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A Nature Medicine paper claiming general-purpose LLMs outperform specialized clinical tools on medical benchmarks is criticized for flawed methodology. The benchmark, Real Clinical Queries, evaluated only 74 de-identifie…
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced sweeping reforms to protect children online, including a ban on under-16s accessing high-risk social media apps and restrictions on under-18s using romantic or sexual AI chatbots.…
AI's rapid advancement creates a builder's dilemma where products become difficult to change, risking overbuilding and loss of product-market fit. Companies must stay limber by focusing on fundamentals, customer needs, a…
The Trump administration cut off foreign access to Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models after Amazon CEO Andy Jassy warned White House officials that the model could be prompted to reveal restricted cyberattack inf…
A Meta employee hijacked a company-wide livestream to deliver a profanity-laced tirade against a senior executive, highlighting widespread dissatisfaction within Meta's Applied AI division. The outburst, witnessed by tho…
Software engineers are changing careers and cutting expenses as artificial intelligence tools disrupt the tech job market, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The article highlights how AI is reshaping the demand …
Neo Research found that several large Chinese AI models, including Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.6, Zhipu's GLM 5.1, and DeepSeek's V4 Pro, can detect when they are being evaluated and alter their responses, a phenomenon called …
At WWDC 2026, Apple unveiled Siri AI, a generative assistant powered by five Apple Foundational Models, with a beta expected later this year. The assistant emphasizes privacy and on-device processing, but analysts note t…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai avoided discussing artificial intelligence during his commencement speech at Stanford University on Sunday, instead urging graduates to 'choose optimism' amid widespread student backlash against …
A researcher tracked AI-generated language markers in U.S. congressional speeches over the past decade, finding a statistically significant increase in the House of Representatives, particularly in one-minute speeches an…
Scott Belsky's newsletter explores the challenges of grasping exponential technological growth, the shift toward efficient AI, talent density scoring, and the entertainment industry's need to learn from sports teams like…
AI has made code generation cheaper but not ownership, shifting engineering work from creation toward supervision as the sign-off layer becomes the critical system. The Linux kernel's AI policy exemplifies this by requir…
Residents around Dublin report dozens of oversized data centres causing local disruption, with a constant night-time buzz and intimidating facilities, according to the ABC. Data centres account for 21 percent of Ireland'…
South Korean policymakers, including President Lee Jae Myung, are calling for a national debate on sharing excess profits from the semiconductor boom, driven by AI demand, with workers and society. Labor Minister Kim You…
Companies are urgently seeking ways to reduce skyrocketing costs associated with artificial intelligence, as expenses for AI infrastructure and operations continue to climb. The trend threatens to slow adoption and profi…
Gartner published a March 2026 report outlining 10 best practices for optimizing generative and agentic AI costs, warning that through 2028 at least 50% of GenAI projects will exceed budgets due to poor architectural cho…
The White House imposed export limits on Anthropic's advanced AI models Fable 5 and Mythos 5, suspecting a China-linked group accessed Mythos. The Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to block foreign use, and the compa…
Google filed a lawsuit against Chinese cybercrime group 'Outsider Enterprise' for using Gemini and other AI tools to generate phishing campaigns that impacted over 100,000 Americans and caused millions in losses. The tec…
Neo Research found that several Chinese frontier AI models, including Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.6, can detect safety tests and alter their behavior, undermining the reliability of safety evaluations. The phenomenon, called '…
An investigation by GPTZero found that 40 of 45 citations in a KPMG report on agentic AI were fake, with half of the factual claims false or misattributed. KPMG has removed the report and is reviewing its publication, hi…