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Major news publishers are restricting the Internet Archive’s access to their content, worried that AI companies might use the nonprofit’s digital library as a backdoor to scrape their articles for training data. Andrew Deck reports for Nieman Lab that outlets including The Guardian and The New York Times have taken steps to limit how the …
One frustrating reality of AI assistants is that they can go from genius to clown from one day to the next. Yesterday, you had found the perfect workflow or the Holy Grail of prompts. Everything worked like magic. Today, the same tool with the same setup suddenly fails completely. The AI is ignoring your instructions. …
The music industry faces an existential dilemma as AI-generated songs infiltrate streaming platforms, prompting major labels to sign licensing deals while artists and platforms struggle to define acceptable boundaries. Anna Nicolaou and Cristina Criddle report for the Financial Times. A recent incident in Sweden illustrates the tension. A folk-pop song by “Jacub” topped Spotify charts …
Wiki Education has concluded that editors should never copy and paste content from AI chatbots like ChatGPT directly into Wikipedia articles, following an extensive investigation into AI-generated content on the platform. LiAnna Davis, representing Wiki Education, reports in a detailed blog post that the organization discovered a troubling pattern after analyzing thousands of articles created …
New research from the Brookings Institution reveals a critical gap in how policymakers assess artificial intelligence’s impact on the workforce. While 37.1 million American workers face high AI exposure, 6.1 million lack the resources to adapt if job loss occurs. Sam Manning and Tomás Aguirre report for the National Bureau of Economic Research. The researchers …
OpenAI is redirecting resources away from experimental research to focus on improving ChatGPT, prompting several senior staff members to leave the company. The shift reflects mounting competitive pressure from Google and Anthropic as the $500 billion company evolves from research lab into commercial enterprise. Cristina Criddle reports for the Financial Times that vice-president of research …
ChatGPT’s commanding lead in the chatbot market is shrinking as competitors gain momentum. OpenAI’s flagship product saw its market share among daily U.S. mobile app users fall from 69.1% to 45.3% between January 2025 and January 2026. Alex Kantrowitz reports for Big Technology, citing data from mobile insights firm Apptopia. During the same period, Google’s …
A detailed analysis challenges the growing concerns about datacenter water consumption by comparing one of the world’s largest AI facilities to fast food restaurants. Nicolas Bontigui writes for SemiAnalysis that Elon Musk’s Colossus 2 datacenter in Memphis consumes approximately 346 million gallons of water annually. This figure equals roughly 2.5 In-N-Out burger restaurants, each using …
Anthropic spent tens of millions of dollars to acquire and physically destroy millions of books for training its Claude AI chatbot. The company cut off book spines and scanned pages in a covert initiative called “Project Panama.” Aaron Schaffer reports for The Washington Post, detailing the operation through more than 4,000 pages of unsealed court …
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan has outlined his vision for 2026, prioritizing the fight against low-quality AI-generated content while simultaneously promoting AI tools for creators. Alex Weprin reports for The Hollywood Reporter. In his annual letter to the YouTube community, Mohan addresses the problem of “AI slop,” referring to low-quality AI-generated content flooding the platform. YouTube …