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The article introduces FOBO (fear of becoming obsolete), a new mental condition driven by AI where people fear losing their sense of meaningful contribution to society, not just their jobs.
MIT Technology Review interviews kids aged 10-18 about their attitudes toward AI, finding most use it for innocuous tasks like search and schoolwork, while expressing nuanced concerns about creativity and societal impact.
Anton Palkin highlights how affordable AI subscriptions now enable one-person trading operations, while major firms like Citadel and Man Group already deploy AI agents for research, coding, backtesting, and risk management.
TechCrunch investigates how VideoVerse's $250 million acquisition by Minute Media collapsed amid allegations of fraud and forged signatures, with multiple legal cases against founder Vinayak Shrivastav.
Google reports the death of Altman at 41, a claim that would have major implications for the AI industry if confirmed.
Tau Robotics is piloting a $30/hour humanoid robot cleaning service in San Francisco, but the robots still rely on remote human supervisors and face safety and reliability challenges. Experts say it will take years before such robots can handle household chores independently.
An unreleased Anthropic model made significant progress on the Riemann hypothesis, using 60 subagents and 31 million tokens to test 650 ideas and improve the lower bound, with results formalized in Lean.
This paper studies the application of AI and machine learning algorithms for recognizing fraudulent banking transactions, proposing preprocessing techniques and comparing models. An artificial neural network and stacked generalization achieve improved AUC scores, with the best result around 0.954.
Zuckerberg released a 14-page memo on AI, sharing his vision for the future of artificial intelligence. The tweet links to the full memo at meta.com.
ICTP has announced the 2026 Dirac Medal recipients for their pioneering contributions to statistical mechanics and its applications in fields including artificial intelligence.
The article starts from the technological optimism brought by the early internet and the iPhone, reviews the rise and fall of the Luddites during the Industrial Revolution, explores the privatization and ownership of technology, and points out that the current rise of AI has once again sparked controversy over the ownership and control of technology.
A tweet from @TwinkuAI sharing a guide on how to build an AI agent in 2026.
ByteDance vows to develop its AI models independently, avoiding the practice of distillation from other models.
An excerpt from John C. Lilly's 1978 autobiography presents a speculative narrative about machines evolving into solid-state intelligence and eventually surpassing and replacing mankind.
A new poll by Epoch AI and Ipsos finds that almost half of employed U.S. adults use AI at work, with over 20% using it daily, often for tasks previously delegated to colleagues.
OpenAI maintains its lead in the race to develop AI systems that can operate computers, according to the article.
Denmark introduces mandatory oral defenses for high school students' written assignments to counter AI cheating, along with recommendations for screen monitoring and firewalls. Education groups welcome the measures but call for long-term solutions as AI tools evolve.
Geoffrey Hinton announces his upcoming book 'Smarter Than Us' with Patchen Barss, offering a non-technical explanation of AI and its dangers, arguing for safety research and regulation.
A genuine question about whether AI developers truly understand how their systems work, and whether claims of ignorance are real or just fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD).
Sergey Brin, Google co-founder and third richest person alive, has taken direct command of Gemini, marking a rare hands-on return for the retired founder as AI competition intensifies.