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This Week in AI: Anthropic Goes to iPhone, AI Programming, Europe’s Rise
Artificial Intelligence // May 03, 2024

This week in artificial intelligence, Anthropic is launching its first smartphone app. In computer programming, AI is rapidly reshaping practices from Silicon Valley to major tech firms. Despite Europe’s tech lag, companies are heavily investing in AI, potentially disrupting sectors like finance and manufacturing. Anthropic Launches Claude...

AI Eases Coding, Paving the Way for Swifter Business Innovation
artificial intelligence // May 02, 2024

From Silicon Valley startups to tech giants, artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the art of computer programming. It offers developers a powerful new toolkit to brainstorm ideas, write and refine code, and fix pesky bugs — all with the help of AI-powered assistants. As...

How to Think About AI Regulation
David S. Evans // January 24, 2024

Every year, for the last 16 years, economists have come to Toulouse for the Digital Economics Conference to present cutting-edge research on just about everything digital. For those who don’t know Toulouse, or only that it is the headquarters of Airbus, the La Ville Rose is a...

GitHub Expands Availability of AI Assistant Designed for Developers
artificial intelligence // December 29, 2023

GitHub has made Copilot Chat generally available for organizations and individuals, allowing GitHub Copilot users to benefit from natural language-powered coding at no additional cost. As part of GitHub’s artificial intelligence (AI)-powered developer platform, Copilot Chat “enables the rise of natural language as the new...

Interviews & Exclusives
Microsoft’s Mishap Highlights Data Security Challenges When Training AI

September 20, 2023
Artificial intelligence (AI) models are some of the most data-hungry computing platforms in existence.  The technology may have the potential to transform the world, but generative AI doesn’t work without access to, and the ingesting of, enormous amounts of data.  This, as Microsoft’s AI research team accidentally exposed 38 terabytes of private data while publishing open-source AI […]

Quick Reads
Mark Zuckerberg Forms Advisory Council to Inform Meta’s AI Efforts

May 22, 2024
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has created a product advisory council to provide guidance on the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) and technology efforts. The new Meta Advisory Group will meet periodically with Meta’s management team, Bloomberg reported Wednesday (May 22). The group will be composed of four executives: Patrick Collison, CEO and co-founder of Stripe; Nat Friedman, former CEO of GitHub; Tobi Lütke, CEO of Shopify; and Charlie […]

GitHub Expands Availability of AI Assistant Designed for Developers

December 29, 2023
GitHub has made Copilot Chat generally available for organizations and individuals, allowing GitHub Copilot users to benefit from natural language-powered coding at no additional cost. As part of GitHub’s artificial...

Lawsuits Pile Up For Cap One, Amazon Post Hack

August 11, 2019
Capital One and Amazon Web Services are being sued by customers due to the massive hack that impacted more than 106 million people, GeekWire reported. Software engineer Paige Thompson, 33,...

WWDC Boosts Apple’s Shares To Record High

June 05, 2018
Apple’s annual developer conference, WWDC, helped boost the company’s shares to an all-time high on Monday (June 4). According to CNBC, the conference in San Jose, California drew tens of...