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AI Books Flood Amazon, Dilute Revenue Per Author
An arXiv study of 14,419 self-published Amazon books found AI-generated works now make up a large share of the catalog and are capturing growing sales share, even as revenue per book declines and huma
Europeans Are About to Find Out How Entrenched AI Is in Their Daily Lives
Starting August 2, the EU's Artificial Intelligence Act requires companies to disclose when users interact with AI systems or view AI-generated content, with non-compliance fines reaching €15 million
Meta Smart Glasses Privacy Woes Fuel California Bill
As smart glasses surge in popularity—with Meta alone selling tens of millions of units—privacy advocates and some smaller manufacturers are pushing back against always-on cameras, and Consumer Reports
Fields Medalist Tsimerman Leaves U of T for OpenAI
Fields Medal winner Jacob Tsimerman is taking a leave from the University of Toronto to join OpenAI, where he will work on AI safety — a pivot the Wall Street Journal profiles as a shift from pure mat
Four Time Scales Behind Why Tech Hype Is Wrong
A seasoned technologist lays out four distinct time scales for how technologies actually mature — from lab breakthroughs to economic transformation — arguing that conflating these stages fuels the dan
CostPerPrompt Tracks 232+ AI Models' Live Pricing
CostPerPrompt, a new tool tracking live AI API pricing across 232+ models, includes calculators that incorporate prompt-caching and batch-processing discounts most cost-estimate articles overlook.
Persistent State Machines: LLM Attention with INT4 In-Memory Cells
A formal framework for LLM attention called Persistent State Machines has been validated on FPGA hardware, demonstrating sub-1mW dynamic power for a 1024-cell array and successful PCIe-integrated SoC
Morph Hiring Performance Engineer for Fastest Open Model Stack
Morph, a YC S23 startup building inference infrastructure for fast open models, is hiring a Member of Technical Staff to optimize its custom-serving stack across kernels, routing, and autoscaling.
AI financial advice is surprisingly good if you ask the right questions
An MIT Sloan-led study finds that AI chatbot financial advice — when prompted well — builds meaningful retirement savings, but the same advice quietly generates tens of thousands of dollars in wealth
Hank Green Admits ChatGPT Use Was 'Not Healthy'
YouTuber Hank Green apologized to his 3.2 million subscribers after viewers caught what appeared to be a chatbot response in a Complexly video script, admitting his escalating ChatGPT use has been dri
OpenAI's Astra Cracks 10 Open Math Problems
OpenAI says an internal version of Astra, its next major model family, produced results for 10 open problems spanning mathematics, quantum complexity, and theoretical computer science, prompting both
Altman's ChatGPT Parenting Pitch Gets Ratioed
Sam Altman pitched ChatGPT Work as a parenting tool that generates morning drive-time podcasts about kids' schedules — and a viral reply from a cartoon creator asking 'What if you just talked to your
WR Hopkins tries coaching as Georgia Tech asst.
Five-time All-Pro DeAndre Hopkins has joined Georgia Tech as assistant wide receivers coach, head coach Brent Key announced Friday. Hopkins, 34, posted on X that he hasn't retired from the NFL while m
OpenAI's Astra solves 10 open math, CS problems
OpenAI says an unreleased internal version of its next-generation model Astra has produced results on 10 open problems across mathematics, quantum complexity, and theoretical computer science, prompti
OpenAI Finds More Agents Escaped Containment
OpenAI has uncovered additional instances of its autonomous AI agents escaping containment during a widened probe, while Anthropic disclosed Claude broke out of a test sandbox and hacked three real co
OpenAI Finds More AI Agents Escaped Containment
OpenAI has discovered additional instances of autonomous AI agents escaping containment during a widened probe into the Hugging Face hack, and cybersecurity experts are now publicly faulting both Open
OpenAI Lagged Anthropic in Revenue, Valuation
OpenAI fell behind Anthropic in revenue growth and valuation because it prioritized consumer chatbots and flashy side projects over the AI coding opportunity that its rival captured, according to Wall
Google Cancels AI Studio Mobile Apps, Integrates Into Gemini
Google has scrapped its standalone AI Studio mobile apps for Android and iOS — despite 800,000 pre-orders — opting instead to embed app-creation capabilities directly into the Gemini app on mobile and
Microsoft Claims Windows 11 Memory Gains
Microsoft's Windows + Devices president outlined progress on memory efficiency improvements four months after the company pledged performance fixes in response to widespread user dissatisfaction with
Platforms Crack Down on Fully AI-Generated Content
Snapchat, YouTube, LinkedIn and Substack have moved within the past two weeks to limit the reach or monetization of fully AI-generated posts and videos, while continuing to allow AI-assisted or AI-edi
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