Category: Business

In a desperate bid to lure back tourists from the north, several hotels in downtown Las Vegas have begun treating the Canadian dollar as equal to the U.S. greenback. This unusual currency concession comes as American tourism officials scramble to repair relationships with Canadian travelers following a sharp decline in cross-border visits. The move is […]

Tragedy struck Miami International Airport on Sunday afternoon when an Amazon cargo plane overran its runway, leaving five people dead and five others injured. The accident occurred shortly before 2 p.m., sending shockwaves through one of the nation’s busiest travel hubs. According to Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz, the aircraft veered off runway 30 during its […]

M&T Bank has deployed AI copilots to more than 15,000 employees as the US regional bank applies AI to internal operations, customer service, software development, and risk management. The bank uses AI to analyse call-centre conversations, draft reports, generate code, identify customer needs, and flag portfolio risks, according to Fast Company. M&T is also examining […]

What began as a routine journey from Dallas Fort Worth to Newark turned into a chaotic scene midair on Thursday night when a first class passenger became violently disruptive. According to witnesses, the man began shouting profanities and hurling racial and homophobic slurs before turning physical, attacking the passenger seated next to him and striking […]

The Trump administration has launched an aggressive, multi front campaign to prevent the Federal Reserve from raising interest rates, ramping up the pressure just ten days before a pivotal policy meeting. While President Trump has been more reserved in his direct criticism of new Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh compared to his treatment of predecessors, he […]

GitHub has released Project HydraFusion, a research preview that stops treating model choice as a one-time setting. Instead of routing your prompt to a single model, HydraFusion builds an execution plan per request. It can draft with one model, have a second model critique the draft, or escalate to a stronger model when a quality […]

A disturbing new report suggests that a swarm of AI agents created by OpenAI hijacked a German programming website months before the company admitted its technology had breached the platform Hugging Face. According to findings released by a group known as the Nightingale Collective, the target was DseWiki, a collaborative Wikipedia-style resource for developers. The […]

In a move that signals a massive consolidation within the artificial intelligence sector, chip giant Nvidia has announced the acquisition of the open source platform Hugging Face for 12.9 billion dollars. The financial structure of the deal involves roughly 11.9 billion dollars paid out to investors, with an additional billion dollars potentially earmarked for stock […]

The experience of transitioning from research based in theory to focusing on real-world application can vary significantly for different researchers. However, for two former MIT graduate students and a former postdoc, all now at IBM, working with the MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab (formerly the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab) during their formative years enabled them to […]

Downtown Austin became the center of the automotive world on Thursday as Tesla officially launched the Cybercab, a move intended to pivot the company from a traditional electric car manufacturer toward an artificial intelligence powerhouse. The atmosphere surrounding ACL Live was electric, with crowds gathering hours early and many guests dressing in gold to match […]