Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

Gecko’s AI Robots Represent the ‘Boring’ Future of Bots

Jake Loosararian, CEO of Gecko Robotics. Photo by World Economic Forum via CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

More than 70% of the $2.3 billion raised by robotics companies in Q1 2025 was directed towards task-centric tech like Gecko’s.

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Artificial Intelligence

Meta’s Scoping Out a Superintelligence Lab

As ChatGPT’s partial outage yesterday goes to show, AI companies are still struggling to scale up to artificial general intelligence.

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Big Tech

Apple Still Won’t Ride the AI Hype Train

At its annual Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday, Apple announced a slew of incremental updates to its AI offerings.

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CIO Upside

Google Patent Helps You Fix Your Prompts

Making the most of large language models requires some guidance.

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Artificial Intelligence

Palantir Becomes Trump Trade’s Big Winner

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Palantir’s share price has soared some 77% year-to-date on the backs of key federal government contracts, to hit a record valuation on Monday.

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Artificial Intelligence

Now Entering Uncanny Valley: Why AI ‘Avatars’ Are Suddenly Everywhere

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One high-profile early adopter: Swiss bank UBS, which is turning its army of investment banking analysts into AI avatars.

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Advisor Upside

Advisors Love Automated Assistants. But What’s the Future of AI?

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Expert opinions on artificial intelligence vary, but one thing is certain: Change is inevitable.

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