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A Washington Post study claiming ChatGPT has a strong left-wing bias is flawed due to artificial constraints and mislabeling of political positions, according to a replication analysis. When the 30-word limit and 9th-gra…
Productivity growth has decoupled from wage growth across the US, Europe, and Japan since around 1970, with the gap widening into a chasm in recent years, according to economic data. The trend risks accelerating as AI an…
AI-generated doctors are gaining millions of views on TikTok by spreading dubious health advice, posing a 'huge danger to public safety,' experts warn. British Medical Association council deputy chair Dr. Emma Runswick f…
Top movie directors Guillermo del Toro, Christopher Nolan, and Steven Spielberg are publicly rejecting generative AI in filmmaking, warning it could deprive future generations of learning the craft and calling for skepti…
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Health on July 23, 2026, allowing U.S. adults to connect medical records and Apple Health data, as more than 300 million weekly health queries now flow through the platform. The rollout came one d…
A March 2025 audit by NewsGuard found that major AI chatbots, including those from OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Meta, repeated false narratives from a Moscow-linked disinformation network in roughly 33% of responses, w…
Apple is targeting a June 2027 unveiling of AI-powered smart glasses at its developer conference, with a consumer launch expected by the holiday season, according to Bloomberg. The device, developed for years, faces inte…
A scoping review published July 23 in npj Digital Medicine mapped 21 studies of generative AI mental health chatbots across 11 countries from 2023 through 2025, finding that users often reported convenience, personalizat…
A Forbes analysis by senior contributor Joe McKendrick finds that successful AI implementation depends primarily on human psychology, not just technology, identifying the people most likely to resist AI and the reasons b…
Publishers are exploring whether AI could replace human authors, with some viewing books written by people as a new premium product in an era of machine-generated content, according to the Financial Times.
A new benchmark called Copyright-Bench, introduced in arXiv:2607.21799v1, evaluates LLM agents' compliance with copyright law by testing them on commercial tasks like website development and merchandise design. The study…
Researchers introduced Humanly, a writing platform that records the entire writing process to distinguish human typing from AI-generated text, addressing the challenge of verifying authorship in collaborative human-AI wr…
Researchers introduce ConVBench, a benchmark for evaluating logical consistency in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), pairing each image with two logically equivalent questions across six categories. They also present…
A study testing four major LLM families (Claude, Grok, GPT, Gemini) on ethnonationalist pseudo-science found that Grok's Fast versions consistently assigned credibility scores of 70-75, two to five times higher than othe…
Researchers validated the Spanish version of the Large Language Models Dependency Scale (LLM-D12-SP) in a study of 386 Spanish-speaking participants, confirming the original two-factor structure of Instrumental and Relat…
Meta removed over 344,000 ads for AI-powered nudify apps from Facebook and Instagram between November 2025 and January 2026, yet operators like Joy Timeline HK Limited behind CrushAI simply created new accounts to contin…
A writer proposes the new word 'zuzai' (an acronym for 'Zuzai Uses Zero Artificial Intelligence') to describe things made without AI, arguing that existing terms like 'AI-free' or 'human-generated' are inadequate. The au…
Meta Platforms Inc.'s Facebook and Instagram served over 87,000 ads promoting AI-powered nudify apps from Joy Timeline HK Limited's CrushAI, violating Meta's own policies against non-consensual sexual content, according …
An underground relay market for AI API tokens offers up to 97.8% discounts on official pricing, with a four-layer supply chain spanning card merchants, account pools, relay operators, and end users. Security researcher M…
IBM Research chief scientist Ruchir Puri argues that uncertainty modeling is AI's most urgent technical challenge, as today's models struggle to recognize the limits of their own knowledge, contributing to hallucinations…