In a recent episode of the First Person podcast we met with Derek Ashmore. Derek is a career-long IT consultant. He told us that a career as an independent can be fulfilling and lucrative, if you are prepared to continually learn, and share your knowledge. He said that the joy of his career has been

Nvidia has developed a generative AI (genAI) model to help robots make human-like decisions by analyzing surrounding scenes. The Cosmos Reason model in robots can take in information from video and graphics input, analyze the data, and use its understanding to make decisions. Cosmos Reason, announced on Monday,  helps robots “think like

Apple Intelligence will lean heavily into Apple’s existing work with App Intents and Shortcuts integrations. The app services App Intents provide will be combined with Apple Intelligence and supported by what your device knows about where you are, what you need and the things you usually do. (It will all take place privately and on

Last week, OpenAI startled the world by announcing that its long-awaited GPT-5 would replace all of its previous models, The move sparked outrage. Apart from being severely underwhelmed by the performance of OpenAI’s newest offering, power users immediately started to beg CEO Sam Altman to bring back preceding models, often for a reason that had little

No AI product in history had been anticipated with as much hype as OpenAI’s long-awaited GPT-5. But after launching with great fanfare last week, the shiny new model has landed with a thud — and that could be very bad news for OpenAI, which relies on a sense of inertia to keep pulling in users and

It’s been just over a month since Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI’s Grok chatbot had a mind-bogglingly antisemitic meltdown, celebrating itself as “MechaHitler” and targeting people with Jewish surnames with hatred-filled accusations. While xAI quickly apologized, vowing to address the situation and “actively working to remove the inappropriate posts,” it looks like it hasn’t

Last month, a federal judge ruled that potentially millions of writers can join a copyright infringement lawsuit brought against the AI startup Anthropic. The suit, filed by three authors, accused the Claude chatbot maker of using pirated books downloaded from “shadow libraries” such as LibGen to train its large language models. Upping the ante through

Until very recently, studying computer science — or some variation thereof — was considered among the best bets an incoming college freshman could make. Now, as the New York Times reports based on interviews with experts and recent CS graduates alike, those who did are struggling to find work in fast food, nevermind as entry-level coders, amid massive

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic buzzword in the accounting world—it’s already here, quietly transforming how financial professionals work. From automating tedious data entry to generating predictive insights, AI is reshaping the way businesses handle numbers. But like any powerful tool, it comes with both opportunities and risks that accountants need to navigate.

RoboSense (2498.HK), a pioneering AI-driven robotics technology company, showcased its cutting-edge Active Camera platform at the 2025 World Robot Conference (WRC) under the company’s theme of “The Real Eye of Robots.” The showcase featured the already released AC1 and the AI-Ready ecosystem, alongside the debut of the new product AC2, which is scheduled for official