Illinois became the second U.S. state, after Nevada, to ban AI applications that administer psychotherapy.
A growing private school system replaces the typical 6-hour school day with 2 hours of personalized, AI-assisted education.
Meta and OpenAI promised to place more controls on their chatbots’ conversations with children and teenagers, as worrisome interactions with minors come under increasing scrutiny.
Google determined that its large language models have a smaller environmental footprint than previous estimates had led it to expect.
Large language models may have advantages over human recruiters when conducting job interviews, a study shows.
The French AI company Mistral measured the environmental impacts of its flagship large language model.
In the era of reasoning models, delivering better answers to questions has an environmental cost. A new study quantifies the impact.
The European Union published guidelines to help builders of AI models to comply with the AI Act, which wasenacted last year.
A committee convened by California Governor Gavin Newsom proposed principles intended to balance AI innovation with careful governance. The group sought to rethink AI regulation after Newsom vetoed earlier proposed legislation.
xAI updated its Grok vision-language model and published impressive benchmark results. But, like earlier versions, Grok 4 showed questionable behavior right out of the gate.
Top large language models, under experimental conditions that pressed them to choose between abandoning their prompted mission and misbehaving, resorted to harmful behavior, researchers found.
Does a reasoning model’s chain of thought explain how it arrived at its output? Researchers found that often it doesn’t.
In Northern California, old property deeds may still include racial clauses: language, made illegal decades ago, that was designed to ban people of color from owning or living in certain homes.
A study co-authored by tech-manual publisher Tim O’Reilly shows that OpenAI trained GPT-4o on parts of his company’s books that were not made freely available.
An unauthorized update by an xAI employee caused the Grok chatbot to introduce South African politics into unrelated conversations, the company said.
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