If 1 in 10 U.S. residents asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.

Character.AI is facing scrutiny after reports revealed users created chatbots emulating real-life school shooters and their victims.

Over the years, the explosion of digital infrastructure — from the web to email, cloud computing, and now generative AI — has exponentially increased the attack surface. What once required “red phone” discussions at the highest levels of government and industry now happens routinely — often without the victims realizing they’ve been compromised.

rtificial intelligence continued to dominate the discussion in 2024, even as startups confronted challenges like a data crunch and a litany of lawsuits. With the race to build cutting edge AI applications intensifying, Forbes is opening submissions for our annual AI 50 list to spotlight the frontrunners.

In 2021, researchers at MIT and McKinsey teamed up to ask more than 100 companies how they were using AI in their operations and to learn what separated the highest-performing companies from the rest.

It was almost a year before a handful of Chinese AI chatbots received government approval for public release. Some questioned whether China’s stance on censorship might hobble the country’s AI ambitions.

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Generative AI projects will move from pilot phase to production for many companies this year, which means the workforce will be affected in ways never before imagined, says Sarah Hoffman, director of AI research at AlphaSense.

T he popular open-source VLC video player was demonstrated on the floor of CES 2025 with automatic AI subtitling and translation, generated locally and offline in real time. Paren

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