Upwork study shows AI agents excel with human partners but fail independently
Artificial intelligence agents powered by the world’s most advanced language models routinely fail to complete even straightforward professional tasks on their own, according to groundbreaking research released Thursday by Upwork, the largest online work marketplace.
But the...
Cybersecurity and LLMs
TL;DR Large language models (LLMs) and multimodal AI systems are now part of critical business workflows, which means they have become both powerful security tools and high-value targets. Attackers are already jailbreaking models, stealing prompts, abusing autonomous AI agents, and...
Inside LinkedIn’s generative AI cookbook: How it scaled people search to 1.3 billion users
LinkedIn is launching its new AI-powered people search this week, after what seems like a very long wait for what should have been a natural offering for generative AI.
It comes a full three years after the launch of ChatGPT and six months after LinkedIn launched its AI job search...
The Download: AI to measure pain, and how to deal with conspiracy theorists
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology.
AI is changing how we quantify pain
Researchers around the world are racing to turn pain—medicine’s most subjective vital sign—into something a...
Alembic melted GPUs chasing causal A.I. — now it’s running one of the fastest supercomputers in the world
Alembic Technologies has raised $145 million in Series B and growth funding at a valuation 13 times higher than its previous round, betting that the next competitive advantage in artificial intelligence will come not from better language models but from proprietary data and causal...
Weibo’s new open source AI model VibeThinker-1.5B outperforms DeepSeek-R1 on $7,800 post-training budget
Another day in late 2025, another impressive result from a Chinese company in open source artificial intelligence.
Chinese social networking company Weibo’s AI division recently released its open source VibeThinker-1.5B—a 1.5 billion parameter large language model (LLM) that is...