In 1986, we had huge leaps forward, tragic steps back, and life changing innovations. NASA's STS-51L crew members pose for photographs during a break in countdown training at the White Room, Launch Complex 39, Pad B. Left to right are Teacher-in-Space payload specialist Sharon Christa McAuliffe; payload specialist Gregory Jarvis; and astronauts Judith A. Resnik, mission specialist; Francis R. (Dick) Scobee, mission commander; Ronald E. McNair, mission specialist; Mike J. Smith, pilot; and Ellison S. Onizuka, mission specialist. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. It was a year that saw roughly six million Americans hold hands in a continuous (more or less) line across the country to raise money for homelessness. A news anchor named Oprah Winfrey debuted her new talk show.

OpenAI is considering filing with securities regulators as soon as the second half of 2026, some people familiar with the matter said. SAN FRANCISCO - OpenAI is laying the groundwork for an initial public offering that could value the company at up to $1 trillion, three people familiar with the matter said, in what could be one of the biggest IPOs of all time. OpenAI is considering filing with securities regulators as soon as the second half of 2026, some of the people said. In preliminary discussions, the company has looked at raising $60 billion at the low end and likely more, the people said. They cautioned that talks are early and plans -- including the figures and timing -- could change depending on business growth and market conditions.

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks during an Amazon Devices launch event in New York City, Feb. 26, 2025. TECH TAKEOVER: Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says artificial intelligence will "change the way" work is done and expects the company's total corporate workforce to be reduced as a result. 'GIANT OFFERS': Meta has allegedly tried to recruit employees from competitor OpenAI by offering bonuses as high as 100 million, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claimed on a podcast that aired Tuesday. ENERGY OUTLOOK: The rise of artificial intelligence and the increasing popularity of cryptocurrency will continue to push electricity consumption to record highs in 2025 and 2026. POWER DRAIN CRISIS: Every time you ask ChatGPT a question, to generate an image or let artificial intelligence summarize your email, something big is happening behind the scenes.

Rep. Darin LaHood, R-Ill., told Fox News Digital the new bi-partisan "Advanced AI Security Readiness Act" directs the NSA's to develop an "AI Security Playbook" amid the technology race against China. In 1823, President James Monroe drew a firm line in the sand: the Western Hemisphere would be closed to further European interference and, most importantly, America's primary domain of industrial, political, and military control. The Monroe Doctrine, while audacious, proved effective and laid the groundwork for the Western Hemisphere as America's stepping stone to the rest of the world. America was not yet a superpower and could not enforce it alone, however. Instead, America aligned British naval dominance with our interests to build a coalition of opportunity. America asserted its position, secured a partner through alignment against common rivals, and laid the groundwork for its emergence as a global superpower.

Alex Galvagni, CEO of Age of Learning and a former artificial intelligence researcher with NASA, says advances in AI now make it possible to deliver to children "a personalized and supportive" experience in education. Two pioneers of artificial intelligence -- John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton -- won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for helping create the building blocks of machine learning that is revolutionizing the way we work and live but also creates new threats for humanity. Hinton, who is known as the godfather of artificial intelligence, is a citizen of Canada and Britain who works at the University of Toronto, and Hopfield is an American working at Princeton. "These two gentlemen were really the pioneers," said Nobel physics committee member Mark Pearce. "They ... did the fundamental work, based on physical understanding which has led to the revolution we see today in machine learning and artificial intelligence."

The Associated Press published standards today for generative AI use in its newsroom. The organization, which has a licensing agreement with ChatGPT maker OpenAI, listed a fairly restrictive and common-sense list of measures around the burgeoning tech while cautioning its staff not to use AI to make publishable content. Although nothing in the new guidelines is particularly controversial, less scrupulous outlets could view the AP's blessing as a license to use generative AI more excessively or underhandedly. The organization's AI manifesto underscores a belief that artificial intelligence content should be treated as the flawed tool that it is -- not a replacement for trained writers, editors and reporters exercising their best judgment. "We do not see AI as a replacement of journalists in any way," the AP's Vice President for Standards and Inclusion, Amanda Barrett, wrote in an article about its approach to AI today.

Lewis Wynne-Jones is the Vice President of Product at ThinkData Works. In 2012, two things happened that set the tone for the next decade of data investments. One was technological, the other was professional, and they both revolutionized the way we think about data. Together, these events directly led to the emergence of artificial intelligence as a business prerogative. Today, however, AI is fraught with problems, and fewer businesses, not more, are saying they're data-driven.

Data lies at the core of all business strategies. It has been generated at an unparalleled rate since the outbreak of the epidemic that has led the entire world to go digital. Organizations have experienced an exponential increase in footfall on their web properties and become data-rich. Now, the majority of organizations want to tap into this data asset to improve their business further and gain a competitive edge. Once the business objective is decided, the executives bake it into their strategic goals which is what the business wants to position itself in the next three to five years.

Vodafone's motivation to become the first service provider in Germany, and in Europe, to commercially offer 5G Standalone based services was highly driven by their desire of using this new technology to address the industry challenges and needs, such as: The core network in 5G non-standalone solutions is based on existing LTE infrastructure, meaning customers are not able to fully exploit advanced 5G capabilities such as network slicing and ultra-low latency. Vodafone wanted their customers to, for example, be able to experience applications such as lag-free online gaming experiences and virtual reality, and for enterprises, industrial robot applications, or remotely operated drone fleets, which is only possible with 5G Standalone. Better support and accelerate Industry 4.0 realization across Germany Vodafone is considered a key contributor to the development of Germany's digital infrastructure whose customers rely on them to deliver the best in connectivity. The German market has a very high percentage of small and medium enterprises that are world market leaders, and for those industries, it is super important to be competitive now in the journey towards digitalization and industry 4.0. Vodafone wanted to be ready to support them.

Unstructured data like emails, instant messages, and image files now make up 80 to 90 percent of corporate data – and it's growing three times faster than structured data, according to Gartner. To keep up with this onslaught of hard-to-manage data, companies are expected to invest $190 billion in AI by 2025. To help our community keep pace with advances in AI, Relativity hosted our first AI Bootcamp for Women in Law last week in Washington, DC. This invite-only event combined AI-focused sessions with networking events to provide the essential AI knowledge needed to be a legal innovation leader. Attendees received a working knowledge of AI, an AI Bootcamp certificate of completion, CLE credit, and RCE credits, and the 30 women in attendance left feeling empowered and inspired.