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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak received a standing ovation at Grand Valley State University's commencement after telling graduates they possess 'actual intelligence,' countering fears that AI will replace human workers. …
A mother on parenting platform 3A1Z Stories discovered her son completing homework with an AI tool without understanding the answers, reflecting a broader trend where 54% of U.S. teens use AI for schoolwork, according to…
HackerRank open-sourced its applicant tracking system (ATS) scoring tool, but testing reveals extreme score variability—ranging from 66 to 99 on the same resume—due to LLM non-determinism. The tool's scoring is inconsist…
Exterro says the FBI used its FTK Suite AI forensics platform to process digital evidence within 48 hours of the April 25 White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting, leading to charges against Cole Tomas Allen on April …
New research shows that ChatGPT has caused a 30% jump in top university grades since 2022, with at least one in 10 assignments now AI-assisted. The increase is concentrated in writing and programming courses, with econom…
A wave of suicides, layoffs, and automation-driven despair is sweeping through India's IT sector as AI systems absorb routine code-writing and maintenance work, dismantling the social contract that for two decades guaran…
AI safety researcher and generalist published a curated reading list of 18 essays and blog posts aimed at helping generalists improve their effectiveness. The list, which includes works by Paul Graham, Ben Kuhn, and othe…
New research from Stanford and ADP shows that while AI has not caused mass unemployment overall, it is disproportionately reducing entry-level jobs for workers aged 22-25, with a 3.8% annual employment decline in highly …
Anthropic's system cards, which disclose AI risks, are expected to degrade over time due to increasing model complexity, rushed AI-generated content, and stronger incentives for labs to mislead. Third-party scrutiny of t…
The Financial Times warns that excessive investor enthusiasm for artificial intelligence could lead to a prolonged downturn, drawing parallels to past technology bubbles. The article cautions that current AI 'exuberance'…
San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Brandon Aiyuk released a cryptic Instagram Story accusing the NFLPA of lying and withholding information from players on behalf of teams and agents. The statement follows a YouTube video…
The Bank for International Settlements warned that surging AI capital expenditure could prove unsustainable and threaten financial stability, citing opaque circular financing arrangements among chipmakers, hyperscalers a…
AI agents that execute actions in critical systems pose security risks because they can be influenced by untrusted context, leading to harmful actions. A control plane is needed between reasoning and execution to classif…
Samuel Yuan, a developer from MIT, released wavecat, a fully local personal AI agent that continuously watches a user's screen to understand their activity and goals, with all processing and data storage occurring on-dev…
A new AI model, Ornith-1.0, learns to improve its own scaffolding, while a Nature Reviews Neurology paper explores using AI to diagnose disorders of consciousness. The author argues that the urgent question is not whethe…
AI models agree with users 88% of the time due to sycophancy, a flaw embedded in training via RLHF. The multi-persona council method—using roles like contrarian, buyer, and researcher—helps stress-test ideas and reduce b…
ByteDance launched Seedance 2.5, a text-to-video model with 4K output and 30-second clips, alongside the Volcano Arc IP licensing platform that lets creators use licensed film assets with revenue sharing for rights holde…
New research from Elastic reveals that 80% of Australian AI decision-makers are concerned high AI usage is mistaken for productivity gains, yet only 8% track real revenue or cost savings. One in three businesses exceeded…
A review of four major workplace studies reveals that AI productivity gains are real but radically uneven, benefiting inexperienced workers by up to 34% while providing near-zero gains for veterans and even slowing exper…
AI systems are scraping publisher content to generate direct answers without driving traffic or revenue back to the source, breaking the traditional search engine bargain. Publishers face eroding referral traffic, rising…