Universities face difficult choices over how to integrate AI
Strategies vary and costs as well as other concerns are beginning to determine policies
Strategies vary and costs as well as other concerns are beginning to determine policies
Some institutions are overhauling assessment and trying to move away from the emphasis on surveillance
Organisations will need people with the skills to test models constantly against what they actually need
Building effective frameworks could help promote ‘deep thinking’ rather than ‘cognitive atrophy’
Educators and students find themselves on the front line as AI labs begin to muscle in, fears about cognitive atrophy surface, and AI cheating detection tools are revealed to be faulty. It is time to arm students with ‘eval’ powers, a professor argues
The line in the response object You call the API. You pass model: “claude-fable-5”. You get back a completion, a token count, and a field that reads “model”: “claude-opus-4-8”. Nothing errored. Nothing retried. The request was classified before generation began, matched a sensitive category, and was handed to a different set of weights entirely. Anthropic […]
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Andrew Ng has released OpenWorker, an MIT-licensed desktop AI agent that returns finished deliverables instead of chat replies. It runs a local Python agent server under a Tauri shell, supports 30 curated tool-calling models plus fully local Ollama, and gates every write, shell command and off-machine action behind a typed risk engine.
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Health in ChatGPT now lets eligible U.S. users securely connect medical records and Apple Health to get more personalized insights and better understand their health.
The clip features the David Bowie track “Five Years,” which includes lyrics such as “Earth was really dying (dying).”
On a gray, humid Saturday morning in central Florida, a little under a dozen people gathered outside the Spring Hill Branch Library to protest the construction of a hyperscale data center in their community. There was no immediate threat – the Hernando County commission had unanimously approved a one-year moratorium on such developments in June […]
Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, about the major trade secrets lawsuit between Apple and OpenAI and what this tells us about OpenAI’s future. By now I’m sure most Decoder listeners are familiar with Apple’s allegations in this case. The company says a number of ex-Apple employees at […]
Lawmakers are preparing to introduce an “AI Kill Switch Act” that would require AI companies to shut down or throttle their systems on orders from the Department of Homeland Security, according to a report from Politico. Reps. Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Nathaniel Moran (R-TX) are expected to introduce the legislation on Thursday. The news of […]
OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT Health to everyone in the US on Thursday, allowing more people to connect their medical records and health-tracking information to the chatbot. During a briefing, Ashley Alexander, OpenAI’s vice president of health product, says the company’s models “are now capable of reasoning at levels that are better than clinician level.” […]
Patreon is laying off 20 percent of its workers, or around 93 employees, as reported earlier by 404 Media. In a memo to employees, Patreon CEO Jack Conte writes that the company isn’t making these changes “because we believe AI replaces humans,” but says AI has “fundamentally transformed the tech industry, including how we work, […]
Until now, voice mode has only been available on Claude Haiku, Anthropic’s faster but less powerful model. Now the company is making its Opus and Sonnet models available in voice mode, and extending its reach into apps like Gmail, Slack, and Canva. When Anthropic launched voice mode last year, it was primarily focused on delivering […]
Amazon is launching an update to its Alexa Plus assistant that will allow it to connect to smart home devices in new ways. With the update, Alexa Plus can link up with tech from Bosch, Delta, Ecovacs, iRobot, Yale Home, Whirlpool, Tapo, Eufy, and others, while automatically routing requests to the correct device. In an […]
“I don’t think you get a model this strong and this quickly on the heels of Fable doing strictly distillation,” one expert told TechCrunch.
Gemini had over 750 million monthly users in February.
If there’s a place in the universe without GPUs, Nvidia is sending them there.
Etched, founded by three Harvard dropouts, has created new chips and memory components that speed up inference on any AI model — no GPUs required, it says.
David Bowie’s song “Five Years,” which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.
Users can also integrate their personal data from services like Apple Health, Function, and MyFitnessPal.
The Media Router is a tool that automatically selects the best image, video, or audio generation model for a request based on whether a developer prioritizes quality, speed or cost.
AegisAI co-founders developed AI agents that quickly analyze each message as a human would, paying attention to small anomalies that even the most elaborate checklist wouldn’t catch.
Claude’s new voice model will let you reschedule your meeting or draft an email.
AMD is challenging its chipmaker rival with a new rack-scale system that will start shipping to customers later this year.
Labour organisations are uniting over fears about the possible displacement of workers
Franco-Italian chipmaker’s third-quarter sales forecast misses analysts’ expectations
While cloud migration previously offered unmatched speed and cost efficiency, decision-makers now perceive localized systems as offering superior long-term security. In this guest commentary, strategic adviser Itay Sagie shares three trends he believes are pushing on-prem back into the limelight.
So far this year, 60% of global startup funding across stages — around $320 billion — went to rounds of $1 billion or more, per Crunchbase data, with such rounds instrumental in pushing global funding for the first half of the year to record levels.
Oracle, Amazon, Cloudflare and Block are all citing AI in 2026 workforce cuts. The reasoning behind each is not the same.
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OpenAI, AWS and the Pentagon are racing to embed forward-deployed engineers who redesign HR systems, largely without CHROs involved.
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Readiness isn’t a gate you pass through, and it isn’t a signal that arrives to tell you it’s safe to begin.
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Regulators are sifting through hundreds of comments about how a state should design its standard package.
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Eight in 10 HR professionals say their organization is not committing adequate resources to the professional development of their HR teams.
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Designing and developing a new medicine is an expensive, failure-prone scientific challenge. A new drug can take many years to develop, at the cost of a significant investment. And even then, most possible candidates never reach the patient. For biologic medicines, therapies made from engineered proteins rather than synthetic chemistry (which are often used to…