Democratized, Depoliticized and Decentralized AI, by the People, for the People Access to AI intelligence should be equal to all. That means building collaborative systems of learning, like the Thames Network, a new decentralized AI network launching at Oxford today.

Critical Studies of Education & Technology: AI and Teachers – A Matter of Time Critical Studies of Education & Technology: AI and Teachers – A Matter of Time One common theme throughout our initial conversations about AI with teachers are issues of time. Here, the primary narrative being pushed by school leaders and AI vendors is the idea of AI as a time-saver – taking on the burden of time-consuming but ines…

Google Market Share Slips, AI Referrals & Regional Search Engines Rise via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern Google leads organic search with 94.8% traffic, but AI tools and smaller engines show growing competition. The post Google Market Share Slips, AI Referrals & Regional Search Engines Rise appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

‘Simpsons’ Voice Actor Hank Azaria Explains Why He Can’t Be Easily Replaced By AI submitted by /u/NoCulture3505

Google faked Gemini AI output in Super Bowl ad Google appears to have faked AI output in a commercial set to run during the Super Bowl. The ad shows a business owner using Gemini to write a website description, but the text portrayed as generated by AI has been available on the business’s website since at least August 2020, as shown on this archived

Building Trust In The AI Era: Content Marketing Ethics And Transparency via @sejournal, @rio_seo Learn how to thrive in the content overload era with ethical content marketing practices. Build trust, stand out, and engage your audience with quality content. The post Building Trust In The AI Era: Content Marketing Ethics And Transparency appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

Microsoft Edge now has an AI-powered scareware blocker Microsoft has started rolling out a new scareware blocker in its Edge browser this week. The AI-powered feature runs on Windows PCs and can identify and block existing scams, and even detect new and emerging ones thanks to a local machine learning model. “Scareware blocker adds a new, first line of defense to help protect

Amazon plans to spend $100 billion this year to capture ‘once in a lifetime opportunity’ in AI Amazon said Thursday it plans to boost its capital expenditures to $100 billion in 2025, as it continues its spending spree on AI services.

DeepSeek has rattled large AI players — but smaller chip firms see it as a force multiplier While DeepSeek has dented the standing of several AI leaders, smaller chip companies see an opportunity to scale with the Chinese startup.

Mistral AI’s ‘Le Chat’ Chatbot Now Available on iPhone If you haven’t had enough of AI apps, there’s yet another to download and try out as of today. European company Mistral’s Le Chat chatbot can now be used through a dedicated iOS app. Mistral is a French AI company founded by engineers from Google and Meta. It creates its own open-weight large language models, and is aiming to compete with OpenA…

Gloo launches new open source initiative to drive rapid innovation of values-aligned AI Gloo The post Gloo launches new open source initiative to drive rapid innovation of values-aligned AI appeared first on RNS.

Do you use machine learning in your business? I’m building smolmodels, a fully open-source Python library that generates ML models for specific tasks from natural language descriptions of the problem. Here’s the repo: https://github.com/plexe-ai/smolmodels. I was thinking that the tool could potentially be used for making predictions about demand, customer behaviour and recommendations for …

Google is adding AI watermarks to photos manipulated by Magic Editor Google Photos is adding its digital SynthID watermarks to photos that have been edited using the Magic Editor’s generative AI feature. The new feature is rolling out “this week” according to Google, and is intended to make it easier for people to quickly identify images that have been manipulated using the “reimagine” tool in Magic

Nancy Bailey’s Education Website: Sal Khan and AI Reimagined Schools: Questions and Concerns Nancy Bailey’s Education Website: Sal Khan and AI Reimagined Schools: Questions and Concerns Recently, 60 Minutes showcased Sal Khan, known for the popular Khan Academy, describing Sal Khan’s Khanmigo, a new AI-powered program promising to revolutionize teaching by giving students an online personal tutor. Here’s Khan’s TED talk, “…

Lyft is using Anthropic’s Claude AI for customer service Lyft announced a new partnership with Anthropic to use the Claude AI assistant to handle customer service requests. Claude is already being put to use handling service inquiries from drivers, reducing the average resolution time for a request by 87 percent, the company said. In an example provided by Lyft, a driver asks the chatbot

Amazon Plans to Unveil Next-Generation Alexa AI Later This Month Amazon today sent out invites for an AI-focused event that will be held on February 26, and according to Reuters, the company plans to introduce its next-generation Alexa generative AI service. Since Amazon introduced Alexa in 2014, it has become one of the most widely available voice assistants, but it has been falling behind with the prolifer…

AI can now generate viral outbound comments https://preview.redd.it/cdyv8zt1jdhe1.png?width=727&format=png&auto=webp&s=dc48f90338e53bc3fe3d1bb024b8684051d9c032 I know many are skeptical about AI sounding “human” and successfully engaging on social media. My startup has been working with a phone case brand, and we found out that it totally WORKS. The screenshot below shows an AI-generated …

Alphabet shares fall more than 7% on revenue miss, AI investment boost Alphabet shares dropped after the search giant fell short of Wall Street’s fourth-quarter revenue expectations and announced big spending plans

Google’s ‘Ask for Me’ Uses a Realistic AI Voice to Call Businesses for You Google is currently testing an ai feature called ‘ask for me’ which can make enquiry phone calls on your behalf, similar to a personal assistant. I think its quite interesting and hopefully gets rolled into their final gemeni/google assistant AI. “To install it, go to Google Search Labs on either your desktop or mobile device, and install the “…

Google pulls incorrect Gouda stat from its AI Super Bowl ad Google has edited Gemini’s AI response in a Super Bowl commercial to remove an incorrect statistic about cheese. The ad, which shows a small business owner using Gemini to write a website description about Gouda, no longer says the variety makes up “50 to 60 percent of the world’s cheese consumption.” In the edited YouTube