Salesforce CEO Says AI Enabled Him To Cut 4,000 Jobs
Salesforce CEO Says AI Enabled Him To Cut 4,000 Jobs Summary Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff told The Logan Bartlett Show that deploying “agentic” AI allowed the company to “rebalance” its…
85% of College Students Report AI Use
85% of College Students Report AI Use Summary A new Inside Higher Ed survey, reported on Slashdot, finds that 85% of college students used generative AI for coursework in the…
WIRED Roundup: Meta’s AI Brain Drain
WIRED Roundup: Meta’s AI Brain Drain Summary WIRED’s Uncanny Valley episode (hosted by Zoë Schiffer with Leah Feiger) rounds up five major stories from the week. The show covers: a…
Latam-GPT: The Free, Open Source, and Collaborative AI of Latin America
Latam-GPT: The Free, Open Source, and Collaborative AI of Latin America Summary Latam-GPT is an open-source large language model being developed by Chile’s non-profit Chilean National Center for Artificial Intelligence…
Meet the Guys Betting Big on AI Gambling Agents
Meet the Guys Betting Big on AI Gambling Agents Summary This WIRED feature profiles the small companies and hobbyists trying to combine the booming sports-betting market with new AI “agent”…
Spiritual Influencers Say ‘Sentient’ AI Can Help You Solve Life’s Mysteries
Spiritual Influencers Say ‘Sentient’ AI Can Help You Solve Life’s Mysteries Summary WIRED reports on a growing subculture of spiritual influencers who frame AI chatbots as sentient or spiritually enlightening…
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation
Proof-of-Concept in 15 Minutes? AI Turbocharges Exploitation Summary Two independent Israeli researchers built an AI-driven offensive research pipeline, dubbed Auto Exploit, that combines CVE advisories, code patches and prompts to…
Do social-media bans benefit young people? These data could offer clues
Do social-media bans benefit young people? These data could offer clues Summary The Australian Online Safety Amendment Act will forbid people under 16 from holding accounts on major social platforms.…
How ageing changes our genes — huge epigenetic atlas gives clearest picture yet
How ageing changes our genes — huge epigenetic atlas gives clearest picture yet Summary A large meta-analysis mapped DNA methylation changes across 17 human tissues and more than 15,000 samples,…
The grant lottery: award rates at UK national funding agency fall below 20%
The grant lottery: award rates at UK national funding agency fall below 20% Summary New UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) data show application volumes have surged while award numbers have…