Congress.gov’s API Has Gone Dark, Impacting Data Access
Aug 25, 2025 - An outage has halted automated access to congressional data, raising questions about whether the breakdown stems from a glitch or something more serious.
AI & Data Science News
D.C.'s Data Dilemma: When Portals and Dashboards Aren't Enough
Aug 25, 2025 - A presidential order and police union claims have fueled doubt about D.C.'s crime numbers. This prompts a critical question for governments: What should open data portals share that can't be captured by numbers alone?
8 Women, 4 Bedrooms and 1 Cause: Breaking A.I.’s Glass Ceiling
Aug 23, 2025 - FoundHer House, a home in San Francisco’s Glen Park neighborhood, is the rare all-female hacker house where residents are creating a supportive community to build their start-ups.
UNESCO Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
Aug 23, 2025 - The aim of the Global AI Ethics and Governance Observatory is to provide a global resource for policymakers, regulators, academics, the private sector and civil society to find solutions to the most pressing challenges posed by AI
Who will maintain the future? Rethinking open source leadership for a new generation
Aug 20, 2025 - Open source is aging. We can better support Gen Z contributors through purpose, flexibility, and pathways to leadership.
Harvard dropouts to launch 'always on' AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation
Aug 20, 2025 - After developing a facial-recognition app for Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses and doxing random people, two former Harvard students are now launching a startup that makes smart glasses with an always-on microphone.
Python usage growing while Foundation struggles for funds
Aug 19, 2025 - But 3.13 adoption lags as most devs stick with earlier releases
Data that taxpayers have paid for and rely on is disappearing – here’s how it’s happening and what you can do about it
Aug 18, 2025 - Detailed data that US government agencies collect and make available has underpinned research about people, medicine, science, crime, jobs, housing, climate and the economy.
NIST Guidelines Can Help Organizations Detect Face Photo Morphs, Deter Identity Fraud
Aug 18, 2025 - Face morphing software, which combines photos of different people into a single image, is being used to commit identity fraud.
NSF and NVIDIA partnership enables Ai2 to develop fully open AI models to fuel U.S. scientific innovation
Aug 14, 2025 - The NSF announced a partnership with NVIDIA to develop a set of AI models.
Elsevier’s 121 million data point database is now searchable by AI
Aug 13, 2025 - Elsevier is going all in on AI and data. The latest release is an AI-powered search engine for its chemistry database, Reaxys.
The ‘godfather of AI’ reveals the only way humanity can survive superintelligent AI
Aug 13, 2025 - Geoffrey Hinton, known as the “godfather of AI,” fears the technology he helped build could wipe out humanity — and “tech bros” are taking the wrong approach to stop it.
GPT-5: has AI just plateaued?
Aug 11, 2025 - GPT-5’s focus on routing queries to the best model could be an admission that LLMs can’t get much smarter.
AI Is Forcing the Return of the In-Person Job Interview
Aug 12, 2023 - More companies are returning to the old-school, face-to-face meeting to combat cheating by candidates and more ominous digital threats
Improved Map Accuracy in plotly.js with UN Geodata
Aug 12, 2025 - Plotly.js v3.1.0 introduces new maps based on UN geodata, replacing Natural Earth to better represent disputed and unclaimed territories.
Staff fear UK's Turing AI Institute at risk of collapse
Aug 12, 2025 - A complaint raises concerns about the funding risks and a "toxic" culture at the Alan Turing Institute.
Tracking Census Dataset Changes
See when the U.S. Census Bureau adds or removes datasets.
Scaling Intelligence: The Exponential Growth of AI's Power Needs
Aug 11, 2025 - A high end for a single frontier model approached 1% of total U.S. power capacity. Forecasts suggest AI could consume over 5% of U.S. generation capacity by 2030
Reddit is restricting its availability to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine
Aug 11, 2025 - The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is the latest victim of Reddit's crackdown on data access.
Inside the $10,000 Job Search: Career Coaching, LinkedIn Fees, Résumé Help
Aug 10, 2025 - The costs of finding work climb as job hunts stretch over months. “It’s trying to be louder than anyone else.”
Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.
Aug 10, 2025 - As companies like Amazon and Microsoft lay off workers and embrace A.I. coding tools, computer science graduates say they’re struggling to land tech jobs.
Deepfaked after death: Some don't want it
Aug 9, 2025 - Some people are adding clauses to their wills asking not to be reincarnated with AI.
AI is helping to keep the economy afloat
Aug 8, 2025 - AI spending contributed more to US GDP growth than consumer spending did last quarter.
Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens.
Aug 8, 2025 - Over 21 days of talking with ChatGPT, an otherwise perfectly sane man became convinced that he was a real-life superhero. NYT analyzed the conversation.
OpenAI’s new GPT-5 models announced early by GitHub
Aug 7, 2025 - GitHub has accidentally announced OpenAI’s new range of GPT-5 models.
NSF invests nearly $32M to accelerate novel AI-driven approaches in protein design, strengthening the U.S. bioeconomy
Aug 7, 2025 - The U.S. National Science Foundation Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships announced an inaugural investment of nearly $32 million to five teams across the U.S.
Is your AI benchmark lying to you?
Aug 6, 2025 - Artificial intelligence models are too often assessed against flawed goals — a stumbling block for progress.
OpenAI launches reasoning LLM that you can download and tweak
Aug 6, 2025 - One version of the gpt-oss large language model can run on a laptop, and performs nearly as well as the company’s most powerful models.
Google’s new AI model creates video game worlds in real time
Aug 5, 2025 - Google is investing a lot into AI world models.
Anthropic's Claude AI model takes on (and beats) human hackers
Aug 5, 2025 - Claude's success even surprised the company's own internal security team.