The effects of AI on firms and workers

Synthesis of new research assessing the real-world impacts of artificial intelligence on firms and workers.

Mark Zuckerberg goes all-in on AI and might even beat Sam Altman and OpenAI to superintelligence

He’s already poached a lot of OpenAI’s staff

How AI Factories Can Help Relieve Grid Stress

Emerald AI is developing software to control power use during times of peak grid demand while meeting the performance requirements of data center AI workloads.

Apple looks to AI firms to power Siri: Report

The iPhone maker has asked to train versions of Claude and ChatGPT that could run on Apple infrastructure for testing.

Mark Zuckerberg reveals where he will build superhuman AI

Researchers Uncover Hidden Ingredients Behind AI Creativity

Image generators are designed to mimic their training data, so where does their apparent creativity come from? A recent study suggests that it’s an inevitable by-product of their architecture.

Senate Strikes Potential AI Moratorium

The vote was 99-1, removing the 10 year moratorium on AI legislation at the state level set by the version passed in the House. Interestingly, the at…

It’s peak A Level season, but AI is eating our youth’s future before it has started

AI is already gobbling up large parts of the job market, starting with entry-level jobs. As the first fully AI legal firm is approved, Zoë Beaty looks at the bleak landscape today’s students are facing as the traditional career ladder is kicked away from them

This Startup Built A Hospital In India To Test Its AI Software.

New drugs take too long to get to market because of clinical trial bottlenecks. Two cancer doctors built AI-enabled tech to speed up the process.

Can AI outdiagnose doctors? Microsoft’s tool is 4 times better for complex cases

The new system improved one model's diagnostic accuracy to 85% - but AI probably won't replace your doctor just yet.

Cloudflare Is Blocking AI Crawlers by Default

The age of the AI scraping free-for-all may be coming to an end. At least if Cloudflare gets its way.

Congress Is About to Hand Corporate America a License to Discriminate

If Congress won't lead on AI accountability, then it has no business stopping states from protecting their own citizens, write Jason Solomon and Abby Frerick.

Elon Musk’s xAI raises $10 billion in debt and equity as it steps up challenge to OpenAI

The funding will go towards xAI's efforts to build out its AI infrastructure and develop its Grok chatbot.

What comes next for AI copyright lawsuits?

Remarkably little has been settled by recent rulings in favor of Anthropic and Meta.

Future Forecasting A Massive Intelligence Explosion On The Path From AI To AGI

Some believe that an intelligence explosion will leap us from conventional AI to attaining artificial general intelligence (AGI). Here's how this pathway might happen.

Blackburn says AI deal with Cruz is off

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) said Monday that a deal to update language of a provision in President Trump’s tax package seeking to bar states from regulating artificial intelligence (AI) is off.…

Senator Blackburn Pulls Support for AI Moratorium in Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Amid Backlash

After critics called the bill a “get-out-jail-free-card” for Big Tech that could make it nearly impossible to rein in social media platforms, Senator Marsha Blackburn killed her own compromise.

The Singularity Is Here

Human beings have enjoyed a unique and lonely role among intelligences. Do other minds exist in life's other kingdoms? With AI, the answer may now be "yes."

How AI Led Palantir From Slow Growth to Hypergrowth

How a 20-year-old company found its second wind in the AI era TL;DR: Palantir just posted 39% YoY growth in Q1 2025, marking a stunning turnaround from the 13% growth trough of 2023.  An unpreceden…

BBC Rolls Out AI Summaries And Style Tool In Newsroom Test

This week BBC announced that its AI-generated “At a Glance” summary box and a Style Assist editor, will move into live production.

Why Artificial Integrity Must Overtake Artificial Intelligence

Evidence of AI models’ integrity lapses is not anecdotal or speculative. So-called intelligence alone is no longer the benchmark. Integrity is.

AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study

Feature: More fiction than science

From Unprogrammable to Detectable: A Framework for Recognizing Emergent Consciousness in AI Systems

An Integrated Approach: Philosophical Barriers to Creation and Practical Methods for Detecting Subjectivity in Artificial Systems (from modeling AI consciousness to diagnosing it) Introduction: The...

Why Reasoning Isn’t Enough: How LLM Agents Struggle with Ethics and Cooperation

Every day, individuals and organizations face trade-offs between personal incentives and societal impact: …