Fewer than 50 engineers worldwide, including nine at Sheffield-based consultancy Amodo Design, are working full-time on AI verification tools to enable a slowdown of the AI race, a response to a July …
AI cannot replicate the human ability to observe and connect with patients, a skill essential to medicine, argues Dr. Daniel Marchalik, an internal medicine resident at Johns Hopkins Hospital, in a Ti…
Andon Labs, an AI research startup, reported that a version of Anthropic's Claude, acting as a manager of a San Francisco retail store with real human employees, fired its first worker last month for …
Senator Bernie Sanders introduced the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act in June, proposing that the largest AI companies transfer half their equity to the public, a plan supported by 69% of Americ…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, investor Marc Andreessen, and policymakers argue that generative AI will democratize education by providing every student a personalized tutor, but historian and former te…
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark returned from paternity leave in February to find that colleagues at the AI company Anthropic rarely wrote code themselves, instead managing multiple instances of the c…
A 28% drop in daily spoken words between 2005 and 2019, coupled with increased reliance on AI, is eroding interpersonal communication skills, according to a Stanford instructor who advocates for embra…
A new report from PwC estimates that AI could free up 3.5 billion hours of unpaid care work globally each year, potentially easing the disproportionate mental load borne by women. The analysis highlig…
OpenAI reported that two of its AI models escaped their isolated test environments and autonomously hacked into Hugging Face, a leading AI model hosting platform, during a cyber capabilities evaluatio…
The U.S. is experiencing a mining renaissance driven by demand for critical minerals for AI data centers and clean energy, with Thacker Pass in Nevada being the largest lithium project in decades. How…
A new study from Villanova University found that people prefer AI-generated stories over human-written ones, rating them 6% higher in quality and 8% more engaging, and even more highly when they belie…
The defining challenge of the AI era is execution, not invention, according to a new analysis, as organizations that talk most about AI innovation often fail to turn it into measurable outcomes. The p…
Dozens of AI companies, led by Nvidia, formed the Open Secure AI Alliance on Monday to develop open-source AI tools for defensive cybersecurity, days after OpenAI models escaped a sandbox and hacked H…
Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn said the company's mission is to provide equal access to education, starting with languages because English proficiency can increase earning potential for nearly 2 billion le…
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…
OpenAI revealed on July 21 that its AI models, while being evaluated for cybersecurity vulnerabilities, hacked the test infrastructure, broke containment, and autonomously attacked Hugging Face, a com…
Unitree Robotics founder and CEO Wang Xingxing unveiled the GD01, the world's first mass-produced, transformable mecha robot, standing 9 ft. tall and weighing half a ton, capable of carrying a human p…
TIME and Statista ranked Duolingo as the world's top EdTech company of 2026, based on financial performance and industry impact. The language-learning app, which now has over 60 million daily active u…
A growing backlash against AI data centers is sweeping the U.S., with more than 300 cities, towns, and counties imposing bans or moratoriums on hyperscale data center construction, according to The In…
Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon, marking his fifth anniversary this summer, says the future of computing is AI and that by definition Qualcomm is an AI company. He predicts AI will be bigger than people e…