How Japan is using AI to prepare Tokyo residents for a Mount Fuji volcanic eruption

Officials released a statement saying that there are currently no signs of Fuji erupting. [...]

Alphabet beats third quarter revenue estimates on cloud demand and advertising

Google Cloud remained one of Alphabet’s fastest-growing segments, benefiting from surging enterprise demand for AI-powered infrastructure and data analytics services. [...]

Samsung reports billions in record profit for Q2 thanks to AI boom

The chip giant announced $62 billion in earnings for the April–June period. [...]

AI CEOs are promising all-powerful superintelligence. Government insiders have thoughts 

AI boosters want you to believe government officials don’t know anything about AI. Fast Company spoke to a half-dozen D.C. vets whose candid takes on what’s real, what’s hype, and what’s next [...]

Artificial Intelligence Sneaks Into the World Cup Thanks to Google Gemini

The Argentine national team will be Google’s test bench and technological showcase during the World Cup. [...]

Exclusive: Google Gemini adds AI tutoring, heating up the fight for student users

The new tool, and a $1 billion initiative to improve AI education for college-age Americans, will compete against OpenAI’s recently added ChatGPT Study mode. [...]

Character.AI launches social feed to let users interact, create, and share with AI personas

The new Character.AI feed brings social media-style features to its app, allowing users to post chat snippets, share AI-generated videos, and cocreate content with over 100 million virtual characters. [...]

Google wants you to be a citizen data scientist

The company’s new fleet of AI agents are designed to turn you into a “strategic orchestrator.” Are you ready to be the “human in the loop”? [...]

AI has this harmful belief about women

A new study analyzed 1.4 million online images and videos, plus nine large language models trained on billions of words. Here’s what it found. [...]