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If you’ve spent any time in the world of digital development, you know the pattern: a promising tech pilot launches with donor fanfare, shows early results, but then… fizzles out before reaching true scale. I’m Apoorv Pal and I’ve seen this cycle play out too many times—from health apps in East Africa to AI tools…

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A crowd gathered at the MIT Media Lab in September for a concert by musician Jordan Rudess and two collaborators. One of them, violinist and vocalist Camilla Bäckman, has performed with Rudess before. The other — an artificial intelligence model informally dubbed the jam_bot, which Rudess developed with an MIT team over the preceding several…

This story is part of our November 2024 issue. To subscribe, click here. The landscape of modern work is changing, particularly fortechnology workers. As the world emerges from the pandemic, a newbreed of tech professionals is redefining the norms ofemployment, driven by a desire for flexibility, continuouslearning and meaningful projects. Likewise, tech workers andemployers may…

AI developers are increasingly pitching the next wave of generative AI chatbots as AI “agents” that can do more useful things on people’s behalf [File]| Photo Credit: AP Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told customers at a conference in Chicago on Tuesday that the company is teaching a new set of artificial intelligence tools how to…

Startups as well as traditional rivals are pitching more inference-friendly chips as Nvidia focuses on meeting the huge demand from bigger tech companies for its higher-end hardware.