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A federal judge has ruled in favor of artificial intelligence company Anthropic in its legal battle against the Pentagon after the government labeled the company as a supply chain risk earlier this year.U.S. District Judge Rita Lin issued a written order Thursday night that the Pentagon acted illegally by punishing the AI company for its criticism of the Department of Defense’s views on AI use. The government is expected to fight the ruling.The dispute between the AI...

fastcompany 47h ago 42°

How Nvidia’s Hugging Face deal would reshape the open AI ecosystem

Hugging Face has become one of the most important companies in artificial intelligence without ever becoming one of its most famous. Ask most AI users what it does and you may get a blank look, or perhaps a dim memory that it was at the center of the OpenAI runaway-agent controversy just a few weeks ago. Ask an AI developer, though, and there’ll be far more recognition. They’ll have downloaded a model from it, uploaded one of their own, tested a system there, or used one...

fastcompany 22h ago 33°

In the age of AI, is math the new CS degree?

Majoring in computer science used to be considered a safe career bet, ensuring stable pay and work. After the 2008 recession, many students turned to the field’s promising outlook: Between 2008 and 2024, the number of computer science degrees grew by almost 500%, according to The Washington Post.

fastcompany 18h ago 33°

What’s the difference between proprietary, open weight, and open source AI?

Most people know that when it comes to large language models (LLMs), not all are created equal. Some models are clearly more “intelligent,” while others offer benefits like being significantly cheaper to use.

fastcompany 41h ago 33°

How Apple made its charming claymation Mac mini ad

In Apple’s newest ad, its Mac mini is a muscly bodybuilder, a donut-spinning race car, and a rocket ship blasting off. Every one of those characters was made out of clay.

fastcompany 35h ago 31°

How solopreneurs should approach AI transparency

Clients started asking me about my use of AI years ago, shortly after ChatGPT emerged and people started experimenting with AI-generated output. It started with “We don’t want AI, ever” and has shifted over time to “We use AI to speed up parts of our work.”

fastcompany 41h ago 29°

I turned to AI when my doctor couldn’t fix my back pain. It actually helped

A few months ago, I injured my back, resulting in debilitating nighttime pain. To make matters worse, the pain meds my doctor prescribed weren’t working, and I hadn’t gotten a good night’s rest for weeks. Desperate and sleep-deprived, I decided it was time for a Hail Mary, and asked AI for help.

fastcompany 32h ago 28°

Using AI to write wedding vows? Nearly half of people wouldn’t mind, survey says

Few things are as personal or as heartfelt as wedding vows. They’re an opportunity for couples to express their love to one another, unfiltered, in front of the most important people in their lives. But in the age of artificial intelligence, more and more aspects of wedding planning are getting outsourced to technology—and a new survey shows that even the vows aren’t off the table.

fastcompany 18h ago 26°

Samsung’s surprise folding hit sets the stage for Apple

Samsung is known for experimenting in public. Even the giant 6-inch-plus smartphones we carry around today can be traced back to the 2011 release of the Galaxy Note, which started out as an effort to push the boundaries of screen size but ultimately got merged into the mainstream Galaxy lineup.

fastcompany 36h ago 26°

Gurus are joining the chatbot trend as people turn to AI for spiritual guidance

When Kripa Vaidyanathan’s 27-year-old niece died in an Alaska car crash in 2024, her family in Chennai, India, felt shell-shocked. They questioned why this tragedy would befall them when they had such “immense faith in God.”Vaidyanathan, a yoga instructor, helped her grieving sister get face time with a high-profile guru who she hoped would help.“But he told her this was the work of karma and she should use this opportunity to connect with her inner nature,” she said. “I...

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