Why Efficiency Is Becoming AI’s Real Battleground

Why Efficiency Is Becoming AI’s Real Battleground

Punnam Raju Manthena, Cofounder & CEO at Tekskills Inc. Partnering with clients across the globe in their digital transformation journeys. Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping businesses and expanding human capabilities, enabling organizations to create better products and services that influence everyday life. It’s no surprise, then, that companies are investing heavily in AI—or preparing to…

AI’s biggest problem is that it is trained to ‘please you’, warns tech chief

AI’s biggest problem is that it is trained to ‘please you’, warns tech chief

Wednesday 13 May 2026 5:00 am  |  Updated:  Tuesday 12 May 2026 4:30 pm C-suites are increasingly worried about how AI models behave when deployed The biggest risk facing AI may be that it becomes too good at telling users what they want to hear. Anthony Goonetiulleke, chief tech officer at software firm Amdocs, told City…

Legal AI’s Next Act Is In-House Productivity – Artificial Lawyer

Legal AI’s Next Act Is In-House Productivity – Artificial Lawyer

By Daniel Lewis, Global CEO, LegalOn. Law firm AI is constrained by incentives that resist productivity. In-house legal operates in a model designed to reward it. Vast sums are being invested in AI products that aim to enhance legal efficiency, precision, and productivity by automating labor-intensive tasks. While individual lawyers are increasingly comfortable using these…

Brazil opens investigation on Google over its AI’s impact on the journalism industry · Global Voices

Brazil opens investigation on Google over its AI’s impact on the journalism industry · Global Voices

Image using Canva elements created by Global Voices. The Administrative Council for Economic Defense (Cade), linked to the Ministry of Justice in Brazil, approved the opening of an administrative process to investigate further Google’s generative AI (Artificial Intelligence) and its use of journalistic content to create automated summaries for searched terms (AI Overviews), which could…

Tech Briefs: Generative AI’s content thirst, entrepreneur center opens in Blacksburg, state to fund EV charging infrastructure

Tech Briefs: Generative AI’s content thirst, entrepreneur center opens in Blacksburg, state to fund EV charging infrastructure

Hi Cardinal readers, and thanks for scoping the latest edition of Tech Briefs, a weekly batch of items covering the digital and life sciences landscapes. The roundup goes live on Wednesdays. Got tips and/or questions? Reach out to me via tad@cardinalnews.org. Hackers’ work stealing, exploiting images is cheaper, simpler in generative AI era  There is…

Why image and video tools are becoming AI’s biggest growth engine, not chatbots

Why image and video tools are becoming AI’s biggest growth engine, not chatbots

The biggest AI upgrade is not text. It is visuals. New data shows that image and video generation features are now the strongest drivers of app downloads. These updates are outperforming traditional chatbot improvements and reshaping how AI products grow. When visuals improve, downloads spike The pattern is clear across major apps. According to Appfigures,…

Thessaloniki hosts global summit on AI’s role in parliaments

Thessaloniki hosts global summit on AI’s role in parliaments

Thessaloniki is hosting a high-level international meeting on the role of artificial intelligence in democratic institutions, as heads of the European Parliamentary Technology Assessment (EPTA) network gather in the northern Greek city. Around 20 representatives from Europe, the United States, and Japan met at the Research Dissemination Centre of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki to examine…

This new tool makes AI’s role in student writing visible

This new tool makes AI’s role in student writing visible

How DraftMarks works. Credit: Georgia Institute of Technology Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed college writing. As paper drafts are increasingly co-written with AI, professors are left wondering not whether students are using AI, but how. A 2025 AI in Education trend report found that 90% of college students use AI in their coursework, with…

Morgan Stanley takes a deeper look at AI’s impact on software developers By Investing.com

Morgan Stanley takes a deeper look at AI’s impact on software developers By Investing.com

Investing.com — The rapid adoption of generative AI across the enterprise landscape has sparked intense, often heated debate on Wall Street regarding the future of the human software engineer.  Fears of a massive, industry-wide contraction in headcount have proliferated as automated code generation tools become more sophisticated.  A comprehensive new research report from Morgan Stanley offers…