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How AI helps Henry Schein One’s accounts payable team

The big healthcare product company's dental software division turned to AI automation startup Pipefy to transform a paper-based system into a digital one.

By Esther Shittu • May 28, 2025

What is deepfake technology?

Deepfake technology is a type of artificial intelligence used to create convincing fake images, videos and audio recordings.

By Kinza Yasar, Nick Barney, Ivy Wigmore • May 22, 2025

Anthropic intros next generation of Claude AI models

The models are designed for coding. Opus 4 helps with sustained coding tasks, and Sonnet 4 replaces 3.7 Sonnet. The models give insight into a shift in the GenAI market.

By Esther Shittu • May 22, 2025

Mistral AI intros Devstral, new coding LLM

The model is aimed at coders. It expands the coding context window and focuses on enhancing current code. The LLM also shows what is possible with agentic technology.

By Esther Shittu • May 21, 2025

The rise of robotaxis

Robotaxis use sensors and AI to navigate without drivers. Despite operating in many cities, they face safety, regulatory and trust issues while promising to change transportation.

By Alexander Gillis • May 20, 2025

What is AI democratization?

AI democratization, or the democratization of AI, is the concept that the benefits and control of artificial intelligence should be fairly divided among all people.

By Gavin Wright, Ivy Wigmore • May 20, 2025

AWS intros Strands Agents SDK

Many developers find agentic AI difficult, so the new SDK is meant to help them deploy the technology and connect models and tools. The toolkit also aligns with AWS' SDLC strategy.

By Esther Shittu • May 16, 2025

IBM customers assess the performance of AI agents

Enterprises are carefully watching the popular technology. While some see agents as too immature relative to what vendors promise, others are slowly integrating them.

By Esther Shittu • May 6, 2025

Staying nonprofit could slow, not stop, OpenAI fundraising

The GenAI vendor could find itself slowing down after its decision to retain a nonprofit ownership structure, at least for now.

By Shaun Sutner • May 6, 2025

Meta Llama 4 explained: Everything you need to know

Meta released Llama 4 -- a multimodal LLM that analyzes and understands text, images, and video data. There are three primary versions of Llama 4 -- Scout, Maverick and Behemoth.

By Sean Kerner • May 5, 2025

What is assistive technology (adaptive technology)?

Assistive technology refers to devices and services that help people with disabilities and long-term health conditions perform a variety of tasks.

By Ed Burns, Olivia Wisbey • May 5, 2025

What Amazon Nova Premier reveals about AI models and agents

While the model is not unique, the vendor said it is the fastest and most cost-effective model in Amazon Bedrock at its intelligence level, which might appeal to some enterprises.

By Esther Shittu • May 1, 2025

What Meta’s new AI app means for OpenAI

The social media giant's new app directly rivals ChatGPT. This could mean that the ChatGPT creator needs to improve its tools, or it could trigger a slip for OpenAI.

By Esther Shittu • May 1, 2025

4 tech companies eyeing nuclear power for AI energy

Big Tech's demand to power AI energy is driving a resurgence of nuclear power after years of skepticism. Nuclear power offers more reliable and cleaner energy for AI.

By Andy Patrizio • April 30, 2025

How the Model Context Protocol simplifies AI development

Nicknamed the USB-C port for AI applications, the Model Context Protocol standardizes AI interactions with external data, APIs and services while maintaining resource control.

By Marius Sandbu • April 30, 2025

AI creators need to have women in the room

AI technology is growing, but biases and systemic challenges remain for women seeking to enter the field. This means that the tools themselves lack representation.

By Esther Shittu • April 30, 2025

Google Gemini 2.5 Pro explained: Everything you need to know

Google's latest multimodal model – Gemini 2.5 Pro – entered the AI race with enhanced reasoning and improved performance across coding, math and science benchmarks.

By Sean Kerner • April 29, 2025

An explanation of neural networks

Neural networks are a type of machine learning model that mimic the human brain. With three different layers of processors, these networks are used in various industries.

By Sabrina Polin, Tommy Everson • April 29, 2025

How to use Perplexity AI: Tutorial, pros and cons

AI-powered search engine Perplexity offers a conversational tone and much-needed source citations -- but it's not perfect. Learn how the tool works and how to start using it.

By Damon Garn • April 28, 2025

GPT-4.1 explained: Everything you need to know

OpenAI released a new family of general-purpose models on April 14, 2025. The GPT-4.1 series includes three models with a developer focus – GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini and GPT-4.1 nano.

By Sean Kerner • April 22, 2025

How AI personalization creates customized user experiences

Businesses can drive revenue and boost user engagement with AI personalization techniques -- if they also ensure transparency and data privacy.

By Donald Farmer • April 21, 2025

What’s new and not new with OpenAI’s latest reasoning models

The o3 and o4-mini models are supposed to be better than previous models. While they have improved abilities that can be seen as agentic, the upgrades are mostly incremental.

By Esther Shittu • April 17, 2025

What is OpenAI?

OpenAI is a private research laboratory that aims to develop and direct artificial intelligence (AI) in ways that benefit humanity as a whole.

By Cameron Hashemi-Pour • April 17, 2025

With Llama 4, Meta ups stakes in open model race

Models in the new Llama 4 family compete with open source offerings, most notably from Chinese upstart DeepSeek.

By Shaun Sutner • April 10, 2025

Google intros agent building tools and an agent protocol

The tech giant introduced a new agent development kit. It also introduced enhanced reasoning capabilities and new features for its multimodal models.

By Esther Shittu • April 9, 2025