China implemented sweeping new regulations this week to curb human emotional dependence on AI chatbots, motivated by fears that virtual companions are worsening the nation's declining birthrates by di…
Stanford researchers have developed an AI chatbot called Noora that helps autistic adults improve face-to-face conversational skills, with two studies published in the Journal of Autism and Developmen…
China's EngineAI hosted the world's first humanoid robot kickboxing competition, the Ultimate Robot Knock-out Legend (URKL), in Shenzhen, where a T800 robot lost its head-mounted sensors during a matc…
Researchers from Stanford University, ETH Zurich, and other institutions introduced OpenTSLM, a family of time-series language models that process raw multivariate signals alongside text, outperformin…
Researchers from KAIST and Stanford University have unveiled SWAG (Self-Wearing Adaptive Garments), a clothing system that climbs onto its wearer using inflatable tubes that evert like vine robots, el…
A software engineer argues that the widespread adoption of AI coding tools will create a crisis of unmanageable technical debt, leading to a severe shortage of senior developers. The plan, described a…
Researchers at Meta, Stanford University, the University of Tokyo, and France's École Normale Supérieure developed the EgoBabyVLM Challenge, a test that reveals cutting-edge vision language models fai…
A new study by Stanford economist Lukas Althoff finds that artificial intelligence will reshape jobs rather than eliminate them, increasing wages for all workers with the biggest gains for lower-skill…
Organizations are deploying AI as an autonomous actor that makes decisions leaders once owned, eroding human judgment, according to professor Carly and organizational advisor Jenny. They cite the case…
GPT-5.6 Sol Pro disproved a long-standing conjecture in statistics by proving that the Benjamini-Hochberg procedure does not control the false discovery rate for correlated two-sided Gaussian tests. T…
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 7-4 to pass a 362-page ordinance making sweeping changes to the city's municipal codes, despite objections that the measure is too broad and concerns over …
Spatial intelligence, an AI capability that enables models to reason about three-dimensional space, is emerging as the next frontier beyond large language models, according to Dr. Fei-Fei Li, Stanford…
More than 200 economists and AI researchers, including 16 Nobel laureates, signed an open letter organized by Stanford University's digital economy lab warning that artificial intelligence could drive…
More than 200 experts, including 16 Nobel laureates, have signed an open letter organized by Stanford University's Digital Economy Lab warning that AI could reshape employment faster than previous tec…
More than 200 economists and AI researchers, including 16 Nobel laureates, signed an open letter organized by Stanford University's digital economy lab on Monday, demanding that policymakers and techn…
More than 200 economists and AI researchers, including 16 Nobel laureates, issued an urgent open letter on Monday organized by Stanford University's Digital Economy Lab, warning that AI could trigger …
More than 200 economists, AI researchers and technology leaders, including 16 Nobel laureates, warned that artificial intelligence could trigger an economic upheaval larger than the Industrial Revolut…
More than 200 economists and AI researchers, including 16 Nobel laureates, signed an open letter Monday organized by Stanford University's digital economy lab warning that AI could drive an economic t…
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma was appointed co-lead of the Federal Reserve's Productivity and Jobs task force on July 9, 2026, tasked with evaluating AI's impact on labor markets and monetary policy, just two …
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has joined a Federal Reserve task force studying AI's impact on jobs and productivity, days after announcing 3,200 layoffs at Xbox. The task force, which includes Marc Andreessen …