A representative survey by Epoch AI found that 20 percent of employed Americans hand off at least one task to AI that a human used to do. Generally, they…
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Investor pressure forces Nvidia to shrink its OpenAI bet just as Anthropic’s numbers defy bubble warnings
Nvidia has cut its guarantee for OpenAI’s planned data center in Ohio nearly in half, from $250 billion to just under $120 billion, after investors pushed…
AI-generated books are flooding Amazon and tanking sales for human authors
AI-generated books make up 20 percent of Amazon’s self-published catalog but bring in only 12 percent of sales. A new study finds that revenue per book is…
Plaintiff hid invisible AI instructions in court filings to secretly influence automated review
A plaintiff in Connecticut embedded invisible prompt injections in court filings, formatted in 3-point white text on a white background, to manipulate a…
World Labs turns one real-world robot task into thousands of simulated variations for training
World Labs, the startup founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, has unveiled a simulation engine that trains robot controllers entirely in virtual environments.…
Suno Studio 2.0’s new chat feature lets you talk to your DAW like it’s a bandmate
With Studio 2.0, Suno turns its AI music platform into a full production tool for Premier subscribers. A chat feature creates instruments and plugins via…
The “tragedy of the cognitive commons” explains how rational AI adoption could destroy entire professions’ expertise
A new research paper frames AI adoption as a “tragedy of the cognitive commons.” Every company that cuts entry-level jobs benefits individually, but the…
New benchmark confirms AI models still perform poorly at visual perception
Moonshot AI’s PerceptionBench tests how well multimodal AI models can actually “see,” separate from logical reasoning. No frontier model reaches 60…
Gemini 3.7 Flash lands with coding gains and undercuts its three-week-old predecessor’s price by 50%
Google shipped Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after 3.6 Flash. The new model is supposed to be Google’s most capable workhorse yet for coding and AI…
Deepseek ships improved V4 Pro, open-sources its agent software, and raises API prices
Deepseek has moved its flagship V4-Pro out of the testing phase and released its agent software, Harness v0.1, under the MIT license. API prices are going…