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
Epoka — What's happening in AI, without the noise.
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
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
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
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
Australia closed its charts to AI songs, but drawing the line is not simple
The decision followed an AI cover version climbing to the top. Mastering is allowed, generation from scratch is not — and the boundary between them is contested.
Policy
Radiology is the first profession showing what working with AI actually looks like
Hinton predicted in 2016 that radiologists would be replaced within five years. The field is growing — but the job description is changing.
Research
The UK grid has a phantom data center problem: the queue filled with projects that will never be built
Demand in the connection queue rose from 41 to 125 gigawatts in eight months. The government believes most of it is a mirage.
Policy
The stealth model has an owner: Ox Alpha came from Z.ai's GLM series
The model nobody could place a few days ago turns out to be Chinese lab Z.ai's, confirming early guesses. The weights ship Wednesday.
Models
Meta planned to cut some teams by 60 percent, then backed off
According to documents reviewed by Reuters, the plan had agents taking over the work. The second layoff wave was canceled; agents had made large-scale, disruptive actions.
Companies
OpenAI says it will reach AGI by year's end — using its own definition
According to a TIME report, leadership believes the goal is within reach. But the term has no precise definition, and OpenAI's is economics-driven.
Companies
Why physical AI is stuck in its GPT-2 era
Robot bodies are improving while robot brains produce little value. The industry's own diagnosis comes down to one word: data.
Research