A different approach to AI LeCun founded Meta’s Fundamental AI Research lab, known as FAIR, in 2013 and has served as the company’s chief AI scientist ever since. He is one of three researchers who won the 2018 Turing Award for pioneering work on deep learning and convolutional neural... Read more

The estate of a murdered Pennsylvanian gaming store clerk has been awarded $15.3 million posthumously. Pace-O-Matic (“POM”), the defendants in the case were found, alongside Miele Manufacturing, to be negligent parties in a case that dated back to 2020, where the fatal shooting of clerk, Ashokkumar Patel occurred. POM... Read more

Apple is inking a deal with Google to make a custom Gemini AI model to power the next version of its virtual assistant Siri for spring 2026, according to a Nov. 2 report by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. A subsequent report on Wednesday states Apple will pay $1 billion a... Read more

When Google’s self-driving car project began testing in the Bay Area back in 2009, its engineers focused on highways by sending its sensor-laden vehicles cruising down Interstate 280, which runs the length of Silicon Valley’s peninsula. More than 15 years later, the cars are back on the freeway—this time... Read more

As software systems grow more complex and AI tools generate code faster than ever, a fundamental problem is getting worse: Engineers are drowning in debugging work, spending up to half their time hunting down the causes of software failures instead of building new products. The challenge has become so... Read more

Bulgaria is planning to increase the gambling tax from 20% to 25%, with the increase for operators taking effect on January 1, 2026. Following an update to the Medium-Term Budget Forecast (2026-2028), the amendment to the Gambling Act will see a 5% increase in licence fees for operators. This... Read more

“5G” is an umbrella term that encompasses the current fifth-generation cellular wireless network technologies. All the major carriers and phones support 5G connections, which can offer faster data speeds than older technologies such as 4G LTE or 3G. Essentially there are three types of 5G: Millimeter-wave (mmWave), which can be fast but... Read more

Hearing all this, I started to wonder: Was the AI employee age upon us already? And even, could I be the proprietor of Altman’s one-man unicorn? As it happens, I had some experience with agents, having created a bunch of AI agent voice clones of myself for the first... Read more

Senior software developers are preparing for a major shift in how they work as artificial intelligence becomes central to their workflows, according to BairesDev’s latest Dev Barometer report published today. VentureBeat was given an exclusive early look and the findings below come directly from that report. The quarterly global... Read more

Rachel Reeves, the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, is set to raise the General Betting Duty from 15% to 30% in her Autumn Budget later this month. Amid this, a report by the country’s Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) has stated that European countries with a higher tax on... Read more