A new essay by an unnamed author at a16z.news argues that AI-generated writing is becoming a 'meta-feature' of language, with the '100% AI' label serving as a modern 'Scarlet Letter' that performs a s…
Scammers are enrolling fake students at US community colleges and using AI to complete assignments to collect financial aid, according to The New Yorker. History professor David Roach of Walters State…
Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, now a general partner at Playground Global, said at Ai4 2026 that today's GPUs are power inefficient and computationally limited, arguing that AI's future depends on im…
Cartoonist Joe Dworetzky, writing for Bay City News Foundation, tested whether generative AI could expand his drawings without losing his unique style, a pursuit he calls 'Joe-Ness.' The experiment, r…
Hans Moravec, a Carnegie Mellon roboticist, predicted in his 1988 book 'Mind Children' that human-level artificial intelligence would arrive within 40 years, based on his calculation of the brain's co…
A 36-year-old artist in Bergamo built an AI replica of her living 77-year-old father, Gabriele, using his memories and photographs, and found the synthetic version more apologetic and warmer than the …
Harvard professor and New Yorker staff writer Dr. Jill Lepore argues in her new book 'The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State,' out August 25, that systemic measurement and quantification dehumanize…
Jessica Contrera, a former Washington Post reporter, spent months observing a single mother and her two daughters in Shaker Heights, Ohio, to report a story on how AI is changing family life, which wa…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has long advocated for humanity to 'merge' with artificial superintelligence, suggesting brain uploading as a path to survival. Critics argue this digital afterlife would only be…
Jerusalem Demsas argues that the appeal of bad art, such as romance novels, lies in its predictability and lack of challenge, offering a soothing escape that good art cannot provide. She distinguishes…
Anthropic launched Claude Design, a research-preview visual design product for subscribers, on April 17, 2026. The tool, powered by a new vision model, generates a distinctive aesthetic of warm, edito…
The rush to study generative AI is creating a feedback loop of topical and methodological convergence in social and behavioral sciences, flattening scientific imagination and crowding out pluralism. E…
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 …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said he left OpenAI because he didn't trust Sam Altman, stating 'why argue with someone when you don't trust them?' in a Bloomberg interview. Amodei expressed peace with the…
According to a recent article from *The New Yorker Radio Hour*, a longtime FEMA employee reports that morale within the agency has never been lower. The insider attributes this decline to internal lea…
The article is a daily humor roundup from *The New Yorker*, featuring a cartoon and a list of comedic headlines or prompts, such as "Tough-guy things I can do because I don’t wear a face mask" and "Hi…
The article summarizes a podcast discussion between New Yorker staff writer Jason Zengerle and Tyler Foggatt about House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. They analyze Jeffries’ strategy of balancing o…
David O'Neill reviews Lucy Ives's unconventional writing prompt collection "three six five," which includes tasks like reviewing an imaginary book or writing a thirty-page sentence, designed to make "…