Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI Will Make a Few People Much Richer and Most People Poorer’ Summary Nobel laureate and deep‑learning pioneer Geoffrey Hinton warns that AI will concentrate wealth with a…
Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions Summary Columbia University is piloting Sway, an AI-driven debate programme developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, to try to reduce…
Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms Summary Anthropic has expanded restrictions on access to its AI services to bar companies that are majority‑owned by entities from countries…
Anthropic Agrees to Pay Authors at Least $1.5 Billion in AI Copyright Settlement Summary Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5bn to settle a class action brought by book…
The Doomers Who Insist AI Will Kill Us All Summary Steven Levy profiles Eliezer Yudkowsky, a central and polarising figure in the AI-doom camp, and examines his argument that advanced…
Should AI Get Legal Rights? Summary Model welfare is an emerging field that examines whether advanced AI models might be conscious and, if so, what moral and legal obligations humans…
When AI rejects your grant proposal: algorithms are helping to make funding decisions Summary The La Caixa Foundation in Barcelona has been using a three-algorithm AI tool for three years…
UK government trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost Summary A Department for Business and Trade three-month pilot of Microsoft’s M365 Copilot (Oct–Dec 2024) showed mixed results: users…
Sainsbury’s eyes up shoplifters with live facial recognition Summary Sainsbury’s has started an eight-week trial of live facial recognition (LFR) in two stores (Sydenham, London and Oldfield Sainsbury’s Local in…
Atlassian acquisition drives dream of AI-powered ChromeOS challenger Summary Atlassian has agreed an all-cash $610m purchase of New York startup The Browser Company, a deal expected to close in the…
