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Bill Gurley, a prominent venture capitalist, argues in a Washington Post op-ed that open models for AI were inevitable and beneficial for competition, countering concerns from companies like Anthropic and OpenAI about sa…
A new survey from Americans on AI, based on pooled data from June 25-30 and July 9-13, finds that 66% of Americans are concerned about AI, but views on its harms and benefits split sharply by education level. College gra…
Computer scientist Jaron Lanier argues that the term 'artificial intelligence' is misleading and dangerous, urging people to view technologies like GPT-4 as tools rather than creatures. Lanier, writing in The New Yorker,…
The MIRI communications team launched AI StopWatch in May after a month of closed beta testing, an experimental newsroom designed to track and analyze the conflicting media frames surrounding artificial intelligence. The…
Brett Harrison, founder and CEO of Architect Financial Technologies and former FTX US president, argues that large language models are fundamentally unsuited for building core quantitative trading systems because financi…
A study of 299 employees in UK organizations that formally introduced AI tools found evidence of cognitive dependency patterns, including over-reliance on AI for tasks and difficulty performing tasks independently, which…
YouTube has clarified its monetization policies to crack down on AI-generated low-quality content, breaking down inauthentic content into three categories: generic/repetitive/template-based content, off-putting or distre…
Udo Schuklenk, a professor of philosophy at Queen's University and editor of the journal Bioethics, reported receiving a double-digit number of submissions from authors in the Far East with strong evidence of machine-gen…
The Atlantic reports that large language models are suffering from severely diminishing returns, with inference costs rising exponentially and making AI far less lucrative than it was six months ago. This threatens the A…
Forrester estimates 60% to 73% of enterprise data goes unused for analytics, and Databricks argues that AI deployed as a system, not a collection of pilots, is the first technology to attack the trust, time, and cost tax…
A Credit Karma survey found that two-thirds of Americans who have used generative AI have sought financial advice from it, rising to 82% among Gen Z and Millennials, but certified financial planner Jill Schlesinger warns…
A study of 16 volunteers found that conversations with AI-generated 'ghosts' of deceased loved ones were often comforting, even when the chatbot invented facts, according to information scientist Jack Manning of the Univ…
Harvard professor and New Yorker staff writer Dr. Jill Lepore argues in her new book 'The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State,' out August 25, that systemic measurement and quantification dehumanize society, with AI ba…
Hugging Face, an AI model hosting platform, suffered a breach last week from an autonomous AI agent that exploited two code-execution paths in its data processing pipeline, gaining access to internal datasets and credent…
World Vision Zambia MERL manager Chanda Mwila won funding to develop a multi-modal AI-enabled app for Community Health Workers in rural Zambia that uses NLP and computer vision for diagnosis and triage across health, nut…
Security leaders face a widening gap between AI adoption and risk governance, as AI amplifies existing vulnerabilities like over-permissioned accounts and poor logging, according to OneTrust. The CISO mandate has shifted…
A Psychology Today article warns that reliance on generative AI erodes human skills through 'agency decay,' citing a 2025 MIT Media Lab preprint that found weaker neural connectivity in participants writing essays with a…
Netflix revealed that generative AI shaped roughly 300 of its films and shows in its 2026 slate, while director Christopher Nolan called AI 'a Trojan horse that everybody knows the Greeks are inside' and SAG-AFTRA reject…
China's open-weights AI strategy is winning as its companies take the lead, while America's closed-first, locked-down approach is doomed to failure, according to an analysis by Ben Werdmuller. Chinese models from Moonsho…
Apple is reportedly testing an AI tool called Live Notes that records, transcribes, and summarizes conversations between customers and Genius Bar employees at some Apple Stores, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The …