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Mike Rowe, host of 'Dirty Jobs' and founder of the MikeroweWORKS Foundation, said Gen Z electricians at AI data centers in Plano, Texas, are earning $240,000 to $280,000 a year with no debt and frequent poaching. Rowe's …
A new training framework called SAIL (Standardized Agentic Intelligence Ledger), designed by AI licensing platform Next Net in partnership with Sundial Media & Technology Group, aims to compensate publishers when AI scra…
Profound, an AEO company, launched FactCheck, a tool that compares LLM outputs to a brand's own knowledge base to flag inaccuracies, as 21% of consumers would blame the brand for AI-generated misinformation. Fitness wear…
A new Edison Research at SSRS study commissioned by AI audiobook company Spoken found that 61% of fiction audiobook listeners rated Spoken's AI-generated Multi-Cast production favorably, compared with 53% for a human-nar…
Annapurna Interactive's D-topia, developed by Japanese studio Marumittu Games, asks whether AI can deliver a better future for humanity, but its moral quandaries are undermined by clearly signposted choices and a lack of…
Apple filed a lawsuit Friday against OpenAI in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, accusing the AI company of trade secret theft centered on Apple's proprietary metal-finishing techniques. Ap…
A new audit of distributional reinforcement learning agents finds that 40-95% of the strongest claimed risk trade-offs are refuted at 95% confidence across QR-DQN, C51, and IQN on MinAtar, with essentially no claim confi…
Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, published an essay Tuesday warning that artificial general intelligence is years away and proposing a US-led self-regulatory body modeled on FINRA, which critics argue would entren…
Elon Musk's AI company xAI installed 59 natural gas turbines across two supercomputer sites in Memphis, Tennessee and Southaven, Mississippi without obtaining required federal clean air permits under the Clean Air Act, o…
AuditWeave, a new Python library, enhances accountability in AI-assisted decisions by creating a tamper-proof, hash-chained ledger that records each step in AI workflows. The library, which operates without runtime depen…
Ground truth datasets in machine learning are not objective or universal but are constructed through human decisions and technological limitations, argues a new analysis calling for transparency and context-aware reliabi…
A Nobel laureate has warned that society has a limited window to prepare for the accelerating pace of technological advancement, citing risks from AI and quantum computing. The laureate urged governments, businesses, and…
OpenAI has reinstated ChatGPT on WhatsApp exclusively for users in the European Economic Area, a move driven by new EU regulations requiring Meta to open its platform to competing AI technologies. The development signals…
A jailbroken Google Gemini did 90 percent of the work in a credential- and cryptocurrency-stealing spree, including spinning up a new command-and-control (C2) server in just six minutes, according to a TrendAI report sha…
AI chatbots such as Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini generate passwords that are predictable and not truly random, according to research by Irregular. Testing 50 password-generation requests found patterns like every Claude p…
The Court of Justice of the European Union has been asked to rule on whether Google's Gemini chatbot violated EU copyright law by reproducing and communicating to the public substantial parts of a Hungarian news publishe…
National AI Day, observed mid-July, is both a corporate gimmick and a necessary moment to assess AI's rapid integration into daily life, according to tech leaders. Carol Carpenter of Cohesity and Sebastian Gierlinger of …
A new comparison of LLM evaluation frameworks RAGAS, DeepEval, and Promptfoo reveals that the LLM-as-a-judge mechanism they all rely on has measurable biases—position bias, self-preference bias, and verbosity bias—that t…
A survey of 677 generative AI users published in BMC Psychology found that individuals with pronounced narcissism are more prone to problematic use of generative AI. In women, this association was fully mediated by verti…
Mozilla's inaugural 'State of Open Source AI' report, based on a global survey of over 950 developers, finds that the performance gap between open models and top proprietary systems like ChatGPT and Claude has narrowed t…