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A new study from Iowa State University finds that writing with AI requires more critical thinking from students, not less, challenging the assumption that AI serves as a shortcut. Researchers Abram Anders and Emily Dux S…
A peer-reviewed study by Israeli psychologists Michael Gilead and Gal Gutman found that major large language models, including ChatGPT-4 Turbo, DeepSeek, and Mistral, reproduce centuries-old antisemitic stereotypes by as…
Midjourney announced plans to develop advanced full-body ultrasound scanners integrated into spa-like facilities, aiming to make early disease detection cheap and routine. The company envisions a network of 24/7 spas whe…
Enterprises are shifting from traditional master data management (MDM) to Systems of Context to support AI agents, which require not just clean records but also rich, connected, and explainable data to reason over comple…
A developer discovered that a multi-model LLM evaluation panel exhibited self-preference bias, favoring outputs that resembled the judges' own writing style. Research from Panickssery et al. (2024) confirmed that models …
A developer argues that AI is scary not because of its intelligence, but because it arrived during a period of widespread societal fragility following COVID and mass layoffs. The post claims that fear of job loss, alread…
Researchers at Sina Weibo released VibeThinker-3B, a 3-billion-parameter language model that matches or exceeds the reasoning performance of much larger systems from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek on ma…
OpenAI researchers found that reinforcement learning on realistic scenarios targeting beneficial traits like honesty and corrigibility produced broad improvements across dozens of alignment benchmarks, with gains general…
Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Uber are cutting costs on internal AI tools as token prices rise, while major AI providers reportedly seek government bailout discussions amid market skittishness over the industry's financia…
The G7 summit in the French Alps hosted CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind for a working lunch, while an estimated 20,000 protesters demonstrated in Geneva. Summit leaders took no substantive action on income…
CEOs are writing tone-deaf AI memos that threaten employees, refer to them as line items, or cheerlead technology they fear. Experts advise leaders to write separate memos for employees and shareholders, focusing on clar…
Researchers are exploring how artificial intelligence systems can be programmed to make moral decisions, raising questions about the ethical frameworks that should guide AI behavior in everyday life. The article examines…
Residents of Lowell, Massachusetts, secured a one-year moratorium on data center construction and expansion, but a new lawsuit alleges that state officials and Markley, the developer of a towering data center nicknamed '…
Hong Kong has launched a two-month public consultation on its first five-year plan to align with Beijing's 2026-2030 blueprint, focusing on high-quality development, technological self-reliance, and economic rebalancing.…
Senator Bernie Sanders introduced the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act on June 18, proposing a one-time 50% stock tax on the largest US AI companies to create a $7 trillion sovereign wealth fund. The fund would dist…
Music producer Jimmy Jam said AI-generated music needs guardrails, consent, and compensation, and proposed a separate Billboard chart for AI songs. Speaking with Terry Lewis on Pandora's Artists on AI series, Jam argued …
Gibraltar barrister Philip Vasquez released version 1.2 of an open-source skills file designed to help AI systems navigate Gibraltar's fragmented public information landscape, covering legal framework, official sources, …
Midjourney, the AI lab known for image generation, announced a healthcare project called Midjourney Medical, featuring an underwater full-body ultrasound scanner that can create 3D body maps in 60 seconds. The company pl…
Federal regulators ordered regional grid operators to speed up connections for large energy users, including AI data centers, to address surging electricity demand. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission voted unanimou…
Three Amazon employees who testified at Seattle City Council hearings about a proposed data center moratorium say they are under internal HR investigation, and have filed a complaint with the Seattle Office for Civil Rig…