When AI rejects your grant proposal: algorithms are helping to make funding decisions Summary Spanish non-profit La Caixa Foundation has been using an AI system made of three algorithms to…
OpenAI eats jobs, then offers to help you find a new one at Walmart Summary OpenAI plans to launch a jobs board paired with its OpenAI Academy training so workers…
Bot shots: US Army enlists AI startup to provide target-tracking Summary The US Army has awarded San Francisco startup TurbineOne a potential five‑year, up to $98.9m contract to scale its…
If Broadcom is helping OpenAI build AI chips, here’s what they might look like Summary Reports say OpenAI has tapped Broadcom to help build a custom AI accelerator expected to…
Summary Developers on GitHub are increasingly vocal about Copilot being pushed into repository workflows and IDEs, with the platform’s most-upvoted community discussions this year asking for a way to block…
OpenAI reorg at risk as Attorneys General push AI safety Summary The Attorneys General of California and Delaware have written to OpenAI’s board demanding stronger safeguards to protect children after…
As Xi and Putin chase immortality, let’s talk about digital presidents-for-life Summary Simon Sharwood warns that recent reports of Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin discussing organ transplants feed into a…
Summary The Register’s Simon Sharwood tried an AI-hosted interview run by startup Job Bolt. The platform uses a human-like avatar to ask employer-written questions, then summarises candidate answers for HR.…
Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI Will Make a Few People Much Richer and Most People Poorer’ Summary Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton warns that AI is likely to concentrate wealth in the hands…
Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions Summary Columbia University is piloting Sway, an AI debate programme developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon, to try to calm heated…
