How companies and professionals are adopting AI, and what it means for work.
Layoffs, a hiring freeze for junior engineers and a growing pile of hard-to-maintain generated code show the limits of the 2023 prediction that AI would write software on its own.
Artificial Analysis ranks Kimi K2.5, GLM-4.7 and DeepSeek V3.2 as the leading open models, and usage data from OpenRouter and a16z shows Chinese models near 30 percent of traffic.
Researchers led by the Complexity Science Hub analyzed 30 million GitHub commits and found AI-assisted coding in the US rose from about 5 percent in 2022 to 29 percent.
Google has bought the Cambridge, Massachusetts startup Common Sense Machines, whose AI converts 2D images into production-ready 3D assets, for an undisclosed sum.
Mercor's new APEX-Agents benchmark tests AI agents on long, multi-file tasks from banking, consulting and law, and finds even top models complete fewer than 25 percent.
Sparkli, founded by three former Google employees, has raised $5 million in pre-seed funding led by Founderful to scale an AI engine that turns children's questions into guided lessons.
Andrew Ng told Davos that Google is clearly having a moment after Gemini 3, as reports put Gemini API calls at 85 billion and Google Cloud revenue up 34 percent.
Forrester's JP Gownder argues AI has not delivered its promised productivity gains, echoing the Solow paradox, even as the firm forecasts 10.4 million US jobs displaced by 2030.
Tools such as Anthropic's Claude Code are compressing days of programming into minutes, and some experienced engineers say the speed comes with a loss of craft and focus.
OpenAI says it will begin showing advertisements to some US users on ChatGPT's free tier and its low-cost Go plan, while Plus and Pro subscribers stay ad-free.
Meta will close its VR meeting app Horizon Workrooms on February 16, 2026, and end commercial Quest sales, after its Reality Labs unit lost more than $70 billion since 2020.
A Workday survey of employees at 3,200 companies finds AI saves hours each week, but much of that gain goes back into fixing, rewriting and checking the output.
Allianz's annual survey of 3,300 risk experts puts AI behind only cyber incidents, while a WEF report finds data leaks through generative AI are now the top AI-related cyber worry.
Apple and Google confirmed that the next generation of Apple Foundation Models will be based on Gemini, a concession that Apple's in-house AI has fallen behind rivals.
Tech companies are spending hundreds of billions of dollars on AI while offering ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude at no charge; the bill is being settled in data, habit and future pricing.
As law firms, accountants and software companies hand routine tasks to AI, the first rung of the career ladder is disappearing, widening the gap between workers who use AI and those who do not.
The magazine's annual list puts AI coding tools alongside its top emerging technologies, as adoption surges and questions about code quality and junior jobs grow.
Announced on January 11 at the NRF retail conference, the agentic platform aims to handle shopping journeys from product discovery to post-purchase support.
