Programming is an increasingly global profession, and developer tools are finally catching up. On Wednesday, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced new language supports in Q Developer, its coding assistant, to better serve its global user base. Amazon says the assistant can now deliver feedback accurately in multiple languages, creating a familiar work environment for developers of all backgrounds. For much of its history, software has been rooted in English -- a reality that gives primarily Western, English-speaking developers an upper hand. To address this, companies behind consumer AI tools have begun to roll out regional and language-specific products to improve usage amongst non-English-speaking communities.

For years, a major limitation of robots was that they couldn't adapt to even minor changes in their environments. An industrial robot might be able to carry out a repeatable task in a controlled environment easily--like cutting a car door from a sheet of metal--but for more deft tasks in more complex environments, humans still prevailed. That might not be the case for much longer. Robot "brains" are getting more adaptable, thanks to progress in general AI systems like large language models. Robot bodies are becoming more deft, thanks to investment and research by companies like Boston Dynamics.

Dr Mehmet Oz reportedly told federal staffers that artificial intelligence models may be better than frontline human physicians in his first all-staff meeting this week. Oz told staffers that if a patient went to the doctor for a diabetes diagnosis it would cost roughly 100 an hour, compared with 2 an hour for an AI visit, according to unnamed sources who spoke to Wired magazine. He added that patients may prefer an AI avatar. Oz also spent a portion of his first meeting with employees arguing they had a "patriotic duty" to remain healthy, with the goal of decreasing costs to the health insurance system. He made a similar argument at his confirmation hearing.

Anthropic is joining the ranks of OpenAI in offering a more expensive tier of its flagship chatbot. On Wednesday, the company announced Max Plan. Starting today, you can either pay 100 or 200 per month to use Claude up to 5x or 20x more than you can with Anthropic's existing Pro plan. The company told Engadget it's introducing the Max tier in response to the popularity of Claude 3.7 Sonnet. The new hybrid reasoning model, which excels at coding tasks, has been so popular with users, many are asking to use it as much as they want.

I know you've heard of gamification, but have you ever heard of festification? That's what Microsoft will be doing in April and May, with the Microsoft AI Skills Fest. It's a little odd, but it also looks like it might be a heck of a lot of fun. Microsoft's AI Skills Fest offers courses that are open for all skill levels. You can learn early stages of the lessons if you're new to AI, or work on deeper topics if you're more familiar with AI concepts.

Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier has the latest on regulatory uncertainty amid AI development on'Special Report.' DON'T OVERSHARE DEETS: Have you ever stopped to think about how much your chatbot knows about you? Over the years, tools like ChatGPThave become incredibly adept at learning your preferences, habits and even some of your deepest secrets. But while this can make them seem more helpful and personalized, it also raises some serious privacy concerns. As much as you learn from these AI tools, they learn just as much about you.

Agentic AI is the hottest AI topic because it takes AI assistance as we know it a step further, actually carrying out tasks for users. Adobe has millions of users who rely on its applications and services to carry out complex everyday business or creative processes. As a result, it is nearly a perfect candidate for agentic AI, and Adobe plans to go all in on it. On Wednesday, Adobe published a blog post previewing how it will integrate AI agents into its applications, including some of its most powerful offerings -- Acrobat, Express, Photoshop, and Creative Cloud. The company says it is taking a similar approach to its integration of generative AI, incorporating features designed to help people spend more time doing what they love.

The largest and most comprehensive 3D map of a mammalian brain to date offers an unprecedented insight into how neurons connect and function. The new map, which captures a cubic millimetre of a mouse's visual cortex, will allow scientists to study brain function in extraordinary detail, potentially revealing crucial insights into how neural activity shapes behaviour, how complex traits like consciousness arise, and even what it means to be human. "Our behaviours ultimately arise from activity in the brain, and brain tissue shares very similar properties in all mammals," says team member Forrest Collman at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle. "This is one reason we believe insights about the mouse cortex can generalise to humans." The achievement – something that biologist Francis Crick said in 1979 was "impossible" – took seven years to complete and involved 150 researchers from three institutions.

Zico Kolter has a knack for getting artificial intelligence to misbehave in interesting and important ways. His research group at Carnegie Mellon University has discovered numerous methods of tricking, goading, and confusing advanced AI models into being their worst selves. Kolter is a professor at CMU, a technical adviser to Gray Swan, a startup specializing in AI security, and, as of August 2024, a board member at the world's most prominent AI company, OpenAI. In addition to pioneering ways of jailbreaking commercial AI models, Kolter designs his own models that are more secure by nature. As AI becomes more autonomous, Kolter believes that AI agents may pose unique challenges--especially when they start talking to one another.

Selling something on eBay just got a whole lot easier. I'm far from a power seller, but I usually list a couple of items a month on the site -- either clearing out some clutter, getting some cash for some old tech I've upgraded, or flipping something I found at a thrift store. One of the biggest reasons I don't sell more is that it's a chore slogging through all the details of creating a listing -- something you need to do if you want to get the most money for your item. Also: Why Temu's bargain prices are about to hit a tariff wall A new AI-powered tool is making that slog a lot faster and might just encourage me to empty out that eBay box in my garage. Back in 2023, the site launched a new "magical listing" tool that uses AI to create a full product description from a single photo.