Rilla CEO Sebastian Jimenez is paying employees $18,000 a year to live within a 10-minute bike ride of the company's Williamsburg office, part of a strategy to support a demanding 72-hour workweek. Th…
Rilla CEO Sebastian Jimenez pays each employee $18,000 a year to live within a 10-minute bike ride of the company's Williamsburg office, aiming to reduce friction and maximize flow state. The AI start…
A study of 25,000 workers across 7,000 Danish workplaces found AI saves about 2.8% of work hours but has no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours, with only 3-7% of productivity gains reach…
The PIBBSS Fellowship is accepting applications for its inaugural winter cohort, a fully-funded research program in Cape Town, South Africa from November 2026 to February 2027. The program supports re…
Two-thirds of planned U.S. data centers are moving to rural areas, driven by AI compute demand and proximity to high-voltage power lines, but local opposition has blocked or delayed $64 billion in pro…
Graduates at commencement ceremonies booed speakers who made AI-positive comments, reflecting anxiety about AI's threat to future jobs and a broader frustration with higher education's narrow focus on…
Brown University professor Roberto Serrano has uncovered a massive cheating scandal in his ECON 1170 class, with at least 50 students using AI to cheat on a midterm exam. Serrano says the university a…
Technologist Brett Alexander Hurt's book 'Love Conquers Fear' argues that humanity must overcome fear and scarcity mindsets to thrive alongside AI, quantum computing, robotics, and brain-computer inte…
OpenAI released GPT-5.5-Cyber, a model that finds vulnerabilities cheaply but shifts the bottleneck to patching. The model discovered dozens of bugs in OpenBSD, Linux, FreeBSD, Chrome, Safari, and oth…
Cerenovus, a Y Combinator Summer 2026 company founded by Harvard students, is building an AI-powered 'company brain' that aggregates and reasons over fragmented enterprise data from emails, Slack, doc…
A study led by Harvard and Stanford researchers found that ChatGPT outperformed hundreds of physicians in diagnostic challenges, sparking concerns about AI's rapid integration into U.S. healthcare wit…
A Harvard researcher warns that local backlash against data center construction is intensifying as communities face rising electricity prices, noise, and water use. Despite federal support for data ce…
AI cheating tools that humanize or autotype AI-generated text are proliferating on TikTok and YouTube, defeating detection software used by teachers. Some companies sell both detection and evasion too…
A new PwC analysis of over 1 billion job postings finds that AI is not eliminating entry-level jobs but transforming them into roles requiring skills traditionally associated with experienced workers,…
Employment for software engineers aged 22 to 25 has fallen roughly 20% since late 2022, according to Stanford analysis of 25 million payroll records, as AI tools and a broader recession squeeze entry-…
A study published in Science found that ChatGPT outperformed hundreds of physicians in a diagnostic obstacle course using written medical cases and real-world patient information. The research, led by…
A study pitting ChatGPT against physicians in diagnostic challenges found the AI outperformed humans, raising concerns among doctors. Despite warnings from experts, AI tools are being rapidly integrat…
Reuters and The Japan Times report that dozens of off-grid natural-gas power plants are being fast-tracked to supply single AI data centers, often with limited public notice. The Ohio Power Siting Boa…
Thirty mathematicians at Harvard blind-graded AI solutions to 10 original, unpublished research-level math problems, finding that leading AI systems passed on 7 of the 10 problems. The results, releas…
Andrej Karpathy has declared vibe coding outdated and is championing agentic engineering as the next evolution in AI-driven software development. Agentic engineering gives AI models ownership of entir…