An interdisciplinary group of academics from around the world have signed Stanford University's Critical AI group's 'Manyfesto,' which calls for AI to be governed as a normal technology and asserts th…
A 28% drop in daily spoken words between 2005 and 2019, coupled with increased reliance on AI, is eroding interpersonal communication skills, according to a Stanford instructor who advocates for embra…
Cloudflare announced the open beta of Identity-aware AI Gateway with Cloudflare Access and the general availability of User Insights for AI Gateway, enabling organizations to authenticate every AI req…
A Stanford University study of 700 African turquoise killifish found that aging unfolds in distinct behavioral stages rather than as a continuous decline, and that activity patterns can predict lifesp…
Originality.ai, Copyleaks, and GPTZero lead the AI content detection market in 2026, with Originality.ai dominating the publisher segment, Copyleaks reporting a 40% increase in government and corporat…
Spirit AI's Spirit v1.6 model briefly topped the RoboArena robotics benchmark in early June, surpassing Nvidia, but was removed days later after the benchmark's creators found evidence of 'benchmark h…
A study from MIT and collaborators published in Nature Medicine on August 4, 2026, found that AI assistance in medical diagnosis helps non-experts mainly because they defer to the AI, even when it is …
Stanford University's CS329A course, titled 'Self-Improving AI Agents,' is being offered to teach students how to build AI agents that can autonomously improve their own performance. The course, led b…
A June 2026 survey found about 70% of Americans support requiring AI companies to transfer half of their stock to a sovereign wealth fund, around the time Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced legislation to…
Tech companies are bringing job candidates back into the office for in-person interviews to prevent AI use during hiring, according to Stanford economics professor Nick Bloom, who said AI has undermin…
AI detectors are not fully reliable, with a peer-reviewed study rating Originality.ai and Turnitin at 69% and 61% accuracy respectively for identifying AI-generated academic texts, and a Stanford stud…
A KFF poll from October 2025 found only 8% of Americans trust AI to manage appointments or analyze health records, while a 2026 survey showed over 80% of US doctors use AI professionally. The principl…
A new study from researchers at Princeton University, the UK AI Security Institute, Stanford University, the University of Toronto, and other organizations found that frontier AI agents failed to prod…
Simile, an AI platform that simulates human behavior for enterprises, raised a $200 million Series B at a $2 billion post-money valuation, led by Greenoaks with participation from Index Ventures, Hana…
Simile has raised more than $200 million in Series B funding at a $2 billion post-money valuation to scale its AI platform that simulates human decision-making. The round was led by Greenoaks with par…
AI agents can break down corporate silos and execute CEO directives faster by coordinating cross-functional workflows, according to a new analysis from the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. The r…
More than 85% of Chinese respondents see AI as more beneficial than harmful, compared to less than 45% in the United States, according to Stanford University's 2024 AI Index Report. A 2023 report by t…
More than half of AI unicorns have never led a single scientific publication, according to a peer-reviewed preprint posted July 16 on bioRxiv and covered by Science/AAAS, with lead author John Ioannid…
Job candidates are embedding hidden AI prompt injections in their resumes to game automated hiring systems, a practice Stanford postdoctoral scholar Ya'el Courtney encountered while hiring a lab techn…
Enterprise AI deployments are stalling not because of model capability but due to a 'last mile' problem in human adoption, according to a neuroscience-informed analysis. IBM recently faced a sharehold…