
The Guardian - 1 hour 54 min ago
In today's newsletter: Enormous investments in artificial intelligence promised to transform Labour's growth problems. The reality is much murkier Good morning. For the last few years artificial intelligence has been heralded as the technology that will transform economies. Governments have promised billions in investment, datacentres and supercomputers, and a wave of new jobs as AI is "mainlined" into the economy. But what happens when the numbers behind those promises are examined...

The Hill - 5 hours 38 min ago
YouTube on Wednesday said it would expand access to its artificial intelligence (AI) detection tool to politicians and journalists. The company will allow a pilot group of lawmakers and reporters to use its likeness detection feature, which flags AI-generated content that uses a person's likeness and allows them to request removal if it violates YouTube...

Digital Music News - 6 hours 5 min ago
Patreon co-founder and CEO Jack Conte shared his thoughts on AI and the future of creative work, and he's angry artists aren't being paid for their contributions to LLM. On Tuesday, Patreon co-founder and CEO Jack Conte posted a lengthy video sharing his thoughts on artificial intelligence and its place in the future of creative […]...

Variety - 7 hours 56 min ago
The Writers Guild of America went on strike three years ago in large part out of fears of writers being replaced by artificial intelligence. That has not happened — whether due to copyright issues, or because AI doesn’t write well, or because of protections the WGA won in the strike. But last fall, Disney allowed […]...

Tech Meme - 9 hours 45 min ago
Lora Kolodny / CNBC : Mississippi regulators authorize xAI to build a power plant with 41 natural gas-burning turbines in Southaven to power its data centers — Elon Musk's xAI scored a victory in Mississippi, where regulators on Tuesday authorized the artificial intelligence company to build a power plant …...

Fox News - 9 hours 45 min ago
Fox News poll reveals 53% of voters believe artificial intelligence will dramatically change American life, up from 43% in 2023 amid trust concerns.

The Hill - 10 hours 31 min ago
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Pentagon-Anthropic feud fuels surveillance fears Anthropic's clash with the Pentagon is reigniting fears of government surveillance, as experts warn the capabilities of artificial intelligence, paired with the Trump administration's sweeping data collections, pose new threats to privacy. Adobe Stock Just over a year after President Trump welcomed...

The Hill - 11 hours 20 min ago
Almost half of American voters have a negative view of artificial intelligence (AI), according to a new poll. In the NBC News poll released Tuesday, 46 percent of respondents said they had a "somewhat negative" or "very negative" view of AI. Twenty-seven percent said they were "neutral" towards the technology and 26 percent said they...

The Guardian - 11 hours 30 min ago
Billionaire's artificial intelligence company gets approval to run 41 methane gas turbines at its Colossus 2' in Mississippi Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI won approval on Tuesday to run 41 methane gas turbines at its "Colossus 2" data center in northern Mississippi. That's nearly double the amount it has been operating. The turbines will help power xAI's massive data centers, which house the company's "AI supercomputers", or giant arrays...

The New York Observer - 12 hours 21 min ago
The ex-Meta A.I. chief assembles a powerhouse team to pursue smarter, more grounded artificial intelligence at AMI Labs.

Variety - 12 hours 39 min ago
Jack Conte, co-founder and CEO of creator-monetization platform Patreon, shared a lengthy rumination on artificial intelligence and the future of creative work in a new video. In the 43-minute video posted Tuesday, Conte argues that the future of creativity will remain human at its core, even as AI becomes ubiquitous. He says that the key […]...

Deadline Hollywood - 14 hours 40 min ago
The European Parliament's adoption on Tuesday of a resolution aimed at creating a framework for a deeper embrace of AI across Europe while protecting cultural sovereignty has met with a mixed response from across the region. The non-binding report, entitled Copyright and Generative Artificial Intelligence opportunities and challenges' and led by centrist Christian Democrat […]...

The Guardian - 15 hours 17 min ago
Co-founders of Moltbook, a platform for artificial intelligence agents, will join tech giant's AI research unit Facebook parent Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it had acquired Moltbook, a social networking platform built for artificial intelligence agents, bringing the company's founders into its AI research division. The deal will bring Moltbook co-founders Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr into Meta Superintelligence Labs, the unit led by Alexandr Wang, former Scale AI CEO, which Meta purchased...

Attack of the Fanboy - 15 hours 45 min ago
Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has filed two lawsuits against the U.S. Department of Defense after the Pentagon labeled the firm a "supply...

The Hill - 16 hours 28 min ago
The family of a girl critically wounded in a Canada school shooting has filed a lawsuit against ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, accusing the artificial intelligence firm of being aware of the suspect's planned shooting but failing to alert authorities. The suit was filed Monday in the Supreme Court of British Columbia by the parents of 12-year-old Maya...

Fortune - 17 hours 54 min ago
Across industries, artificial intelligence is collapsing day-long tasks into minutes. But instead of shorter workdays, executives say companies are using the gains to demand more output.

Tech Meme - 18 hours 20 min ago
Katrina Manson / Bloomberg : Emil Michael says Google will deploy Gemini AI agents to Pentagon's 3M-strong workforce, initially on unclassified networks for tasks such as creating budgets — Alphabet Inc.'s Google is introducing artificial intelligence agents across the Pentagon's three million-strong workforce …...

New York Times - 18 hours 45 min ago
The San Bruno, Calif., headquarters of YouTube, which is introducing a program to help participants monitor and report videos that use artificial intelligence to impersonate them.

Tech Meme - 19 hours 15 min ago
Jake Rudnitsky / Bloomberg : Israeli startup Jazz, which uses AI agents to tackle data loss prevention, raised $61M across seed and Series A led by Glilot and Team8, and has 15 paying users — Israel's Jazz raised $61 million in funding to create a platform that uses artificial intelligence to tackle data loss prevention.

Tech Meme - 19 hours 30 min ago
Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg : Swedish legal AI startup Legora raised a $550M Series D led by Accel, tripling its valuation to $5.55B since its October 2025 raise, as it expands in the US — Swedish legal artificial intelligence startup Legora has raised $550 million in a Series D funding round led by Accel …...

Huffington Post - 19 hours 42 min ago
Ukraine's Maksym Murashkovskyi credited artificial intelligence for helping his performance at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Games.

The Guardian - 19 hours 45 min ago
As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large Lea Pao, a professor of literature at Stanford University, has been experimenting with ways to get her students to learn offline. She has them memorize poems, perform at recitation events, look at art in the real world. It's an effort to reconnect them to the bodily experience of learning, she said, and to keep them from turning to artificial intelligence to do the work for them...

New Scientist - 20 hours 45 min ago
The speed at which artificial intelligence is gaining in mathematical ability has taken many by surprise. It is rewriting what it means to be a mathematician...

Tech Meme - 21 hours 15 min ago
Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg : Nexthop AI, which offers specialized switches to reduce power consumption and latency for hyperscalers, raised $500M led by Lightspeed at a $4.2B valuation — Nexthop AI, an artificial intelligence infrastructure startup, has raised $500 million in a deal led by Lightspeed Venture Partners …...