AI assistants in virtual meetings are recording and transcribing private discussions and jokes, sometimes with embarrassing results for users. These tools can automatically distribute summaries of entire calls, including informal small talk, to all participants. As reported by Ann-Marie Alcántara in the Wall Street Journal, this raises new concerns about privacy and context in the …
Researchers from Arizona State University conclude that the reasoning abilities of large language models are a “brittle mirage.” According to an article by Kyle Orland in Ars Technica, these models struggle significantly with problems that deviate from their training data. In a controlled experiment, the researchers found that an AI’s performance collapsed when tasks were …
Google is promoting the rapid adoption of its artificial intelligence features, while new research and reports from publishers raise concerns about the technology’s impact on web traffic and the quality of information. The conflicting narratives highlight a central tension in the current evolution of web search. On a Q2 2025 investor call, Alphabet and Google …
The public discourse on artificial intelligence has fractured into two opposing camps, creating what one journalist calls “parallel universes.” According to an article by Matteo Wong in The Atlantic, this growing divide pits AI zealots against entrenched skeptics. This polarization makes it difficult to have a nuanced conversation about the technology’s actual effects. The boosters, …
Cloudflare has launched a new marketplace called “Pay per Crawl”, allowing website owners to charge AI companies for scraping their content. According to a report by Maxwell Zeff in TechCrunch, the system, currently in a private beta, aims to give publishers more control over their data. Website owners can set a price for each “crawl”, …
Recent academic studies indicate that using generative AI tools like ChatGPT can reduce brain activity and lead to less original writing. According to an article by Kyle Chayka in The New Yorker, these experiments suggest a “cognitive cost” to relying on AI for tasks humans previously did themselves. One study at the Massachusetts Institute of …
Scammers are increasingly using artificial intelligence to create and sell images of plants that do not exist. These fraudulent online listings target plant enthusiasts with pictures of exotic and impossibly perfect flowers or succulents, luring them with low prices. A blog post by the retailer Bob’s Market explains that customers who purchase these items may …
Generative AI tools are causing a significant drop in website traffic for news and book publishers, threatening their business models and the future of journalism. In an article for The Atlantic, author Alex Reisner reports that AI chatbots and search features keep users on their own platforms by summarizing content from other websites. This development …
Fanfiction writers are mounting organized resistance against artificial intelligence companies that harvest their stories without permission. The conflict escalated in April when a user scraped 12.6 million fanfiction stories from Archive of Our Own and uploaded them to AI platform Hugging Face. The controversy was reported by journalist Decca Muldowney for The Verge. Writers discovered …
Creative Commons has introduced CC signals, a new project designed to help control how artificial intelligence systems access and use online content for training purposes. The initiative, reported by Sarah Perez at TechCrunch, aims to create a framework that balances open internet access with growing concerns about unrestricted AI data collection. The system will allow …