Google’s AI Futures Fund may have to tread carefully

Google’s recent announcement of an AI Futures Fund shows the company wants to invest in AI startups. It sees itself as providing capital, early access to AI models yet to reach production, and support for startups from experts at the company. This is not Google’s first…

Beyond Benchmarks: Why AI Evaluation Needs a Reality Check

If you have been following AI these days, you have likely seen headlines reporting the breakthrough achievements of AI models achieving benchmark records. From ImageNet image recognition tasks to achieving superhuman scores in translation and medical image diagnostics, benchmarks have long been the gold standard for…

Why Language Models Get ‘Lost’ in Conversation

A new paper from Microsoft Research and Salesforce finds that even the most capable Large Language Models (LLMs) fall apart when instructions are given in stages rather than all at once. The authors found that performance drops by an average of 39 percent across six tasks…

Time Tracking Has a Reputation Problem. Can AI Change That?

Time tracking has long been a source of tension in the workplace. Sure, on paper, it promises more focus and better productivity. In practice, however, it often becomes just another task or, even worse, a subtle form of oversight. And when you add clunky or intrusive…

Pippit AI Review: I Made a Viral Ad in Five Minutes

What if your next viral video didn’t need a script, a camera, or even a team? Small business owners spend an average of around 6 to 10 hours weekly on content and social media marketing. If you’re wearing all the hats (CEO, creative director, social media…