AI News caught up with Siddhartha Choudhury, a Senior Product Manager at Booking.com, to get the inside scoop on how the technology is keeping your bookings – and data – safe from security threats like online fraud. When you book a holiday online, you’re placing a lot of trust in a website. You trust it

AI speech transcription tools are about to get a lot more competitive with Alibaba’s Qwen team pulling unveiling the Qwen3-ASR-Flash model. Built upon the powerful Qwen3-Omni intelligence and trained using a massive dataset with tens of millions of hours of speech data, this isn’t just another AI speech recognition model. The team says it’s designed

Recall.ai provides the infrastructure developers need to build AI products that understand human conversations—expanding beyond meeting bots to capture data from desktop, phone, and in-person interactions. This Series B round, led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from HubSpot Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, Ridge Ventures, Y Combinator, RTP Ventures, as well as notable angels including Paul

Here’s the uncomfortable truth about Python in the enterprise: The language is easy; the ecosystem is not. Most developers can write readable Python by week two. What derails them—and therefore your schedules—is everything around the language: the project scaffolding, packaging, imports, testing, and the data stack where Python earns its keep. All these issues were

For all its popularity and success, SQL is a study in paradox. It can be clunky and verbose, yet for developers, it is often the simplest, most direct way to extract the data we want. It can be lightning quick when a query is written correctly, and slow as molasses when the query misses the

In the frenetic world of artificial intelligence, virtual companions have exploded into a market all their own. A recent survey found that some 72 percent of teens said they’ve experimented with artificial buddies. Of those, over 50 percent say they have a regular relationship with the chatbots. But there’s no guarantee those companions will stick

While the United States rushes head-first into a self-inflicted economic crisis in an attempt to develop AI with human-level intelligence, China is eying a different goal. Last week, the Chinese State Council unveiled its ten-year plan to fully integrate AI into every aspect of the country’s economy by 2035. Called “AI+,” the ambitious plan sees

First it peddled the poison, and now it’s selling the cure. OpenAI announced that it’s launching a new AI-powered jobs platform next year that will use AI to match employers with potential candidates. Called the OpenAI Jobs Platform, the initiative will put it in direct competition with job juggernauts like LinkedIn, which has also been

Months after debuting Cluely, the “undetectable AI that thinks for you,” 21-year-old tech entrepreneur Chungin “Roy” Lee is decrying the dismal state of education due to AI. Indeed, there’s little doubt that AI has completely flipped education on its head. The availability of large language models (LLMs) at the press of a finger is all

AI is starting to make experts on nuclear deterrence very nervous. Specifically, they say that a widespread push to integrate AI into virtually every level of military decision-making is creating a “slippery slope” in which AI will either be given the power to launch nuclear weapons itself, or the humans with that power will become