Sources: the UK plans to delay making copyright rule changes for AI training after responses to its two-month consultation did not favor any of its proposals
Government goes back to drawing board after its proposals triggered backlash from creative industries
ACCA, the world's largest accounting body, says it is ending remote exams to combat a rise in students cheating by using AI tools when taking tests
Decision follows scandals at Big Four and comes as AI tools make it easier to circumvent invigilators — The world's largest accounting body …
Stanford researchers develop a web-based tool that uses an LLM to downrank X posts with antagonistic language in a user's feed, to reduce “partisan animosity”
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/ ... Mike Jay M / @mikejay.link : Evidence suggests that being on X and using the “For You” feed can rapidly cause political polarisation. — And polit...
Stanford researchers develop a web-based tool that uses an LLM to downrank X posts with antagonistic language in a user's feed, to reduce “partisan animosity”
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/ ... Mike Jay M / @mikejay.link : Evidence suggests that being on X and using the “For You” feed can rapidly cause political polarisation. — And polit...
Sources: Larry Ellison is overhauling a £10B science initiative in Oxford after clashing with President John Bell, who left in September, and COO Lisa Flashner
Trump-supporting billionaire narrows EIT's ambitions by cutting initiatives and tightening control
Yale and Brookings study: generative AI is reshaping US jobs slightly faster than computers and the internet did, with little evidence of job loss so far
Research shows little evidence that cutting-edge tech such as chatbots is putting people out of work
OpenAI launches a research preview of four preset personalities that ChatGPT users can use to better tailor their interactions: Cynic, Robot, Listener, and Nerd
ChatGPT 5 was released today. … I had a chat with it. Kevin Okemwa / Windows Central : Did Sam Altman Oversell GPT-5? OpenAI Faces Backlash for Ruining ChatGPT, Turning It Into a “...
OpenAI touts GPT-5's scores on math, coding, and health benchmarks: 94.6% on AIME 2025 without tools, 74.9% on SWE-bench Verified, and 46.2% on HealthBench Hard
After literally years of hype and speculation, OpenAI has officially launched a new lineup of large language models (LLMs) …
AI's energy demands are driving fossil fuel investments, as energy needs for AI training and data centers are poorly matched with the patterns of solar and wind
The developers may talk green, about small nuclear reactors& renewables, but it's show — What's actually getting developed for AI is a huge surge of fossil fuel power stations —...
Google, Amazon, Cohere, and Mistral are intensifying efforts to reduce AI hallucinations via technical fixes, data quality improvements, and fact-checking
Tech groups step up efforts to reduce fabricated responses but eliminating them appears impossible
How AI is reshaping higher education, as institutions grapple with the pace of change and technology companies move quickly to offer custom learning products
While institutions grapple with the pace of change, technology companies are moving quickly to offer custom learning products
After Elon Musk said xAI improved Grok “significantly”, Grok wrote many antisemitic posts and called itself “MechaHitler”; xAI took “action to ban hate speech”
In some posts, Grok inserted antisemitic remarks into its answers without any clear prompting.
X CEO Linda Yaccarino says that “after two incredible years, I've decided to step down”; X hired Yaccarino in 2023 after running NBCUniversal's ad business
X CEO Linda Yaccarino said Wednesday she is stepping down from her role. … - Under her leadership …
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman warns against companies trying to game the site with AI-generated content, saying “human verification is top of mind for us right now”
Chief Steve Huffman warns of ‘arms race’ to protect its devoted online communities from AI-generated content Reddit is in an …
A US judge rules that Meta's use of books to train Llama is protected by fair use but says his opinion is more a reflection of the plaintiffs' poor arguments
Meta Platforms Inc. escaped a first-of-its-kind copyright lawsuit from a group of authors who alleged the tech giant hoovered …
Researchers: “chain of thought” techniques used by Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI show inconsistencies where chatbot answers contradict the stated reasoning
Anthropic, Google and OpenAI deploy ‘chains of thought’ to better understand the operations of AI systems Bluesky: @eicathomefinn and @nataliegreenpeer . Forums: Slashdot Bluesky: ...
AI is just another productivity tool and the productivity gains will be limited; for lasting economic expansion, AI must catalyze new industries and initiatives
Economic miracles stem from discovery, not repeating tasks at greater speed — The writer is author of 'How Progress Ends … Bluesky: @eicathomefinn and @dncampbell X: @mrrbourne ,...
Some creatives and academics are rejecting generative AI at work and at home on environmental and ethical grounds, but realize they may end up using it anyway
www.theguardian.com/technology/ 2... Joel S. / @joelhs : “The algorithms say ‘More of the same’, because it's all they can do."" www.theguardian.com/technology/ 2... Margot Finn / ...
Hollywood insiders report widespread off-the-books AI experimentation in studios, often hidden to avoid backlash, despite union contracts limiting AI use
“We can say, ‘Do it in anime, make it PG-13.’ Three hours later, I'll have the movie." — One recent evening on the Eastside of Los Angeles …
AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio launches LawZero, a nonprofit focused on safer AI; LawZero has raised nearly $30M from donors including Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn
Turing Award winner launches LawZero not-profit for safer AI, while warning recent models display dangerous characteristics