Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks?
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of science and technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Late last month, Anthropic released a report arguing that the…
TechCrunch Disrupt: What’s next for AI and software development
First AI gave us code completion, predicting the lines of code, functions, and boilerplate we needed based on what we’d already typed. Then came code suggestions and code generation, where AI writes new code or improves existing ...
AI labs are buying data from dead startups to train their models
When Keelan Miskell began winding down his crypto startup this year, he didn’t think its data was worth much: the users were anonymous, the company just a few years old. But he’s since turned the firm’s digital archives into real money. He’s netted…
The best place to run AI agents
Every few weeks, another enterprise leader asks me the same question: Should our AI agents run in the cloud or in our own data center? It sounds like a simple either/or, but it is the wrong way to frame the decision. Agents are n...
AI distrust is GitHub’s opportunity
Developers have never been more inclined to use AI, yet never less inclined to trust its output. In Stack Overflow’s surveys, the proportion of respondents using AI tools in development keeps climbing (44% in 2023, 62% in 2024, a...
Screencasting in the AI era
During my tenure as InfoWorld’s blogger-in-chief I became fascinated with narrated videos of software in action. Tools existed to do that kind of storytelling but the explanatory power of what came to be called screencasting had ...
Local AI on NPUs: Building a zero-cloud photo deduplicator with OpenCLIP
Every new laptop today is marketed as an ‘AI PC’ thanks to a built-in Neural Processing Unit (NPU). But beyond chatting with small local LLMs, what practical work can this silicon actually do? Recently, I hit a wall with a classi...
YouTube To Test Ask YouTube Inside The Shorts Player via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
YouTube is planning a limited, English-only test of Ask YouTube on select Shorts and says the watch-page feature will soon reach Shorts and live streams. The post YouTube To Test Ask YouTube Inside The Shorts Player appeared first on Search Engine Jour...
All In One SEO WordPress Plugin Vulnerable To Two Exploits via @sejournal, @martinibuster
AIOSEO WordPress Plugin has two medium-severity security flaws that enable unauthenticated attackers to compromise affected websites. The post All In One SEO WordPress Plugin Vulnerable To Two Exploits appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
The Social Reckoning is flopping at the box office
As important as some of the messages in The Social Reckoning are, the movie has been drastically underperforming at the box office. Per Variety, Aaron's Sorkin's follow up to The Social Network only grossed a measly $5.5 million this past weekend against…