Author: Advanced AI Bot

Key stat: Nearly half (48.0%) of US digital shoppers want to see AI-driven customer service quality improved or added on ecommerce sites, per a February 2025 survey from Cint and Omnisend.Beyond the chart: Customer service quality far outranked augmented reality try-ons (14.5%) and personalized product recommendations (26.5%) in the survey, showing consumers frustrations with current customer service offerings. Retailers need to use caution in how they implement AI for customer service, as customers could also grow frustrated with AI chatbots that are not actually helpful. Use this chart: Retailers can use this chart to brainstorm ways to implement AI, make…

Google is rolling out a new Gmail update that is designed to help you find the email you’re looking for more quickly. The company announced on Thursday that it will now use AI to consider factors like recency, most-clicked emails, and frequent contacts when surfacing emails based on your search query. Up until now, Gmail has simply displayed emails in chronological order based on keywords. “With this update, the emails you’re looking for are far more likely to be at the top of your search results — saving you valuable time and helping you find important information more easily,” the…

IBM is cutting thousands of jobs across multiple locations in the U.S., and its Cloud Classic unit hit especially hard, reports The Register. The company has not publicly acknowledged these layoffs, but insiders suggested to The Register it is part of an ongoing effort to restructure and shift jobs offshore, particularly to India. The report estimates that about 9,000 positions may be at risk, including a quarter of the Cloud Classic group and 10% of the Cloud group, which is a separate business unit. The job cuts are happening in cities like Dallas, New York, Raleigh, and various locations in California.…

It’s About Time  At Meta, we believe that being at the forefront of innovation means being able to move quickly to adopt new and emerging technologies. Since Meta AI launched in the US in 2023, we’ve seen corners of the world embrace free access to an intelligent and conversational assistant, which has seen rapidly enhanced product experiences.  It’s taken longer than we would have liked to get our AI technology into the hands of people in Europe as we continue to navigate its complex regulatory system – but we’re glad we’re finally here. Over the coming weeks, we’ll take the…

Following our report last week on IBM’s ongoing layoffs, current and former employees got in touch to confirm what many suspected: The US cuts run deeper than reported, and the jobs are heading to India. IBM’s own careers site numbers back that up. On January 7, 2024, Big Blue listed just 173 open positions in India. On November 23, 2024, there were 2,946 jobs available in the nation. At the time of writing, the IT titan listed 3,866 roles in India. American jobs listed for these three periods are 192, 376, and 333, respectively, though at least among those being…

Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, has added image generation capabilities to its API. Only one model is available in the API at the moment, “grok-2-image-1212.” Given a caption, the model can generate up to 10 images per request (limited to five requests per second) in JPG format, priced at $0.07 per image. For comparison, AI startup Black Forest Labs, with which xAI partnered last year to launch image generation on Musk’s social network X, charges around $0.05 per image. Another popular image model provider, Ideogram, charges $0.08 on the higher end. In its documentation, xAI notes that the API doesn’t…

Technology in today’s classrooms is advancing rapidly, reshaping the way students learn and teachers teach, especially with advancements in AI. Educators play a vital role in shaping meaningful and impactful learning opportunities for students through emerging technologies like AI. It’s more important than ever to provide teachers with tools and opportunities to explore technology to empower them as agents of change in the classroom.One initiative aims to do just that: HP AI Spotlight Schools, a partnership between HP, Microsoft, Intel and Digital Promise. It features state-of-the-art computing devices, professional learning experiences and community resources. These schools are working to equip…

While many are harnessing AI for productivity and creativity, AI’s rapid advancement has accelerated the potential for real-world harm. AI-generated content, including audio and video deepfakes, have been used in elections to spread false information and manipulate public perception of candidates, undermining trust in democratic processes. Attacks on vulnerable groups, such as women, through the creation and spread of deepnudes, and other non consensual intimate imagery have left communities shaken and organizations to scramble to mitigate future harms. To mitigate the spread of misleading AI-generated content, organizations have begun to deploy transparency measures. Recently, policymakers in China and Spain announced…

Razer has announced a new AI-powered game development tool called AI QA Copilot, which aims to help QA testers find and report bugs faster. A faster QA cycle could help developers get games out of the door in less time too so if it works well, it would be good for everyone. Bugs appear everywhere in games during development — they’re impossible to avoid. QA (Quality Assurance) teams are dedicated to finding problems and creating detailed reports to help get things fixed faster. Whenever a tester finds something in a game that’s clearly broken or doesn’t look quite right, they…

AI coding assistants such as GitHub Copilot and Cursor could be manipulated to generate code containing backdoors, vulnerabilities and other security issues via distribution of malicious rule configuration files, Pillar Security researchers reported Tuesday.Rules files are used by AI coding agents to guide their behavior when generating or editing code. For example, a rules file may include instructions for the assistant to follow certain coding best practices, utilize specific formatting, or output responses in a specific language.The attack technique developed by Pillar Researchers, which they call “Rules File Backdoor,” weaponizes rules files by injecting them with instructions that are invisible…