The Billion Dollar Misfire: Why the AI boom keeps breaking in the middle – IT Pro

The increasing integration of robots across various sectors, from industrial manufacturing to daily life, highlights a growing need for advanced navigation systems. However, contemporary robot navigation systems face significant challenges in diverse and complex indoor environments, exposing the limitations of traditional approaches. Addressing the fundamental questions of “Where am I?”, “Where am I going?”, and…

Adrienne Murray meets the team using technology to preserve a historic warship in Sweden.

The era of AI experimentation is over. Of course, plenty of companies will continue to seek out new and innovative ad hoc AI use cases. But the businesses that are truly outperforming their competitors are structuring their AI strategy with a broader portfolio approach. They’re focusing on short-term ROI plays, as well as on…

YouTube users in the U.S. are getting a new way to search for videos on the web. The company has started rolling out Ask YouTube, its conversational AI search experience, beyond the Premium-only test announced at Google I/O 2026. Instead of entering a few keywords and scrolling through a standard list of results, users can…

July 8 (Reuters) – OpenAI will launch GPT-5.6, its most advanced AI model, on Thursday after a delay prompted by U.S. ‌government concerns over the potential national security risks posed by ‌increasingly powerful AI systems. The release comes amid intensifying competition among AI developers who are ​racing to improve model performance, cut costs and expand…

An AI companion sounds dystopian, but it has become a common thread in the wider conversation about the perils of generative AI. What it refers to is essentially a conversational agent built to sustain an ongoing, personal relationship with a user, with the memory and steady persona that keep it consistent from one session to…