Databricks finds itself in an awkward situation following the departure of Naveen Rao, its head of artificial intelligence, as rivals like Snowflake, Teradata, and hyperscalers such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, intensify their push to develop offerings for building generative AI applications. Rao’s exit comes at a time when Databricks is aggressively trying to

There is no seahorse emoji. The Unicode Consortium, which oversees the standardized pictograms that can be transmitted as part of text communications, has yet to add the adorable sea critter to its official emoji dictionary. Frail human minds have sometimes been surprised to learn that fact, in a perfect example of the Mandela Effect, in which

There may be nobody else on Earth more excited about AI than CEOs. Driven by a compulsion to cut overhead costs — and avoid the wrath of similarly AI-fixated shareholders — executive teams across the US can’t wait to force AI onto their workforces, consequences be damned. Corporate executives have become giddy at the thought

Has Sam Altman spent too much time talking with ChatGPT lately, or has he finally taken a break from his delusion-inducing chatbot and smelled the roses? We ask because the man responsible for unleashing the Automated Soulless Text Machine on the world has recently caught on that the internet has started feeling super fake, and

Albania has appointed the world’s first-ever AI government official in hopes of rooting out some of the Balkan state’s long-running corruption. As Politico Europe reports, the new AI minister — which should not be confused with a minister of AI, which a few countries already have, including Canada and the United Arab Emirates — has been

SEO isn’t what it used to be. In 2025, businesses are facing a massive shake-up: it’s no longer enough to rank on Google, you now have to be visible — and cited — in AI assistants like Gemini, Copilot, or ChatGPT. An article from El País Profesional calls this new paradigm “AI SEO” (or GEO

Governments from Washington to Brussels to Beijing are finally saying “enough” to ad-hoc AI regulation. A new era of AI policy is being shaped — one that seeks consistency, safety, and global competitiveness. Here’s what’s changing and why it matters. What’s Going On Policymakers are now treating artificial intelligence as more than a tech issue

Kotlin 2.2.20 has been released, with the latest version of the concise, multiplatform, “pragmatic” programming language bringing its WebAssembly-compilation component, Kotlin/Wasm, into beta. JetBrains announced Kotlin 2.2.20 release on September 10. The release includes a beta version of the Kotlin/Wasm tool for compiling Kotlin code into WebAssembly (Wasm), with improvements to exception handling in JavaScript

Users will be able to do more with files stored in Box’s cloud service with new AI features announced by the company this week at its BoxWorks event. The features will allow customers to extract and understand previously untouched information stored in documents and other files. These new features include safeguards that protect the data

People are starting to “talk like AI,” according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.  While teachers and business leaders complain about people using AI chatbots to write and communicate — and more and more public figures use AI-controlled avatars to communicate on their behalf — even authentic human speech is starting to sound “fake” and “machine-like,” according to Altman, who posted his views Monday on X.  Altman isn’t just suggesting that