What’s Happening to Reading?
Jun 17, 2025 - For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end.
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Musk’s xAI Burns Through $1 Billion a Month as Costs Pile Up
Jun 17, 2025 - Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI is burning through $1 billion a month as the cost of building its advanced AI models races ahead of the limited revenues.
Amazon expects to cut corporate jobs as it relies more on AI
Jun 17, 2025 - CEO Andy Jassy says the retail and tech giant "will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today."
The Rise of Responsible AI Jobs - Indeed Hiring Lab
Jun 17, 2025 - Mentions of Responsible AI continues to rise alongside other AI-related job postings, both in the US and globally.
ChatGPT Has Already Polluted the Internet So Badly That It's Hobbling Future AI Development
Jun 16, 2025 - There may be no undoing the vast amounts of pollution wreaked by ChatGPT. And that's just tough luck for any AI models that come after it.
OpenAI wins $200 million U.S. defense contract
Jun 16, 2025 - Months after announcing a partnership with defense-tech startup Anduril, OpenAI has secured a $200 million contract with the Department of Defense.
Non-AI companies are making their own bots
Jun 15, 2025 -To protect sensitive corporate data, business giants have largely tried to bar their employees from using widely accessible chatbots.
Why some companies are rethinking the use of AI
Jun 15, 2025 - For some businesses, a human touch is needed that AI is lacking
Execs say workers have to adapt to AI, but workers are resisting
Jun 15, 2025 - While 75% of C-suite execs think their company’s AI rollout in the previous year was successful, only 45% of employees thought the same.
Arizona's Tech Trio Is Driving a Data-Centric Vision for AI
Jun 13, 2025 - Arizona's CIO, CISO and chief data officer are spearheading a statewide data strategy. They're building a foundation of secure, well-governed data, crucial for the responsible and effective implementation of AI across state services.
Here’s the $2,000 fully AI-generated ad that aired during the NBA Finals
Jun 12, 2025 - AI slop on TV.
The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster | TechCrunch
Jun 12, 2025 - If you log into Meta AI with Instagram, and your Instagram account is public, then so too are your searches.
ChatGPT juggernaut takes aim at Google's crown
Jun 12, 2025 - OpenAI aims to replicate the lead that Google built in the early 2000s, when it became the world's largest search engine.
Disney and Universal sue AI image company Midjourney for unlicensed use of Star Wars, The Simpsons and more
Jun 11, 2025 - Disney and Universal have sued artificial intelligence image creator Midjourney, alleging copyright infringement, according to court filings.
Inside Amsterdam’s high-stakes experiment to create fair welfare AI
Jun 11, 2025 - The Dutch city thought it could break a decade-long trend of implementing discriminatory algorithms. Its failure raises the question: can these programs ever be fair?
Thousands of Koreans were banned from Instagram this week. I was one of them.
Jun 11, 2025 - Thousands of Korean Instagram accounts were deactivated, allegedly due to AI errors, leaving users unable to access their profiles without submitting their IDs.
F.D.A. to Use A.I. in Drug Approvals to ‘Radically Increase Efficiency’
Jun 10, 2025 - With a Trump-driven reduction of nearly 2,000 employees, agency officials view artificial intelligence as a way to speed drugs to the market.
The Pentagon is gutting the team that tests AI and weapons systems
Jun 10, 2025 - The move is a boon to ‘AI for defense’ companies that want an even faster road to adoption.
Trump team leaks AI plans in public GitHub repository
Jun 10, 2025 - The AI.gov repository and staging site vanished.
Meta to Pay Nearly $15 Billion for Scale AI Stake and Startup’s 28-Year-Old CEO
Jun 10, 2025 - Meta has agreed to take a 49% stake in data labeling firm Scale AI for $14.8 billion.
Meta Is Creating a New A.I. Lab to Pursue ‘Superintelligence’
Jun 10, 2025 - The new lab, set to include the Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang, is part of a reorganization of Meta’s artificial intelligence efforts under Mark Zuckerberg.
News Sites Are Getting Crushed by Google’s New AI Tools
Jun 10, 2025 - Chatbots are replacing Google’s traditional search, devastating traffic for some publishers.
Duolingo CEO on going AI-first: ‘I did not expect the blowback’
Jun 9, 2025 - TikTokers started boycotting the language app and Duolingo is attempting damage. Criticism over strategy change shows ‘anxiety’ about technology replacing jobs.
What Happens When People Don’t Understand How AI Works
Jun 6, 2025 - Despite what tech CEOs might say, large language models are not smart in any recognizably human sense of the word.
AI's "making stuff up" problem won't go away
Jun 4, 2025 - Companies are making some headway at limiting "hallucinations." The price is slower, costlier AI.
The hidden time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs
Jun 4, 2025 - A decades-old tax rule helped build America's tech economy. A quiet change under Trump helped dismantle it
The Most-Cited Computer Scientist Plans to Make AI More Trustworthy
Jun 3, 2025 - Yoshua Bengio launches his nonprofit LawZero in an effort to create 'Scientist AI'–a model that hopes to avoid some of AI's most dire risks.
Artificial Power: 2025 Landscape Report
Jun 3, 2025 - This report examines how the push to integrate AI products everywhere grants AI companies - and the tech oligarchs that run them - power that goes far beyond their deep pockets.
One of Europe’s top AI researchers raised a $13M seed to crack the ‘holy grail’ of models
May 26, 2025 - One of Europe’s most prominent AI researchers, Matthias Niessner, is now the CEO of SpAItial, a startup working on spatial foundation models.
UC Berkeley AI Policy Research Symposium 2025
May 20, 2025 - Policymakers, technologists, and academics gathered at UC Berkeley on April 22 for the 2025 AI Policy Research Symposium