AI data centers in Texas are exploiting regulatory loopholes to install massive fossil fuel power plants, emitting pollution equivalent to millions of cars by 2030. The state has become the epicenter …
Google's 2025 Environmental Report reveals data center electricity demand surged 27% in 2024, doubling over four years, and total emissions hit 11.5 million metric tons of CO₂e, up 48% since 2019, dri…
New research shows that ChatGPT has caused a 30% jump in top university grades since 2022, with at least one in 10 assignments now AI-assisted. The increase is concentrated in writing and programming …
Cornell University recovered $100,000 in unidentified payments using an AI tool developed by the AI Innovation Hub, graduate students, and the Treasury team. The tool automates the resolution of wire …
A Cornell paper reveals that retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems are vulnerable to a poisoning attack where malicious documents can manipulate the model's output, undermining trust in RAG-bas…
Fashion retailer Rainbow warned its models last June that AI would reduce the need for human workers, then began using AI-generated doppelgängers of the models in marketing images. Models reported few…
New Zealand police restarted a generative-AI transcription trial using OpenAI's Whisper model after officers breached restrictions during an initial six-month trial, prompting a halt in March 2024. Th…
New research from Cornell University shows that a single 13-word Reddit comment can manipulate AI search tools like ChatGPT and Google AI search, poisoning their outputs with promotional content. The …
Cornell University developers built custom AI Skills for security and accessibility audits, using parallel sub-agents to scan entire codebases for vulnerabilities and compliance issues. The security a…
A new preprint from Cornell University researchers reveals that chatbots from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google repeatedly generate stories featuring the character "Elias Thorne," a lighthouse keeper, due…
A software engineer discovered that the name "Elias Thorne" and related themes like lighthouse keepers and clockmakers appear in over 88% of stories generated by major AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, …
Since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022, the United States and China have pulled far ahead of every other country in the global AI race, controlling 90% of computing power and attracting up to 80% of…
A new study from researchers at Northwestern, Stanford, Cornell, and All Hands AI reveals that frontier LLM agents waste 28–64% of tokens on tasks they are doomed to fail. The paper, BAGEN: Are LLM Ag…
A new Cornell University study found that leading AI language models, when asked to write a story, overwhelmingly default to a narrow set of characters and settings, including lighthouse keepers, cloc…
Xiangyu Chen is a Senior Research Engineer in the Autonomous Vehicle Research Group at NVIDIA, where he focuses on translating heterogeneous multimodal data into learning objectives for robust autonom…
Brandon Axelrod, a first-year oral and maxillofacial surgery resident in Manhattan, is using his childhood balloon twisting business to help pay down over $400,000 in student loan debt. He monetizes h…