Uber India Starts Offering Drivers Gigs Collecting and Classifying Info For AI Models Summary Uber’s India arm is using its app to offer rideshare and delivery drivers paid “digital tasks”…
Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI Will Make a Few People Much Richer and Most People Poorer’ Summary Nobel laureate and neural‑net pioneer Geoffrey Hinton tells the Financial Times he expects AI to…
Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions Summary Columbia University is trialling Sway, an AI debate tool developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, to help de-escalate heated…
Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms Summary Anthropic, a San Francisco-based AI startup, has widened restrictions on who can use its AI services: beyond named “authoritarian” regimes,…
Anthropic Agrees To Pay Record $1.5 Billion To Settle Authors’ AI Lawsuit Summary Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion into a class-action fund to settle a lawsuit…
Boffins Build Automated Android Bug Hunting System Summary Researchers from Nanjing University and the University of Sydney have developed an AI-powered bug-hunting agent, dubbed A2, that both discovers vulnerabilities in…
Anthropic Agrees to Pay Authors at Least $1.5 Billion in AI Copyright Settlement Summary Anthropic has reached a settlement to pay at least $1.5 billion to a class of book…
The Doomers Who Insist AI Will Kill Us All Summary Steven Levy profiles Eliezer Yudkowsky and the broader “doomer” movement that argues advanced AI poses an existential threat to humanity.…
Should AI Get Legal Rights? Summary This WIRED piece by Kylie Robison explores “model welfare” — a nascent research area that asks whether advanced AI systems might be conscious, and…
When AI rejects your grant proposal: algorithms are helping to make funding decisions Summary La Caixa Foundation in Barcelona has been using a three-algorithm AI system to pre-screen applications to…
