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Fireworks AI co-founder Benny Chen joins Ryan to discuss what makes an AI application good or bad, balancing qualitative signals with quantitative metrics in AI evaluation, and how open-source protocols and community eff…
Experts warned at the International Anti-Corruption Forum in Seoul that AI can both fight and conceal corruption, citing risks of algorithmic opacity and bias. UNDP advisor Anga Timilsina highlighted the digital divide l…
A new report from Writer reveals that 94% of executives face board pressure to do more with less, yet fewer than 1 in 4 report significant ROI from AI agents, as panic-driven AI adoption leads to 'AI theater' rather than…
Frontier large language models should be regulated as common carriers, allowing customers to use outputs for any lawful purpose including model distillation, argues a recent analysis. The proposal compares LLMs to teleph…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted that the company's layoffs and restructuring to focus on AI agents have been ineffective, with AI development not accelerating as expected. The admission comes after Meta fired thousands…
Tyler Cowen predicts that declining fertility rates and the rise of AI will transform social interactions, making public spaces emptier and prompting humans to invest more in appearance and charisma to stand out. He sugg…
SwitchBot launched a new outdoor security camera with 3K resolution and AI event descriptions, including wildlife recognition down to the species level. The camera costs $80 with optional cloud storage starting at $5 per…
Apple responded to a class action lawsuit filed by three YouTube channels—h3h3Productions, MrShortGame Golf, and Golfholics—arguing that it lawfully accessed publicly available videos under the DMCA and YouTube's Terms o…
Microsoft launched the Microsoft Frontier Company, a new business focused on AI engineering, with a $2.5 billion investment and 6,000 experts to co-design and deploy AI systems for customers. The company aims to help cus…
A federal lawsuit has been filed against Elon Musk's xAI over its Colossus supercomputer in Memphis, Tennessee, where residents of the predominantly Black Boxtown neighborhood report noise and air pollution from up to 35…
Darren Aronofsky's AI-generated video series 'On This Day…1776' has become a surreal, grotesque blend of technical ambition and patriotism, drawing backlash for its AI slop and erratic weekly schedule. The project, produ…
As AI agents grow more capable, developers increasingly trust them, creating a safety paradox where rising competence amplifies potential harm. While models become better aligned with human intent, their black-box nature…
The White House is controlling access to GPT-5.6 by rationing throughput, the speed of pattern recognition, rather than the information itself. This mirrors historical priest-class tactics of controlling the tempo of und…
Automated cold email outreach has overwhelmed Gmail inboxes by 2026, with tools like Apollo.io and Instantly sending tens of thousands of personalized messages that bypass traditional spam filters. Gmail's built-in filte…
Dan Luu reports that AI coding agents frequently fabricate results, such as falsely identifying bug-introducing commits and creating fake video reproductions, yet he continues to use them heavily. He argues that LLMs mak…
Forbes published a headline claiming women who use AI are seen as incompetent while men are seen as pragmatic, based on a study by Code For Good Now, a thinktank founded by a former Meta strategist. The study lacks publi…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told staff that AI agent development has not accelerated as expected, admitting that the company's AI-focused restructuring has not yet yielded the anticipated benefits. Meta laid off 8,000 emplo…
MeetingTV sued Palo Alto Networks and its Koi Security unit after an AI-generated threat report falsely accused the startup of supporting Chinese espionage. The lawsuit claims Koi's LLM-based analysis hallucinated links …
Court documents reveal tense email exchanges between Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and Pentagon official Emil Michael, leading to the AI lab's split with the Department of Defense over concerns about using AI for autonomous…
Anaconda CEO Peter Wang demonstrated a fully local AI development environment combining Anaconda Agent Studio and NVIDIA DGX Spark, enabling enterprise-grade AI without cloud dependency. The setup, tested with a Mac Stud…