AI

As the head of Microsoft’s AI for Good Lab, Juan Lavista Ferres and his researchers can spend months building real-world AI solutions. Fifth graders that he teaches built an accessibility tool in …

Recently, we ran a survey asking readers of The Pragmatic Engineer how you use AI tools, which tools you use, what does and doesn’t work, and what it’s like working with AI, in general.For today’s issue, we’ve dug into your 900+ responses to look for trends in AI tool usage among software engineers a

A new survey has found that 27 percent of workers have had parts of their jobs automated by AI, and 21 percent say artificial intelligence has created more on-the-job work.AI use has exploded in …

What if the future of work, is…no work at all?I had an eye-opening conversation with “the father of AGI,” Ben Goertzel, just yesterday on my podcast. He believes that we are a mere two or three years away from achieving fully independent human-level artificial intelligence, known as AGI (artificial g

Colleen Reed, an educational consultant, has heard high schoolers make “odd” — and misguided — declarations about institutions.“This school doesn’t have what I want.”“It’s not in a safe neighborhood.”…

Forrester research shows companies are rolling out AI tools faster than they’re teaching employees how to use them—putting productivity gains and ROI at risk.“Employers aren’t successfully equipping their employees with the understanding, skills, and ethics to succeed in a world of AI,” Forrester vic

Anthropic quietly rolled out government ID and selfie verification for Claude—a first among major AI chatbots, and a peculiar pivot for a company whose privacy stance just drove a record wave of …

As people increasingly turn to artificial intelligence for advice, some U.S. lawyers are telling their clients not to treat AI chatbots like trusted confidants when their freedom or legal liability is on the line. These warnings became more urgent after a federal judge in New York ruled this year tha

Adobe's Firefly AI is getting a new agentic assistant.Adobe is diving deeper into agentic AI and expanding its partnership roster in a new deal with the AI developer Anthropic. Adobe on Wednesday introduced its latest conversational, agentic creative assistant, which is the technological foundation f

Just over four in 10 bachelor's degree students in the U.S. say AI has influenced their choice of major.

Let's break down five newly introduced, high-impact features, and discuss how advanced practitioners can incorporate them into their daily workflows to maximize productivity.Google NotebookLM has …

Starting from scratch feels like a fresh new beginning; however, it is one of the oldest productivity killers. The hardest part of any work task is simply getting started, like a spreadsheet with no …

OpenAI introduced Interactive Visuals in ChatGPT for Math and Science, which allows users to generate an interactive visual module that users can directly manipulate in the chat. A powerful feature. …

Studying has always been about connecting the right information at the right time, but when your notes are scattered across PDFs, PowerPoints, Word documents, and lecture slides, even knowing where …

ChatGPT by OpenAI is one of the best AI assistants on the market right now, which you can use to find information and for educational purposes. However, many people don't use the tool effectively; …

Image enhancement has always been very tricky. You needed dedicated tools like Topaz Gigapixel AI, Adobe Photoshop's Super Resolution, or expensive API-based services, making it hard for normal …

What if the AI assistant you use every day could learn your workflows, follow your brand guidelines, and execute specialized tasks the same way a well-trained domain expert would, every single time? …

Teachers can set up AI tutors to create personalized learning experiences for students at home, freeing up time for collaboration and active learning in class.We know something about what the …

Half of Americans now use artificial intelligence at work, a new benchmark in Gallup's surveys, but there's a gap between company leaders and workers.The big picture: While executives can be divided …

Companies have spent billions of dollars rolling out AI across their workforces, but widespread adoption still lags across major economies, and the reasons have been murky. New data from Gallup helps …

Two educators who use artificial intelligence in their classroom combine prompt engineering, in-class assignments and guardrails.

AI may be revolutionizing some things, but our brains are emphatically not one of them, according to educators at UK special education tutoring firm Bright Heart Education. They say three main impacts are emerging in kids using AI instead of their brains to do their schoolwork, and they're urging par

When students are introduced to most new topics, schools can slowly scaffold learning. But that’s not been the case with artificial intelligence, as Poway Unified School District learned.“We gave …

Google’s research tool could be getting a more visual and better connected side.Google seems to be finding more and more places to stick its Canvas feature, and its NotebookLM app could be the next one. A new report claims the company is testing both Canvas and a Connectors addition for NotebookLM, w

Type it, save it, and use it over and over again with a single click.Google is launching a new Chrome workflow feature that allows you to reuse your favorite Gemini commands across multiple webpages. Any AI prompts can now be saved as “Skills” in the Chrome desktop browser, letting you instantly run

If you opened your browser this morning and saw a new icon in your Gemini side panel, you may have noticed that Google has officially retired the "Extension" label for Gemini in favor of a new system …