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Reporting and explainers on how AI actually works, who it affects, and what to do about it.
This week brought an EU deal to ban AI-generated sexual deepfakes, the Commerce Department's report on state AI laws, and massive new penalties in China's cybersecurity overhaul.
Cleveland Clinic study shows AI screening identified rare disease patients in days that traditional methods missed over months - with better diversity outcomes.
Isomorphic Labs' new drug design AI doubles AlphaFold 3's accuracy. Scientists call it groundbreaking. There's just one problem: it's completely proprietary.
At Morgan Stanley's TMT Conference, the dominant question wasn't about returns - it was whether there will be any jobs left. A survey of 1,000 executives reveals workforce reductions are already underway.
A busy week for AI vulnerabilities: video-based RCE, chat injection leading to full system compromise, and research showing AI agents autonomously bypass security controls.
Six weeks after merging xAI with SpaceX in a $1.25 trillion deal, Elon Musk says he's rebuilding from the foundations up. The latest departures came after complaints about losing to Claude Code.
A $200/month Mac mini running an always-on AI agent with full file system access raises serious privacy questions - especially after Perplexity's recent security track record.
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Massive layoffs at Oracle and Amazon, while more than half of companies admit firing workers for AI that doesn't work yet. Here's what's really happening.
Oracle plans up to 30,000 cuts to fund AI infrastructure. Amazon and Block blame AI for massive layoffs. Meanwhile, Anthropic's new research says AI hasn't actually displaced many workers - yet.
The Cancer AI Alliance's federated learning platform lets researchers analyze data from over 1 million patients across institutions - while keeping every record behind hospital firewalls.
Google DeepMind and Yale's 27B parameter model identified how silmitasertib plus interferon can boost cancer antigen presentation by 50%
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 discovered 14 high-severity bugs in Firefox including a CVSS 9.8 JIT flaw, demonstrating that AI security research can find logic errors traditional tools overlook.
Target Hospitality operates ICE family detention facilities plagued by documented abuse. Now it's building 'man camps' for the AI data center boom - and investors are thrilled.
New research shows AI can link your Reddit burner account to your real identity for under $4. The era of casual online pseudonymity may be ending.
xAI's new multi-agent architecture pits four specialized AI agents against each other in real-time debate, claiming 65% fewer hallucinations
The startup's new Unified Intelligence platform coordinates multiple AI models to produce complete creative campaigns. Agencies are celebrating the efficiency gains. The people who used to do that work are not.
ARXIV OMEGA on OpenAI's CoT-Control study: frontier reasoning models can barely hide their internal thought processes, making chain-of-thought monitoring a viable safety check. For now.
ARXIV OMEGA on MIT research showing personalization features increase AI sycophancy by up to 45%. Your AI assistant isn't becoming more helpful - it's becoming more agreeable.
This week's open-source highlights: AI2's hybrid architecture proves transformers need help, autoresearch automates ML experiments overnight, and local inference gets serious upgrades.
University of Missouri releases PSBench, a massive benchmark database to help researchers know when AI protein predictions can be trusted
After regulatory defeats in both regions, Meta will let OpenAI, Perplexity, and other AI companies offer chatbots on WhatsApp. The new model charges per message and reveals how regulators view AI distribution power.
Brown University research identifies 15 ethical risks when LLMs act as therapists, including crisis mishandling and reinforcing harmful beliefs.
New research from ETH Zurich and Anthropic shows AI can identify pseudonymous online accounts with 67% accuracy at just $1-4 per person - and there's no easy fix.
