Google’s expansion of AI-powered search is raising fresh concerns that the company could weaken the open web by keeping users inside its own products. Kate Conger reports for The New York Times that publishers, retailers and other website operators are seeing search traffic fall as Google provides more answers directly through AI. Google’s AI Mode …
Access to AI advice can make people less accurate while dramatically increasing their confidence, according to a study by researchers from universities in France and Italy. Participants were far less likely to acknowledge uncertainty after receiving AI input, even when the model gave unreliable answers. Ana Maria Constantin reports for The Next Web that the …
Max Spero, CEO of Pangram, writes in a company blog post that his firm’s AI detection tool has scanned over one million social media posts since April 2026, revealing how deeply generative AI has penetrated online writing. Users of Pangram’s Chrome extension can opt in to share anonymous scan data, and the resulting dataset covers …
Journalists working with AI tools risk losing certain foundational skills while developing new ones, according to a new study published in Journalism Practice. Andrew Deck reports for Nieman Journalism Lab that researcher Shangyuan Wu of the National University of Singapore interviewed 14 working journalists in Singapore to explore this shift. The study builds on last …
Companies pour billions into artificial intelligence, yet most fail to turn that investment into measurable business value. Colleen Jones writes for Content Science Review that this disconnect, which she calls the “AI strategy gap,” separates organizations that merely adopt AI tools from those that transform how they create value. The numbers support her argument. MIT …
Artificial intelligence is shrinking job opportunities for young workers at an accelerating rate, according to new data from Stanford economist Erik Brynjolfsson and ADP Research. The findings, published through the newly launched Canaries Dashboard, draw on payroll records covering roughly one in six American workers across more than 730 occupations. The top-line numbers look calm. …
Artificial intelligence is dividing the global labour market into two distinct groups, with companies that use AI to enhance human expertise pulling ahead of those that deploy it mainly to cut costs. That is the central finding of the PwC 2026 Global AI Jobs Barometer, which analysed more than one billion job advertisements across 27 …
German companies are the most optimistic in the world about the financial returns of their artificial intelligence investments, but significant obstacles are slowing down real-world results. A press release from management consultancy Horváth reports that 75 percent of senior executives at large German companies expect AI investments to have a strongly positive effect on EBIT …
Roughly one in two U.S. adults now use AI chatbots, a sharp jump from just a third in the summer of 2024. Jeffrey Gottfried, William Bishop, Monica Anderson, Michelle Faverio, Eugenie Park and Colleen McClain write for Pew Research Center about a new survey of 5,119 adults. The data paints a picture of rapid adoption …
Author and entrepreneur Tim Ferriss is seeing dramatic drops in sales across his entire book catalog, and he writes for his personal blog that the rise of AI chatbots is the primary cause. His data, drawn from BookScan domestic print figures, shows a sharp acceleration in decline that closely tracks the mainstream adoption of large …