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UConn Enlists Connecticut Students as Citizen Scientists in Air Quality Push
Connecticut students are being asked to take on a new kind of homework: measuring the air they breathe. A project organized through the University of Connecticut is inviting students across the state to participate in hands-on research aimed at better understanding local air quality â and, researchers hope, at building a clearer picture of where…
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own?
When an artificial intelligence company says its model has made a scientific discovery, the claim lands in a strange gray zone. It is thrilling if true, and difficult to evaluate either way. That is the question now circling Anthropic, the A.I. lab behind the Claude family of models, after suggestions that its system produced a…
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Madison Finance Committee Approves $350K Police Body-Camera Grant
Madison Finance Committee Signs Off on $350K Police Body-Camera Grant Madison’s Finance Committee has approved accepting a $350,000 grant to support body-worn cameras for the city’s police department, advancing one of the most closely watched public safety debates in the capital city in recent years. The committee’s vote clears a procedural hurdle for the funding,…
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Stock Market Today: Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq Fall as Treasury Yields Climb
Wall Street began the week on the back foot, with all three major U.S. stock indexes retreating as Treasury yields extended their climb and investors reassessed how much higher borrowing costs might go. The Dow Jones Industrial Average, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite all traded lower, with declines broadening through the session as…
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Meta’s Latest Big-Name AI Hire Signals a Business Push — and Another Vote of Confidence in Zuckerberg
Meta has made another high-profile addition to its artificial intelligence ranks, this time with a clear commercial tilt: the company is staffing up around business-facing AI, the part of the stack that turns research breakthroughs into products advertisers and enterprises will actually pay for. For investors, the move reads less like a one-off personnel announcement…
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Meta Looks to Turn Massive AI Spending Into Revenue With New Business Customer Push
Meta is moving to show investors a return on the enormous sums it has poured into artificial intelligence, with a new effort aimed squarely at business customers, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. The push marks a notable shift in emphasis for a company whose fortunes have long rested on consumer attention.…
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Parents Confront a New Fear: Could AI End Humanity Before Their Kids Grow Up?
For generations, parental anxiety has followed a familiar script: Is the car seat installed correctly? Are they eating enough vegetables? Will they get into a decent school? But a growing number of parents say a stranger, harder-to-name worry has moved into the back of their minds â one that no checklist can address. They are…
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AI ‘Godfathers’ Warn of Runaway ‘Intelligence Explosion’ Risk
Some of the most influential figures in modern artificial intelligence have issued a fresh warning about the possibility of a runaway “intelligence explosion” u2014 a scenario in which AI systems become capable of improving themselves faster than humans can understand or control. The warning, reported by the Guardian, comes from researchers often described as the…
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OpenAI Scraps New Model Release After Internal Safety Testing Raises Concerns
OpenAI has cancelled the planned release of a new artificial intelligence model after problems emerged during internal safety testing, according to a report published by the Guardian. The decision marks a rare public example of a leading AI developer halting a product at a late stage of development on safety grounds. While companies routinely delay…
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As A.I. Accelerates, Governments Are Increasingly Being Left Behind
Artificial intelligence is advancing faster than the institutions built to oversee it. That gap â between the pace of technological change and the pace of lawmaking â has become one of the defining governance problems of the decade, and by most accounts it is widening rather than closing. The basic dynamic is not new. Regulators…