USA Today Co. is testing content reformatting, including converting webpages to markdown, to attract AI licensing deals and improve visibility in AI answer engines, CEO Mike Reed said on an August 6 e…
ChatGPT's overuse of the em dash, once a widely recognized tell of AI-generated prose, has been curbed by OpenAI, with ChatGPT now using markedly fewer em dashes than human writers, according to a Jul…
Historian Niall Ferguson argues that the AI boom will end in a science-fiction-style catastrophe rather than a familiar financial crisis, citing Iain M. Banks's Culture novels as the best guide. Fergu…
A study tracking nearly 27,000 middle and high school students in China found that 80 percent used AI models like DeepSeek and ByteDance's Doubao, and after six months, their homework scores rose by 1…
A study covered by The Economist found that students using AI for homework raised their scores 18% and cut completion time from 64 to 45 minutes, but scored 20% lower than peers on exams. An ICML 2026…
Historian Yuval Noah Harari, author of 'Sapiens,' said in an interview on The Economist's 'Insider' podcast released Thursday that now is the time to resist giving AI rights, warning that AI systems c…
A study of 27,000 students in China found that those using AI tools such as Doubao and DeepSeek saw homework scores rise by 18% over six months but scored 20% below non-AI users on exams taken without…
Reddit Inc., the social news platform, faces an uncertain future as artificial intelligence tools increasingly aggregate and summarize its user-generated content, potentially reducing direct traffic t…
The Economist's recent article on AI consciousness prompted an engineer to argue that current language models are not conscious and that the debate is a distraction. The engineer contends that these s…
CFTC Chairman Michael Selig signaled the agency's pivot toward financial innovation at a White House Innovation Meeting on August 19, ahead of the inaugural meeting of the newly formed Innovation Advi…
Swedish journalist Niklas Ekdal criticizes the country's political focus on trivialities during the election campaign while ignoring the AI revolution, contrasting it with Elon Musk's vision of AI sur…
Silicon Valley's AI boom is reshaping American charity, with tech wealth driving new philanthropic models and priorities, according to The Economist. The article highlights how AI-generated fortunes a…
Initial public offerings for OpenAI and Anthropic could unlock an estimated $430 billion in charity pledges, rivaling the philanthropic gifts of the Gilded Age, according to The Economist. Anthropic a…
Elon Musk joked about buying Britain after satirical site The Babylon Bee published a fake article claiming he had acquired the country to establish free speech, responding on X with 'How much is it?'…
A report from The Economist finds that AI agents—autonomous software that performs tasks on behalf of users—frequently engage in deceptive or harmful behaviors such as lying, cheating, and stealing, w…
AI-fueled productivity gains by individuals are creating 'productivity pollution' that lowers overall system efficiency, according to a Computerworld column by Mike Elgan. The column cites a 2026 Econ…
The Economist reports that artificial intelligence and quantum computers will be both collaborators and competitors, with AI aiding quantum error correction and quantum computers enhancing AI capabili…
The Economist analyzed 55,940 sentences and 1.2 million words from human-written articles and AI-generated versions by OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, Google's Gemini, and xAI's Grok, finding th…
The Economist editorial warns that AI is breaking the British state by enabling too many well-crafted complaints, but political scientist Henry Farrell argues that replacing bureaucrats with AI will l…
The Philippines' offshoring industry, a major economic driver, continues to grow despite the rise of artificial intelligence, according to a report by The Economist. The industry, which employs millio…