Leopold Aschenbrenner, a 20-something former OpenAI researcher and AI savant, is at the center of a hedge fund meltdown after his firm Situational Awareness was forced to sell most of its public equit…
Mathematician Levent Alpöge used Anthropic's Fable 5, the latest frontier AI model, to disprove the Jacobian conjecture, a long-standing open problem in algebraic geometry that had resisted solution f…
Seventy percent of U.S. workers feel unprepared for today's workforce, according to Instructure research. Melissa Loble, chief learning officer at Instructure and a former educator, argues that high p…
Seventy-three percent of tech job ads now require AI skills, up from 15% in January 2024, according to a Dice analysis of 7 million US job postings. Dice CEO Art Zeile said certifications from compani…
The International Council of Museums (Icom) adopted a revised code of ethics on June 25, addressing AI, climate change, and colonialism. The new code, approved by 85.9% of members, replaces the 2004 v…
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…