Welcome to the seventh edition of the AI Index report. The 2024 Index is our most comprehensive to date and arrives at an important moment when AI’s influence on society has never been more pronounced. This year, we have broadened our scope to more extensively cover essential trends such as technical advancements in AI, public perceptions of the technology, and the geopolitical dynamics surrou...

Most of the best robots, ones that can walk, run, climb steps, and do parkour, do not have faces, and there may be a good reason for that. If any of them did have mugs like the one on this new research robot, we'd likely stop in our tracks in front of them, staring wordlessly as they ran right over us.Building robots with faces and the ability to mimic human expressions is an ongoing fascinatio...

Tesla management told employees Monday that the recent layoffs — which gutted some departments by 20% and even hit high performers — were largely due to poor financial performance, a source familiar with the matter told TechCrunch.The layoffs were announced to staff just a week before Tesla is scheduled to report its first-quarter earnings. The move comes as Tesla has seen its profit margin n...

April 15 is World Art Day, a day dedicated to promoting the development and enjoyment of art.The following chart looks at the results of public auctions of art works registered between January 1 and December 31, 2023 by Artron and Artprice, a company dedicated to the analysis of art market information from databases with millions of auction records. This study refers to auctions of paintings, s...

The Robosweeper S1 is designed to work in parks, traffic lanes, river banks and sidewalks.Keeping bike paths and roads clear of debris is a necessary but thankless task for sanitation workers. The Robosweeper S1 from WeRide can work alongside street crews, or can work alone to quietly clean up day or night.WeRide was founded in 2017 by the former chief scientist at Baidu's autonomous driving la...

Netflix is still trying to nail movies.Netflix’s new movie chief is already shaking things up. Just two weeks into his tenure, Dan Lin has laid off 15 employees in the film department (~10% of its staff) and reorganized the division by genre instead of budget level, as the streaming giant looks to produce a wider spectrum of films.Lin’s new vision for one of Netflix’s highest profile departm...

With a focus on simple designs mixing bright and neutral colors, Ikea’s upcoming Brännboll collection is made for homes instead of ‘gamer dens.’By Jess Weatherbed, a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews.Ikea is introducing a new range of gaming furniture that subverts the usual d...

Luca Curci Architects presents Floating Glass Museum, a groundbreaking project where the boundaries between art and nature blur and the water becomes a canvas for contemporary expression. The project has been conceived by an international team of architects and designers with the support of artificial intelligence.Inspired by the Venetian rich cultural heritage and the intricate craft of glassm...

Form and function meet fantasy as NIKE debuts A.I.R, a new collection of 13 concept sneakers made and designed with man-made sketches, computational and parametric design, generative AI, rapid prototyping, and 3D printers.In the exhibition and runway show designboom attended inside Palais Brongniart in Paris, NIKE introduced A.I.R, which is short for Athlete Imagined Revolution. John Hoke, NIKE...