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?
AI & Data Science News
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
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.
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.
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.
AI-boosted cameras help blind people to navigate
Apr. 14, 2025 - A prototype wearable system uses machine-learning to guide users around obstacles.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
OpenAI and the CSU system bring AI to 500,000 students & faculty | OpenAI
Feb 4, 2025 - The largest deployment of ChatGPT to date will expand the use of AI in education and help the United States build an AI-ready workforce.
Meta AI creates speech-to-speech translator that works in dozens of languages
Jan 15, 2025 - Machine-learning system can process words spoken in 101 languages, spitting out voice-synthesized translations in 36 target languages.
The AI tool that can interpret any spreadsheet instantly
Jan 8, 2025 - A generalized model for tabular machine learning.
South Carolina Prepares to Launch AI Center of Excellence
Jan 8, 2025 - Rich Heimann, the state’s first-ever director of artificial intelligence, lauds its pragmatic approach to AI strategy and adoption. South Carolina’s chief information security officer will be part of the center's team, too.
NIH-developed AI algorithm matches potential volunteers to clinical trials
Nov 18, 2024 - Such an algorithm may save clinicians time and accelerate clinical enrollment and research.