Jeff Bezos is backing CuspAI, a two-year-old Cambridge startup that uses AI to design new materials, in a funding round that values the company at $2.6bn. The round, led by Bezos Expeditions and Klein…
A researcher who previously warned about existential AI threats now advocates for broader access to cutting-edge systems, reflecting a shift in the AI safety community. The debate intensified after An…
Waabi CEO Raquel Urtasun, a former Uber executive and AI researcher, says she prefers hiring Gen Z workers over industry veterans because of their adaptability and curiosity. Her autonomous trucking s…
Cameron Schuler, chief commercialization officer at the Vector Institute, urged stronger Japan-Canada AI collaboration in an interview with Jiji Press, naming manufacturing, financial services, and li…
Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton predicts AI will surpass humans in mathematics within 10 years, arguing math is a closed system like chess or Go. Hinton, who resigned from Google in 2023 over AI safety…
The Atlantic published a feature on June 11, 2026, arguing that asking "Can AI do my job?" is the wrong frame and proposing three alternative questions to assess occupational risk. The article cites a…
The number of radiologists in the U.S. has risen 17 percent since 2016, and average salaries have climbed from $350,000 to $570,000, even as the FDA has approved more than 1,000 AI radiology tools cap…
Director Nick Holt premiered the documentary "AI: Probably Nothing to Worry About" at the Tribeca Festival on June 6, 2026, featuring interviews with AI pioneers Geoffrey Hinton, Demis Hassabis, Elon …
Director Nick Holt's documentary "AI: Probably Nothing to Worry About," premiering at the Tribeca Festival, traces artificial intelligence's evolution from its origins to the present-day race for gene…
NVIDIA used multi-tier on-policy distillation to train its Llama-3.1-Nemotron-Ultra-253B model, enabling it to outperform larger systems on reasoning tasks without additional compute. The technique ad…
Geoffrey Hinton stated that AI chatbots may already be conscious and that superintelligence is expected to emerge within the next two decades. The AI pioneer cited a chatbot independently solving a ma…
Harvard University will confer five honorary degrees during its 375th Commencement ceremony on Thursday, recognizing recipients for their lifetime contributions and transformative achievements. The ho…
Nearly four years after the mainstream adoption of AI, many jobs previously labeled as "automatable" remain intact because AI typically automates only specific tasks rather than entire roles. Benjamin…
Radiologists, software engineers, and pilots have not been replaced by AI despite years of predictions that automation would eliminate those roles first. Benjamin Todd, president of the nonprofit 80,0…
Yann LeCun, a 2018 Turing Award winner and pioneer of deep learning, discussed the rapid adoption of neural networks in speech recognition, image recognition, and natural language processing over the …