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The effects of AI on firms and workers
Synthesis of new research assessing the real-world impacts of artificial intelligence on firms and workers.
Mark Zuckerberg goes all-in on AI and might even beat Sam Altman and OpenAI to superintelligence
He’s already poached a lot of OpenAI’s staff
How AI Factories Can Help Relieve Grid Stress
Emerald AI is developing software to control power use during times of peak grid demand while meeting the performance requirements of data center AI workloads.
Apple looks to AI firms to power Siri: Report
The iPhone maker has asked to train versions of Claude and ChatGPT that could run on Apple infrastructure for testing.
Researchers Uncover Hidden Ingredients Behind AI Creativity
Image generators are designed to mimic their training data, so where does their apparent creativity come from? A recent study suggests that it’s an inevitable by-product of their architecture.
Senate Strikes Potential AI Moratorium
The vote was 99-1, removing the 10 year moratorium on AI legislation at the state level set by the version passed in the House. Interestingly, the at…
It’s peak A Level season, but AI is eating our youth’s future before it has started
AI is already gobbling up large parts of the job market, starting with entry-level jobs. As the first fully AI legal firm is approved, Zoë Beaty looks at the bleak...
This Startup Built A Hospital In India To Test Its AI Software.
New drugs take too long to get to market because of clinical trial bottlenecks. Two cancer doctors built AI-enabled tech to speed up the process.
Can AI outdiagnose doctors? Microsoft’s tool is 4 times better for complex cases
The new system improved one model’s diagnostic accuracy to 85% – but AI probably won’t replace your doctor just yet.
Cloudflare Is Blocking AI Crawlers by Default
The age of the AI scraping free-for-all may be coming to an end. At least if Cloudflare gets its way.
Congress Is About to Hand Corporate America a License to Discriminate
If Congress won’t lead on AI accountability, then it has no business stopping states from protecting their own citizens, write Jason Solomon and Abby Frerick.
Elon Musk’s xAI raises $10 billion in debt and equity as it steps up challenge to OpenAI
The funding will go towards xAI’s efforts to build out its AI infrastructure and develop its Grok chatbot.
What comes next for AI copyright lawsuits?
Remarkably little has been settled by recent rulings in favor of Anthropic and Meta.
Future Forecasting A Massive Intelligence Explosion On The Path From AI To AGI
Some believe that an intelligence explosion will leap us from conventional AI to attaining artificial general intelligence (AGI). Here’s how this pathway might happen.
Blackburn says AI deal with Cruz is off
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) said Monday that a deal to update language of a provision in President Trump’s tax package seeking to bar states from regulating artificial intelligence (AI) is...
Senator Blackburn Pulls Support for AI Moratorium in Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Amid Backlash
After critics called the bill a “get-out-jail-free-card” for Big Tech that could make it nearly impossible to rein in social media platforms, Senator Marsha Blackburn killed her own compromise.
The Singularity Is Here
Human beings have enjoyed a unique and lonely role among intelligences. Do other minds exist in life’s other kingdoms? With AI, the answer may now be “yes.”
How AI Led Palantir From Slow Growth to Hypergrowth
How a 20-year-old company found its second wind in the AI era TL;DR: Palantir just posted 39% YoY growth in Q1 2025, marking a stunning turnaround from the 13% growth...
BBC Rolls Out AI Summaries And Style Tool In Newsroom Test
This week BBC announced that its AI-generated “At a Glance” summary box and a Style Assist editor, will move into live production.
Why Artificial Integrity Must Overtake Artificial Intelligence
Evidence of AI models’ integrity lapses is not anecdotal or speculative. So-called intelligence alone is no longer the benchmark. Integrity is.
AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study
Feature: More fiction than science
From Unprogrammable to Detectable: A Framework for Recognizing Emergent Consciousness in AI Systems
An Integrated Approach: Philosophical Barriers to Creation and Practical Methods for Detecting Subjectivity in Artificial Systems (from modeling AI consciousness to diagnosing it) Introduction: The…
Why Reasoning Isn’t Enough: How LLM Agents Struggle with Ethics and Cooperation
Every day, individuals and organizations face trade-offs between personal incentives and societal impact: …
Amazon Is Building a Gigantic Computing Facility to Match the Human Brain
Amazon is building a vast complex of AI data centers on top of 1,200 acres of former cropland in Indiana for a huge and powerful AI model.
The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger
As generative artificial intelligence tools continue to proliferate, pushback against the technology and its negative impacts grows stronger.
Fall 2025 Fiction & Nonfiction Preview: Politics & Current Events
The catastrophe in Palestine takes top billing, followed by warnings about AI, tech titans, and autocracy, and critical reflections on internet culture.
OpenAI turns to Google’s AI chips to power its products, The Information reports
OpenAI has recently begun renting Google’s artificial intelligence chips to power ChatGPT and other products, The Information reported on Friday, citing a person involved in the arrangement.
Trump Goes Haywire on AI Regulation After China Agrees to Major Trade Deal
After reaching a hard-fought trade agreement with China, Donald Trump is now ripping the wires out of the wall to beat them in the “AI race.”
Meta seeks $29 billion from private capital firms for AI data centers, FT reports
Meta Platforms is seeking to raise $29 billion from private capital firms to build artificial intelligence data centers, the Financial Times reported on Friday.
Can AI run a physical shop? Anthropic’s Claude tried and the results were gloriously, hilariously bad
Anthropic’s AI assistant Claude ran a vending machine business for a month, selling tungsten cubes at a loss, giving endless discounts, and experiencing an identity crisis where it claimed to...
Kumo’s ‘relational foundation model’ predicts the future your LLM can’t see
Forecasting is a fundamentally new capability that is missing from the current purview of generative AI. Here’s how Kumo is changing that.
Young People Can’t Find Jobs. Is AI to Blame?
People in their 20s seem to love AI, but new unemployment data may give them reason to resent it.
How Anthropic’s new initiative will prepare for AI’s looming economic impact
The program, which includes research grants and public forums, follows the company CEO’s dire predictions about widespread AI-induced job loss.
Google’s Veo 3 AI video generator is now available to everyone to try it
The video-generating model that has everyone talking is now accessible to all Google Cloud customers.
AI is starting to wear down democracy
The technology has amplified social and partisan divisions and bolstered anti-government sentiment, especially on the far right, which has surged in recent elections in Germany, Poland, and Portugal.
Meta wins AI copyright lawsuit as US judge rules against authors
Writers accused Facebook owner of breach over using books without permission to train its AI system
Group of high-profile authors sue Microsoft over use of their books in AI training
Writers alleged that company used nearly 200,000 pirated books to train its Megatron artificial intelligence