New AI technology is transforming scientific research, drug discovery, education, software development, weather forecasting, robotics, energy, agriculture, transportation, manufacturing, accessibility, translation and communication, astronomy, and elder care. Those are important! Keep them in mind when you read the next couple of sections so you don’t think I’m just a Debbie Downer. AI and the economy –…
Here’s your human-generated summary of the latest AI news. Mankind has never lived through a period of technological change like this. It arrived overnight, it is constantly changing and evolving, and its impact is so multifold that we literally can’t comprehend it all. Both of these things are true: AI has the power to advance…
It’s Anti-AI week! Protests and petitions and boycotts and resignations, oh my. OpenAI (ChatGPT) is the villain. Anthropic (Claude) is the hero, topping the download charts after a burst of headlines about AI and the Pentagon and are you kidding me, AI-controlled killer drones? It’s an interesting story but it’s 2026 so, trigger warning, it’s also a very dark story. Plus there’s a wonky…
AI is being used to generate explicit images of real people, celebrities, and minors. Nudity! Bikinis! Sex, sex, so much sex! The use of technology to create pornography is, of course, intolerable and must be stopped. For weeks, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has been undressing women and minors. California’s Attorney General launched an investigation into the “shocking, disgusting,…