Provoking thought and conversation with diverse perspectives on AI from industry leaders.
Four nonprofits have asked a San Francisco court to stop five AI companies from releasing new models. The concern is real, but in our view the decision belongs to lawmakers, not a judge.
By David Merry · 3 min read
Brands can now add their own sales chatbot to ChatGPT and pay to promote it as an ad. Each of these chatbots should say plainly that…
By David Merry · 4 min read
Google’s 2023 promise that human reviewers would not see Gmail and Drive content has been rewritten. Connecting Gmail to Gemini now means accepting possible human review,…
By David Merry · 3 min read
METR finds Anthropic's models improving about twice as fast as before, largely with AI help. Anthropic redacted most of the evidence that backed the claim.
By David Merry · 3 min read
Google will switch AI off by default for school students, but schools that keep it off lose Google Search too. Our view: Google already has a…
By David Merry · 3 min read
None of the 51 biggest US online stores has a safe way for an AI agent to buy for you. Blocking agents outright won't hold, and…
By DailyAI · 3 min read
Reddit says its visits from Google search fell by over 1 million a week in October, and blames AI Mode. Its fix is a login wall.…
By David Merry · 3 min read
Alphabet spent $51.4 billion on AI build-out in a quarter and ended $9.1 billion short. Microsoft spent on a similar scale and kept $18.6 billion. Our…
By David Merry · 3 min read
The Netherlands plans about 25,000 fewer civil service jobs by 2035 and says AI will help. Its own letter to parliament warns AI has never delivered…
By David Merry · 3 min read
The identity of Bitcoin’s creator is crypto’s greatest mystery. Now, one of the industry’s biggest names is floating its wildest theory yet. In a recent interview…
By Angelika Ibon · 2 min read
