A viral Reddit post from a senior engineer at a MAANG-tier company has struck a nerve across the tech world. The engineer claimed that some interns and newly hired graduates with strong academic records appeared comfortable discussing AI tools, prompts and industry buzzwords, but stumbled when asked about operating systems, memory management or algorithms. According…
Perplexity has unveiled a new feature called “Personal Computer” for Mac users, aiming to bring AI assistance directly onto personal devices instead of limiting it to browser-based chatbots. The company says the feature is designed to help users automate complex workflows by allowing AI agents to access local files, native applications, web tools, and cloud…
OXFORD—“Something Big Is Happening,” wrote artificial intelligence (AI) startup founder Matt Shumer in a recent viral essay that captured his industry’s swelling confidence that the technology will power the next great productivity boom. So far, the economy has not played along. In fact, since slowing sharply in the 1970s, U.S. productivity has experienced only one…
AI browser agents are finally useful in 2026, but not all of them save time in the same way. This g… AI browser agents finally crossed the line from clever demo to useful tool in 2026. The catch is that most of them still save real time only in narrow situations, and they can still…
OpenAI is once again pushing the boundaries of artificial intelligence with its latest release, GPT-5.4, a model designed to handle professional workloads and, for the first time, operate a computer on behalf of users. Moving beyond simple text generation, this new AI can navigate spreadsheets, documents, and presentations, transforming the way digital tasks are completed….
WASHINGTON, Feb 10 (Reuters) – Cadence Design Systems on Tuesday rolled out a virtual artificial intelligence “agent” to help firms like Nvidia speed up the complex process of designing computer chips, a key front in the technology competition between the U.S. and China. Cadence sells key tools for designing complex chips with tens of billions…
Raspberry Pi sent me a sample of their AI HAT+ 2 generative AI accelerator based on Hailo-10H for review. The 40 TOPS AI accelerator is advertised as being suitable for LLMs (Large Language Models) and VLM (Vision Language Models), while delivering about the same performance as the first-generation AI HAT+ (Hailo-8) for AI vision/computer vision…
