There is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.

Kalie Robins shared a video of her and her daughter singing. Meta AI started prompting her to investigate information about her family.

It’s still unclear how AI could be used to support academic writing without meaningfully outsourcing one’s thinking. Professors might not be able to enforce a prohibition on its use for larger take-ho...

Amid declining test scores, the country has pivoted away from screens and invested in back-to-basics school materials.

We demand that the Ministry of Education and Child Care enact a two-year pause (moratorium) on AI usage in classrooms in British Columbia. This means that for two years, in schools in BC: - Students...

The A.I. revolution is stalling because companies don’t want to admit that integrating the technology is expensive and slow and requires human effort.

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

A trove of documents generated by Anthropic's Claude were indexed by Google. They included medical records and student information.

Despite didactic, ethical, and environmental concerns, the use of GenAI is on the rise in academia. For most applications, the jury is still out on whether and how they will benefit education and rese...

AI-obsessed executives and managers are creating a distinct new type of toxic work environment for the slop era, workers told us.

Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta pretended to be kids—and then prompted rival chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT to discuss high-risk subjects.

A radical history of technology told through acts of resistance, not progressThe history of technology is often told as a history of progress, moving optimis...

“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi...

Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly being adopted as research assistants, particularly for literature review and reference recommendation, yet little is known about whether they introduce demogra...

The United States is requiring access to health data as part of lifesaving aid deals with African countries. The U.S. says the data will be aggregated and anonymized, but privacy experts fear the info...

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators ...

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AI systems hold the promise of competitive advantage, but they can usher in cognitive decline among workers, says MIT Sloan School of Management’s Eric So. Learn how to protect cognitive capital.

Like students facing hard exam questions, large language models sometimes guess when uncertain, producing plausible yet incorrect statements instead of admitting uncertainty. Such "hallucinations" per...

The comedian and The Daily Show host gave the keynote address for Class Day 2026.

Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.

How and why schools need to be better prepared for cyberattacks

How an entrepreneur invented seaweed pots to help gardeners grow healthier plants and sequester carbon.

Researchers say MAGA influencers and Russian state media are trying to sway opinions.

Companies like Lovable, Base44, Replit, and Netlify use AI to let anyone build a web app in seconds—and in thousands of cases, spill highly sensitive data onto the public internet.

Computational Brain & Behavior - Some illusions of understanding are an inevitable part of the research process, while others can be avoided or overcome by careful critical thinking and...

“What educators, parents and policy officials really needed was high quality data and evidence to help guide them. What they have had to deal with instead is some substandard research.”

As generative AI tools are rapidly expanding in schools, often based on their hypothetical “potential” to enhance learning, these products are posing risks to children’s development, mental health, pr...

A new study claims to offer the first causal link between AI dependency and cognitive erosion. Researchers warn of long-term implications.