Analysis: US productivity rose by ~2.7% in 2025, nearly doubling the 1.4% annual average over a decade, as AI-exposed sectors cooled their entry-level hiring
Analysis: US productivity rose by ~2.7% in 2025, nearly doubling the 1.4% annual average over a decade, as AI-exposed sectors cooled their entry-level hiring
New economic data suggests the US is transitioning to a phase of measurable gains from the technology
Analysis: Claude Code currently authors 4% of all public GitHub commits and is on track to cross 20% of all daily commits by the end of 2026
Analysis: Claude Code currently authors 4% of all public GitHub commits and is on track to cross 20% of all daily commits by the end of 2026
Software and data stocks plunge over fears that new AI developments will supplant software; ADBE fell 7.31%, CRM 6.85%, and Thomson Reuters 15.83% on Tuesday
From Legalzoom.com and Expedia to Ares and Apollo, shares of companies that sell or invest in software fell sharply on Tuesday
How AI automation can fulfill Thomas Piketty's predictions on rising economic inequality, and why highly progressive taxes on capital can help slow the spiral
Piketty was wrong about the past. He's probably right about the future. — 1. Introduction X: @briancalbrecht , @saikatc , @harryh , @jankulveit , @daniel_271828 , @krishnanrohit...
AI is just another productivity tool and the productivity gains will be limited; for lasting economic expansion, AI must catalyze new industries and initiatives
Economic miracles stem from discovery, not repeating tasks at greater speed — The writer is author of 'How Progress Ends … Bluesky: @eicathomefinn and @dncampbell X: @mrrbourne ,...
A look at the state of AI in 2025 across training and inference costs, carbon footprint, US vs. China, investment activity, bills proposed in the US, and more
If you read the news about AI, you may feel bombarded with conflicting messages: AI is booming. AI is a bubble.
Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati unveils AI startup Thinking Machines Lab, which she's leading as CEO, with Barret Zoph as CTO and John Schulman as chief scientist
- “Instead of focusing solely on making fully autonomous AI systems, we are excited to build multimodal systems that work …
A study by Waymo and insurer Swiss Re finds Waymo's vehicles were safer than those driven by humans, with a 92% reduction in bodily injury claims and more
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Google signs an deal to buy nuclear energy generated from multiple small modular reactors developed by US-based Kairos Power, targeting 500 MW by 2035
Startup Kairos Power plans to build small reactors to help supply electricity to the tech company's data centers, in a first-of-its-kind deal in the U.S.
An essay on what a “powerful AI” may look like and how it could positively transform the world in biology, neuroscience, economic development, work, and more
How AI Could Transform the World for the Better — I think and talk a lot about the risks of powerful AI.
An essay on what a “powerful AI” may look like and how it could positively transform the world in biology, neuroscience, economic development, work, and more
How AI Could Transform the World for the Better — I think and talk a lot about the risks of powerful AI.
As the use of AI-generated ads in political campaigns increases globally, consultants, election researchers, and lawmakers push for setting up new guardrails
Gaps in campaign rules allow politicians to spread images and messaging generated by increasingly powerful artificial intelligence technology.
OpenAI and DeepMind executives, Geoffrey Hinton, and 350+ others sign a statement saying “mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority”
and says computer scientists need ethics training Brian Fung / CNN : AI industry and researchers sign statement warning of ‘extinction’ risk Alka Jain / Livemint : Industry leaders...
Some blue-check Twitter accounts, one pretending to be Bloomberg, spread an AI-generated image of an explosion at the Pentagon; the stock market briefly dipped
and markets briefly dipped Shannon Bond / NPR : Fake viral images of an explosion at the Pentagon were probably created by AI Davey Alba / Bloomberg : How Fake AI Photo of a Pentag...
OpenAI releases alignment research and an open-source tool that uses GPT-4 to try to interpret the behavior of individual GPT-2 “neurons and attention heads”
look, we can explain some neurons in GPT-2! That's so cool! Another way to read it: we can explain 0.3% of neurons in GPT-2, which is 0.00017% the size of GPT-4. So we *really* don...
Scammers are using voice-cloning AI to impersonate distressed loved ones, sometimes spoofing specific phone numbers to further the ruse, and victims fall for it
Scammers are using artificial intelligence to sound more like family members in distress. People are falling for it and losing thousands of dollars.
OpenAI open sources Point-E, a machine learning system that generates and displays a 3D object from a text prompt in one to two minutes on an Nvidia V100 GPU
DeepMind unveils DeepNash, an AI agent that matches human experts in the board game Stratego by combining game theory and model-free deep reinforcement learning
Anil Ananthaswamy is the author of Through Two Doors at Once, among other books. His next is on the mathematics of machine learning.