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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.

Arizona's Tech Trio Is Driving a Data-Centric Vision for AI

Here’s the $2,000 fully AI-generated ad that aired during the NBA Finals

Jun 12, 2025 - AI slop on TV.

Here’s the $2,000 fully AI-generated ad that aired during the NBA Finals

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.

The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster | TechCrunch

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.

ChatGPT juggernaut takes aim at Google's crown

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.

Disney and Universal sue AI image company Midjourney for unlicensed use of Star Wars, The Simpsons and more

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?

Inside Amsterdam’s high-stakes experiment to create fair welfare AI

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.

Thousands of Koreans were banned from Instagram this week. I was one of them.

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.

F.D.A. to Use A.I. in Drug Approvals to ‘Radically Increase Efficiency’

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.

The Pentagon is gutting the team that tests AI and weapons systems

Trump team leaks AI plans in public GitHub repository

Jun 10, 2025 - The AI.gov repository and staging site vanished.

Trump team leaks AI plans in public GitHub repository

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 to Pay Nearly $15 Billion for Scale AI Stake and Startup’s 28-Year-Old CEO

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.

Meta Is Creating a New A.I. Lab to Pursue ‘Superintelligence’

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.

News Sites Are Getting Crushed by Google’s New AI Tools

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.

Duolingo CEO on going AI-first: ‘I did not expect the blowback’

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.

What Happens When People Don’t Understand How AI Works

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.

AI's "making stuff up" problem won't go away

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 hidden time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs

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.

The Most-Cited Computer Scientist Plans to Make AI More Trustworthy

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.

Artificial Power: 2025 Landscape Report

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.

One of Europe’s top AI researchers raised a $13M seed to crack the ‘holy grail’ of 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

UC Berkeley AI Policy Research Symposium 2025

Microsoft CEO says as much as 30% of the company’s code is written by AI

Apr. 30, 2025 - CEO Satya Nadella revealed the milestone in a conversation with Meta top boss Mark Zuckerberg.

Microsoft CEO says as much as 30% of the company’s code is written by AI

OpenAI's new reasoning AI models hallucinate more

Apr. 18, 2025 - OpenAI's reasoning AI models are getting better, but their hallucinating isn't, according to benchmark results.

OpenAI's new reasoning AI models hallucinate more

The most-cited papers of the twenty-first century

Apr. 15, 2025 - A Nature analysis reveals the 25 highest-cited papers published this century and explores why they are breaking records.

The most-cited papers of the twenty-first century

AI-boosted cameras help blind people to navigate

Apr. 14, 2025 - A prototype wearable system uses machine-learning to guide users around obstacles.

AI-boosted cameras help blind people to navigate

Fears of AI speeding up climate change "overstated": new report

Apr. 10, 2025 - The International Energy Agency did a detailed analysis of the AI-energy-climate nexus.

Fears of AI speeding up climate change "overstated": new report

AI Index 2025: State of AI in 10 Charts | Stanford HAI

Apr. 7, 2025 - Small models get better, regulation moves to the states, and more.

AI Index 2025: State of AI in 10 Charts | Stanford HAI

The End of Programming as We Know It

Feb. 4, 2025 - AI is not the end of programming. It is the end of programming as we know it today.

The End of Programming as We Know It

Govt., Industry Respond to Federal Info Request on AI Plan

Mar. 19, 2025 - A Request for Information in February on the federal “Development of an Artificial Intelligence Action Plan” has garnered responses from a variety of industry and public-sector stakeholders offering recommendations.

Govt., Industry Respond to Federal Info Request on AI Plan

Texas Port’s Digital Twin Enables Real-Time Activity Display

Feb 7, 2025 - Officials at the port of Corpus Christi, Texas, have used generative artificial intelligence, geospatial data and a video game engine to show work as it happens in 3D, internally and to law enforcement.

Texas Port’s Digital Twin Enables Real-Time Activity Display