Category: Applications of AI

On the evening of August 26, MiniMax released its 2026 semi-annual performance report, which is MiniMax’s first semi-annual report since its listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. In the first half of the year, MiniMax recorded revenue of 117 million US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 283.1%, exceeding its full-year 2025 revenue of 79 […]

NEW YORK – Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani and Schools Chancellor Kamar H. Samuels today announced a moratorium on student-facing generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) use in schools, alongside a new screen time policy, a decision that will impact nearly 600,000 public school students, or two-thirds of the system’s total enrollment. The policy establishes a one-year moratorium, effective in the […]

AI tools can now access encrypted messaging platforms like iMessage, creating confidentiality, privilege, and discovery risks that encryption alone does not address. Businesses should not wait for a privilege dispute or regulatory inquiry to evaluate which AI applications can access sensitive communications, under what terms, and with what controls. This article explains the risks and […]

AI tools can now access encrypted messaging platforms like iMessage, creating confidentiality, privilege, and discovery risks that encryption alone does not address. Businesses should not wait for a privilege dispute or regulatory inquiry to evaluate which AI applications can access sensitive communications, under what terms, and with what controls. This article explains the risks and […]

Welcome to the latest installment in CFM’s exploration of all things museums and artificial intelligence. This week the estimable Nik Honeysett proposes some simple laws to govern museums’ use of AI. To catch up with our coverage so far, read three scenarios of potential AI futures—bright, dark, and muddling through—Nik’s essay on how AI is […]

AI in cybersecurity is the use of artificial intelligence techniques—including machine learning, generative AI, and AI agents—to detect threats, prioritize risk, analyze security data, and automate or assist with security response. AI in cybersecurity now occupies three roles at once. It defends, it arms attackers, and it forms an attack surface of its own. Security […]

Figure. Comparison of AI art generation from Dalle-E 2 (2022) and gpt-image-2 (2026). As AI has improved, both AI outputs and the AI adoption trendlines have come into sharper focus. Previously, in The Five AI Waves, Pt 1: AI and Electricity, we compared AI and electricity as disruptive technologies and economic platforms, and we noted […]

NVIDIA Holoscan is a platform for building real-time AI applications at the edge, from medical imaging to robotics. HoloHub is its companion repository: a growing collection of reference applications and components that demonstrate what’s possible. We wanted to explore how a general-purpose coding agent could use the same examples, documentation, and development tools available to […]

DPO hosted exchange session on “‘AI+’ Civil Service: Industry’s Role in Reshaping the Government’s Approach to Public Service Delivery” The Digital Policy Office (DPO) hosted an exchange session themed “‘AI+’ Civil Service: Industry’s Role in Reshaping the Government’s Approach to Public Service Delivery” at the Smart Government Innovation Lab today (August 17). The event brought […]