A civil rights attorney can now earn $400 an hour with no client involved. Recruiters are advertising that rate for attorneys, $170 an hour for condensed matter physics experts and up to $120 for software engineers, all to “help train next-generation AI systems,” Bloomberg reported....
The biggest names in tech pushed artificial intelligence (AI) in two directions over the past week. Meta and Google raised the ceiling on what the most powerful models can do. Microsoft and Cloudflare went the other way, with models that make quick yes-or-no and multiple-choice...
Illinois just told the biggest names in artificial intelligence (AI) that the rules are changing. On Monday (July 6), Gov. JB Pritzker signed a law that forces the largest AI companies to prove their most powerful systems are safe before those systems reach the public....
OpenAI said Friday (June 26) that it is limiting the release of its new GPT-5.6 series artificial intelligence (AI) models to a small group of trusted partners at the request of the U.S. government. The AI startup previewed the models’ capabilities as part of its...
June 24, 2026
OpenAI’s ChatGPT is the artificial intelligence AI platform consumers name as the best, but it is not the only one they use. PYMNTS Intelligence data shows 60% of AI users turn to ChatGPT for shopping and purchasing while 57% use Gemini for the same tasks. For entertainment and hobbies, the split is 65% to 59%. […]
April 06, 2026
The companies that process the world’s payments have spent decades building a record of how money moves across merchants, geographies and account types. Every transaction carries a timestamp, a merchant...
February 26, 2026
Artificial intelligence (AI) in education is often framed through the lens of risk. But new data from Anthropic suggests a more nuanced reality: students and educators are not simply using...
June 18, 2025
The artificial intelligence (AI) hype cycle has had no shortage of projections, pronouncements and technical forecasts. But while fears about AI replacing jobs may be overblown, per a recent Wednesday...
October 26, 2026
OpenAI is rolling out GPT-6.1 Terra, a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that costs half as much as two of its other models and is practical for automating high-volume work such as reading invoices and entering their information into accounting software, the company said in a Monday (Oct. 26) press release. GPT-6.1 Terra is “a […]
June 26, 2026
OpenAI said Friday (June 26) that it is limiting the release of its new GPT-5.6 series artificial intelligence (AI) models to a small group of trusted partners at the request...
March 01, 2026
China’s DeepSeek is reportedly on the verge of releasing its latest artificial intelligence model. That’s according to a report Friday (Feb. 27) by the Financial Times (FT), which noted that...
November 03, 2025
Tech companies are reportedly increasing efforts to combat a security flaw in their AI models. Google Deepmind, Microsoft, Anthropic and OpenAI are among the companies working to stop indirect prompt...
