A day before Easter, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a temporary ceasefire for the Christian holiday. Like other Russian promises, this one was broken too. Ukrainian media reported Russian drone attacks, shelling and firefights across the front lines. Ukrainian civilians were also targeted. This ceasefire that wasn't came on the tail of another one: a 30-day ceasefire that was supposed to cover energy infrastructure.

When AI first hit the scene in its current form, I was dead set against it because of the generative nature of what was being sold to the public. I considered any shortcut to creating art to be offensive to the craft. But then I realized I could use AI for something that traditional searching was starting to fail at: Research. Also: Claude AI can do your research and handle your emails now - here's how With both sides of my writing career (fiction and nonfiction), I have to do quite a bit of research, and Google was becoming a hindrance to that process. Instead of being fed helpful information, I was inundated with ads, sponsored content, and its own AI-based answers (which were rarely helpful).

It was another exciting week for fitness tracker news, with Google dropping several hints about what's coming in future smartwatch and health tracker updates. Also: Oura Ring vs. Apple Watch: Here's which health tracker is right for you If you want a quick roundup of some of the biggest stories of the week in the health and wearables space, I've kept my eyes on the news so you don't have to. Keep reading for the latest. Google disabled yet another Fitbit feature this week: the Google-owned step counter is losing Google Assistant. "Over the next few weeks, we will be progressively phasing out Google Assistant on your Fitbit device. This change means that Google Assistant voice control for activities will soon no longer be available on your Fitbit device," a moderator on the Fitbit forum wrote in March.

Motorola Solutions is bringing AI to the front lines, launching a new AI solution to help first responders make timely decisions, improve police reporting, and foster interaction with the community. On Monday, Motorola unveiled AI Assist, which the company describes as "a new category of human-AI collaboration for public safety." It also unveiled SVX (which stands for secure voice and video converged), a first-of-its-kind body camera with radio. Paired with AI Assist, SVX fuses AI with core law enforcement tools to help first responders work more efficiently. Also: AI unleashes more advanced scams.

But AI is a tool; like any tool, it is only as good as the person wielding it. Now's the time to get the upper hand on AI and learn how to use tools like ChatGPT and automation platforms to work for you. The ChatGPT & Automation E-Degree from Eduonix Learning Solutions gives you the knowledge to stay on top for just 29.99 (MSRP 790) The course includes 12 modules and 25 hours of content you can move through at your own pace, and they never expire. You'll learn how to automate workflows, streamline repetitive tasks, and get AI to handle the boring stuff while you take credit for the results. It also dives into prompt engineering, real-world use cases, and customizing ChatGPT to fit your job, industry, or hustle.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang met with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Monday to push for more electricity generation to meet artificial intelligence's needs. The two discussed how Japan is particularly well-positioned to develop AI, given its leadership in robotics and industrial manufacturing, Huang told reporters after the meeting. But he also said that generating and creating intelligence will require energy. "The country needs to build new infrastructure," Huang said, eschewing his usual black leather jacket for a blue suit and tie. "Energy is essential for all industrial growth."

Architecture often assumes a binary between built projects and theoretical ones. What physics allows in actual buildings, after all, is vastly different from what architects can imagine and design (often referred to as "paper architecture"). That imagination has long been supported and enabled by design technology, but the latest advancements in artificial intelligence have prompted a surge in the theoretical. "Transductions: Artificial Intelligence in Architectural Experimentation," a recent exhibition at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, brought together works from over 30 practitioners exploring the experimental, generative, and collaborative potential of artificial intelligence to open up new areas of architectural inquiry--something they've been working on for a decade or more, since long before AI became mainstream. Architects and exhibition co-curators Jason Vigneri-Beane, Olivia Vien, Stephen Slaughter, and Hart Marlow explain that the works in "Transductions" emerged out of feedback loops among architectural discourses, techniques, formats, and media that range from imagery, text, and animation to mixed-reality media and fabrication.

A little over thirty years ago, when he was in his mid-forties, my friend David Howorth lost all hearing in his left ear, a calamity known as single-sided deafness. "It happened literally overnight," he said. "My doctor told me, 'We really don't understand why.' " At the time, he was working as a litigator in the Portland, Oregon, office of a large law firm. His hearing loss had no impact on his job--"In a courtroom, you can get along fine with one ear"--but other parts of his life were upended. The brain pinpoints sound sources in part by analyzing minute differences between left-ear and right-ear arrival times, the same process that helps bats and owls find prey they can't see.

A troubling trend has emerged in schools across the United States, with young students falling victim to the increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered "nudify" apps that have the power to create fake pornography of classmates. "Nudify" is an umbrella term referring to a plethora of widely available apps and websites that allow users to alter photos of full-dressed individuals and virtually undress them. Some apps can create nude images with just a headshot of the victim. Don Austin, the superintendent of the Palo Alto Unified School District, told Fox News Digital that this type of online harassment can be more relentless compared to traditional in-person bullying. "It used to be that a bully had to come over and push you. Palo Alto is not a community where people are going to come push anybody into a locker. But it's not immune from online bullying," Austin said.

Artificial intelligence (AI) will soon be performing the essential tasks of software engineers -- or so the experts say. Sarah Friar, chief financial officer for OpenAI, proclaimed AI-as-software-engineer's emerging role at a recent Goldman Sachs conference. OpenAI's pending AI agent, called A-SWE (Agentic Software Engineer), "is not just augmenting the current software engineers in your workforce, but instead is literally an agentic software engineer that can build an app for you. It can take a [pull request] that you can give to any other engineer and go build it." Also: Why OpenAI's new AI agent tools could change how you code Not only does A-SWE build the app, but "it does all the things that software engineers hate to do, it does its own quality assurance, its own bug testing and bug bashing, and documentation," Friar continued. "Things that you could never get software engineers to do.