AI doesn’t have to destroy us, we’re doing a fine job of that on our own.

The only path forward is advanced AI systems to become so useful that we forget we’re using them. Simply put: AI needs to fade into the background.

On Thursday, weeks after launching its most powerful AI model yet, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Google published a technical report showing the results of its internal safety evaluations. However, the report is light on the details, experts say, making it difficult to determine which risks the model might pose. Technical reports provide useful — and unflattering, […]

The Transformer was invented in Google. Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback (RLHF) was not invented in industry labs, but is most…

Insects are fighting off fungal invaders, but the fungi have some tricks up their sleeve

You got to hand it to DeepMind. They’re the Apple of laboratories. While everyone else is clamoring to occupy space in the public head, it’s toiling mysteriously in the background.

Our second issue: “Digesting Readers” Please be seated. Today’s newsletter covers the use of large language models to summarize non-fiction, what Hamlet can tell us about reading, and how to get AI mo...

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Researchers who spoke to Nature say they don’t have the money or staff to do fieldwork or process samples.

Is our universe just made of tiny little plastic bricks? And if so, what does that mean?

Today on "Uncanny Valley," we tell you how you can best protect yourself from surveillance technology at protests.

Hugging Face recently bought Pollen Robotics, a startup developing “open source” humanoid robots.

An AI-boosted computer vision system developed by Shanghai Jiao Tong University helps visually impaired individuals navigate 25% faster than with traditional canes.

In other words: You’re the middle segment in a human-AI centipede.

If the basic idea is to get the most utility out of chatbots, it seems counterintuitive to train them to waste tokens and time outputting polite language.

Chatbots don’t actually exist. No, we’re not trying to create a conspiracy theory. What we mean is this: large language models (LLMs) aren’t “entities” or “beings.”

A team of researchers at RespAI Lab, KIIT Bhubaneswar, KIMS Bhubaneswar, and Monash University, Australia today published a fascinating preprint research paper that takes a mighty bludgeon to the noti...

D.K., a Pawnee woman who is Deaf, was denied a promotion after being assessed through biased automated hiring technology.

The cynics lost a war they didn’t even know they were fighting

LLMs are too stupid to be useful for professional work, but that won’t stop content creators from shooting themselves in the foot with it.

Anthropic announced on Wednesday that it’s launching a new, very expensive subscription plan for its AI chatbot Claude: Max. An answer to OpenAI’s $200-a-month ChatGPT Pro tier, Max comes with higher usage limits than Anthropic’s $20-per-month Claude Pro subscription as well as priority access to the company’s newest AI models and features. A bit confusingly, […]

The cynics lost a war they didn’t even know they were fighting

Decoding the AI hype cycle.

Wide-ranging research from Poynter and the University of Minnesota sheds light on how people feel about AI in journalism. It’s not pretty.

Climate change deniers are pushing an AI-generated paper questioning human-induced warming, leading experts to warn against the rise of research that is inherently flawed but marketed as neutral and s...

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Colossal Bioscience claims to have "de-extincted" the dire wolf, but the Center for AGI Investigation's Tristan Greene explains that these are just genetically-engineered grey wolves.

Here’s a fun way to spend 10 minutes: try to think of something ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, or Grok might output to convince you they’re capable of thought, agency, or sentience.

Here’s a fun way to spend 10 minutes: try to think of something ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, or Grok might output to convince you they’re capable of thought, agency, or sentience.

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According to a fresh preprint from Xinghong Fu, Ziming Liu, and Max Tegmark over at MIT’s Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions, when formulating initial theories, AI a...

OpenAI says 500 million people use ChatGPT. And, even though it’s exactly as smart as a toaster, everyone seems to think it’s the cat’s meow.

The average American doesn’t believe that AI will make their lives better any time soon, according to a recently published survey from Pew Research.

Tony Blair’s think tank wants to give UK IP to US AI and LLMs ace UCSD’s Turing Test

As a computer scientist, I would hope that human creativity is more than regurgitating what others have written.

Analysis of chest x-rays underscores need for monitoring artificial intelligence tools for bias, experts say

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