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AI companies advertise ever-larger context windows for their language models, but a developer argues that the usable portion is far smaller than the marketed figures suggest. Garrit Franke writes in his blog Garrit’s Notes that effective model performance begins to degrade around 100,000 tokens, regardless of whether the advertised limit is 200,000, one million, or …
Opposition to data centers in the United States has reached a record level. In the first quarter of 2026, opponents blocked or delayed at least 75 projects worth approximately $130 billion, the highest figure recorded in a single quarter. Allan Smith reports for NBC News, citing a study by Data Center Watch, a project of …
White-collar workers spend an average of 6.4 hours per week managing AI tools rather than benefiting from them. Thibault Spirlet reports for Business Insider on a new study from Glean’s Work AI Institute, conducted with researchers from Notre Dame, Stanford, and UC Berkeley, which surveyed 6,000 full-time workers in the United States, the United Kingdom, …
A new survey by device management company Jamf finds that companies using artificial intelligence extensively are significantly more likely to experience security incidents tied to that use. The survey polled 687 IT professionals and highlights a growing gap between how fast organizations adopt AI and how well they can govern it. Nearly three quarters of …
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 …
Walmart is rolling out artificial intelligence tools across its operations, promising its 2.1 million employees that the technology will transform how they work rather than reduce how many are employed. Gregory Meyer reports for the Financial Times from the company’s annual Associates Week gathering in Arkansas, where executives made the case for AI as a …
Generative AI systems, including large language models and image generators, are fundamentally incapable of true scientific discovery. Richard Sutton writes on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. Sutton is one of the most influential researchers in the history of artificial intelligence and a pioneer of reinforcement learning. His core argument is straightforward: generative AI …
Apple appears poised to take the lead in consumer artificial intelligence, not by building the most advanced AI technology, but by making it the easiest to use. M.G. Siegler writes for Spyglass that the company’s newly announced “Siri AI,” demonstrated at its annual developer conference WWDC, could bring AI into the mainstream in a way …
Moderators of the popular subreddit r/biohackers have banned standalone posts about peptides and hormone replacement therapy (HRT) after discovering that companies in those industries were systematically spamming the community to manipulate AI chatbot responses. Jason Koebler reports for 404 Media that the tactic is part of a broader activity, often known as Generative Engine Optimization …
Americans are increasingly mobilizing against data centers, the large warehouse-style facilities that power AI and much of the modern internet. Marina Bolotnikova writes for Vox that this grassroots revolt reflects deep anxiety about artificial intelligence rather than genuine ecological concern. A recent Gallup poll found that 70 percent of Americans would oppose a data center …