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Microsoft's annual sustainability report reveals a 29% increase in greenhouse gas emissions from 2020 to 2023, driven largely by the construction of AI data centers, complicating the company's goal of becoming carbon-neg…
Comedian Rosie O'Donnell slammed President Donald Trump as 'the worst thing that ever happened to our country' after he posted an AI-generated video mocking her and other critics. The video, shared on Truth Social, depic…
Major record labels are urging streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music to label songs created with artificial intelligence, aiming to distinguish AI-generated music from human-made tracks. The push addresses gro…
Instagram head Adam Mosseri said users who dislike AI content should be able to avoid it in their feeds, but the platform will not filter out AI-generated posts entirely. Instead, Instagram plans to label AI content and …
Sunrun, the largest US residential solar provider, launched a pilot program to install AI compute nodes in customers' homes, paying homeowners to host the hardware and selling the compute power to enterprise clients. The…
Mercor, a three-year-old AI training marketplace run by a 23-year-old CEO, is in talks to raise at a $20 billion valuation, doubling its worth in nine months despite a recent data breach that cost it Meta as a customer. …
New research shows that reinforcement learning, specifically Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), outperforms traditional fine-tuning for automatic speech recognition (ASR) in regulated sectors, reducing word error…
The AI market is projected to grow from $189 billion to $4.8 trillion by 2033, but the future of AI lies in small, energy-efficient models rather than power-hungry large language models like GPT-4, which consume 50-60 GW…
Older adults in China are embracing AI-generated videos that provide emotional comfort and companionship, aware the content is artificial but valuing the joy it brings. Researchers found these AI family characters offer …
AI systems cannot forget or forgive due to their engineering: weights retain training data permanently, context windows switch between perfect recall and total erasure, retrieval stores lack temporal decay, and logs pres…
Software engineers are producing unprecedented technical debt as AI coding tools accelerate sloppy code generation, with research showing a 20% drop in junior developer employment and 30-40% more technical debt in AI-ass…
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh appointed venture capitalist Marc Andreessen to advise on AI's economic impact, citing AI as a potential disinflationary force. Critics question conflicts of interest given Andreessen Ho…
A new study reveals that multilingual AI models in healthcare exhibit significant language bias, with responses aligning more closely with English Wikipedia regardless of the prompt language. Researchers created the Mult…
Instagram head Adam Mosseri said that as AI-generated content becomes more common, human creators will become more valuable because audiences will seek authentic connections. He argued that synthetic content will make au…
Meta's new Muse Image model allows anyone to use public Instagram photos in AI-generated images without consent, prompting SAG-AFTRA to urge users to opt out. The feature, which is enabled by default, requires users to m…
Irish universities should establish human intelligence research labs to study the brain's mechanisms and maintain humanity's edge over AI, argues David Stephen. With AI surpassing human memory and intelligence in many ta…
OpenAI launched Chronicle, an opt-in research preview for ChatGPT Pro subscribers on macOS, that augments Codex memories with screen context to reduce the need for users to restate context. The feature requires Screen Re…
Researchers introduced MIRA-Math, a benchmark that tests AI models by withholding a single atomic fact in mathematical problems, requiring models to request the missing information in natural language under a strict budg…
Workers at Google DeepMind in the UK voted to unionize, citing concerns over a deal between Google and the US military announced last week. The unionization effort, led by the Communication Workers Union and Unite the Un…
In a mid-2026 update, AI researcher continues documenting beliefs as the world transitions to artificial superintelligence, predicting a 50% chance that transformer LLMs will discover a better architecture by 2030. The a…