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Asian Americans more optimistic than pessimistic about AI, survey finds
Asian Americans are embracing artificial intelligence at higher rates than any other major racial group in the United States and remain the only group whose positive views of AI outweigh negative…
AI hiring tool disproportionately screened out Asian applicants, study finds
A hiring algorithm promoted as a way to make hiring more objective disproportionately screened out Asian job applicants, according to a Stanford-led study. Candidates of Asian descent faced the…
Ronny Chieng says what everyone’s thinking about AI at Harvard
Ronny Chieng used Harvard College’s Class Day ceremony this week to openly mock the pro-AI message that has shaped many commencement speeches across the U.S. The comedian and “Daily Show”…
Palantir manifesto declares some cultures ‘harmful’ as lawmakers demand answers on surveillance tools
Palantir Technologies, a data analytics company deeply embedded in U.S. military, intelligence and law enforcement operations, published a 22-point manifesto on X stating that some cultures are…
Americans rely on AI but overwhelmingly want government regulation, survey finds
Most Americans believe artificial intelligence needs government oversight even as the technology becomes part of their daily routines. A new national survey found that 79% of respondents support…
Vietnam enacts Southeast Asia’s first national AI law
Vietnam implemented its first national law regulating artificial intelligence on March 1, establishing the most comprehensive AI governance framework in Southeast Asia. Passed by the National…
AI research boom draws scrutiny after single author claims 113 papers in one year
Academics say artificial intelligence research is being diluted by a surge of rapidly produced papers that receive only cursory peer review. The criticism has intensified after Kevin Zhu, a recent…
Threads surpasses X in mobile users as Musk’s platform faces decline
Meta’s Threads has overtaken Elon Musk’s X in daily mobile users for the first time as the latter’s audience shrinks to half its former size, according to a recent report. By the numbers: Data from…
Nvidia’s Jensen Huang ‘perfectly fine’ with prospect of California billionaire tax
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told Bloomberg Television in an interview that California’s proposed billionaire wealth tax does not concern him. The proposal would tax individuals with net worth exceeding…
Over 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are AI slop, study finds
More than 20% of videos recommended to brand-new YouTube users are low-quality, AI-generated clips known as “AI slop,” according to a study released last month. Researchers at Kapwing analyzed the…
ICE records show $300 million expansion of surveillance tools under Trump
Federal records show U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement expanding its enforcement toolkit with more than $300 million earmarked across planned and active contracts for surveillance technology…
Half of peer reviewers now use AI: survey
Half of scientific peer reviewers now rely on artificial intelligence to evaluate manuscripts, yet 75% of researchers report they cannot tell if journals use the technology themselves. A survey of…
Japan scientist develops AI system that turns brain activity into sentences
A scientist in Japan has created a technique that uses fMRI brain scans and artificial intelligence to generate sentences describing what a person is seeing or recalling. The system links patterns of…
Amazon workers say AI push threatens democracy and the world
More than 1,000 Amazon employees said on Tuesday that the company’s rapid artificial intelligence (AI) rollout is putting jobs, democratic institutions and the environment at risk. In an open letter…
India reverses order requiring government tracking app on all smartphones
The Indian government withdrew an order on Wednesday that would have required every smartphone in the country to carry an app that critics said could expose users to expanded government access to…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang orders employees to automate all tasks with AI
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang instructed employees during a companywide meeting in Santa Clara on Nov. 20 that they should automate every task possible with artificial intelligence. His directive followed…
Google’s CEO can afford to lose his job to AI. We can’t.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai was smiling in a BBC interview aired last Tuesday when he suggested that “what a CEO does is maybe one of the easier things maybe for an AI to do one day.” While framed as a…
‘Godfather of AI’ warns of AI’s dangers
Computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton, widely known as one of the “godfathers” of artificial intelligence (AI), urged policymakers to address the technology’s risks during a forum at Georgetown…
It’s time to teach our parents how to spot AI fakes
As artificial intelligence (AI) tools develop at an unprecedented rate, it is becoming more and more difficult for people to tell digital faces from real ones. Participants of a recent study by…
AI-written articles surpass human output online for the 1st time, study finds
AI-generated articles officially outnumbered human-written ones across the web in November 2024, according to new data from Five Percent. Researchers analyzed 65,000 English-language pages from the…
AI-generated images of Lee Jung-jae used to defraud woman of $350K
A woman in her 50s from Miryang, South Korea, lost about 500 million won ($350,000), after scammers used AI-generated photos of “Squid Game” star Lee Jung-jae and a forged driver’s license to pose as…
Trump pardons Binance founder Changpeng Zhao
President Donald Trump this week pardoned Changpeng Zhao, the convicted Binance founder whose company provides infrastructure for the Trump family’s cryptocurrency ventures, prompting questions about…
Chinese scientists achieve world’s 1st successful living pig-to-human liver transplant
In a world-first, Chinese researchers have successfully transplanted a genetically engineered pig liver into a living human, proving that a porcine graft can sustain human liver function. The…
Japan warns OpenAI over AI-generated anime rip-offs
The Japanese government has instructed OpenAI to prevent copyright violations after its Sora 2 video-generation tool produced clips imitating well-known anime. Minister of State for Intellectual…
Simu Liu speaks out against AI-generated ‘actress’
Chinese Canadian star Simu Liu has spoken out against Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated “actress” signed by a London talent agency that also represents real performers. British company Xicoia introduced…
Job recruiters face growing flood of AI-generated resumes and deepfakes
Job interviews are increasingly being infiltrated by artificial intelligence, with 72% of recruiters reporting everything from face-swapping video tricks to resumes written entirely by machines, a…
Zoom CEO Eric Yuan says AI could reduce five-day workweek to three
Artificial intelligence may reduce the five-day workweek to as few as three days, according to Zoom CEO Eric Yuan. Speaking to The New York Times in a recent interview, Yuan said advances in AI will…
TikTok deal announced after months of stalled negotiations
President Donald Trump and Chinese officials have reached a framework to transfer TikTok’s American operations to U.S. control, breaking months of deadlock. About the deal: The president announced…
‘Godfather of AI’ warns AI will cause ‘massive unemployment,’ widen wealth gap
Computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton, often called the “godfather of AI” for his pioneering work in machine learning, said in an interview with the Financial Times earlier this month that capitalism…
ICE poised to deploy Israeli spyware amid immigration crackdown
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has reactivated a $2 million contract with Israeli spyware company Paragon, giving the agency access to sophisticated phone-hacking technology as…
Silicon Valley immigrants disprove privilege narrative, claims billionaire investor
Prominent billionaire tech investor David Friedberg argued that immigrants who succeed in Silicon Valley challenge the idea that privilege determines success in a recent exchange on X. The Ohalo CEO…
Chinese supercar sets EV speed world record
China’s BYD achieved a new electric vehicle speed record when its Yangwang U9 Track Edition reached 293.54 mph at the ATP Automotive Testing Papenburg track in Germany on Aug. 8. The figure surpassed…
Robots dance and spar as Beijing hosts 1st World Humanoid Robot Games
Beijing staged the inaugural World Humanoid Robot Games last week, beginning Thursday evening with an opening ceremony where robots danced hip-hop, performed martial arts and played musical…
1 in 4 Gen Z workers regret college, survey finds
Nearly 1 in 4 Gen Z workers regret going to college or wish they had pursued a more lucrative career, while 1 in 5 say their degree did not contribute to their current job, according to a…
Trump’s Nvidia China deal raises security concerns
U.S. President Donald Trump on Aug. 11 approved an arrangement that lets Nvidia resume selling certain AI chips in China in exchange for the U.S. government taking 15% of revenue from those sales.…
AI is altering the legal profession as record number of Asian Americans enter law school
Artificial intelligence is transforming legal careers just as Asian American enrollment in U.S. law schools has reached an all-time high. Raising the alarm on AI: In an X post on July 26, lawyer and…
