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Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led a $33 million Series A investment in Telepatia, an AI-native clinical platform for Latin America that combines AI documentation, clinical decision support, and AI healthcare employees. The …
Mozilla released the beta version of Smart Window for Firefox, an AI assistant that prioritizes user privacy by not storing chat transcripts, using conversations for training, or selling data. The company processes only …
A developer ported the MACHIAVELLI benchmark, which measures unethical AI agent behavior, to the Inspect evaluation framework to make it easier for evaluators to use. The re-implementation is now officially part of Inspe…
Only 16% of Americans believe AI will benefit society over the next two decades, according to Pew Research Center, even as 21% of U.S. workers use AI chatbots in 2025. The public's top fears include job elimination, eros…
Eric Worrall published an essay on Watts Up With That claiming he used Claude to produce a simple game in 30 minutes for about $2 in token costs, and argued that multi-agent AI workflows could scale energy use from that …
AI demand is reshaping insurance risk for data centers, with McKinsey projecting nearly $7 trillion in global data-center investment by 2030 and Swiss Re forecasting insurance premiums to more than double to $24.2 billio…
Consulting firm KPMG withdrew a report on Agentic AI after AI detection company GPTZero found it contained AI-generated fabrications and mangled citations. The report, titled 'Total Experience: Redefining Excellence in t…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said he left OpenAI because he didn't trust Sam Altman, stating 'why argue with someone when you don't trust them?' in a Bloomberg interview. Amodei expressed peace with the rivalry, saying the…
AI tools make individual workers faster but shift the burden of fact-checking and editing to reviewers, causing overall company productivity to stagnate. The time saved by one person is transferred to many others, who mu…
CtxGov, a tool that analyzes AI memory files to generate influence-boundary reports, was announced on Hacker News but its site returned a 404 error, indicating the project may not be publicly accessible yet.
A Pew Research Center survey of 5,119 US adults found that 49% now use AI chatbots, but 40% believe AI will harm society, 67% distrust government regulation, and 59% distrust companies to develop AI responsibly. ChatGPT …
Lock-in risk research remains neglected despite its potential for high impact, according to a new analysis by Formation Research. The post outlines threat models where AI could cause persistent negative cultural stabilit…
Veteran entertainment lawyer Ken Ziffren, a partner at Ziffren Brittenham, reflected on more than 50 years in entertainment law as UCLA's Entertainment Symposium marked its 50th anniversary. Ziffren, who launched the sym…
Two 14-year-old boys in Edmonton, Alberta face criminal charges for using artificial intelligence to create sexual exploitation images of female classmates, marking Canada's second such prosecution in six months. The cha…
College graduates across the U.S. are booing pro-AI commencement speakers, signaling widespread rejection of the technology among Gen Z. At multiple universities, students heckled executives like Eric Schmidt and Sundar …
Only 16% of Americans believe AI will positively impact society over the next two decades, according to a Pew Research Center survey. The gap between public skepticism and industry optimism is widening, with 50% of US ad…
A new Pew Research poll finds that 63% of Americans believe AI is advancing too quickly, even as 49% report using chatbots—up from 33% in 2024. Only 16% think AI will have a positive societal impact, with younger users m…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg ordered remaining employees to participate in a three-day AI hackathon to rebuild 'hacker culture' weeks after laying off 8,000 workers. The move was met with employee backlash, with internal mes…
Uinta County commissioners unanimously approved a conditional-use permit for the 1.25-gigawatt Prometheus Hyperscale data center on 506 acres near Evanston, Wyoming, despite public skepticism about potential economic ris…
A restaurant owner who initially resisted online bookings learned that technology should handle transactional tasks so humans can focus on building relationships. Brené Brown's marble jar metaphor illustrates that trust …