AI Tool Usage ‘Correlates Negatively’ With Performance in CS Class, Estonian Study Finds Summary A survey of 231 students in an object-oriented programming course at the University of Tartu asked…
Publishers Demand ‘AI Overview’ Traffic Stats from Google, Alleging ‘Forced’ Deals Summary Publishers including the Daily Mail, Guardian Media Group and the Periodical Publishers Association have asked UK regulators to…
Microsoft’s Analog Optical Computer Shows AI Promise Summary Microsoft Research has been developing an analog optical computer (AOC) over the past four years using commercially available components such as smartphone-camera…
OpenAI Says Its Business Will Burn $115 Billion Through 2029 Summary OpenAI reports accelerating revenue from ChatGPT but warns its compute and data-centre costs are rising even faster. The company…
Some Angry GitHub Users Are Rebelling Against GitHub’s Forced Copilot AI Features Summary Developers on GitHub are pushing back after Copilot-driven features — from automated issue/pull request generation to enforced…
Psychological Tricks Can Get AI to Break the Rules Summary Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania report that everyday persuasion techniques from social psychology can often coax large language models…
I Hate My AI Friend Summary The Friend pendant is a necklace-sized, always-listening chatbot device (priced at $129 in the US and Canada) that connects through an iPhone to Google’s…
As Xi and Putin chase immortality, let’s talk about digital presidents-for-life Summary Opinion piece from The Register examines the unnerving idea that powerful autocrats such as Xi Jinping and Vladimir…
Snake eating tail: Google’s AI Overviews cites web pages written by AI, study says Summary Originality.ai examined 29,000 YMYL (Your Money or Your Life) Google queries and analysed the AI…
Anthropic to pay at least $1.5 billion to authors whose work it knowingly pirated Summary Anthropic has agreed to create a $1.5 billion fund to compensate authors whose works it…
