A Leap Forward in Chemistry
Jun 18, 2025 - The AI for Science team at Microsoft Research announced Skala, a deep learning–based approach that offers a more general and broadly usable method for harnessing density functional theory (DFT)
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Governments Want Artificial Intelligence, but Adoption Lags
Jun 18, 2025 - A report released Wednesday reveals insight from government leaders about their data and AI programs.
AI paves the way towards green cement
Jun 18, 2025 - Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have developed an AI-based model that helps to accelerate the discovery of new cement formulations
AI slashes time to produce gold-standard medical reviews — but sceptics urge caution
Jun 19, 2025 - Although language models can help to accelerate systematic reviews, a fully automated system is still some way off.
What Gets Measured, AI Will Automate
Jun 19, 2025 - Smart leaders must bet on the unmeasurable: taste, trust, experiences, and the yet-unknown.
Amazon’s CEO says the AI takeover is coming
Jun 19, 2025 - CEO Andy Jassy said that Amazon will shrink its workforce as AI boosts productivity.
The AI Slop Fight Between Iran and Israel
Jun 19, 2025 - There’s a lack of footage from the conflict and AI-generated content is filling the void.
Reid Hoffman says consoling Gen Z in the AI bloodbath is like putting a 'Band-Aid on a bullet wound'—he shares 4 skills college grads need to survive
Jun 18, 2025 - The billionaire tech founder tells Gen Z the secret to surviving the AI job bloodbath isn’t mastering prompts—but rather leaning on the human skills tech can’t replicate.
‘Surpassing all my expectations’: Midjourney releases first AI video model amid Disney, Universal lawsuit
Jun 18, 2025 - For enterprise leaders evaluating AI, Midjourney Video V1's a double-edged sword: a low-cost, fast-evolving tool with strong user adoption
Microsoft Planning Thousands More Job Cuts Aimed at Salespeople
Jun 18, 2025 - Microsoft Corp. is planning to ax thousands of jobs, particularly in sales, as part of the company’s latest move to trim its workforce amid heavy spending on AI.
OpenAI preps for models with higher bioweapons risk
Jun 18, 2025 - Preventing harm means both the company, and society at large, need to be prepared.
What’s Happening to Reading?
Jun 17, 2025 - For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end.
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.