UMA, a physical AI startup founded by former Tesla scientist Remi Cadène, unveiled the design of its first humanoid robot on Tuesday. The company is developing two systems: a dual-arm mobile industria…
A Psychology Today article argues that philosophy of mind is insufficient for understanding artificial intelligence, advocating for psychological and psychoanalytic approaches to grasp large language …
NYU finance professor Aswath Damodaran warns that a potential AI crash could be more severe than the dot-com bust due to massive debt-financed physical infrastructure investments, and even if AI succe…
A developer warns that selfies, especially peace sign gestures, can expose fingerprints that AI tools can extract and replicate, enabling presentation attacks on biometric systems. Historical cases in…
A multi-university research team spanning NYU, Columbia, Princeton, University of Maryland, Harvard, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory developed Latent Context Language Models (LCLMs), a syst…
A Stanford Law School study found that law professors preferred AI-generated answers to student questions over responses written by their peers in 75% of blind comparisons, challenging assumptions abo…
Researchers at NYU, in collaboration with David Chalmers and Pavel Izmailov, have discovered that reinforcement learning in language models recruits a functional "welfare axis" — a concept vector that…
The May 2026 FIRE Monthly Member Webinar, titled "So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast Ep. 272," featured FIRE executives Nico Perrino, Alisha Glennon, Greg Lukianoff, and Will Creeley discussing pres…
A philosophy PhD student at Cornell, Nikhil Dominic, has proposed that countries not in the AI production chain should treat AI like oil and establish sovereign wealth funds to avoid being sidestepped…