labor in China.

Google Cloud has introduced a big update in a bid to keep AI developers on its Vertex AI platform for concepting, designing, building, testing, deploying and modifying AI agents in enterprise use cases. The new features, announced today, include additional governance tools for enterprises and expanding the capabilities for creating agents with just a few lines of code, moving faster with state-of-the-art context management layers and one-click deployment, as well as managed services for scaling production and evaluation, and support for identifying agents. Agent Builder, released last year during its annual Cloud Next event, provides a no-code platform for enterprises to create agents and connect these to orchestration frameworks like LangChain. Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK), which lets developers build agents “in under 100 lines of code,” can also be accessed through Agent Builder.  “These new capabilities underscore our commitment to Agent Builder, and simplify the agent devel

Vineet Mehra, Chief Marketing Officer at Chime, shares how AI is reshaping marketing into an agent-driven discipline. He explains why CMOs who champion AI literacy and thoughtful adoption will lead in the new era of growth.

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Why the for-profit race into solar geoengineering is bad for science and public trust —David Keith is the professor of geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago and Daniele Visioni is an assistant…

The following article originally appeared on Gradient Flow and is being reposted here with the author’s permission. We’re living through a peculiar moment in AI development. On one hand, the demos are spectacular: agents that reason and plan with apparent ease, models that compose original songs from a text prompt, and research tools that produce […]

A new company called Sandbar has unveiled a smart wearable called Stream Ring, which uses a microphone to record your softly spoken thoughts. And it’s powered by—you guessed it—an AI chatbot.