Esther Shein

Does saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to ChatGPT really matter? Discover how politeness influences AI responses—and why your etiquette might be driving up OpenAI’s massive energy bill.

Gemini Advanced users can now create and share high-resolution videos with its newly released Veo 2. The AI video generator Veo 2 lets users generate a cinema-quality eight-second, 720p video delivered as an MP4 file in a 16:9 landscape. Veo 2 understands real-world physics and human motion better, which enables it to deliver “fluid character […]

Diablo Canyon, California’s last operating nuclear power plant, is making history as the first in the US to deploy generative AI on-site — even as it moves toward decommissioning by the decade’s end. The plant’s owner, Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), announced a deal with AI startup Atomic Canyon to deploy its Neutron Enterprise tool, […]

Plaintiff Jerome Dewald, representing himself in an employment-related appeal, submitted a video to the court of an AI-generated avatar of himself. He later apologized.

OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 model has definitively beaten the Turing test, after it was found to be human 73% of the instances where it was prompted to adopt a human-like persona. The Turing test, named after British computer scientist Alan Turing in 1950, measures a machine’s ability to exhibit human-like intelligence in conversation with a human evaluator. […]

A new study finds AI will change human behavior significantly by 2035 in mainly negative ways.

Amazon’s rollout of Alexa+, the AI-focused upgrade to its popular virtual assistant, may have some users asking, “Alexa, where are the new features?” For example, Alexa+ can’t yet order takeout on Grubhub or identify family members from its camera to remind them to do certain chores, or order groceries — capabilities that were shown during […]

Google DeepMind unveiled its new family of AI Gemini 2.0 models designed for multimodal robots. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said, “This milestone lays the foundation for the next generation of robotics that can be helpful across a range of applications.”

AI is creating billionaires fast — 15 founders now hold $38B in wealth, and startups like Anthropic and CoreWeave reach massive valuations.

Executives are placing more trust in AI than colleagues for decision making, while concerns grow over a widening skills gap, according to a new SAP study.