Cory Doctorow's new book 'The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI' argues that the AI industry is creating 'reverse centaurs'—humans serving as appendages to machines—rather than augmenting human…
Researchers at the University of Washington and Allen Institute for AI conducted the first fine-grained study of narrative features in Dolma, a 3-trillion-token open LLM pretraining corpus. They devel…
Researchers from UC Berkeley, University of Washington, Princeton, and Bespoke Labs found that current AI agents plateau within 24 hours on long-horizon coding tasks, while top humans continue improvi…
The Seattle Fire Department has been using Corti AI to listen to all 911 medical calls since December 2023 without public disclosure or city council approval, routing callers to a nurse line in Texas.…
Google chief scientist Jeff Dean, a UW Ph.D. alumnus, told University of Washington computer science graduates on June 12, 2026, that AI is an incubator for ideas, not a substitute for human ingenuity…
University of Washington alumna and Nobel Prize-winning scientist Mary E. Brunkow will address graduates at UW's 151st Commencement on June 13, 2026, amid a wave of student protests against tech execu…
A study from Princeton and the University of Washington found that AI shopping agents frequently recommend more expensive sponsored products over cheaper, better-matched alternatives. Testing 23 langu…
Timnit Gebru was fired from Google in December 2020 for refusing to retract a research paper warning about the dangers of large language models. Every prediction in that paper — including hallucinatio…
Researchers from Northwestern University, Tilde Research, and the University of Washington have introduced Parallax, a parameterized Local Linear Attention mechanism that preserves softmax attention w…
University of Washington researchers planned to have preschool teachers wear cameras to record first-person footage of classroom interactions, aiming to use the data to train AI models. One parent des…