What to Expect From AI in 2026: Personal Agents, Mega Alliances, and the Gigawatt Ceiling
Jan 22, 2026 - AI models have reached an important inflection point, which will change how humans and machines work together.
Federal officials tap open-source standard to improve GenAI access to public data
Feb 4, 2026 - Officials are using a standard known as “Model Context Protocol” to ensure that queries to third-party AI chatbots like ChatGPT are informed by public data.
How Gen Z Uses Gen AI—and Why It Worries Them
Jan 28, 2026 - A new Gallup survey of 18- to 28-year-olds reveals their complicated relationship with the technology.
Surveillance and ICE Are Driving Patients Away From Medical Care, Report Warns
Jan 21, 2026 - A new EPIC report says data brokers, ad-tech surveillance, and ICE enforcement are among the factors leading to a “health privacy crisis” that is eroding trust and deterring people from seeking care.
Government by AI? Trump Administration Plans to Write Regulations Using Artificial Intelligence
Jan 26, 2026 - The Transportation Department, which oversees the safety of airplanes, cars and pipelines, plans to use Google Gemini to draft new regulations. “We don’t need the perfect rule,” said DOT’s top lawyer. “We want good enough.”
Inside OpenAI’s plan to scan and dispose of millions of books
Jan 27, 2026 - Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles.
China’s Moonshot Unveils New AI Model Ahead of DeepSeek Release
Jan 26, 2026 - oonshot AI released an upgrade of its flagship model, heating up a domestic arms race ahead of an expected rollout by Chinese sensation DeepSeek.
South Korea launches landmark laws to regulate AI, startups warn of compliance burdens
Jan 22, 2026 - South Korea introduced what it says is the world's first comprehensive set of laws regulating artificial intelligence, aiming to strengthen trust and safety in the sector, but startups fretted that compliance could hold them back.
AI company Eightfold sued for helping companies secretly score job seekers
Jan 21, 2026 - Eightfold AI, a venture capital-backed artificial intelligence hiring platform used by Microsoft , PayPal and many other Fortune 500 companies, is being sued in California for allegedly compiling reports used to screen job applicants without their knowledge.
January 2026 US Labor Market Update: Jobs Mentioning AI Are Growing Amid Broader Hiring Weakness
Jan 22, 2026 - Small pockets of growth are emerging as employers concentrate their limited hiring on roles and skills tied to AI.
Claude Code and What Comes Next
Jan 7, 2026 - A big reason Claude Code is so good is that it uses a wide variety of tricks in its agentic harness that allow its very smart AI, Opus 4.5, to overcome many of the problems of LLMs.
Artificial Intelligence - Professional Learning (CA Dept of Education)
Ph.D.s Can’t Find Work as Boston’s Biotech Engine Sputters
Dec 29, 2025 - A life-sciences job in Boston used to be a sure path to a high-paying career, but empty labs and unemployed grads now herald tougher times in the city.
We Put an AI Vending Machine in Our Office. It Gave Away Everything
Dec 18, 2025 - It lost hundreds of dollars, bought some crazy stuff—and taught us a lot.
OPM launches Tech Force to recruit technologists to government
Dec 16, 2025 - An initial cohort of 1,000 people will serve in agency roles for two years. Roughly 25 companies — including Microsoft, Palantir and xAI — are partners on the initiative.
The most asked questions of Alexa in 2025
Dec 12, 2025 - There is certainly some irony in one of the questions most commonly posed to Alexa this year: “What does AI mean?”
'Europe has the resources to sustain cutting-edge AI research'
Dec 4, 2025 - Around 30 artificial intelligence leaders – researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs – urge Europe to invest in talent and science.
The state of AI in 2025: Agents, innovation, and transformation
Dec 6, 2025 - In this 2025 edition of the annual McKinsey Global Survey on AI, we look at the current trends that are driving real value from artificial intelligence.
Billboard's Top Country Song Is Currently AI Slop
Nov 12, 2025 - An AI-generated country song has topped Billboard's "Country Digital Song Sales" chart in the United States.
How Much AI Will Audiences Accept in Music and Movies? Quantifying Where Consumers Draw the Line on AI Art
Nov 12, 2025 - Unpacking public sentiment around AI in filmmaking and music production.
Finding Work With AI
Nov 12, 2025 - An estimated 3.5% of the conversations were about finding work or moving through a job application process between May 2024 and July 2025.
Giving your AI a Job Interview
Nov 11, 2025 - As AI advice becomes more important, we are going to need to get better at assessing it
San Francisco’s youngest billionaires are betting on a new kind of job boom
Nov 7, 2025 - Mercor’s 22-year-old CEO Brendan Foody imagines a future in which white-collar contractors earn riches teaching machines to behave like humans.
OpenAI’s Sora 2 Floods Social Media With Videos of Women Being Strangled
No 7, 2025 - X and TikTok accounts are dedicated to posting AI-generated videos of women being strangled.
The Wubi Effect
Nov 7, 2025 - the story of Professor Wang Yongmin, a hard-headed computer programmer who solved this puzzle and laid the foundation for the China we know today.
The worst October for layoffs in over two decades
Nov 7, 2025 - Employers cited cost cutting and automation as reasons to cut jobs.
Initiative Aims to Help State Governments Build AI Capacity
Nov 4, 2025 - The AI Readiness Project is an endeavor intended to help states, territories, and tribal governments build their capacity to use AI responsibly through convenings, knowledge sharing and pilots.
Beep. Boop. Busted. Here's how math nerds caught the NBA's Terry Rozier.
Oct 24, 2025 - How sports betting monitors used math to catch Terry Rozier and dozens of others accused of fixing bets on basketball.
How the Shutdown Has Cut Off Key Data Guiding the Fed
Oct 28, 2025 - At a crucial moment for the US economy, Federal Reserve officials are preparing to decide whether to keep lowering interest rates or hold them steady — but they will have to do so with limited fresh data.
Your New ChatGPT Guide 💫
Oct 30, 2025 - 25 AI Tips and Tricks from a guest expert