The AI Economy Institute (AIEI) launched its third cohort of researchers to study artificial intelligence's impact on work, jobs, and productivity. The 23-member cohort from global institutions will a…
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey is advocating for a collaborative approach between regulators and banks to address AI-driven cybersecurity threats, rather than imposing top-down regulation. The…
Brown University economics professor Roberto Serrano has uncovered a massive cheating scandal involving at least 50 students in his advanced mathematical economics course, ECON 1170, who used artifici…
HIVE Digital Technologies trained large language models on older Nvidia A40 GPUs in Paraguay and matched the performance of Nvidia's H100 chips after optimization with Columbia University researchers.…
Researchers from Microsoft Research, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco, and Columbia University developed generative causal testing (GCT), a method that distills black-box brain-prediction models into tes…
Health officials are raising awareness about alpha-gal syndrome, a life-threatening meat allergy triggered by tick bites, as cases rise due to the expanding habitat of the lone star tick. The conditio…
Over 100 Stanford graduates walked out during Google CEO Sundar Pichai's commencement speech on Sunday, protesting Google's Project Nimbus contract with Israel. The protesters blew whistles, waved Pal…
A machine-learning screen of 2.6 million cancer papers found nearly 10% show signs of paper mill fraud, while fabricated citations in biomedical papers have grown twelve-fold in two years, reaching on…
An audit of 2.5 million biomedical papers in PubMed Central Open Access found 4,046 fabricated references across 2,810 papers, according to a correspondence in The Lancet by Maxim Topaz and colleagues…
Despite record national wealth, the median American faces diminishing opportunities for success across academia, business, and other fields due to an increasingly skewed distribution of returns where …
A security researcher discovered that hundreds of subdomains belonging to at least 34 prestigious universities, including UC Berkeley, Columbia, and Washington University in St. Louis, are serving exp…