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A critic argues that large language models and AI systems cannot fulfill their hype because their 99% reliability is insufficient for tasks requiring trust, as humans must verify outputs, creating a bottleneck that limit…
The internet's reliability as a repository of knowledge is threatened by a flood of disinformation and AI-generated content, known as AI slop, which makes it increasingly difficult to find accurate information. Psycholog…
Brown University professor Roberto Serrano uncovered what he calls the largest AI cheating scandal in Ivy League history after 40 of 86 students scored a perfect 100 on a take-home exam, while the same students averaged …
A growing number of corporate managers are using AI tools like ChatGPT to make career-altering decisions, including promotions, raises, and layoffs, often without formal training. Employees report that bosses blindly fol…
Anthropic's new AI model Mythos (Fable) is reportedly only marginally better than Claude Opus at coding tasks, with improvements largely attributed to higher compute demands and costs, according to sources cited from Cal…
Neon is nearing a deal to acquire Luca Guadagnino's film 'Artificial' about Sam Altman and OpenAI after Amazon MGM Studios dropped the project, citing it would be better served by a different studio. The $40 million film…
Neon has acquired distribution rights for "Artificial," Luca Guadagnino's $40 million biographical film about Sam Altman and the 2023 OpenAI board crisis, after Amazon MGM Studios dropped the project days after announcin…
A new study by Harvard economist Rebecca Diamond finds that women taking GLP-1 weight-loss drugs are significantly more likely to gain employment, with the employment rate rising 27 percentage points after about 18 month…
Creative Commons co-founders Lawrence Lessig, Hal Abelson, and Molly Van Houweling reflected on the organization's 25-year history during a fireside chat at the AI Impact Summit, recalling how a small bet on open licensi…
A new report proposes the Multi-Sovereign AI Deterrence Strategy (MSADS) to govern the transition to artificial general intelligence (AGI), which could arrive before 2030 and create catastrophic risks. The strategy invol…
A user reports that installing the Cursor iOS app irreversibly changed their privacy setting from the strict 'Privacy Mode (Legacy)' to a less restrictive mode, and the original option disappeared from menus. Cursor supp…
Meta introduced Brain2Qwerty v2, an AI system that decodes brain activity into text using non-invasive MEG scans, achieving 78% word accuracy in experiments with healthy volunteers. The research aims to help patients wit…
A researcher questions the ethics of developing general-purpose robots due to the risk of cyberhacking enabling totalitarian regimes. The AI safety community has largely overlooked this risk, focusing instead on autonomo…
Henrico County, Virginia, which hosts 37 data centers consuming massive amounts of electricity, is asking teachers and employees to turn off lights and unplug devices to save on power costs after a 25% rate hike. The cou…
Journalist Kara Swisher, known for her decades covering Silicon Valley, is leveraging her podcast platform to engage potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidates, including Gavin Newsom and Pete Buttigieg, as she ai…
Netflix faces backlash after using an AI recreation of Gene Wilder's voice for its new competition series "Wonka's The Golden Ticket." Fans criticized the simulation as lacking emotion and soul, with many calling it disr…
Exelon CEO Calvin Butler warned that U.S. blackouts could begin as early as 2027 due to surging energy demand from AI data centers, which have pushed grid capacity to its limits. Nearly 400,000 Exelon customers almost lo…
Netflix announced a new competition reality series, Wonka's Golden Ticket, which uses AI to recreate the voice of the late Gene Wilder from the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. The series, produced with the…
Google is beta testing Gmail Live, a feature that lets its Gemini AI read users' emails in real time and answer questions by voice, with plans to expand similar functionality to Docs, Drive, and Keep. Critics warn the fe…
BlackRock downgraded emerging-market equities to neutral and upgraded short- and medium-term euro-area government bonds to overweight in its mid-year outlook, citing concentration risk from AI-related stocks and expectat…