Human-computer interaction, or HCI, is the field concerned with how people use and experience computing systems. It combines computer science, design, psychology, ergonomics, and social research to create interfaces that are effective, understandable, accessible, and safe. In AI products, HCI addresses how users express intent, interpret uncertain outputs, correct errors, calibrate trust, and retain control when automation behaves unexpectedly. Researchers use interviews, observation, prototypes, experiments, and usability studies to test designs in context. Good HCI does not simply make a model easier to access; it helps align the entire interaction with real human capabilities, limitations, goals, and responsibilities.
Microsoft is heading for its worst month since 2008 as investors worry that its heavy AI spending may not pay off and that AI could erode demand for its core software.
South Korea announced about $880 billion in planned investment to expand chipmaking, AI data centers and robotics, aiming to double memory output and revive regions outside Seoul.
HP is scaling a strategic partnership with OpenAI, using the Frontier platform to roll out AI agents across customer support, software development and security after early pilots.
Google has limited Meta’s use of its Gemini AI models after Meta sought more computing capacity than Google could supply, delaying some of Meta’s internal projects.
OpenAI is leaning toward pushing its IPO to 2027 rather than accept less than a $1 trillion valuation, weeks after filing confidentially for a US listing.
Gemini 3.5 Flash computer use folds screen control into one cheap model with prompt-injection safeguards, though it is a preview and the benchmark is self-reported.
GPT-5.6 Sol brings stronger coding and cyber capabilities with OpenAI’s most robust safeguards, but a government-approved rollout echoes the Anthropic model ban.
Anthropic is hiring across Australia and Japan to expand its AI data center capacity in Asia-Pacific, as soaring demand for Claude strains its infrastructure.
OpenAI updated GPT-5.5 Instant, ChatGPT’s default model, to feel more conversational and handle advice, planning and shopping better across longer exchanges.
Anthropic told US senators that Alibaba-linked operators used about 25,000 fake accounts to extract Claude’s capabilities in what it calls its largest known distillation attack.