Arati Prabhakar and Asad Ramzanali say we are caught between fantastical claims and leaders deferring to industry without the imagination to drive progress.

SAP conducted an internal experiment to assess consultant attitudes towards AI assistance. Four teams, informed the responses came from junior interns, rated the AI's work highly accurate (95%). The fifth team, knowing the answers originated from AI, initially rejected the same accurate results. Upon individual review, they found the AI's insights valuable, ultimately confirming similar accuracy. SAP learned to carefully introduce AI, managing communication with consultants about its capabilities and integration. SAP envisions the "consultant of 2030" as AI-enabled, focusing on business insights, not technical tasks. Joule for Consultants amplifies, not replaces, expertise by reducing clerical work. AI helps consultants shift their focus from technical understanding to customer business goals. AI also accelerates training for new hires, creating synergy between junior and senior consultants. SAP's future aims for advanced AI copilots that interpret business processes and automate tasks. SAP's extensive process knowledge allows AI to improve, using data from the company's large network. This development will equip consultants with agentic AI, driving them towards more autonomous systems.

I was at an event on AI for science yesterday, a panel discussion here at NeurIPS. The panelists discussed how they plan to replace humans a...

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Locai Labs has launched the UK’s first homegrown AI assistant, claiming it outperforms GPT-5 and other global rivals in conversation, reasoning, and user preference.

There are countless legal challenges being fought around the globe between IP holders and AI development firms. At this point, it must feel like a...

Preprint research platform arXiv recently announced that review articles and position papers submitted to its computer science category must be “accepted at a journal or...

The algorithmic curation of social media content and advertisements has a significant impact on many people’s behaviour. This influence is leading to increasing moral unease, calling for ethical refle...

Mumta Ito, influential lawyer and founder of Nature’s Rights, says that “The law treats Nature as an object, so there is no legal relationship between Nature...

Meta reportedly halted internal research into the mental health impacts of Facebook and Instagram after finding causal evidence of harm. Internal documents revealed users reported lower depression and...

How AI and renewables are shifting the energy landscape.

Welcome back to The State of AI, a new collaboration between the Financial Times and MIT Technology Review. Every Monday, writers from both publications debate one aspect of the generative AI revolution reshaping global power. In this conversation, Helen Warrell, FT investigations reporter and former defense and security editor, and James O’Donnell, MIT Technology Review’s…

Introduction by IONEForeword by Laurie AndersonIllustrations by Aura Satz What is the difference between hearing and listening? Does sound have consciousness? Can you imagine listening beyond the edge...

This study investigates how developers interact with ChatGPT within GitHub issues and pull requests, analyzing shared conversations to uncover collaboration patterns between humans and AI-powered coding assistants. By combining qualitative and quantitative methods, the research evaluates the validity, taxonomy, and link-sharing behaviors that define these interactions. Findings highlight how developers use ChatGPT for information seeking, documentation, and problem-solving—revealing new dimensions of AI’s role in modern software engineering communication.

Despite funding cuts, Freedom House delivered its annual report on how countries are performing on measures of digital rights and internet freedom.

The idea that machines will be as smart as—or smarter than—humans has hijacked an entire industry. But look closely and you’ll see it’s a myth that persists for many of the same reasons conspiracies d...