The White House is weighing restrictions on American access to open weight AI models, particularly those from Chinese labs, including trade block-lists, security warnings, and a possible executive ord…
A historian and his former student warn that AI-driven social media algorithms are mainstreaming Holocaust denial and Nazi revisionism, with figures like Nick Fuentes attracting millions of followers …
IAsk.ai, an AI search engine for students and researchers, has surpassed 750 million searches, according to a Morningstar report citing Accesswire. The platform claims 67% better performance than othe…
A five-course free roadmap from Harvard, Google, and other organizations teaches AI from classical algorithms to training LLMs from scratch, requiring only basic Python knowledge. The curriculum begin…
Elite colleges will survive AI because their selectivity acts as an IQ filter, but middling colleges must adapt or face existential threats, argues a blogger on Grey Enlightenment. The author points t…
The University of Chicago Law School will ban laptops and smartphones for first-year students starting the 2026-2027 academic year, part of an "AI-resilient pedagogy and assessments" strategy to foste…
A researcher warns that by 2030 or later, AI could lead to catastrophic outcomes for the U.S. or humanity, including loss of control to AI or concentration of power among a few unelected humans, even …
A randomized controlled trial by Anthropic researchers Judy Hanwen Shen and Alex Tamkin found that junior software engineers using an AI assistant scored an average of 50% on a comprehension quiz, com…
A Harvard student used ChatGPT to translate Anthony Burgess's novel 'A Clockwork Orange' into easier language, highlighting a trend where even educated individuals are turning to AI tools to bypass tr…
At least 22 professors and researchers from Stanford, Berkeley, and Harvard have left or taken leave in 2026 to join OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Meta, accelerating a brain drain from acade…
OpenAI, Trail of Bits, HackerOne, and Calif launched Patch the Planet on June 22, an open-source security initiative using AI-assisted vulnerability research with mandatory human review. The first fiv…
Researchers from Harvard and Carnegie Mellon have developed a runtime security enforcement system for AI agents that dynamically scopes capabilities and monitors behavior to prevent sandbox escapes. T…
Rilla, an AI startup making sales coaching software, spends $1.7 million annually on housing stipends for employees to live near its New York office, requiring a 72-hour work week. CEO Sebastian Jimen…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, in a fictional earnings call script written by Stratechery's Ben Thompson, defends the company's massive AI spending by recounting Facebook's history and his own product intu…
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…
Two former Harvard students, dissatisfied with expert claims that a dedicated inference chip is physically impossible, founded Etched and raised $800 million to build an ASIC for transformer model inf…
Two Harvard dropouts raised $800 million to build AI data centers that consume vast amounts of energy and water, with a single GPT-4 training run using 50 gigawatt-hours of electricity and large infer…
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…