A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration violated the First and Fifth amendments by threatening to deport noncitizen students who criticized Israel's actions in Gaza, in a case brought by T…
A new interactive feature from MIT Technology Review presents seven puzzles—including mental rotation, Knights and Knaves, and visual challenges—that have stumped AI models, inviting readers to test t…
WhatsApp, owned by Meta, announced two new security features to help prevent accounts from being hacked: upgrading six-digit PINs to passwords and allowing users to add multiple passkeys. The app also…
Simple AI released a 2,000-hour robotics dataset on August 20 that eliminates the need for a target robot or robot teleoperation during data collection, using its HiFi-UMI system to record human demon…
OpenAI rolled out Health in ChatGPT this week, a feature that lets users upload medical records and connect Apple Health data, citing that 300 million people weekly already use ChatGPT for health-rela…
Anthropic announced on August 14, 2026 that future Claude models will embed an imperceptible, machine-detectable statistical watermark in generated text, designed to support transparency and prepare f…
The U.S. Justice Department is intensifying scrutiny of Stanford University over foreign donations and international student and admissions practices, according to Harmeet Dhillon, who leads the Civil…
OpenAI, in a working paper with Columbia and Wharton based on ChatGPT Enterprise telemetry through March 2026, found that among adopting firms, larger headcount predicts lower usage per employee, but …
The rate of hep-th submissions to arXiv is now about one-third higher this year than in previous years, according to data gathered by Peter Woit, a mathematician at Columbia University. Woit notes tha…
Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund, Situational Awareness, which bet heavily on AI, lost more than two-thirds of its public equity holdings' value in four weeks and was forced to liquidate, with Citad…
The Institute for Progress (IFP) published 23 policy recommendations across seven categories to help policymakers address risks from increasingly automated AI research and development, including trans…
Eryk Salvaggio, a researcher and educator, released a 15-minute video talk titled 'Slop Infrastructures' that examines the pipeline of AI-generated 'slop' as an interconnected social-technical system …
AI-generated books now capture about 40% of observed sales in self-published categories, according to a paper by researchers at Stony Brook, Columbia, Michigan, and the MIT Initiative on the Digital E…
Fenris Creations has appointed former Icelandic minister Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir as senior director for AI partnerships to lead a new research initiative for Eve Frontier, collaborating with AI …
Aerolamp CEO Misha Gurevich and chief scientist Vivian Belenky discussed the economics and safety of deploying 222-nanometer far UVC light to inactivate airborne pathogens, citing preliminary South Af…
A study from MIT and collaborators published in Nature Medicine on August 4, 2026, found that AI assistance in medical diagnosis helps non-experts mainly because they defer to the AI, even when it is …
Microsoft Research released Orchard, an MIT-licensed framework for training and evaluating AI agents, on August 3rd, aiming to reduce the high costs of building agent infrastructure. The framework inc…
CleanTechnica reports that fuel cell trucks and buses remain a focus for some stakeholders, sustaining demand for green hydrogen despite advances in EV batteries. The article highlights biomass-to-hyd…
OpenAI announced it solved 10 open math problems using its unreleased Astra model, drawing reactions from mathematicians who called the results 'incredible' and a 'big deal.' Jay Cummings, a math prof…
Columbia University economic historian Adam Tooze said on his podcast Ones and Tooze that the AI boom is upending the social contract under capitalism, and he is baffled that Elon Musk's trillionaire …