Interview Thomson Reuters, based in Canada, recently scored a partial summary judgment against Ross Intelligence, after a US court ruled the AI outfit’s use of the newswire giant’s copyrighted Westlaw content didn’t qualify as fair use. The ruling isn’t precedent-setting – it didn’t settle whether training AI on publicly accessible or proprietary content without permission … Read more
Artificial intelligence (AI)-focused blockchain protocol Halliday said it raised $20 million to help fund development of its Agentic Workflow Protocol (AWP), which aims to speed development of decentralized finance (DeFi) applications and avoid the need for programmers to write smart contracts. The Series A funding round was led by venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz’s (a16z) … Read more
A brief history of AI refusals This isn’t the first time we’ve encountered an AI assistant that didn’t want to complete the work. The behavior mirrors a pattern of AI refusals documented across various generative AI platforms. For example, in late 2023, ChatGPT users reported that the model became increasingly reluctant to perform certain tasks, … Read more
Write Warz is the recently launched debut title of Boltz Entertainment, a co-op party game that turns the act of storytelling into strategic (and often funny) warfare against your opponents. Building on the tradition of Jackbox-style titles like Quiplash or RiffTrax, Write Warz instead offers a longer-form avenue of storytelling between friends, as up to … Read more
from the this-would-get-an-intern-at-a-coffee-shop-fired dept If you want to write something on the U.S. government’s official DOGE website, apparently you can just… do that. Not in the usual way of submitting comments through a form, mind you, but by directly injecting content into their database. This seems suboptimal. The story here is that DOGE — Elon … Read more
Drafting a cover letter has always been a pain. But that’s especially true today, when companies are often reviewing hundreds, if not thousands, of applications. Is anyone actually reading the page-long letter you sweat over? As the use of artificial intelligence spreads, job seekers are eager to use the technology to make filling out applications … Read more
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Nuwa Pen is a smart ballpoint pen that digitizes the words you write on paper as you write them. The pen uses a standard D1 ballpoint ink cartridge in conjunction with AI, computer vision and motion … Read more
It’s a new year, and we feel fine! 2024 was a breakout year for our favorite programming language, and we have a feeling 2025 will be even bigger. For this first Python report of the year, we’re offering our lineup of the most helpful, newsworthy, eye-opening—and, yes, popular—Python articles and tutorials recently published on InfoWorld. … Read more
As developers, we constantly dance between writing code, managing infrastructure, and keeping tabs on deployment and logs. Wouldn’t having an AI teammate that simplifies these tasks be amazing? Duet AI is a Google AI tool that acts as your coding buddy and streamlines the development process, for most applications including Node.js. In this post, you … Read more
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25803641/247455_Kindle_Scribe_SVasani_0001.jpg?w=1200&resize=1200,628&ssl=1 "Kindle Scribe (2024) review: nothing to write home about")
My high school English teacher drilled into my head that there was a proper way to read a book: “If you’ve read a book without taking notes, you’ve not read it at all.” She had a point — taking notes helps me engage with the material in a much deeper way than just reading. Nowadays, … Read more