The large-language-models (LLMs) behind AI chatbots ‘think’ in English, even when being asked questions in other languages, new research shows.  To investigate this phenomenon, researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne looked at three versions of these AI chatbot models: opening them up to see the various “layers” that make up these…

Yes, they exist, but you may never have heard of them before. Coincidentally, Fortune and New York Times (NYSE: NYT) profile two of the most powerful behind-the-scene men in the Internet and media industry, within a week of each other. — Fortune profiles Bill Campbell, the former Columbia University football coach who is the most confidential advisor in Silicon Valley. As the story says, he is adv

More Facebook executive musical chairs: Mozilla’s Shroepfer joins engineering; board changes happening? Facebook has been looking for new engineering leaders for months. It just got one, in Mozilla’s Vice President of Engineering, Mike Schroepfer. His responsibilities will include “leading front-end product and platform engineering,” according to Facebook. This helps sort out some of the ongoing e

Google's strict code of secrecy calls for extra silence when the subject is AdWords, the epic money-making machine fueling the company's drive towards world domination. But sometimes, the truth slips out. Earlier this month, during Google's all-important quarterly earnings call, a financial analyst outed the company's plans to squeeze who knows how many extra dollars from the world's online advert

Attention fellow seekers and searchers of truth: Another search engine has revved up to give Google a run for its clicks. Called Cuil (pronounced cool), the search engine provides seekers one more way to surf more than 120 billion Web pages. Could opening another portal on the Internet have the potential of bringing us any closer to God? The popularity of search engines suggests maybe so. In a sur