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The leaders of the two most powerful AI companies in the world are locked in a bitter personal and professional rivalry that is influencing how artificial intelligence develops globally. Keach Hagey reports for The Wall Street Journal that the conflict between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei stretches back nearly a decade …
A new study finds that artificial intelligence systems are excessively agreeable when users seek advice on personal and interpersonal matters. Myra Cheng reports for Stanford University that large language models (LLMs) consistently side with users, even when their behavior is harmful or illegal. The researchers tested 11 major LLMs, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek. …
New AI tools like OpenClaw and Claude Cowork promise to take over everyday work. They are not just about generating content like text, images, or videos. Instead, they are designed as digital assistants that actively support you. They are even supposed to handle complex tasks independently. But how do they work, what can they already …
As artificial intelligence becomes a standard workplace tool, companies are beginning to monitor how much it actually costs to use. Katherine Bindley reports for the Wall Street Journal that businesses are tracking employee AI consumption through a metric called tokens, the basic unit that measures computing effort behind every AI interaction. For text-based tasks, roughly …
Starting August 2, 2026, the transparency obligations of the EU AI Act will apply, and this of course affects you as a content professional, if you are based in the EU. However, various pieces of misinformation are circulating about this law. For instance, just the other day I saw the claim that soon, all AI-generated …
Large language models can build apps, predict protein structures and generate realistic videos. But they consistently fail at one fundamental human skill: writing well. Jasmine Sun reports for The Atlantic that modern AI systems are structurally built in ways that actively work against good writing. And that is quite surprising: Today’s most powerful AI models …
Small online publishers are suffering the steepest decline in search-driven web traffic as artificial intelligence transforms how people find information online. Axios reports that small publishers, defined as those receiving between 1,000 and 10,000 daily page views, have lost 60% of their referral traffic from traditional search engines over the past two years. Medium-sized publishers …
The history of automation suggests that AI will not eliminate human labor entirely. Adam Ozimek writes for The Atlantic that past technological disruptions, from the player piano to recorded music, ultimately failed to wipe out the jobs they threatened. The player piano, invented in the 1890s, fully automated musical performance. Major composers like Igor Stravinsky …
The AI image marketplace Tess.Design paid artists a 50% royalty each time their style was used to generate an image. Julia Enthoven writes how the platform ran for 20 months before closing in January 2026. Tess.Design allowed artists to submit their work to fine-tune an AI model. That model was then listed on a public …
ChatGPT remains the dominant consumer AI product globally, but competitors are gaining ground fast. Olivia Moore writes for Andreessen Horowitz that ChatGPT now reaches 900 million weekly active users, up by 500 million over the past year, meaning more than 10 percent of the global population uses the tool every week. Despite that lead, Google’s …