Unreliable library of human knowledge
Oct 9, 2025 - It is all fun and games at first, but when there is no way to distinguish between fake and real online, this useful internet thing turns into something else.
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Google's Approach to Protecting AI Training Data
Oct 9, 2025 - This paper presents a number of these best practices, describes how Google applies them in its systems, and describes how Google Cloud customers can use Google Cloud capabilities to implement these practices themselves.
Deloitte’s AI use created a blunder Down Under
Oct 7, 2025 - The Australian government is getting a refund after a mistake-filled report
Schmidt Sciences awards $45M to narrow carbon cycle knowledge gap
Oct 2, 2025 - Four teams of scientists will receive up to $45 million over five years for research that advances human understanding of the global carbon cycle driving a changing climate.
Will AI ever win its own Nobel? Some predict a prize-worthy science discovery soon
Oct 6, 2025 - Other researchers question whether autonomous AI scientists are possible or even desirable.
AI could erase 100 million U.S. jobs, Senate Dem report finds
Oct 6, 2025 - A ChatGPT-based analysis from Democrats on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee found that AI could wipe out swaths of both white- and blue-collar jobs
Accelerating AI in Biology With Community-Driven Benchmarks
Oct 2, 2025 - CZI’s benchmarking suite helps researchers evaluate AI models in biology with standardized tools.
DeepSeek Debuts ‘Sparse Attention’ Method in Next-Gen AI Model
Sep 29, 2025 - DeepSeek updated an experimental AI model Monday in what it called a step toward next-generation artificial intelligence.
Walmart CEO Issues Wake-Up Call: ‘AI Is Going to Change Literally Every Job’
Sep 26, 2025 - The country’s largest private employer says its head count will stay flat over the next three years, despite plans to grow, as AI eliminates some roles and transforms others.
How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral
Sep 25, 2025 - Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages?
Uncanny Testimony
Sep 25, 2025 - As the last Holocaust survivors approach the end of their lives, an AI scholar grapples with technology that promises to freeze them in time.
September 2025 Labor Market Update: The Squeeze on New Entrants Mirrors a Marketwide Decline
Sep 25, 2025 - Junior postings have declined alongside the overall hiring slowdown, while senior postings have seen modest growth.
AI at Work Report 2025: How GenAI is Rewiring the DNA of Jobs
Sep 23, 2025 - The future of work and the role of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is not a question of whether GenAI will change jobs, but what kinds of jobs will be most and least changed, why, and how.
Your Therapist’s Notes Could Become Fodder For AI
Sep 17, 2025 - Tech companies are marketing AI-based note-taking software to therapists as a new time-saving tool. But by signing up, providers may be unknowingly offering patients’ sensitive health information as data fodder to the multibillion-dollar AI therapy industry.
AI Is the New Space Race. Do American Students Have the Skills to Win?
Sep 17, 2025 - The nation’s ‘report card’ reveals the lowest math scores in 20 years. But we have a road map to a solution.
How the World is Using ChatGPT
Sep 15, 2025 - OpenAI partnered with Harvard economist David Deming, to produce an NBER working paper on how consumers are using ChatGPT
OpenAI upgrades Codex with a new version of GPT-5
Sep 15, 2025 - OpenAI's AI coding agent, Codex, can now spend anywhere from a few seconds to several hours on a task, thanks to a new, customized version of GPT-5.
Women use ChatGPT as much as men do
Sep 15, 2025 - OpenAI's latest economic report says the chatbot use gender gap is narrowing.
Education report calling for ethical AI use contains over 15 fake sources
Sep 12, 2025 - Experts find fake sources in Canadian government report that took 18 months to complete.
Machine-Actionability and Evolvability in Data Stewardship Planning: Framework, Implementation, and Case Study
Sep 11, 2025 - This paper presents a framework for machine-actionable and evolvable data stewardship planning, leveraging Normalized Systems Theory (NST) to improve scalability, flexibility, and reusability.
Navigation Fund Grant for Open Science Hardware Foundation
Sep 9, 2025 - The Open Science Hardware Foundation (OSHF) has been awarded a USD 50,000 grant from the Navigation Fund to facilitate a consultative event on the open science hardware ecosystem.
Can researchers stop AI making up citations?
Sep 9, 2025 - Nature - OpenAI’s GPT-5 hallucinates less than previous models do, but cutting hallucination completely might prove impossible.
A People-First AI Fund: $50M to support nonprofits
Sep 8, 2025 - Applications are now open for OpenAI’s People-First AI Fund, a $50M initiative supporting U.S. nonprofits advancing education, community innovation, and economic opportunity.
AI weather forecasting institute could shutter after funding cuts
Sep 4, 2025 - The Trump administration has proposed a 55% budget cut for the National Science Foundation, but Congress has yet to pass a budget.
The Structural Failures Thwarting Responsible AI Development
Sep 4, 2025 - In 2021, positions focused on ethical technology—roles like AI ethicists, algorithmic auditors, and diversity specialists—represented 58% of all jobs in the Responsible Tech ecosystem. By 2025, that number had collapsed to just 8%.
The Missing Foundation in AI Governance: Building Trust Across Parties
Sep 4, 2025 - The yawning gap between the speed of innovation and the slowness of societal consideration is problematic, as it leads to a situation where technology is thrust upon the public without their implied consent regarding its usage.
Companies are benefiting from AI-driven layoffs
Sep 4, 2025 - Investors are backing CEOs who reduce workforces and embrace AI
Where's the shovelware? Why coding claims don't add up.
Sep 3, 2025 - 78% of developers claim AI makes them more productive. 14% say it's a 10x improvement. So where's the flood of new software?
How Elon Musk Is Remaking Grok in His Image
Sep 2, 2025 - Mr. Musk said he wanted xAI’s chatbot to be “politically neutral.” His actions say otherwise.
Apertus: a fully open, transparent, multilingual language model
Sep 2, 2025 -EPFL, ETH Zurich and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) released Apertus today, Switzerland’s first large-scale, open, multilingual language model.