Mark Zuckerberg, whose superyacht apparently spent the weekend ignoring or missing the distress signal from a boat that ran out of fuel near Alaska, has posted a deranged, 6,500 word essay detailing his vision for AI superintelligence, a future that is “for everyone” but which sounds less social than ever. Zuckerberg posts these types of […]

Even as they promise AI will supercharge productivity, tech leaders are sending a clear message: any efficiency gains won’t help individual workers. During a podcast appearance last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that he doesn’t “expect AI” to lead to a shorter four-hour work week. He argued that workers are “secretly” going to be

Every AI agent evaluation tells you the same frustrating half-truth: the model picked the wrong tool. What it rarely tells you is why. A new paper from researchers Atul Anand and Sourav Chattaraj finally builds a way to answer that question.  The answer involves canaries… Think coal-mine canaries, but redesigned for software. These are diagnostic

AI shopping sends valuable traffic to retailers, but brands want customers to complete purchases on their own sites and retain the resulting customer data. The post AI Drives More Retail Sales but Creates a Customer-Ownership Problem appeared first on TechRepublic.

AI shopping sends valuable traffic to retailers, but brands want customers to complete purchases on their own sites and retain the resulting customer data. The post AI Drives More Retail Sales but Creates a Customer-Ownership Problem appeared first on TechRepublic.

404 Media is publishing this article in partnership with Proof News, a new nonprofit media outlet investigating the social impacts of AI. Join their mailing list here and read the version of this article on their site here. Robotics companies promise that video-camera-toting security robots can deter and detect crime. But many companies are rethinking

Jason Semprini was excited about his research on policies mandating that elementary school students receive the human papillomavirus vaccine. HPV causes most cases of cervical cancer, but counterintuitively, Semprini found that mandates don’t do that much to reduce the overall rate of cervical cancer in a population. That’s odd, but it’s also not completely surprising—we

Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. A growing number of sites and apps now have tools and policies to flag, label, and ban AI-generated content.

AI’s danger isn’t just in experts losing the ability to reason. It’s that trainees may never learn how to do so in the first place In healthcare, there’s growing concern over doctors becoming less clinically adept as they increasingly rely on AI tools. But what about the trainees – medical students, residents and fellows –

Morpheus, a decentralised marketplace for AI inference, has announced a partnership with Secret Network to enable private, secure execution of AI models using Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs). The collaboration introduces a new TEE Provider developed by Morpheus, capable of running confidential AI models within Trusted Execution Environments. Through this integration, Secret Network’s Confidential AI models