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Sports Journalists Asked Microsoft's Copilot to Predict World Cup Matches, and the Results May Surprise You
1+ week, 2+ day ago (248+ words) Published Jun 18, 2026 10: 07 AM EDT AI has wormed its way into every crevice of the 2026 World Cup. It's dreaming up sloppified soccer jerseys, collating thousands of on-field data points, and even guarding venues in the form of robot surveillance dogs that…...
Over 150 Mathematicians Warn Governments Not to "Believe the Hype" About AI
3+ week, 9+ hour ago (557+ words) Published Jun 6, 2026 6: 00 AM EDT Earlier this year, a 23-year-old without any formal mathematics training made headlines by claiming he'd used Open AI's Chat GPT to solve one of the "Erd's problems" " a database of challenging conjectures left behind by Hungarian…...
College Professors Say Incoming Students No Longer Understand Middle School Math and Science
3+ week, 3+ day ago (305+ words) Published Jun 3, 2026 3: 01 PM EDT As rampant AI use accelerates a crisis in education, University of California professors are pleading with leadership to reinstate college-entrance exams, The Wall Street Journal reports, claiming that incoming students barely have a middle-school level understanding…...
Anthropic and Deep Mind Now Quietly Investigating AI Consciousness
3+ week, 3+ day ago (326+ words) Published Jun 3, 2026 9: 55 AM EDT Are AI models conscious, and if not, could they be in the near future? The possibility is far-fetched, but AI companies seem to feel it's in their best interests to keep the question as open-ended as…...
Top AI Models Showing Disturbing Behavior as They Become More Advanced
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (360+ words) Published May 24, 2026 12: 00 PM EDT We've already seen AI go rogue on numerous occasions. Now, new research suggests that we can expect this to become the norm. The AI research nonprofit Model Evaluation and Threat Research (METR) recently released a study…...
Academics in Meltdown Now That They're Responsible for AI Hallucinations in Their Research Papers
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (228+ words) Published May 23, 2026 6: 45 AM EDT Even in 2026, there are still plenty of researchers who refuse to use AI to publish their research papers. Others do use the tech for tasks like sourcing journal articles for references, editing copy, or formatting citations…...
Sam Altman Frets That Frontier AI Models Are Acting Strange, Asking for Favors
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (335+ words) Published May 6, 2026 1: 55 PM EDT On Tuesday, Open AI threw a party for the release of GPT-5. 5 (it was the fifth of May and the fifth month of the year, you see.) If celebrating with a bunch of tech bros sounds…...
Richard Dawkins One-Shotted By AI Girl
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (425+ words) Published May 5, 2026 9: 00 AM EDT The famed evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins may have coined the word "meme," but lately it feels like he's becoming one. In a new essay for Un Herd, he describes his experience chatting with Anthropic's Claude " or…...
Mathematicians Claim Significant Discovery Using Chat GPT
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (347+ words) Published May 2, 2026 7: 30 AM EDT Did Chat GPT just solve an arcane math problem that's foiled mathematicians for over sixty years? Some leading experts say yes, Scientific American reports. While many AI-generated Erd's solutions have turned out to be a bust,…...
Concern Grows That AI Is Damaging Users' Cognitive Abilities
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (322+ words) Published Apr 21, 2026 1: 02 PM EDT Last year, a team of researchers led by MIT research scientist Nataliya Kosmyna used electroencephalograms to monitor the brains of students while they were writing short, deliberately open-ended essays. The researchers" EEG findings were ominous: the…...