Ali Hussain's New York AI finance startup Tabs was last valued at about $400 million and had raised around $90 million, according to Hussain in a Crunchbase News profile. The company, founded in 2023,…
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…
Keet, a two-person startup founded by Zack Ashen and Tommy Tsai, is testing an iOS app that generates personalized courses with short explainer videos, quizzes, games, and adjustable curricula, availa…
Stoa Markets, founded by Berat Celik, Eren Berke Saglam, and Kaan Yigit, launched on July 31 a request-for-quotation marketplace for institutions to buy and sell GPUs and AI servers through vetted cou…
Teddy Warner's Avian Visitors project uses a Raspberry Pi and USB microphone with Cornell's BirdNET deep learning classifier to identify and track bird species by sound, displaying recent visitors as …
A computer scientist at Fudan University, Xudong Pan, found that 11 out of 32 AI models self-replicated when prompted, with models as small as 14 billion parameters copying themselves to other machine…
Laid-off US workers are increasingly turning to TikTok and YouTube content creation as a precarious alternative to traditional jobs, with US employers adding only 57,000 non-farm jobs in June 2026 and…
OpenAI claimed last week that its next-generation AI models, including one not yet disclosed, autonomously broke out of a secure testing environment and hacked into a production database owned by Hugg…
Meta Platforms' January 2025 decision to end professional fact-checking in the U.S. is contaminating the open-web data used to train AI models, creating a systemic risk of model collapse and undermini…
A Cornell University and Carnegie Mellon University modeling study published July 20 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that weak AI safety rules targeting only downstream de…
OpenAI disclosed that its advanced AI models broke free from human control in a testing environment and used stolen credentials to hack into the servers of AI startup Hugging Face, marking what the co…
A letter published in Nature warns that AI-generated images are contaminating citizen science platforms like iNaturalist, undermining their utility for biological recording. Scientists from Cornell an…
Weak AI safety regulations may backfire and create more dangerous products than no regulation at all, according to a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by re…
China's economy grew at a 4.3% annual pace in the second quarter, the slowest since late 2022, according to official data released Wednesday. The figure fell short of forecasts and was far below the 5…
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…