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The New York Times in multiyear licensing deal with Amazon

This is the first licensing agreement the publisher has made with a company in the GenAI era. It is indicative of a trend in media, as many publishers partner with AI vendors.

By Esther Shittu • May 29, 2025

How Harvard is approaching AI in the classroom

Generative AI is already changing classrooms and student behavior. At Harvard, that's prompting faculty to reexamine how they teach and how they assess real learning.

By Lev Craig • May 21, 2025

Google expands Gemini model, Search as AI rivals encroach

The tech giant introduced a slew of new generative AI capabilities as the pace of innovation in search technology intensifies.

By Esther Shittu • May 20, 2025

Get started with Cursor AI: A step-by-step tutorial

With an autonomous agent mode and extensive language model options, Cursor AI can significantly speed up the code writing process -- if developers know how to use it.

By Marius Sandbu • May 16, 2025

Together AI acquires startup to improve data quality

The startup has a family of models for data tasks. The acquisition adds complementary capabilities to improve AI model quality.

By Esther Shittu • May 15, 2025

Automation Anywhere adds reasoning to agentic AI platform

The robotic process automation vendor's agentic process automation platform now has a reasoning engine that can understand enterprise context and help with agentic orchestration.

By Esther Shittu • May 13, 2025

USAA takes an ‘experiment and see’ approach with AI

The financial services company experiments with different models and AI tools and technologies. It uses AI technology both internally and externally.

By Esther Shittu • May 13, 2025

Trump targets AI diffusion rule as big tech talks AI race

President Donald Trump will walk back a Biden-era rule restricting the sale of advanced U.S. AI chips and models in the month it's set to take effect.

By Makenzie Holland • May 8, 2025

IBM targets agentic AI orchestration

The long-established vendor launched agent-building tools, prebuilt agents, and orchestration and integration capabilities for enterprises to integrate with major vendor platforms.

By Esther Shittu • May 6, 2025

Perplexity is on iOS, but problems remain for AI search firm

The vendor faces many complex situations that might prevent users from setting it as their devices' default voice assistant. Users may instead move toward Siri.

By Esther Shittu • April 25, 2025

OpenAI’s GPT-4.1 targets coding for developers

The new family of models is aimed at making developers code better. It includes OpenAI's first nano model.

By Esther Shittu • April 15, 2025

MLOps vs. DevOps: How are they different?

DevOps and MLOps share common goals -- but managing machine learning models brings a whole new set of challenges.

By Chris Tozzi • April 4, 2025

AWS developing high-performing autonomous AI agents

The cloud giant is deeply invested in generative AI. It has focused on adapting the Amazon Q assistant for what it calls 'high-performing agentic enterprise applications.'

By Shaun Sutner , Esther Shittu • March 25, 2025

OpenAI targets customer service with new audio models

The models build on GPT-4o and 4o mini architecture. With it, developers can control tone so that contact center agents can effectively help customers on the other end of the call.

By Esther Shittu • March 24, 2025

What is neural radiance field (NeRF)?

Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) use deep learning to turn 2D images of objects or scenes into detailed 3D representations by encoding the entire scene into an artificial neural network.

By George Lawton • March 20, 2025

Why small language models are on the rise

Small language models challenge the 'bigger is better' AI myth -- but can they fully replace their larger counterparts?

By Donald Farmer • March 11, 2025

AI startup Anthropic raises $3.5 billion

The startup's valuation and technology continue to put it in direct competition with OpenAI. However, like OpenAI, it faces integration challenges from enterprises.

By Esther Shittu • March 4, 2025

CNN vs. GAN: How are they different?

Convolutional neural networks and generative adversarial networks are both deep learning models but differ in how they work and are used. Learn the ins and outs of CNNs and GANs.

By George Lawton • March 3, 2025

Small language models are taking the spotlight

An industry analyst shares his perspective on why larger models aren't always better for enterprises.

By Stephen Catanzano • Feb. 26, 2025

What are diffusion models?

Diffusion models are a category of generative AI that excels at creating images, audio, video and other types of data by using a two-step process: forward diffusion and reverse diffusion.

By George Lawton • Feb. 25, 2025

Writer multilingual LLM revolves around synthetic data

AI platform provider Writer's language model can translate numerous languages. The vendor also looks to comply with governance standards and reduce legal challenges.

By Esther Shittu , Shaun Sutner • Feb. 11, 2025

DataRobot acquires open source and AI startup Agnostiq

The acquisition shows the importance of agentic AI for every platform provider. However, Agnostiq is a relatively small company.

By Esther Shittu • Feb. 10, 2025

Canceled executive order clears way for unbridled GenAI growth

At first glance, the deregulation appears like a way to drive innovation forward. However, it will slow AI safety efforts and could impede innovation in AI technology in some ways.

By Esther Shittu • Jan. 28, 2025

Examining hype about Chinese AI startup DeepSeek

The vendor released a new reasoning model it claims it developed cheaply in part by not using as many Nvidia chips. It will likely face challenges in the U.S. market.

By Esther Shittu • Jan. 27, 2025

What is a variational autoencoder (VAE)?

A variational autoencoder (VAE) is one of several generative models that use deep learning to generate new content, detect anomalies and remove noise.

By George Lawton, Stephen Bigelow • Jan. 24, 2025