May 08, 2026
Robots That Adapt to New Tasks: Sony and university researchers train robots on new tasks without catastrophic forgetting
Neural networks can forget how to perform earlier tasks as they learn new ones.
May 08, 2026
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May 08, 2026
AI at Work, Quantified: Gallup poll shows AI boosts productivity, but many workers haven't tried it
Half of workers in the United States used AI at work at least a few times last year, a sign of steadily rising AI adoption in U.S. workplaces.
May 08, 2026
How Nvidia Uses AI to Design Chips: Chipmaker's models design circuits, verify designs, and test new layouts
Nvidia’s chief scientist dreams of telling an AI model to design a new GPU, then skiing for a couple days while the system does the job.
May 08, 2026
ByteDance Bids for Video Leadership: ByteDance adds state-of-the-art Seedance 2.0 video to Capcut, while OpenAI retreats
As OpenAI prepares to shut down Sora, ByteDance made its own video generation model available to hundreds of millions of users.
May 08, 2026
Seedance Makes A Splash, Nvidia's AI-Guided Chip Designs, Helping Robots Not Forget
The Batch AI News and Insights: There will be no AI jobpocalypse.
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AI Will Not Destroy the Job Market: Here's why fear of an AI “jobpocaypse” is overblown.
There will be no AI jobpocalypse.
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