Amazon brain drain finally caught up with AWS
Oct 20, 2025 - When your best engineers log off for good, don’t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS works
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Formula One bets on AI to win the next era of racing
Oct 19, 2025 - "The team that's going to be the most successful is the one that has the best AI strategy."
Resistance to AI is bubbling up
Oct 19, 2025 - The pace at which AI takes off depends in part on its users — and there's a cohort that's just saying no.
Leading OpenAI researcher announced a GPT-5 math breakthrough that never happened
Oct 18, 2025 - OpenAI researchers recently claimed a major math breakthrough on X, but quickly walked it back after criticism from the community, including Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis, who called out the sloppy communication.
Texas Names Its Inaugural Chief AI, Innovation Officer
Oct 15, 2025 - Elevated from state chief information security officer, Tony Sauerhoff arrives during a strategic shift for the Department of Information Resources as it expands support for agencies exploring AI and emerging tech.
Startups Are Hiring Less and Raising More | Revelio Labs
Oct 14, 2025 - The average Series A funding per employee rose to $320,000 this year, compared to $160,000 in 2020.
Newsom signs California AI chatbots bill
Oct 13, 2025 - California has long been at the forefront of regulating tech, and AI is no exception.
Carnegie California AI Survey
Oct 9, 2025 - Californians believe that AI will significantly impact their work, communities, and democracy. But this is offset by high levels of anxiety and uncertainty around specific impacts.
Shaq, Sam Altman-backed college startup Campus taps former Meta AI head as CTO
Oct 10, 2025 - As part of the deal, Campus will buy Pesenti's artificial intelligence learning platform Sizzle AI for an undisclosed amount.
Which Jobs Offer Training, and Why It Matters in the AI Era
Oct 9, 2025 - The share of US job postings mentioning training programs rose from 3.4% in January 2018 to 8.1% in August 2025. These explicit training opportunities are unevenly distributed across occupations, with Data & Analytics at the bottom.
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.
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.