Esther Shein

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.

With a boon in AI data center growth in the U.S. comes the prospect of thousands of jobs, right? Not necessarily. Although it requires thousands of workers to build these facilities, “The reality is data centers just don’t employ that many people,’’ wrote Tom Dotan, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, wrote on LinkedIn […]

The AI chatbot from Elon Musk’s startup xAI is slated to go live on February 17 at 8:00 p.m. Pacific time.