Mozilla is spending $5 million to change how AI companies get their data
Mozilla is putting $5 million into Mozilla Data Collective as it tries to build an alternative to the scraping-heavy approach that has fueled AI training.
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AI could kill the next generation of business leaders
AI can eliminate tedious entry-level work and cut costs, but companies may be creating a much bigger problem. New Talogy research suggests automation could weaken the pipeline that produces future business leaders.
Americans ask AI for financial advice but only 23 percent trust it enough to act
Americans increasingly use AI for financial questions, but most aren’t ready to trust a chatbot with their money without checking somewhere else first.
Someone bought LimeWire
Someone bought LimeWire. BabyDoge has acquired the resurrected file-sharing brand and plans to push it further into crypto, decentralized storage, and AI.
NASA and IBM built an open source AI that could help humans live on the Moon
NASA and IBM have released an open source AI foundation model trained on massive amounts of lunar data. It could help scientists detect craters, study the Moon’s geology, and identify promising locations for water ice.
Apple researchers use AI to simplify protein design
Apple researchers developed SimpleDesign an AI system that generates protein sequences and 3D structures together and could eventually help scientists design new drugs and useful proteins.
What are the odds AI kills us all?
AI experts have a name for the probability that artificial intelligence ends catastrophically: P doom. The estimates are frightening but the numbers may tell us as much about uncertainty as they do about AI.
Here’s how AI can actually kill us all: Anthropic warns of bioweapon risk
Forget killer robots. Anthropic says it identified scientists using Claude for research that could potentially support biological weapons development, offering a frightening look at how AI could become dangerous without ever turning against humanity.
Workers fear AI could make them worse at thinking and writing
AI may make employees more productive, but workers increasingly fear overreliance on the technology could weaken critical thinking, writing, creativity, and independent judgment.
Apple used AI to perfect the iPhone Duo hinge and that makes me a little sad
Apple using AI to help perfect the iPhone Duo hinge should excite me. Instead, it has me wondering whether the days of marveling at purely human engineering are coming to an end.
Donald Trump says communities that reject data centers will become backwards and poor
President Donald Trump says American communities rejecting data centers risk becoming “backwards and poor,” arguing the facilities bring jobs, lower taxes, and economic prosperity.
Debian Linux developers just rejected a ban on artificial intelligence
Debian developers have rejected proposals to ban artificial intelligence from the project, choosing a responsible-use policy that allows generative AI while keeping humans accountable for their contributions.