The Atlantic reports that large language models are suffering from severely diminishing returns, with inference costs rising exponentially and making AI far less lucrative than it was six months ago. …
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth publicly described the company's controversial NameTag facial recognition feature for smart glasses in a podcast interview, weeks after Meta executives claimed the feature did…
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…
Meta executives have spent weeks arguing that its NameTag face-recognition feature for Ray-Ban smart glasses does not exist, despite WIRED finding code for the feature in the Meta AI app as early as J…
AI-generated writing has become normal, but readers are increasingly able to detect it through recognizable patterns called 'AI-isms,' according to a blogger who coined the term 'Turing Window' to des…
AI data center companies are misleading rural towns and tribes by promising that building a facility will attract innovative businesses and create a tech boom, according to a critical analysis by Karl…
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…
Soulless Music has launched an AI-music detector that identifies AI-generated tracks on Spotify and Deezer, exposing artists using tools like Suno and Udio. The project aims to help listeners distingu…
The Atlantic reported that the U.S. Labor Department launched a one-week AI-literacy text-message course, Senator Bernie Sanders proposed a 50% public stake in large AI companies, and Silicon Valley-b…
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth revealed that a researcher moved sensitive employee keystroke and mouse-tracking data to an unauthorized internal location, forcing the company to pause its Model Capability I…
Meta paused its Model Capability Initiative AI training program after employee keystroke data was mistakenly moved to an unauthorized internal location, CTO Andrew Bosworth said. The program, which tr…
A guest post by Aaron Kagan, founder of GraspingAI and chair of the American Philosophical Association's Committee on Non-Academic Careers, argues that media reports about a boom in philosophy jobs at…
The Atlantic reported on July 7, 2026, that China-linked actors are using public AI tools and model ecosystems to push Beijing-friendly narratives abroad. OpenAI's June threat reporting documented acc…
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos told CNBC on May 20 that AI is like a bulldozer that will upgrade jobs rather than eliminate them, using software engineering and radiology as examples. Critics note Bezos ha…
A new online test from Lancaster University reveals that people can only identify AI-generated hotel reviews 60% of the time, challenging assumptions about detecting AI writing. The test highlights th…
Costco's revenue has grown over 10% annually for five years by offering a limited selection of 4,000 SKUs, contrasting with Amazon's infinite assortment model. The retailer's constrained choice and su…
Two San Francisco tech founders, Elliot Roth and William Joy, attempted to implant a cockroach control kit into lobsters to allow an AI agent called OpenClaw to control their nervous systems, but all …
Brown University professor Roberto Serrano uncovered what he calls the largest AI cheating scandal in Ivy League history after 40 of 86 students scored a perfect 100 on a take-home exam, while the sam…
Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst, described as high culture's most influential AI artists, created 3-D-printed sand sculptures for the Venice Biennale that proved too heavy for the 18th-century palazzo.…
A recent Pew Research report found that 40% of Americans expect AI to negatively impact society, with 63% saying AI is advancing too quickly, fueling a tech-lash that includes resistance to data cente…