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Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke: AI is now a 'fundamental expectation' for employees

2 weeks ago | fastcompany.com | Mark Sullivan

Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke shared an internal memo on X on Monday that stressed the importance of using AI effectively in daily tasks. In fact, he wrote, using AI is now a “fundamental expectation” of Shopify employees. Spotify product designers are now expected to use AI tools to do all platform feature prototypes. The results, Lutke says, are more exploratory and faster to produce and share.
Gemini 2.5 Pro es, sin duda, la IA más avanzada de Google

2 weeks ago | fastcompany.mx | Mark Sullivan

Google lanzó su nuevo modelo de IA experimental Gemini 2.5 Pro a finales del mes pasado, y rápidamente ha obtenido las mejores calificaciones en diversas pruebas comparativas de programación, matemáticas y razonamiento. Esto lo convierte en un candidato a ser el mejor modelo de IA en el mundo.
Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro could be the most important AI model so far this year

2 weeks ago | fastcompanyme.com | Mark Sullivan

Gemini 2.5 Pro is a “reasoning” model, meaning its answers derive from a mix of training data and real-time reasoning performed in response to the user prompt or question. Like other newer models, Gemini 2.5 Pro can consult the web, but it also contains a fairly recent snapshot of the world’s knowledge: Its training data cuts off at the end of January 2025.
Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro could be the most important AI model so far this year

3 weeks ago | fastcompany.com | Mark Sullivan

Google released its new Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental AI model late last month, and it’s quickly stacked up top marks on a number of coding, math, and reasoning benchmark tests—making it a contender for the world’s best model right now. Gemini 2.5 Pro is a “reasoning” model, meaning its answers derive from a mix of training data and real-time reasoning performed in response to the user prompt or question.
Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro could be the most important AI model so far this year

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Mark Sullivan

8 hours agoWhile you may associate bulbs with flower beds, these plants do well in containers as well. Providing season-long color, texture, and height, flower bulbs planted in containers offer an easy way to upgrade your outdoor space. You can fill entire pots with one species of flower bulb in different …
¿Qué piensa la inteligencia artificial? Anthropic empieza a saberlo

3 weeks ago | fastcompany.mx | Mark Sullivan

¿Por qué son tan inteligentes los chatbots de inteligencia artificial, capaces de comprender ideas complejas, crear relatos breves sorprendentemente buenos y captar intuitivamente lo que quieren decir los usuarios? Lo cierto es que no lo sabemos del todo. Los grandes modelos de lenguaje “piensan” de maneras que no parecen muy humanas.
An OpenAI ‘open’ model shows how much the company-and AI-has changed in two years

3 weeks ago | fastcompany.com | Mark Sullivan

Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. You can sign up to receive this newsletter every week here. OpenAI says it will release an open-source model–but why now? OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Monday that his company intends to release a “powerful new open-weight language model with reasoning” in the next few months. That would mark a major shift for a company that has kept its models proprietary and secret since 2019.
What is AI thinking? Anthropic researchers are starting to figure it out

3 weeks ago | fastcompany.com | Mark Sullivan

Why are AI chatbots so intelligent—capable of understanding complex ideas, crafting surprisingly good short stories, and intuitively grasping what users mean? The truth is, we don’t fully know. Large language models “think” in ways that don’t look very human. Their outputs are formed from billions of mathematical signals bouncing through layers of neural networks powered by computers of unprecedented power and speed, and most of that activity remains invisible or inscrutable to AI researchers.
What is AI thinking? Anthropic researchers are starting to figure it out

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Mark Sullivan

11 hours agoMoment married Illinois special ed teacher accused of raping student, 15, breaks down after learning charges: ‘I’m gonna throw up’The married Illinois special education teacher accused of molesting one of her teen students broke down in heaving sobs after learning the charges she faced, intense new bodycam footage of her arrest shows.
An AI pioneer is launching a blockchain-powered marketplace for open-source models and applications

3 weeks ago | fastcompanyme.com | Mark Sullivan

Welcome to AI Decoded, Fast Company’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. You can sign up to receive this newsletter every week here. Illia Polosukhin, who coinvented the Transformer architecture at Google in 2017, is now launching a new company called Near AI. The company will offer services through a blockchain-powered platform that functions as a secure marketplace for open-source AI models and agents.

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