Ukraine opened its battlefield dataset to a foreign country for the first time
About five million labeled images become accessible to British firms. The trained model stays in Ukraine, and the work happens inside a secured dataroom.
Policy
Epoka — What's happening in AI, without the noise.
A fake think tank, stolen articles and ChatGPT: OpenAI shut down an influence campaign
Operators told the model to hide linguistic clues pointing to their Russian origin. Of 36 expert-linked articles published, 34 were copied from other sources.
Safety
OpenAI published the first benchmarks for its own chip: ahead of Nvidia per watt
Jalapeño does inference only, not training. OpenAI reports 1.5 to 1.9 times more work per watt and 1.7 to 3.6 times lower latency.
Products
Why applying for a job broke: removing the friction removed the filter
Applying takes seconds, so a single listing draws thousands. The result: good candidates cannot stand out and everyone complains at once.
Policy
A bankrupt airline's 34 years of data is for sale, and its workers objected
Google won the bid at $10 million. The flight attendants' union objected, arguing the sale covers decades of sensitive employee records.
Policy
A robot carnival in Shanghai: China is teaching the public to like humanoids
Nearly 90 percent of the 13,000-plus two-armed, two-legged robots delivered globally last year were made in China. The carnival is that strategy's public face.
Products
More than a third of pages published after ChatGPT show signs of AI writing
The Pew Research Center analyzed nearly half a million pages. Commercial domains carry AI text roughly ten times more often than school or government sites.
Research
AI is not causing mass unemployment — it is closing the entry door
A Stanford study finds workers aged 22 to 25 in the most AI-exposed occupations are 19 percent behind their peers. Older workers appear unaffected.
Research
The data efficiency gap: why children learn language from so few examples
A language model processes vastly more words than a child hears while mastering a mother tongue. The gap has a name but no explanation.
Research
A stealth model appeared and nobody knows who is behind it
Ox Alpha was released free on OpenRouter. The provider chose to stay anonymous during the preview, and guesses swing between China and Microsoft.
Models
Cerebras doubled speed on the same chip: what changed is the cabinet
The CS-4 still runs the 5nm WSE-3. The gain comes from clock speed, more power and better cooling.
Products
Chatbots send pregnant users to ideological sources without saying so
AlgorithmWatch tested four leading models. In at least one query in four, the ideological stance of the linked organization went undisclosed.
Research