USC and UCLA are joining the rush to embed artificial intelligence and new digital technologies into college coursework as the academic year begins, announcing new AI majors and initiatives, betting that degrees built partly or entirely around AI will launch careers and pay off after graduation. At USC, the Viterbi School of Engineering is launching

Voyage’s World Engine defines, tracks and powers the world while AI tells the story. That persistent foundation gives creators more power to build deep multiplayer worlds that hold together through play. Latitude opens Voyage, its second-generation AI roleplay platform, to everyone on iOS, Android and the web, without an invite code or waitlist. Voyage, the

Ethical and responsible AI use matters, Marc Benioff, Salesforce CEO, and leading companies are putting trust, safety & human oversight at the heart of it Artificial intelligence (AI) is creating new opportunities across sectors, from supporting healthcare diagnoses to expanding access to personalised education and helping safeguard cultural diversity. Yet the rapid development and deployment

Amazon and Nvidia just got a lot closer. The two companies announced Wednesday an expanded partnership that includes a deal to add another 2 million Nvidia GPU chips to Amazon’s data centers. These GPUs, which are designed to handle the heavy compute demands of training and running AI models, include Nvidia Blackwell Ultra, Rubin, and

Over the last few years, the AI talent market has looked more like a professional sports draft than a conventional hiring cycle. Cash-rich labs are offering salaries more commonly associated with pro athletes, plus equity packages that can turn early employees into billionaires. The allure of life-changing paychecks has resulted in elite researchers swapping between

FlowX.AI is among the first partners bringing specialized industry agents to Gemini Enterprise, with enterprise-grade AI built for complex, high-stakes work where making a mistake is not an option. FlowX.AI today announced that specialized FlowX.AI agents are available through Google Cloud Marketplace and as part of Gemini Enterprise, enabling Gemini Enterprise customers to bring AI into

Starting today, Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in Canada West (Calgary) region. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. The M8i and M8i-flex instances offer up to 15% better

Why most of the agents are just flowcharts in disguise, and what to build instead. I wrote most of this at an airport several months ago and then left it in drafts. The noise has only gotten louder since, so here it is. A few months ago, on our way back from a client workshop