Meta is buying artificial intelligence startup Manus, as the owner of Facebook and Instagram continues a push to amp-up AI offerings across its platforms.

In past years, CES in Las Vegas has highlighted such groundbreaking technologies as electric salt spoons and Tasers that double as MP3 players. But, increasingly, the annual event is moving beyond gimmicky inventions to be a major player in the world of artificial intelligence.

Taken together, these signals suggest one thing: we may be closer to AGI—and to systems capable of passing the Turing Test—than many once imagined.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is arguably the most significant advance in our society since the smartphone essentially put the internet in everyone's pocket, giving rise to the app economy, mobile payments,

A.I. is broad. A breakthrough in manufacturing may affect only manufacturing, but an A.I. breakthrough could transform manufacturing, physics, finance, music and dozens of other fields. So the backlash is just as sprawling, and there are various reasons for it:

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Alphabet's Google Cloud is the fastest-growing of the "big three" cloud service providers. It's a top choice for AI start-ups, with nearly all of the AI " unicorns " (start-ups that have a market cap of $1 billion or more) using Google Cloud.

Iran executed a man convicted of spying for Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, accused of conducting over 200 spy missions across multiple cities, including Tehran.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced Friday two major changes to his government, bringing on Ukraine’s drone czar Mykhailo Federov as Kyiv’s new minister of defense and naming intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov to run the presidential office,