The US Federal Reserve has appointed Xbox CEO Asha Sharma to co-lead its Productivity and Jobs task force, which will assess the economic impact of new general-purpose technologies including AI. The a…
The Federal Reserve appointed venture capitalist Marc Andreessen to co-lead a Productivity and Jobs task force examining AI's impact on employment and growth, part of a broader monetary policy review …
The Federal Reserve has enlisted venture capitalist Marc Andreessen to co-lead a new task force evaluating how artificial intelligence reshapes productivity, jobs, and monetary policy. Fed Chair Kevin…
Stanford University researchers, including two Chinese scientists, have developed Biomni, a free, open-source AI agent that converts plain-language requests into complete biomedical research workflows…
Yale psychology professor Paul Bloom warns that AI companions could ease loneliness but may corrode users' ability to interact with real people. Bloom says chatbots never challenge users, potentially …
A Brown University economics professor found that about 50 students used AI to cheat on a midterm exam, scoring an average of 96% compared to the historical 65-80%, but the university's leadership has…
Stanford professor Nicholas Bloom predicts the 2026 FIFA World Cup will create a 'summer of working from home' due to late-night matches, rising commuting costs, and a heat wave. Goldman Sachs, JPMorg…
A study by the Oxford Internet Institute found that 38% of regular UK users of large language models turn to AI for advice on personal relationships, and 31% use it for emotional support. The survey o…
Researchers at Goodfire, Harvard, Stanford, and Brown introduced Block-Sparse Featurizers (BSF), a method that decomposes neural network activations into multidimensional subspaces instead of single d…
Coursera cut jobs on July 6, 2026, as part of its merger with Udemy, aiming to achieve $115 million in annual cost synergies. The layoffs, tied to integration and restructuring, will incur $8 million …
A Time magazine article warns that artificial intelligence is advancing faster than governance can keep up, amid a breakdown of international legal order. The piece highlights AI-driven disinformation…
Mirsee Robotics, a Cambridge, Ontario startup, has built eight prototypes of its third-generation MH3 humanoid robot and plans to begin mass production in 2027, scaling to thousands of units. The whee…
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors postponed a vote on a 362-page AI-assisted city code rewrite after concerns that the proposal was too broad and unclear. Supervisor Myrna Melgar used AI tool Cla…
The world's largest camera, built at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, began capturing images for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time at the Rubin Observatory in Chile. The 10-year p…
Altus Schools, a San Diego charter school chain, purchased two Ameca humanoid robots for $500,000 to serve as AI-powered teaching assistants for at-risk students. The robots, equipped with ChatGPT, wi…
Anthropic hired Stanford economist Chad Jones, who argued in a paper that a 33% chance of human extinction from AI is acceptable if it leads to massive economic growth. Critics condemn the risk calcul…
Rep. Nancy Pelosi will launch the Nancy Pelosi Institute for Representative Democracy at UC Berkeley in January 2027, aiming to strengthen democratic institutions and train future public leaders. The …
A Stanford study found that walking boosts creative idea generation by 60 percent, with effects lasting after sitting down. Historical figures like Beethoven, Woolf, Thoreau, and Darwin used walking a…
Stanford University's BurgerAI system, trained on 2,216 recipes, designed burgers that beat the Big Mac in a blind taste test of 101 diners in San Francisco. Two AI-generated recipes scored higher on …
Stanford University's 2026 AI Index reveals the United Arab Emirates and Singapore lead in generative AI adoption at 54% and 61% respectively, while the United States ranks 24th at 28.3% despite leadi…