Lucas Mearian
Senior Reporter
Senior Reporter Lucas Mearian covers AI in the enterprise, Future of Work issues, healthcare IT and FinTech.
How many jobs are available in technology in the US?
The US expected to lead all other nations in IT hiring over the next three months
Researchers, legal experts want AI firms to open up for safety checks
More than 150 researchers, ethicists, legal experts and professors signed onto a letter asking generative AI companies to open up their technology to outside evaluations for safety reasons.
Q&A: GitHub COO on how genAI makes devs more efficient (and can automate the helpdesk)
For more than two years, GitHub has been developing its own genAI platform that can not only write a majority of code for a developer, but also take on mundane IT help desk tasks. COO Kyle Daigle explains what's been going on.
Google can’t guarantee its Gemini genAI tool won’t be biased
Google's new text-to-image generator displayed glaring biases after only three weeks online. After taking the tool offline last week, the company said it will never be 100% sure the same issues won't resurface.
The ROI in AI (and how to find it)
The number of companies experimenting with the automation capabilities of generative AI platforms is expected to double. But do the hoped-for financial returns justify the high costs of the technology?
AI chip sales are driving stock markets to new records
Nvidia's unprecedented leap in revenue from higher chip sales for AI and cloud use speaks volumes about the future of the technology and its impact on the economy.
The highest-paid IT skills — and why you need them on your resume
Not surprisingly, generative AI skills topped a list of capabilities companies are seeking in new hires.
OpenAI’s Sora text-to-video tool's impact will be ‘profound’
OpenAI is not the first to offer generative AI technology that can transform a text prompt into realistic video, but its tool appears to be among the most advanced to date.
How RAG makes generative AI tools even better
Retrieval augmented generation, or 'RAG' for short, creates a more customized and accurate generative AI model that can greatly reduce anomalies such as hallucinations.
Google turbocharges its genAI engine with Gemini 1.5
Only a week after releasing Gemini 1.0, Google has pushed out for testing its latest multimodal AI model; it offers long-context understanding through a context window that can accept more than one million context tokens.
Tech spending shifts to meet AI demand, forces a 'reshuffling of skills' for workers
With AI 'sucking the air out of almost non-AI investments in the whole tech world,' companies are cutting what they believe are unnecessary jobs — and replacing them with AI-skilled workers.