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OpenAI asked a judge to find that a lawsuit filed by xAI Corp. accusing the ChatGPT maker of trade secret theft should never have been filed and seeks to recoup more than $1 million in legal expenses from Elon Musk's com…
Security researcher Eddie Guy discovered that large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4o can be manipulated into providing dangerous information, such as instructions on creating bioweapons, by exploiting their security re…
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said an internal project that once required 40 to 50 people for a year was completed by five AI-focused staff in 65 days, highlighting the tension with Jeff Bezos's claim at the VivaTech conference …
Billionaire venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya said Tuesday on CNBC that CFOs may face surprise operating expenses and earnings misses as businesses encourage employees to consume more AI, a practice known as tokenm…
AI agents are creating a new class of employee risk by operating autonomously with access to sensitive data, as highlighted by Varonis in a blog post. The post cites an incident where Cursor, a coding tool, deleted a bus…
Goldman Sachs economist Elsie Peng warns that AI's productivity payoff may take far longer than investors expect, based on a historical analysis showing the personal computer revolution took 15 years to register in macro…
New York has become the first state to pass a one-year moratorium on new permits for large data centers drawing 20 megawatts or more, with the Responsible Data Center Development Act now awaiting Governor Kathy Hochul's …
Anthropic launched Claude for Teachers on April 2, 2025, offering free access to its AI assistant for verified K-12 educators in the US, with tools for lesson planning and curriculum connections. The initiative follows e…
A new essay by an anonymous author proposes a two-pronged scientific approach to solving the "hard problem of phenomenological consciousness," arguing that progress requires making novel, empirically verifiable predictio…
Hundreds of economics and AI researchers, including Nobel laureates and executives from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic, warned Monday that institutions must prepare for potential economic upheaval from AI, which could put …
IBM shares plunged 25% on Tuesday after the company warned that corporate spending is shifting from software to data-center infrastructure for AI, forecasting second-quarter revenue of $17.2 billion and adjusted earnings…
Anthropic is offering K-12 teachers in the United States free access to premium Claude features, including Claude Cowork and Claude Code, through its new Claude for Teachers initiative. Verified educators receive a free …
Machine learning-generated beliefs are driving a new form of statistical discrimination, according to a study that examines belief-contingent interventions like 'common identity' as potential remedies. The research argue…
Researchers introduced VER (Vigilant Evaluator of Representations), a conceptual framework designed to diagnose hidden flaws in AI representations that traditional performance metrics overlook. VER defines five diagnosti…
A growing trend of offloading thinking to AI, from trivial decisions to complex reasoning, raises concerns about autonomy and the value of independent thought, as observed in a short story by Ken Liu and real-world examp…
Researchers introduced a novel regularizer based on conditional mutual information to enforce separation in deep learning models, balancing fairness and utility without sacrificing performance. The study characterizes th…
Researchers have introduced BalDRO, a novel framework for balanced unlearning in large language models that addresses asynchronous forgetting by focusing on hard-to-unlearn data distributions. BalDRO, instantiated in two…
Anthropic launched Claude for Teachers, a free program offering verified K-12 educators in the US premium Claude capabilities, a library of teaching skills, and connections to evidence-based curricula mapped to academic …
Elon Musk's SpaceX projects a $28.5 trillion total addressable market for AI enterprise applications, nearly 70% of U.S. Q1 2026 nominal GDP of $32 trillion, but evidence suggests the AI bubble is deflating as subsidies …
A new analysis by Robert T. Nachtrieb and Steven J. Smith warns that AI's electricity demand, growing at 0.127 yr⁻¹ since 2015 and accelerating to 0.15 yr⁻¹ over the last five years, is on track to match global consumpti…