Tech

Readers Think AI Agents Are Coming to Work — They’re Just Not Sure the Hype Will Survive

by

AI agents have become one of those phrases you can’t escape. They’re in product launches, keynote demos, enterprise slide decks, coding tools, workplace assistants, and just about every pitch deck trying to convince someone that software is about to stop being software and start being a coworker. So last week, we asked a pretty simple … Read more

Welp, I bought an iPhone again

by

It’s not the phone I was hoping I’d pick, but at least it’s green! | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge It takes a week to switch phones. First, there’s the technical process of moving eSIMs across devices, which takes either a few minutes (if you’re switching from one Android phone to another) … Read more

AI’s New Data Economy Has a Landlord Problem

by

Reddit’s AI licensing deals with Google and OpenAI bring in $130 million a year — about 10% of its total revenue. Shutterstock pulled in $104 million from licensing deals. News Corp signed a $250 million agreement with OpenAI. The licensed data market showed up fast, and the money is real. I work in data operations … Read more

Google’s Android Automotive is moving from the dashboard to the ‘brain’ of the car

by

Android Automotive in a Volvo EX90 | Image: Volvo Google announced a new version of its Android Automotive open-source operating system for software-defined vehicles. Whereas previously Android Automotive operated exclusively in the car’s infotainment system, Google is now expanding its “open infrastructure” to the non-safety parts of the car’s internal computer system. As cars have … Read more

Apple Maps will introduce ads this summer

by

Apple will soon allow businesses to buy advertisements in its Maps app. In an announcement on Tuesday, Apple says ads may appear at the top of your search results in Maps, as well as in a new “Suggested Places” list. They will arrive in-app in the US and Canada this summer. The company describes its … Read more

Limbic-Cortex Hybrid Architecture: Where Biological Neuroscience Meets Deep Reinforcement Learning

by

The current era of artificial intelligence stands before a silent crisis of scale and performance. We are attempting to achieve “Intelligence” by pouring in billions of parameters, millions of neural layers, and consuming megawatts of power for massive GPU clusters. However, in the natural world, an agent with only a few grams of neural matter … Read more

An Image Engineer’s Notes, Part 6: How Objective Data and Human Perception Define Image Quality

by

The Dual Axis of Image Quality Validation – Objective and Subjective In the field of image engineering, judging the quality of an image (Image Quality, IQ) is never a single-dimensional task. It relies on precise physical measurement data (Objective Validation) and is inseparable from human perception of image aesthetics and experience (Subjective Validation). In other … Read more