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In the past few years, AI has set Silicon Valley on fire. The new book AI Valley: Microsoft, Google, and the Trillion-Dollar Race to Cash in on Artificial Intelligence chronicles those blazing high times, telling the stories of the startups, venture capital firms, and legacy tech companies that are ...

In partnership with Google, the Computer History Museum has released the source code to AlexNet, the neural network that in 2012 kickstarted today’s prevailing approach to AI. The source code is available as open source on CHM’s GitHub page. What Is AlexNet? AlexNet is an artificial neural network c...

The rapid development of AI is fueling a data center boom, unlocking billions of dollars in investments to build the infrastructure needed to support data- and energy-hungry models. Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are among the key players backing large-scale AI projects, betting that new data centers...

Generative AI models are getting closer to taking action in the real world. Already, the big AI companies are introducing AI agents that can take care of web-based busywork for you, ordering your groceries or making your dinner reservation. Today, Google DeepMind announced two generative AI models d...

If you search up Hawaii’s Keāhole Point on Google Maps, center it on your screen, and then zoom out until you can see the edges of the globe, one thing will become abundantly clear: The Pacific Ocean is very, very big. In a few months, on this volcanic headland on Hawaii’s Big Island, marine-tech st...

The just-released AI Safety Index graded six leading AI companies on their risk assessment efforts and safety procedures... and the top of class was Anthropic, with an overall score of C. The other five companies—Google DeepMind, Meta, OpenAI, xAI, and Zhipu AI—received grades of D+ or lower, with M...

In 2014 I went to my managers with an audacious proposal: Let’s create a nuclear energy research and development group at Google. I didn’t get laughed out of the room, maybe because Google has a storied history of supporting exploratory research. While I did not propose that Google build a nuclear l...

Nvidia, Oracle, Google, Dell and 13 other companies reported how long it takes their computers to train the key neural networks in use today. Among those results were the first glimpse of Nvidia’s next generation GPU, the B200, and Google’s upcoming accelerator, called Trillium. The B200 posted a do...

The chatbot revolution has left our world awash in AI-generated text: It has infiltrated our news feeds, term papers, and inboxes. It’s so absurdly abundant that industries have sprung up to provide moves and countermoves. Some companies offer services to identify AI-generated text by analyzing the ...

The majority of the world’s advanced logic chips are made in Taiwan, and most of those are made by one company: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC). While it seems risky for companies like Nvidia, Apple, and Google to depend so much on one supplier, for Taiwan’s leaders, that’s a feature, ...

A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, Ernie Smith’s newsletter, which hunts for the end of the long tail. These days, computer users take collaboration software for granted. Google Docs, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Salesforce, and so on, are such a big part of many people’s daily lives t...

In 1993, well before Google Glass debuted, the artist Lisa Krohn designed a prototype wearable computer that looked like no other. The Cyberdesk was an experiment in augmented reality. At a time when computers were mostly beige and boxy, Krohn envisioned a pliable, high-tech garment that fused fashi...

A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, Ernie Smith’s newsletter, which hunts for the end of the long tail. Last month, Google announced some big changes to its search engine that are, in a word, infuriating, to users like myself. Google has started adding AI overviews to many of its s...

Last month when Google introduced its new AI search tool, called AI Overviews, the company seemed confident that it had tested the tool sufficiently, noting in the announcement that “people have already used AI Overviews billions of times through our experiment in Search Labs.” The tool doesn’t just...

Although recent findings have poured cold water on quantum computing hype, don’t count the technology out yet. On 4 March, Google and XPrize announced a US $5 million prize to anyone who comes up with use cases for quantum computers. If that sounds like an admission that use cases don’t already exis...

Every time you use your voice to generate a message on a Samsung Galaxy mobile phone or activate a Google Home device, you’re using tools Chanwoo Kim helped develop. The former executive vice president of Samsung Research’s Global AI Centers specializes in end-to-end speech recognition, end-to-end t...

This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the authors and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE.The degree to which large language models (LLMs) might “memorize” some of their training inputs has long been a question, raised by scholars including Google Dee...

Google Brain co-founder and Landing AI founder Andrew Ng has become an evangelist for what he calls the data-centric AI movement. “Collecting more data often helps," he says. "But if you try to collect more data for everything, that can be a very expensive activity.”

Amazon, Google, and IBM are all pursuing different strategies to reduce error rates

And how are Google researchers using quantum computers to make them?

I am not a fan of Alexa. Or Google Assistant. Or, really, any Internet-connected camera or microphone which has a functionality based around being in my house and active all of the time. I don't use voice-activated systems, and while having a webcam is necessary, I make sure to physically unplug it

Post–Google Glass, a new alliance says it has the winning tech

Post–Google Glass, a new alliance says it has the winning tech

Apple, Google, and Amazon aren’t the only tech companies embracing geographic diversity

Q&A: Kai-Fu Lee talks about AI, jobs, and the human heart

A “piano-flute” is just one of the crazy instruments you can build with the NSynth open-source deep-⁠learning project

The 2018 interns are about to descend upon Google, Facebook, Apple, Adobe, and other Silicon Valley companies

Adobe, Baidu, Google, and others have software that can fabricate convincing video or audio clips of anyone