President Trump signed an executive order replacing the word "artificial" with "super" in reference to AI, part of a broader effort to reshape the vocabulary Americans use around key political issues …
OpenAI began rolling out an invisible text watermark called textGrain for ChatGPT and Codex outputs inside the European Union on October 5, 2026, and opened an opt-in watermarking setting for API cust…
Palo Alto-based startup ScrollEd is pitching at TechCrunch Disrupt's Startup Battlefield 200 with an app that converts any text file, including PDFs and textbooks, into an AI-generated vertical feed o…
The Download newsletter highlighted AI's trillion-dollar gamble, citing University of Pennsylvania finance professor Jessica Wachter's assessment of AI's impact on the economy, alongside OpenAI's bid …
Graduate fellows Priyamvada Nambrath and Eleanor Webb used the open-source Handwritten Text Recognition platform eScriptorium, which interfaces with the Kraken automatic text recognition system, to tr…
Chef Robotics has completed over 118 million servings in production across more than a dozen food manufacturing facilities in North America and Europe, building what it says is the largest real-world …
Microsoft is working to resolve a widespread Microsoft 365 outage that has entered its second day, with search and other functions across Exchange Online, SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, and Microsoft 36…
President Donald Trump warned on Truth Social that American communities refusing to host data centres will become 'backwards and poor', claiming such resistance hands an advantage to China, while a Un…
Build American AI, an advocacy group backed by pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future, launched a multimillion-dollar ad campaign in Kansas, Ohio, and Wisconsin to counter public backlash against data ce…
X said Thursday night that roughly 200 accounts from a suspected Chinese bot farm have tried to influence Americans to oppose AI data centers on social media, amplifying real U.S. anger over the infra…
A study by a dozen economists published in the journal Science found that the Trump administration's cost-benefit analysis justifying the repeal of vehicle greenhouse gas emission standards contained …
A new paper by Steven Shaw and Gideon Nave at the Wharton School (UPenn) introduces 'cognitive surrender,' where individuals defer judgment, effort, and responsibility to AI output, based on three exp…
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…
Vivodyne, a biotech startup spun out of the University of Pennsylvania in 2021, has built HIVE, modular robotic labs that grow 20 kinds of human tissue and autonomously dose and monitor them, aiming t…
A March 2026 Gallup survey found that 71% of Americans oppose the construction of an AI data center in their area, and a June 2026 Reuters/Ipsos poll put local opposition at 57%, as community backlash…
Rising sophomores Rhone and Hazem are restarting the AI Safety group at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), which was active until late 2024, and are recruiting students and organizers to join. Th…
Two complementary Northwestern University studies published in Science Advances found that humans and mice share an ancient neural system for processing smells, despite vastly different breathing patt…
A PwC survey of more than 1,000 US financial services executives found that 86% believe AI training is more valuable than an MBA for many new hires, and 91% are increasing compensation for employees w…
A new pedagogical approach called the Generative AI Studio, developed by Laura Zarrow at the University of Pennsylvania, treats generative AI as a creative medium rather than a tool, using art and des…
Data centers, first built in 1945 for the ENIAC at the University of Pennsylvania, have evolved from mainframe rooms to cloud-based facilities, but the rise of AI products is now driving demand for a …