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We work day and night just to keep up with AI’s progress or the last few months that our work still matters
Researchers from the AI Futures Project somewhat disagree among themselves about AI timelines, but all predict that the impact of superhuman AI over the next decade will be enormous. So, what’s ahead of us?
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Therapists secretly using ChatGPT: patients’ private data could be at risk
Therapists are turning to ChatGPT in secret, raising alarms over patient trust, privacy, and whether AI belongs in therapy at all.
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Britannica, Merriam-Webster sue AI answer engine Perplexity over copyright
Britannica Group, the company behind the 250-year-old Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster, has filed a lawsuit against the AI web search startup Perplexity AI, accusing it of copyright infringement.
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NSFW AI chatbots: What if your virtual friend suddenly turns cold?
When OpenAI released ChatGPT5, the company attempted to fix the chatbot’s tendency to be overly agreeable. However, a massive backlash quickly ensued after users complained that their virtual friend had suddenly turned cold and started speaking to them formally, as if they were a stranger.
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Can AI extend human lifespan?
New developments in everything from diagnosis techniques to drug discovery and personalized medicine are helping medical researchers make great leaps in combating ageing.
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NASA to forecast space weather and Wifi outages
NASA is planning to adopt new AI tools to predict space weather. By combining solar, ionospheric, and magnetic field data with machine learning, NASA has already developed models that can foresee satellite-disrupting events up to 24 hours before they happen.
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Human customer service agents will remain in all Fortune 500 companies by 2028
Ditching human customer service entirely is a bust. Fewer? Yes. However, by 2028, human customer support agents will remain in all of the largest US companies, listed in the Fortune 500, Gartner predicts.
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Lonely people will love the robot revolution
Contrary to what some may believe, lonely people would rather interact with a robot than another human being to conserve “emotional resources,” a new study has shown.
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Musk's xAI sacks hundreds of workers in charge of training Grok
Elon Musk’s xAI has laid off at least 500 workers from the data annotation team that is tasked with training Grok AI, according to a recent report by Business Insider.
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Reddit, Yahoo, Medium are adopting new protocol to prevent free content scraping
Famous content-publishing websites, including Reddit, Yahoo, wikiHow, and Medium, among others, announced their support for launch of the RSL Standard licensing protocol that allows publishers to set compensation, licensing, and usage terms for AI crawlers and agents.
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Can AI become a study ally and help combat bad learning habits? Experts weigh in
As students become ever more reliant on AI, experts have utlized the tool to discover which study habits lead to bad exam results — and discussed whether the use of AI can be effective in learning and preparation.
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Albania wants an AI minister, but can a chatbot govern?
Albania has advanced the idea of using an AI chatbot named “Djella” as “the servant of public procurements.”
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Microsoft and OpenAI agree to new terms paving way for ChatGPT maker’s for-profit conversion and IPO ambitions
Microsoft and OpenAI said on Thursday they have signed a non-binding deal for new relationship terms that would allow OpenAI to proceed to restructure itself into a for-profit company, marking a new phase of the most high-profile partnerships to fund the ChatGPT frenzy.
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Alibaba claims its new Qwen AI model with 80B parameters beats Gemini-2.5 Flash
Alibaba has released its latest free artificial intelligence (AI) model. It claims that it’s extremely fast and efficient, very cheap to train, runs well on consumer hardware, and beats Gemini 2.5 Flash across multiple benchmarks.
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FDA panel to hold public meeting on risks of AI mental health chatbots
The US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday announced its digital advisory panel would hold an advisory panel meeting in November to examine the fast-emerging class of AI-enabled digital mental health devices.
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“Fictional entity:” Google AI denies existence of Elon Musk’s DOGE
Google’s AI-powered search seems to be confused about whether the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) ever existed – or what it is exactly.
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Can there be a cyber or AI-Zapad 2025?
It’s long been said that a hypothetical World War III would be vastly different from the two previous world wars, mainly due to technological advancement. In addition to fighting with guns, bombs, and artillery, a cyber and AI war will remain an always-open second front. Has Russia already opened it?
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If you’re sexting a chatbot, your partner likely thinks you’re cheating
As more people substitute human connection for artificial intelligence chatbots, the line between fidelity and infidelity is increasingly blurred.
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ASML invests $1.5B in Mistral, boosting Europe’s AI ambitions
Dutch semiconductor maker ASML, one of Europe’s tech giants, has become the largest investor in Paris-based Mistral. The investment reinforces Mistral’s position as the continent’s most valuable AI startup.
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Reddit erupts amid retirement of ChatGPT’s “standard voice"
OpenAI is retiring ChatGPT’s beloved Standard Voice, sparking a Reddit uproar as users mourn the loss of the expressive, human-like voice known as “Sky.”
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