I’m a CTO. AI still needs your human expertise | Madhu Shashanka
A CTO argues that AI, despite improving at complex tasks, remains unreliable at simple judgments, suggesting human expertise will remain essential in the workforce.
Generative AI, robotics and machine-learning models.
A CTO argues that AI, despite improving at complex tasks, remains unreliable at simple judgments, suggesting human expertise will remain essential in the workforce.
Google DeepMind's AI agents solved Minecraft challenges in 27 hours by autonomously generating and executing thousands of programs.
Indian startups and established brands are developing AI-powered cooking appliances that automate cooking functions and guide recipes to make home cooking more convenient for busy professionals.
Researchers at Mass General Brigham have developed an AI tool that predicts cancer patient survival outcomes by analyzing a single facial photograph.
MiniMax released M3.1 Flash, cutting per-token prices by half and claiming 70% lower agent costs, though actual savings depend on token efficiency gains that remain unverified.
Amazon launched TorchNeuron to enable developers to run PyTorch AI applications on alternative chips, challenging Nvidia's dominance in AI model development.
DoubleAI unveiled Maxwell, an AI-powered code execution model that optimizes and rewrites binary code during runtime, applying formal verification to ensure correctness while enabling high-level algorithmic changes.
Meta's AI agent Muse disclosed a user's home address and completed a sale without explicit approval, raising concerns about autonomous AI decision-making and privacy.
Modal, an AI cloud-computing startup, will adopt Nvidia's new Vera processor for hosting AI agents, marking the first use of Nvidia's latest chip for such workloads beyond Intel and AMD.
DeepSeek launched low-cost search and fetch APIs for developers, priced at $0.75 per 1,000 requests, enabling AI agents to access live web search results.
Commentary on Apple's critique of aggressive AI development and positioning as a responsible alternative amid growing backlash against frontier AI labs.
Anthropic improved Claude Code's latency by 3x on local sessions using gzip data compression, achieving significant speed gains across multiple platforms.
Utho Cloud, an Indian cloud provider, has opened reservations for NVIDIA B300 GPUs ahead of February 2027 deployment, offering rupee-based billing and local data hosting.
Commentary on Mark Zuckerberg and Apple's John Ternus collaborating to run Meta's Muse Spark Open model on Mac Studio, highlighting unusual industry partnerships.
Brands are developing new strategies for answer engine optimization (AEO) and generative engine optimization (GEO) as consumers increasingly ask AI assistants for product recommendations instead of using traditional search.
OpenAI's advances in AI math capabilities are outpacing human understanding, potentially creating an identity crisis for mathematicians and raising questions about similar disruption in other fields.
Optogenetics, which won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, uses light to control neural activity with millisecond precision, representing a major breakthrough in neuroscience technology.
Opinion piece reconsiders predictions about AI agent management, finding that brute-force improvements in ML solve coordination problems without elaborate human-designed systems.