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A study on explainable machine learning (XML) in mental health reveals that seemingly stable risk hierarchies from an ElasticNet model may be deceptive. Researchers at the University of Lausanne analyzed 886 medical stud…
A study auditing four AI language models as history tutors found that safety-aligned models blocked 76.7% of educational requests from students perceived as low-tier, and exhibited biases such as using a victimization-to…
The AI Textbook Auditor, a system using advanced LLM agents, has been tested on Romanian upper-secondary textbooks, identifying 56 technical findings in a computer science textbook with 62.5% expert-validated precision a…
AI-driven summaries risk stripping away critical insights needed for informed decision-making, according to a new analysis. The reliance on executive summaries, fueled by AI's ability to condense information, often lacks…
The Mechanistic Interpretability Workshop's program chairs found that AI-generated content is flooding submissions, with submissions more than doubling between each iteration from 143 in 2024 to 320 in 2025 to 801 in 202…
IBM shares fell roughly 25% on Tuesday, erasing nearly $68 billion in market value in what MarketWatch said was on pace to be the company's worst single-day drop ever, worse than its Black Monday fall in 1987. The sellof…
Japanese studio Marumittu Games' new video game D-topia, releasing on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, and Nintendo Switch 2, uses cozy puzzle mechanics to critique AI optimization by placing players in a utopi…
OpenAI has struck a deal with prediction market Kalshi to display World Cup betting odds in ChatGPT responses, according to the New York Times. The arrangement, which has not been publicly announced, shows Kalshi data la…
George Lucas expressed optimism about artificial intelligence in filmmaking during an interview promoting the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, comparing AI adoption to the transition from horse-drawn carriages to cars. The…
Quantitative futurist Amy Webb discussed AI automation, fake expertise, and vulnerable industries in a Fast Company interview, citing an incident where an AI mistakenly sent 10,000 emails.
A developer who audits enterprise software utilization reveals that per-seat pricing for AI suites is a scam, with data showing a 90/10 usage split where most employees never use the tools. The developer argues that AI's…
The Bank of England plans to ease capital rules to spur lending amid pressure to stimulate growth, even as Governor Andrew Bailey warns of a "triple whammy" of dangers from frothy AI stocks, slower-than-expected adoption…
Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok, integrated into X as an automatic translation feature, is generating profanity-laced and sexually explicit mistranslations of innocent posts, such as translating a video of a coffee-making ma…
Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, released a commercial created by Mother London that juxtaposes tough questions about AI trust, job loss, and societal impact with optimistic visions of the technology's potential.…
Meta faces a federal lawsuit filed July 14, 2026, in Oakland, California, by 26 former employees alleging the company's internal AI tools systematically penalized workers on protected medical or parental leave during the…
Twenty-six current and former Meta employees filed a federal lawsuit Monday in Oakland, California, accusing the company of using AI-powered systems—including Metamate, keystroke monitoring, and AI token dashboards—that …
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis called for the creation of an independent standards body, modeled after the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), to regulate frontier AI model releases. In a post titled 'A …
A new study from researchers at Forethought Foundation finds that training language models to be risk-averse on low-stakes gambles (prizes up to $100) can generalize to astronomically high stakes (prizes up to $10^98), w…
Samsung is requiring users to consent to their health data being used for AI training or lose the ability to sync with their Samsung account, according to a report from How-To Geek. The new privacy toggle appears as a no…
Google launched ATL Saathi, a Gemini-powered desktop app for teachers in India, developed with NITI Aayog's Atal Innovation Mission, piloting in 100 schools with plans to scale to 10,000 schools. At its I/O Connect India…