Microsoft's Bing team has open-sourced Harrier, an embedding model family that tops the multilingual MTEB v2 benchmark under an MIT license.

The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist seeks the middle ground on a polarizing technology—and ends up letting tech execs like Sam Altman off the hook. It’s not easy to get an interview with Sam ...

Three weeks ago, a software engineer rejected code that an AI agent had submitted to his project. The AI published a hit piece attacking him. Two weeks ago, a Meta AI safety director watched her own ...

China’s 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030), unveiled in early March, sets ambitious goals for AI and cybersecurity with global reach. While the Five-Year Plan (FYP) imperative for China to “seize the ...

Bing Webmaster Tools added a new mapping feature to the AI Performance dashboard. You can now click a grounding query to see which pages are cited for it. Or click a page to see which grounding ...

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Microsoft is reshuffling AI responsibilities after a veteran executive retired. Microsoft is reshuffling AI responsibilities after a veteran executive retired. is a senior correspondent and author of ...

Staff in the upper chamber of Congress now have the go-ahead to use Senate data with three popular generative AI chatbots thanks to approval from an office that oversees the legislative body’s ...

Attackers uploaded fake installers for open-source assistant OpenClaw to GitHub and pushed them to the top of Bing's artificial intelligence search results. The installers infected victim machines ...

The AI jobs apocalypse, long predicted by tech leaders and AI critics alike, has never felt closer. A major job market disruption has been rumored for years now, but given the latest swings on Wall ...

Fake OpenClaw installers hosted in GitHub repositories and promoted by Microsoft Bing’s AI-enhanced search feature instructed users to run commands that deployed information stealers and proxy malware ...

Great minds think alike, as do the biggest gaming brands around. After it came to light earlier this year that Sony had applied for a patent for AI-generated "ghost" players to help out actual players ...