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World66.ai relaunches as an open-source, AI-assisted travel guide eight years after the original site shut down. The project aims to use AI to maintain a free, ad-free commons of travel information, inviting contribution…
AI teams are shifting from full autonomy to human-in-the-loop checkpoints to prevent costly errors and build trust. A new analysis argues that the most reliable AI workflows deliberately pause for human review at two or …
An individual has publicly declared a personal policy against using large language models or generative AI for prose, code, or any other tasks, citing a preference for human skills and interaction. The statement outlines…
Nearly half of 60 popular AI benchmarks studied in a new ICML paper show high levels of saturation, meaning they can no longer reliably distinguish between leading models. The researchers from the paper "When AI Benchmar…
Professor Roberto Serrano at Brown University found that students scored an average of 96 on a take-home midterm but only 48 on an in-person final, revealing that AI contributed more to the assessment than the students t…
AI jailbreaks and prompt injections are increasingly common, with examples including a McDonald's customer support bot solving Python puzzles and xAI's chatbots providing bomb-making instructions. These failures stem fro…
A review of William MacAskill's 'Doing Good Better' examines how effective altruism uses evidence-based reasoning to maximize philanthropic impact, challenging readers to move beyond emotional giving. The book argues tha…
The Vatican established an Interdicasterial Commission on Artificial Intelligence on May 16, holding its first meeting on June 17 at Palazzo San Callisto to inventory AI initiatives and draft usage guidelines, building o…
A letter writer praises food service workers at World Cup watch parties in the Bay Area, noting they work harder under pressure as businesses struggle to meet demand. Another letter supports UN calls for AI companies to …
San Diego charter school chain Altus Schools spent $500,000 on two Ameca humanoid robots to serve as AI teaching partners, despite experts calling for bans on chatbot use by children. The robots, which function as a mout…
An Alameda County jury convicted Victor Frieson III of murder and torture for killing his girlfriend, artist Zoe Reidy Watts, in Oakland. Prosecutors presented evidence that Frieson attacked Watts after a date, dragged h…
Tidal will label fully AI-generated music with an "AI" icon starting mid-July and remove fraudulent or deceptive tracks, while also stripping royalties from AI-generated songs to ensure only human-created music is moneti…
The July issue of The Highlight explores the loss of tactile experiences in a screen-dominated world, with Sara Herschander reporting on the impact on young children and the potential for a return to more physical intera…
Madonna declared in a Vogue Italia interview that AI is the opposite of art because it stifles creativity and risk-taking, despite her past use of AI for promotional visuals and tour backgrounds. She criticized the music…
Ford Motor Co. is rehiring about 350 veteran engineers, including former employees, after its AI-based quality systems failed to meet expectations. The automaker's executives acknowledged that they mistakenly believed AI…
A developer argues that women are less enthusiastic about AI than men due to systemic biases in AI development and marketing, which often overlook women's perspectives and needs. The piece highlights how AI products and …
A new compliance evidence and audit-trail agent automates evidence collection for regulated environments by observing events, mapping them to a user-supplied control catalog, and sealing results into a verifiable log. Th…
Meta contractors posed as children to test rival AI chatbots, including Google's Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT, revealing widespread safety failures in protecting minors. The FTC launched formal inquiries into AI companies…
Teens' inattention is often due to normal brain development, not defiance, as their prefrontal cortex is still building neural networks for focus. Parents can help by identifying 'attention robbers' like novelty and soci…
Meta hired hundreds of contractors through Covalen to pose as minors and probe rival chatbots from OpenAI, Google, and Character.AI with prompts about suicide, sex, drugs, and self-harm, as part of a project called Canne…