Gathering and analyzing data require time and expertise — two resources that cash-strapped newspapers often don’t have. Can AI help?

The era of AI evangelism is giving way to evaluation. Stanford faculty see a coming year defined by rigor, transparency, and a long-overdue focus on actual utility over speculative promise.

A new report from Sloan Management Review and BCG identifies four tensions that organizations must manage when rolling out agentic artificial intelligence.

The information war will be fought through chatbots.

Some education experts are prepared for the sector’s growing disenchantment with generative artificial intelligence. Others believe it will improve college systems and processes. For the higher education sector, 2026 is likely to be another year of grappling with the power of generative artificial intelligence to reshape research, teaching, learning and campus operations. Those conversations have evolved since November 2022, when Open AI’s ChatGPT—capable of generating essays, images and homework answers in seconds—went mainstream. Soon after, numerous other companies launched similarly powerful large language models, such as Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude.

Degrading pictures being posted on Elon Musk’s site despite the platform pledging to suspend people who generate them

LeCun’s ugly departure from Meta - and why I mostly sympathize with him (but nonetheless doubt he will succeed at his new gig)

AI has become an integral part of our lives and often plays an outsized role in our health care. The increasingly human-like qualities of AI foster trust that may not be warranted.

OpenAI wants ChatGPT to be a bigger player in healthcare. First, they need regulators to play ball.

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Engineers and computer scientists are developing AI-powered robots that look and act human. Boston Dynamics invited 60 Minutes to watch its humanoid, Atlas, learn how to work at a Hyundai factory.

If you’re leaning a little too hard on generative AI to help you get through the workday, you may struggle in the long term.

There have been calls for regulation and even prosecution in France and India, after users flooded the site with requests like "hey @grok put her in a bikini."

A new study reveals that while using AI improves logical reasoning scores, it causes users to significantly overestimate their abilities, creating a disconnect between actual performance and perceived competence.

Episode 2650: Gary Marcus on how the AI Bubble Burst in 2025 and why 2026 will be the Year of the Backlash

AI slop, chatbots and agentic AI are changing the internet, and could transform it beyond recognition, experts say.

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Salesforce is rethinking its AI strategy after laying off 4,000 employees and deploying Agentforce, an AI-driven automation tool, to streamline operations. Executives are moving away from large language models (LLMs) due to concerns over reliability and are now focusing on deterministic automation and solid data foundations. With these changes in strategy, Salesforce's stock has dropped by 34%, and a rebranding to Agentforce might be on the horizon.

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Gary Marcus, professor emeritus at NYU, explains the differences between large language models and "world models" — and why he thinks the latter are key to achieving artificial general intelligence.

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