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AI can now credibly complete most undergraduate assignments, MIT warns

Generative artificial intelligence is advancing so rapidly and producing such massive, long-term disruptions to education that a committee at MIT proposed profound changes Tuesday to counter the technology’s risks.

Wall Street Journal defends billionaire’s use of AI to write op-ed

The Wall Street Journal said that billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller did not violate its policies by using artificial intelligence to write an op-ed published Monday that criticized Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s interventions in the U.S. bond market.

A troubling rogue AI incident shows why the U.K. AI Security Institute deserves greater scrutiny

The British agency is often held up as a model of innovation. But is it mitigating AI's risks or posing new dangers of its own?

Benchmarks Don't Know Your Job

Plus: the number KateBench taught us to count, and a six-agent solar crew helping decide whether to run the dryer

Stability AI, maker of image generator Stable Diffusion, raises $76 million in fresh funding

The company's new fundraising total now stands at $232 million.

OpenAI asks for more regulation from California after its own cybersecurity incidents prove just how capable AI is at hacking

OpenAI, in a post late last week, broke with the traditional assumption that all companies prefer fewer regulations when it asked California to add rules to its landmark AI safety law.

Claude Cowork finally remembers what you told the app in chat

Anthropic is giving Claude a shared memory across chat and Cowork, so users no longer have to repeatedly brief the AI on projects, preferences, and other context.

What is a 'meat proxy'? The new term for coworkers who blindly share AI output

"Meat proxy" refers to someone who sends outputs straight from Claude or ChatGPT without analyzing them. It's caught on with techies on X.

AI is making critical infrastructure easier to attack

A wave of cyberattacks against critical infrastructure raises questions about their preparedness.

Over 1 million people clicked LinkedIn’s ‘seems like AI slop’ button as the platform fights to keep ‘dead internet theory’ from becoming reality

Years after the “dead internet theory” became popular to describe the apparent takeover of online spaces by AI, LinkedIn is taking steps to avoid an early grave by slopification.

Claude Cowork can now remember your regular chats.

Anthropic has added memory to Cowork, and it’s the same one Claude’s chatbot already uses, making it easier to pick up tasks without re-explaining important information. Memory is on by default, but won’t save sensitive topics like health or beliefs unless you manually enable that setting.

A Chinese humanoid robot sets a new 100-meter sprint record at Beijing Games

BEIJING — A Chinese humanoid robot set a new 100-meter sprint record of 8.86 seconds in Beijing on Tuesday, beating its robot competitors — and the fastest recorded human time.