Christopher Sweet, an affiliate of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) stationed at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), requested college credit for his government work, …
The University of Chicago's Social Sciences Collegiate Division will ban artificial intelligence tools and technology in Social Sciences Core classes starting fall 2026, according to a memo from SSCD …
The University of Chicago has implemented a new policy for its social sciences core that generally bans AI assistance in reading, writing, and analysis, aiming to preserve critical thinking skills. Th…
A new study by researchers at the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania finds that generative AI could reduce wages for workers in affected occupations by up to 20% by 2030, with th…
A new CESifo experiment tracking 12,365 French adults over four weeks found that those who held personal conversations with AI chatbots rated the interactions as more enjoyable than a control group bu…
Pangram, a $20-per-month web tool, correctly identified AI-generated text in dozens of tests by a technology journalist, including flagging AI sentences inside human essays, but it and Hive Detect fai…
A new study led by the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR) found that underground thermal energy storage can reduce annual electricity costs for cooling data centers by up to 70%, roughly $20 mil…
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh has appointed a data task force, including Harvard economics professor Raj Chetty, former Walmart CEO Doug McMillon, and University of Chicago economics professor eme…
Pangram, an AI detection company founded in Brooklyn, NY in 2023 by AI researchers from Tesla and Google, has launched Pangram 4, its most advanced model, which detects AI-generated content with 99.98…
A study by researchers at the University of Chicago and the University of California, Berkeley found that the American public is less supportive of military operations using weapons perceived as indis…
A new paper from researchers at Google, the University of Chicago, and the University of London found that removing safety fine-tuning that tells AI models they aren't conscious makes them give more h…
On July 23, the 2026 Fields Medals were awarded to Wang Hong, Deng Yu, Jacob Tsimerman, and John Pardon. Wang Hong and Deng Yu, both Peking University alumni, became the first Chinese nationals to win…
Epic's Deterioration Index AI model, when routed to automatic pages for critical-care teams, was associated with an 18% reduction in risk-adjusted odds of in-hospital death, according to a study of 23…
Pangram, a New York-based AI detection startup, has raised $9 million in a funding round led by Menlo Ventures, bringing its total funding to roughly $14 million since its founding in 2023. The compan…
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…