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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.

#AI #career #economy

Walmart CEO Issues Wake-Up Call: ‘AI Is Going to Change Literally Every Job’

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?

#GAI #sociotechnical systems

How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral

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.

#dssg #AI #history

Uncanny Testimony

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.

#data analytics #employment #career #data science #RSE #software #economy #data

September 2025 Labor Market Update: The Squeeze on New Entrants Mirrors a Marketwide Decline

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.

#GAI #employment

AI at Work Report 2025: How GenAI is Rewiring the DNA of Jobs

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 #ethics #data

Your Therapist’s Notes Could Become Fodder For AI

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.

#AI #math #policy #education #DS4E #K12

AI Is the New Space Race. Do American Students Have the Skills to Win?

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

#Harvard #OpenAI #ChatGPT #data

How the World is 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.

#OpenAI #GAI

OpenAI upgrades Codex with a new 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.

#ChatGPT #OpenAI #gender #sociotechnical systems

Women use ChatGPT as much as men do

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.

#Canada #AI #ethics #education

Education report calling for ethical AI use contains over 15 fake sources

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.

#data management #framework #FAIR

Machine-Actionability and Evolvability in Data Stewardship Planning: Framework, Implementation, and Case Study

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.

#Navigation Fund #Open Science Hardware Foundation #open science #open source #RSE #AI

Navigation Fund Grant for Open Science Hardware Foundation

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.

#ChatGPT #OpenAI #LLM

Can researchers stop AI making up citations?

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.

#OpenAI #funding #nonprofit

A People-First AI Fund: $50M to support nonprofits

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.

#NSF #Trump #AI #environment #data

AI weather forecasting institute could shutter after funding cuts

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%.

#AI #career #employment #ethics

The Structural Failures Thwarting Responsible AI Development

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.

#AI #policy #collaboration #higher ed

The Missing Foundation in AI Governance: Building Trust Across Parties

Companies are benefiting from AI-driven layoffs

Sep 4, 2025 - Investors are backing CEOs who reduce workforces and embrace AI

#AI #employment

Companies are benefiting from AI-driven layoffs

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?

#AI #software #GAI

Where's the shovelware? Why coding claims don't add up.

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.

#AI #Grok #politics #bias

How Elon Musk Is Remaking Grok in His Image

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.

#AI #Switzerland #open science #open source #LLM

Apertus: a fully open, transparent, multilingual language model

TIME Reveals the 2025 TIME100 AI List

Aug 28, 2025 - TIME Reveals the 2025 TIME100 AI List of the World’s Most Influential People in Artificial Intelligence

#AI

TIME Reveals the 2025 TIME100 AI List

Panama Playlists

Aug 28, 2025 - The Panama Papers revealed hidden bank accounts. This reveals hidden tastes.

#sociotechnical systems #ethics #data

Panama Playlists

General Assembly Takes Action on Drafts on Security Council Equitable Representation, Increased Membership, Artificial Intelligence, Other Matters | Meetings Coverage and Press Releases

Aug 27, 2025 - The General Assembly meets today to take action on an oral draft decision regarding the “Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and other matters related to the Security Council”.

#AI #policy

General Assembly Takes Action on Drafts on Security Council Equitable Representation, Increased Membership, Artificial Intelligence, Other Matters | Meetings Coverage and Press Releases

‘Vibe-hacking’ is now a top AI threat

Aug 27, 2025 - Anthropic’s new Threat Intelligence report, out today, details the wide range of cases in which Claude — and likely many other leading AI agents and chatbots — are being abused.

#Anthropic #cyber #GAI

‘Vibe-hacking’ is now a top AI threat

Report Offers Guidance for Government on AI Adoption

Aug 26, 2025 - The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's new release cautions public-sector agencies against acquiring AI-powered tools without giving them an adequate level of vetting and governance.

#policy #AI #NASEM

Report Offers Guidance for Government on AI Adoption

Flock Pledges Changes After Illinois Data-Sharing Accusation

Aug 26, 2025 - An Illinois audit found that a popular provider of license plate reading technology violated data protection law. In response, the company paused all federal pilot projects and outlined new distinct search permissions.

#ethics #policy #Illinois #data management

Flock Pledges Changes After Illinois Data-Sharing Accusation

35 HPC Legends in 2025

Aug 26, 2025 - HPCwire is proud to announce the HPCwire 35 Legends Class of 2025.

#computing

35 HPC Legends in 2025

Attorneys General To AI Chatbot Companies: You Will ‘Answer For It’ If You Harm Children

Aug 25, 2025 - Forty-four attorneys general signed an open letter on Monday that says to companies developing AI chatbots: "If you knowingly harm kids, you will answer for it.”

#policy #GAI

Attorneys General To AI Chatbot Companies: You Will ‘Answer For It’ If You Harm Children