Author: GW Alger

Wendy’s has added A.I. drive-thrus at some locations. But how well do they really work? NBC News’ Adrienne Broaddus puts it to the test.

President Trump announces the U.S. Stargate investment alongside three artificial intelligence industry leaders

Scale AI founder and CEO Alexandr Wang joins ‘Squawk Box’ to discuss the AI landscape in 2025, state of the AI arms race between U.S. and China, impact of the U.S. chip export controls, future of AI development, his thoughts on the $500 billion Stargate project, AI competition in the U.S., DEI vs. ‘MEI’ in corporate America, and more.

Salesforce Chair, CEO and Co-Founder Marc Benioff said there is a shortage of workers in the current labor market, and AI agents are the beginning of an unlimited workforce, when he spoke to Bloomberg’s Brad Stone at Bloomberg House in Davos.

Let’s take a look at the new DeepSeek R1 chain-of-thought AI model. Not only does it beat OpenAI o1 on key benchmarks, but it’s also free and open source.

Diving to the new Frames feature from Runway ML—an AI image generator built entirely by Runway, separate from models like Stable Diffusion or Flux. We’ll look at how Frames offers cinematic image outputs, best practices for prompting, and showcases a variety of user-generated examples. On top of that, he explores: • Kling’s New “Elements” Feature that allows up to four reference images and yields 10-second AI-generated videos. Tim shows how this boosts continuity in character designs and environments. • A John Wick–Severance Crossover made possible by advanced LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation) techniques, demonstrating how entire characters (not just faces) can be swapped seamlessly in video footage. • Tribute to David Lynch: Tim takes a moment to acknowledge the legendary filmmaker’s influence and pays homage with a custom “Peak Lynch” style inside Runway’s Frames. Throughout the video, Tim mixes in behind-the-scenes tips—like how to handle glitchy hands, text consistency, and the best ways to write prompts for cohesive results. He also reveals a handy GPT Prompt Builder tool (linked belo

Examples of using Invideo AI V3 to create short videos.

Apple recently rolled back its news summary feature on iOS powered by Apple Intelligence because it was hallucinating misinformation. Let’s examine recent failures and controversies in the tech world.