Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Wednesday, June 24, 2026
A new integration for machine learning is available from Teradata and Google Cloud. Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform is now generally available with Teradata VantageCloud and ClearScape analytics. “With Teradata VantageCloud and ClearScape Analytics plus Vertex AI, organizations can move seamlessly from being AI experimenters to AI achievers,” Teradata said in a release. Vertex AI is Google Cloud’s ... Full article
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a new artificial intelligence system that can translate a person’s brain activity into a continuous stream of text.  Called a semantic decoder, the system is a noninvasive method that first involves measuring brain activity using an fMRI scanner, an imaging machine that tracks blood flow ... Full article
Online learning platform Udemy released its Q1 Workplace Learning Index that found ChatGPT is currently the most in-demand workplace skill in the U.S. and globally. The quarterly report highlights skills that are gaining demand among professionals seeking to keep pace with innovation. Udemy analyzes data from its nearly 14,000 global customers to uncover which skills saw the largest increase ... Full article
Intel posted its worst quarterly loss in history on Thursday, but the chipmaker took a bold move to put a positive spin on the grim news. “We delivered solid first-quarter results, representing steady progress with our transformation,” said Pat Gelsinger, Intel's CEO, in a press release. But the results were anything but solid, with double-digit ... Full article
Those anticipating an eventual GPT-5 release may have a long time to wait. The current trend of developing ever-larger AI models like GPT-4 may soon come to an end, according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. “I think we’re at the end of the era where it’s going to be these, like, giant, giant models. We’ll make them ... Full article
Early large-language models have proven to be triple-threat AIs – Bing and ChatGPT are entertaining, and can generate artificial love, hate, and even dance. But in the process of testing large-language models, one thing became obvious very quickly: AI models can make up stuff, and conversations can veer off track easily. The risk posed by ... Full article
Cloud providers are stress-testing Intel's confidential computing technology in its Sapphire Rapids chips before putting it in cloud services. Microsoft said it was previewing Intel's Trusted Domain Extensions (TDX) technology in its DCesv5-series and ECesv5-series virtual machine offerings, the company announced in a blog entry on Monday. Separately, Google announced it worked with Intel to ... Full article
Esperanto Technologies is working to accelerate software support for its novel, high-performance AI chips. The company has ported a large-language model (LLM) from Meta to its RISC-V-based ET-SoC-1, which includes 1,088 cores. This gives researchers the option to evaluate powerful LLMs on servers that are not based on x86 or Arm architectures. RISC-V is an ... Full article
Are you worried that AI is moving too fast and may have negative consequences? Do you wish there was a national law to regulate it? Well, that’s a club with a fast-growing list of members. Unfortunately, if you reside in the United States, there are no new laws designed to restrict the use of AI, ... Full article
Has artificial intelligence left the realm of fantasy to become a disruptor of reality? Are AI models now learning and thinking on their own, heralding the age of artificial general intelligence? If you caught last weekend’s "60 Minutes," you might think so. In the April 16 episode, CBS host Scott Pelley interviewed Google CEO Sundar ... Full article
An interview with Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger from just last year already hasn't aged well. In the interview, Gelsinger decries the energy consumption of Bitcoin mining ("a climate crisis") moments before announcing Intel's own Bitcoin mining product, Blockscale 1000, which Gelsinger claims is "dramatically better" than other power-guzzling chips that take over energy grids. Now, ... Full article
In this monthly feature, we bring you up to date on the latest career developments in the enterprise AI community – promotions, new hires and accolades. Here's the place to read about the movers and shakers, your colleagues, your friends, and maybe yourself. Wayne Allen  atNorth appointed Wayne Allen as its sales director of the ... Full article
One of the world's most popular computer makers, Raspberry Pi, is receiving a cash infusion from Sony in a move to bring AI computing closer to the data than vice versa. Raspberry Pi's namesake low-cost computers, which are circuit boards without a chassis, have achieved cult status among makers and DIYers that are building electronics ... Full article
A collaborative team of AI and law experts from Johns Hopkins University is working to develop an artificial intelligence system capable of identifying tax loopholes more effectively than tax accountants. The aim is to reduce the annual tax gap, estimated to be around $500 billion, that results from the manipulation of tax laws. The research ... Full article
OpenAI may have serious competition soon, and not just from Google. Documents obtained by TechCrunch revealed that AI startup Anthropic is looking to raise $5 billion over the next two years to take on the ChatGPT creator and gain entry to a dozen major industries. These documents, in the form of a pitch deck for ... Full article
MLCommons today released the latest MLPerf Inferencing (v3.0) results for the datacenter and edge. While Nvidia continues to dominate the results – topping all performance categories – other companies are joining the MLPerf constellation with impressive performances. There were 25 submitting organizations, up from 21 last fall and 19 last spring. Intel showcased early Sapphire ... Full article
The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) has released its 2023 Artificial Intelligence Index which analyzes AI’s impact and progress. The data-driven report is a deep dive into topics related to AI such as research, ethics, policy, public opinion, and economics. Key findings of the study include how AI research is expanding with topics including pattern ... Full article
OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot thrilled users when it was introduced in November, but things turned around fast: now top IT leaders are calling to halt the development of powerful AI systems. That hasn’t stopped CIOs from plotting the use of generative AI to bring smarts and automation to enterprise environments, especially with IT budgets tightening up ... Full article
Following the release of GPT-4, Microsoft AI researchers have published a paper suggesting that the OpenAI language model demonstrates “sparks” of artificial general intelligence (AGI). GPT-4 is OpenAI’s latest large language model, and for six months the researchers had access to its unrestricted version before it was fine-tuned for public release. “Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with ... Full article
The Future of Life Institute has issued an open letter calling for a six-month pause on some forms of AI research. Citing “profound risks to society and humanity,” the group is asking AI labs to pause research on AI systems more powerful than GPT-4 until more guardrails can be put around them. “AI systems with ... Full article