The Department of Health and Human Services, under the leadership of Secretary Mehmet Oz, is pressing forward with an ambitious and deeply polarizing initiative to deploy artificial intelligence avatars as substitutes for human health care workers in rural and underserved communities across the United States.
For decades, climate scientists have warned that the planet’s warming trajectory could eventually cross invisible but consequential boundaries — thresholds beyond which natural systems begin to unravel in ways that feed upon themselves, accelerating warming far beyond what human emissions alone would produce.
For more than a decade, searching for a place to stay on Airbnb has followed a familiar ritual: type in a destination, pick your dates, scroll through a grid of listings, and hope for the best. Now, the company is signaling that the era of filter-heavy, location-first search may be drawing to a close — replaced by something far more conversational, intuitive, and powered by artificial intelligence.
At a moment when many of America’s largest technology companies are trimming headcount and leaning heavily into automation, International Business Machines Corp. is making a counterintuitive wager: it is tripling its hiring of Gen Z workers for entry-level positions, even as artificial intelligence reshapes virtually every role inside the 114-year-old company.
ByteDance, the Chinese technology giant behind TikTok, found itself at the center of a fierce debate over the ethical boundaries of artificial intelligence this month after its newly unveiled AI video generation model, SeedAnce 2, was demonstrated using hyper-realistic footage of Hollywood actors Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt engaged in a fistfight.
The Department of Homeland Security has reportedly issued hundreds of administrative subpoenas to social media companies in a sweeping effort to identify the individuals behind anonymous accounts that have been critical of Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations.
For more than a decade, automakers have quietly reaped regulatory benefits from one of the simplest fuel-saving technologies ever bolted onto a modern vehicle: the start-stop system. That era is now drawing to a close. The U.S. government is moving to eliminate pollution reduction credits awarded to vehicles equipped with start-stop systems, a decision that could ripple through corporate average fuel economy strategies and force manufacturers to recalculate their compliance math at a particularly fraught moment for the industry.
Apple Inc. is preparing to roll out a new internal application designed to sharpen the selling skills of its retail workforce, a move that signals the company’s deepening investment in the human side of its sprawling brick-and-mortar empire.
When Snowflake Inc. (NYSE: SNOW) announced a multi-year, $200 million partnership with OpenAI to embed frontier AI models directly into its cloud data platform, the market’s reaction was telling: cautious optimism tempered by the stubborn reality of a company that remains deeply unprofitable despite commanding a market capitalization north of $60 billion.
When more than 120 American technology executives touch down in New Delhi this month for the AI Impact Summit, they won’t just be attending another industry conference. They will be participating in what many observers view as India’s most ambitious attempt yet to reframe the global conversation around artificial intelligence—shifting the discourse from existential dread and regulatory caution toward economic opportunity, inclusive growth, and real-world problem solving.
