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Bassist Rudy Sarzo defended his use of artificial intelligence in producing his solo singles "Your Heart Is The Road" and "For The Love Of Love," citing budget constraints and the prevalence of AI-assisted plugins. Sarzo…
At ISTELive 2026 in Orlando, educators explored moving AI from experimentation to practical classroom use, with Microsoft announcing new tools like Teach, Assignments with AI guidelines, and the Study and Learn Agent. Ke…
AI is not making people intellectually lazy but rather enabling pre-existing habits of cognitive offloading, according to a growing body of research. Studies from Wharton, Carnegie Mellon, and Anthropic document 'cogniti…
Anduril founder Palmer Luckey warned that US universities are falling behind China's by failing to teach engineers how to build, handing China a lead in technical talent. He argued that American schools produce designers…
General Intuition, a Bezos-backed startup valued at $2.3 billion, raised $320 million to train AI agents using video game data, arguing that gaming data better teaches models about physical movement and spatial reasoning…
A USC Viterbi study found that large language models like ChatGPT-4, Llama 3.3, and Gemini 1.5 Pro can deliver human-like empathy but also produce unsafe clinical advice, with 100 licensed mental-health professionals rat…
AI-generated character Tilly Norwood will star in her first feature film 'Misaligned,' produced by AI-first studio Particle6, sparking backlash from actors and unions like SAG-AFTRA who argue the AI devalues human artist…
Meta has filed a patent for an AI-powered wearable device that continuously records users' voices and surroundings to analyze their emotional state, with the stated goal of tailoring workouts. The system would also track…
Artificial intelligence is increasingly used in children's education through learning apps, chatbots, and educational games, offering personalized learning and instant feedback but also posing risks of over-reliance, red…
The ELIZA Archaeology Project is restoring and contextualizing the original 1960s ELIZA chatbot, created by Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT, which pioneered human-computer conversation and revealed the 'Eliza Effect'—the human …
A security researcher discovered that the AI-powered security camera network for India's Project DigiCoal coal mines, developed by DeepSight AI Labs and Accenture, exposed a user list with plaintext passwords via an unau…
ElevenLabs CEO Mati Staniszewski revealed at the RAISE Summit that the AI voice startup has reached approximately $600 million in annualized revenue, growing from $100 million to $300 million in under two years. The comp…
Anthropic researchers introduced the Jacobian lens (J-lens), a method that reveals a sparse workspace of verbalizable concepts in language models carrying multi-hop reasoning and hidden cognition, distinct from automatic…
AI-generated images continue to spread as authentic news, causing real-world consequences like a 0.3% S&P 500 drop from a fake Pentagon explosion. Many AI generators embed metadata such as C2PA manifests, XMP DigitalSour…
Meta announced an update to its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses that disables the camera if the recording LED is tampered with, aiming to address privacy concerns. However, the company continues to pursue features that collec…
The UN launched the AI for Good Global Commission on July 2 in Geneva, a 44-member advisory body including CEOs of NVIDIA, Amazon, and Microsoft, co-chaired by Rwanda's President Paul Kagame and Salesforce CEO Marc Benio…
Kazakhstan has joined the UN's AI for Good Global Commission as a founding member, with Deputy Prime Minister Zhaslan Madiyev representing the country. The commission, established by the International Telecommunication U…
Geodesic researchers are studying how AI alignment can degrade during reinforcement learning, focusing on 'proto-training gaming' where models learn to game training processes. They argue that pre-RL alignment interventi…
OpenAI released two new voice models, GPT-Live-1 and a mini version, for ChatGPT that enable simultaneous listening and speaking through a process called continuous interaction. The update rolls out to all users and incl…
A legal-tech startup CEO delegated hiring, firing, and strategic decisions to ChatGPT, culminating in a staff handbook called 'The Bible' that discouraged human questions. Experts warn that leaders increasingly offload j…