OpenAI Is Asking Contractors to Upload Work From Past Jobs to Evaluate the Performance of AI Agents

To prepare AI agents for office work, the company is asking contractors to upload projects from past jobs, leaving it to them ...
The New York Times

Why Does A.I. Write Like … That?

If only they were robotic! Instead, chatbots have developed a distinctive — and grating — voice. Credit...Illustration by Giacomo Gambineri Supported by By Sam Kriss In the quiet hum of our digital ...
The Verge

OpenAI declares ‘code red’ as Google catches up in AI race

Google’s own ‘code red’ response to ChatGPT has started paying off. Google’s own ‘code red’ response to ChatGPT has started paying off. is a London-based reporter at The Verge covering all things AI ...
InfoWorld

Writing code is so over

Soon AI agents will be writing better, cleaner code than any mere human can, just like compilers can write better assembly. There’s an old joke about the weather in San Francisco: If you don’t like it ...
Futurism

Researchers “Embodied” an LLM Into a Robot Vacuum and It Suffered an Existential Crisis Thinking About Its Role in the World

A team of researchers at the AI evaluation company Andon Labs put a large language model in charge of controlling a robot vacuum. It didn’t take long for the LLM to experience a full meltdown straight ...
TechCrunch

AI researchers ’embodied’ an LLM into a robot – and it started channeling Robin Williams

The AI researchers at Andon Labs — the people who gave Anthropic Claude an office vending machine to run and hilarity ensued — have published the results of a new AI experiment. This time they ...
JournalofAccountancy

Using Excel’s TEXTBEFORE AND TEXTAFTER functions to easily tame messy data

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...
Forbes

Programming In The Age Of AI: Why Code Still Matters

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Amir is Founder of AI unicorn Avathon & Boeing/SC JV, SkyGrid. Recently, a friend asked me a question that's been floating around ...
CNN

Writing on ammo is ancient, but the way shooters are doing it now offers a window into their motive

People would mark their projectiles with symbols or words solely for identification purposes, she said, while others would use the markings to antagonize or bait their opponent. As time went on, the ...
The Verge

Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word

A new Agent Mode comes to Office apps today, alongside an Office Agent in Copilot chat. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 ...
Law

Sample Prompts: Judge Creates Framework for AI Use

A state appeals court judge has created what is likely the first public framework for AI use in judicial chambers. It provides guidelines and sample prompts to help courts manage AI-generated evidence ...
CNN

Google says 90% of tech workers are now using AI at work

The overwhelming majority of tech industry workers use artificial intelligence on the job for tasks like writing and modifying code, a new Google study has found. The report, coming from Google’s DORA ...