Why Meta Is Paying AI Engineers $100M: Meta’s massive compensation packages make sense considering the cost and potential return of delivering cutting-edge AI.
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Why Meta Is Paying AI Engineers $100M: Meta’s massive compensation packages make sense considering the cost and potential return of delivering cutting-edge AI.

Recently Meta made headlines with unprecedented, massive compensation packages for AI model builders exceeding $100M (sometimes spread over multiple years).

August 6, 20253 min read
Reasoning Boosts Carbon Emissions: Researchers confirm reasoning models that generate more tokens have a bigger environmental footprint
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Reasoning Boosts Carbon Emissions: Researchers confirm reasoning models that generate more tokens have a bigger environmental footprint

In the era of reasoning models, delivering better answers to questions has an environmental cost. A new study quantifies the impact.

August 6, 20253 min read
High Stakes for Nations in the Great AI Race: The U.S. leads in AI, but China is gaining momentum. Democratic countries should remove roadblocks to AI progress so they can build models that support human rights and the rule of law.
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High Stakes for Nations in the Great AI Race: The U.S. leads in AI, but China is gaining momentum. Democratic countries should remove roadblocks to AI progress so they can build models that support human rights and the rule of law.

There is now a path for China to surpass the U.S. in AI. Even though the U.S. is still ahead, China has tremendous momentum with its vibrant open-weights model ecosystem and aggressive moves in semiconductor design and manufacturing.

July 30, 20253 min read
People With AI Friends Feel Worse: Study shows heavy use of AI companions correlates with lower emotional well-being
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People With AI Friends Feel Worse: Study shows heavy use of AI companions correlates with lower emotional well-being

People who turn to chatbots for companionship show indications of lower self-reported well-being, researchers found.

July 30, 20253 min read
U.S. Lifts Ban on AI Chips for China: Market opens for Nvidia and AMD GPUs, following a White House meeting with Jensen Huang
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U.S. Lifts Ban on AI Chips for China: Market opens for Nvidia and AMD GPUs, following a White House meeting with Jensen Huang

Nvidia will resume sales of H20 processors in China.

July 30, 20253 min read
White House Resets U.S. AI Policy: How the White House's Action Plan aims to build AI leadership, infrastructure, and innovation
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White House Resets U.S. AI Policy: How the White House's Action Plan aims to build AI leadership, infrastructure, and innovation

President Trump set forth principles of an aggressive national AI policy, and he moved to implement them through an action plan and executive orders.

July 30, 20253 min read
How to Comply With the EU’s AI Act: EU issues code of practice to help AI developers follow AI Act regulations
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How to Comply With the EU’s AI Act: EU issues code of practice to help AI developers follow AI Act regulations

The European Union published guidelines to help builders of AI models to comply with the AI Act, which wasenacted last year.

July 23, 20253 min read
California Reframes AI Regulations: California proposes new guidelines to balance AI innovation and regulation
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California Reframes AI Regulations: California proposes new guidelines to balance AI innovation and regulation

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.

July 16, 20252 min read
Meta Lures Talent With Sky-High Pay: Meta’s hiring spree pushes up salaries for AI engineers higher across the industry
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Meta Lures Talent With Sky-High Pay: Meta’s hiring spree pushes up salaries for AI engineers higher across the industry

Publicly reported compensation for AI talent has skyrocketed in the wake of Meta’s recent hiring spree.

July 16, 20253 min read
How The U.S. “One Big Beautiful Bill” Will Shape AI Regulation: State-by-state regulation of AI will create a shifting patchwork of laws that are likely to hamper innovation even as they provide lesser benefits.
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How The U.S. “One Big Beautiful Bill” Will Shape AI Regulation: State-by-state regulation of AI will create a shifting patchwork of laws that are likely to hamper innovation even as they provide lesser benefits.

Last week, the United States Congress passed President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.” I’m disappointed it didn’t include a proposed moratorium on U.S. state-level AI regulation.

July 9, 20253 min read
Robotic Beehive For Healthier Bees: Beewise’s robotic beehive uses AI to save pollinators.
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Robotic Beehive For Healthier Bees: Beewise’s robotic beehive uses AI to save pollinators.

An automated beehive uses computer vision and robotics to help keep bees healthy and crops pollinated.

July 9, 20252 min read
Good Models, Bad Choices: Anthropic made LLMs choose between failing and misbehaving, and they blackmailed executives.
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Good Models, Bad Choices: Anthropic made LLMs choose between failing and misbehaving, and they blackmailed executives.

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.

July 9, 20254 min read
A Major Risk to AI Development Just Decreased: A U.S. federal judge ruled that training LLMs on copyrighted works is fair use. AI models are free to learn from books just like people are.
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A Major Risk to AI Development Just Decreased: A U.S. federal judge ruled that training LLMs on copyrighted works is fair use. AI models are free to learn from books just like people are.

On Monday, a United States District Court ruled that training LLMs on copyrighted books constitutes fair use.

June 25, 20252 min read
CEOs Look to AI to Replace Workers: Amazon and other major companies say AI will reduce their corporate workforces
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CEOs Look to AI to Replace Workers: Amazon and other major companies say AI will reduce their corporate workforces

Leaders at some of the biggest U.S. corporations say they’re preparing for AI to eliminate many jobs within their organizations.

June 25, 20253 min read
LLM Rights Historical Wrongs: Stanford and Princeton researchers fine-tune a language model to identify racial discrimination in property
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LLM Rights Historical Wrongs: Stanford and Princeton researchers fine-tune a language model to identify racial discrimination in property

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.

June 19, 20252 min read

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