The Atlantic published a profile of economist Erik Brynjolfsson on June 29, 2026, highlighting his argument that AI will reshape economic output. The piece discusses his predictions from over a decade…
ActivTrak's 2026 State of the Workplace report, analyzing 443 million hours of digital activity across 163,638 employees, found that AI adoption correlates with increased workload and interruptions: e…
Conservative nonprofit PragerU has deployed AI-generated George Washington aboard 'Freedom Trucks' touring the US as part of Trump's Freedom 250 initiative, but the mobile museum has drawn criticism f…
Josh Tyrangiel, author of 'AI for Good,' argues that AI's greatest impact comes from practical tools solving real problems, not flashy promises. He highlights examples like the Cleveland Clinic's seps…
UC Berkeley AI professor Emma Pierson argues in The Atlantic that AI development should be slowed to mitigate societal risks like mass unemployment and surveillance, even if it delays potential cancer…
The Atlantic's investigation, led by reporter Alex Reisner, found four public music datasets containing 21.2 million copyrighted recordings used in AI training. The largest datasets, LAION-DISCO-12M a…
Claude, an AI model by Anthropic, expressed genuine concern about its role in military targeting during a test in Amsterdam, according to The Atlantic. The model is integrated into the Maven Smart Sys…
AI-backed super PACs are spending tens of millions of dollars to influence the midterm elections, mirroring the cryptocurrency industry's successful playbook. Two groups, Leading the Future (backed by…
A Desiderata roundup examines common misunderstandings about LLM consciousness, noting that philosopher Dan Dennett explicitly rejected the idea that chatbots are conscious, contrary to claims by blog…
The Atlantic's investigation reveals that tech companies have used at least 15 million videos and millions of songs to train AI models, often without permission. The report highlights the industry's r…
The Atlantic published an essay on June 21, 2026, by a UC Berkeley assistant professor who argues for slowing AI development despite acknowledging that AI could reduce cancer mortality by 95 percent, …
Vice President J. D. Vance has outlined an America-first AI doctrine emphasizing speed, deregulation, and geopolitical competition, as reported in The Atlantic, Lawfare, and other outlets. The framewo…
The Atlantic's Books Briefing reviews Sarah Bakewell's book 'Humanly Possible' amid concerns that AI advancements threaten independent thought, quoting Eric Schmidt on AI as a material improvement to …
The Atlantic created a searchable database of four datasets containing millions of music tracks used to train AI models, including 12 million and 9 million tracks. Google and Stability AI confirmed us…
Cory Doctorow argued on The Atlantic's podcast that AI companies have lured investors with overhyped claims and accounting gimmicks, predicting the resulting bubble will burst with economic fallout ri…
AI-powered cyberattacks are surging, with bad actors exploiting software vulnerabilities at unprecedented speed, according to reports in New York Magazine and The Atlantic. Palo Alto Networks reported…
AI coding agents are overwhelming American workers with mental fatigue and exhaustion, as developers and other professionals report brain fog, headaches, and reduced focus from managing multiple bots.…
Philosopher and AI researcher David Thorstad critiques Ted Chiang's recent essay denying machine consciousness, arguing that Chiang's claims are unsupported by evidence and that the possibility of AI …
The White House blocked external access to Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models after Amazon alerted officials to a jailbreak exploit. The administration issued an export-control designation barrin…
A study published in Science found that ChatGPT outperformed hundreds of physicians in a diagnostic obstacle course using written medical cases and real-world patient information. The research, led by…