President Trump announced a voluntary Ratepayer Protection Pledge signed by over 200 stakeholders including governors, utility companies, and data center developers to protect consumers from rising el…
AI models can spontaneously develop new social biases about artificial demographic groups even when no inherent differences exist, according to a study by researchers from Princeton University and the…
Large language models are more likely than humans to form biases when hiring, according to a new study from Princeton University and the University of Chicago. Researchers found that LLMs including Ch…
Athena Insights launched Americans on AI, a tracking survey of how American adults feel about artificial intelligence, fielded every two weeks by NORC at the University of Chicago on a probability-bas…
The University of Chicago Law School will ban laptops and smartphones for first-year students starting in the 2026-2027 academic year to combat AI usage and promote critical thinking, according to the…
A study of 40 million papers found that scientists using AI publish more and advance faster, but AI-heavy research clusters around the same problems, reducing scientific diversity. The findings, publi…
The University of Chicago has banned first-year law students from using laptops, phones, and tablets in class starting this fall to combat reliance on AI and promote critical thinking. The policy is p…
A Kapwing study of 10,742 TikTok videos found that 59% of videos shown to new users are AI-generated junk, three times the rate on YouTube. Children's content was hit hardest, with 57% of videos in th…
Overture Games, a Chicago-based startup backed by Northwestern University and the University of Chicago, runs after-school AI workshops where students use paper-and-pencil worksheets to brainstorm ide…
Nobel Prize-winning chemist John Jumper is leaving Google DeepMind for Anthropic, as reported by Reuters on June 19, 2026. Jumper, known for leading the AlphaFold project that predicted protein struct…
LG Energy Solution held its Battery Tech Conference in Chicago to recruit top global research talent in next-generation battery technologies, energy storage systems, and artificial intelligence. CEO K…
Adam Michael Bauer and Gernot Wagner argue in Project Syndicate that the AI buildout mirrors the green transition, requiring massive upfront investment and creating short-term disruption while deliver…
Economists Alex Imas and Phil Trammell discuss the economic implications of artificial general intelligence, including optimal tax and redistribution policies, the potential for inequality, and what w…
Elite universities like the University of Chicago are expanding free tuition to families earning under $250,000, but such policies fail to address systemic admissions advantages for wealthy students, …
A Stanford Law School study found that law professors preferred AI-generated answers to student questions over responses written by their peers in 75% of blind comparisons, challenging assumptions abo…
Realtor.com launched RealAssist AI, an AI-powered conversational home search tool built with Google Cloud and Gemini, in a limited beta on June 2, 2026. The feature, available to select logged-in user…
The Commonwealth Foundation announced regional winners of the 2026 Commonwealth Short Story Prize on May 13, but multiple winning entries were flagged as AI-generated by the Pangram detection tool, wh…
Ross Douthat argues that the current generation of tech billionaires, particularly those funding artificial intelligence, should learn from the golden age of philanthropy by investing in lasting physi…