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When billion-dollar AIs break down over puzzles a child can do, it’s time to rethink the hype

The tech world is reeling from a paper that shows the powers of a new generation of AI have been wildly oversold, says cognitive scientist Gary Marcus

The Guardian - UK

Advanced AI suffers ‘complete accuracy collapse’ in face of complex problems, study finds

‘Pretty devastating’ Apple paper raises doubts about race to reach stage of AI at which it matches human intelligence

The Guardian - UK

AI Agents Could Soon Discover New Knowledge, Says OpenAI's Sam Altman; But What Does That Really Mean?

OpenAi's Sam Altman suggests AI agents may soon make original discoveries. We explore what that really means and how far we are from truly autonomous machine insight.

International Business Times UK

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Generative AI's Most Prominent Skeptic Doubles Down

Two and a half years since ChatGPT rocked the world, scientist and writer Gary Marcus still remains generative artificial intelligence's great skeptic, playing a counter-narrative to Silicon Valley's AI true believers.

International Business Times

Now you don’t even need code to be a programmer. But you do still need expertise

AI is so good at writing software that one father asked it to organise his kids’ school lunches. But that doesn’t mean it’s taking over

The Guardian - UK

OpenAI’s ex-policy lead accuses the company of ‘rewriting’ its AI safety history in new safety post

A former policy lead at OpenAI is accusing the company of rewriting its history with a new post about the company's approach to safety and alignment.

Fortune

"Elon Musk promised Grok 3 would be the smartest AI ever. Spoiler alert: it wasn't." — AI critic says Sam Altman can breathe easy as xAI's model launch was a "carbon copy" of previous demos

Elon Musk touts Grok 3 as the smartest AI on earth, outperforming proprietary models from top AI firms, including OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, and Google.

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A Super Bowl ad featuring Google’s Gemini AI contained a whopper of a mistake about cheese

Google quietly corrected an ad featuring its chatbot that claimed Gouda made up 60% of the world’s cheese consumption.

Fortune

OpenAI’s $500 billion Stargate is massive AI gamble. Here's why it's high-stakes

Stargate isn’t just a massive AI investment—it’s a high-stakes bet on technology, power, and future global dominance.

Fortune

'Manipulative and disgraceful': OpenAI's critics seize on math benchmarking scandal

Reports suggest OpenAI is about to make a huge announcement about AI agents. But its last big announcement is already looking slightly questionable.

Fortune

Why both Sam Altman and Gary Marcus are wrong about today's AI

Conversations with AI executives, such as Prosus's Euro Beinat, show AI can have a big impact—but only after a lot of work

Fortune

What OpenAI's o3 means for AI progress and what it means for AI adoption are two different things

The cost of new 'reasoning models' may make companies reluctant to use them, even as their capabilities close in on human-level performance at most tasks

Fortune

The next wave of AI won’t be driven by LLMs. Here’s what investors should focus on

The diminishing returns from each new iteration of LLMs are making it clear that we’re nearing the top of the S-curve for this particular technology.

Fortune

Why AI’s Tom Cruise problem means it is ‘doomed to fail’

LLMs’ ‘reversal curse’ leads it to fail at drawing relationships between simple facts. It’s a problem that could prove fatal

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A former OpenAI researcher sees a clear path to AGI this decade. Bill Gates disagrees

Some think AGI is just around the corner. Others think we're nowhere close. Either way, companies need AI that works better than today's LLMs.

International Business Times UK

Elon Musk AI Predictions Challenged, CEOs Bet $1M He Will Fail

Musk's AI predictions face million-dollar challenges. CEOs disagree and want public debate on the true state of AI, saying progress is slower than Musk claims.

Axios

AI chatbot letdown: Hype hits rocky reality

The generative AI iindustry hits a "trough of disillusionment" as early awe dims and tough problems mount.

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The copyright battle over generative AI continues, as The New York Times sues OpenAI

OpenAI could face significant financial penalties if it is found guilty of sourcing information from The New York Times

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Fortune

OpenAI says complying with copyright 'impossible'

Building generative AI that complies with copyright law is not as unfeasible as OpenAI says. But it won't be cheap.

Fortune

OpenAI investors' race to reinstate Sam Altman makes tech expert Gary Marcus feel 'sick to his stomach'

"None of this bodes well," writes the NYU professor, who's worried about the nonprofit's board getting overpowered.

The Guardian - UK

‘You can do both’: experts seek ‘good AI’ while attempting to avoid the bad

While AI revolutionises medicine, bleaker alternatives present themselves, UN’s AI for Good conference finds

Fortune

Why picking citizens at random could be the best way to govern the A.I. revolution

A global, democratic approach–not an exclusively technocratic one–is the only adequate answer to the political and ethical challenge of governing A.I.

The Conversation

How can Congress regulate AI? Erect guardrails, ensure accountability and address monopolistic power

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Five key takeaways from OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman’s Senate hearing

ChatGPT creator and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman urges lawmakers to regulate artificial intelligence during a hearing.

Axios

OpenAI's Sam Altman tells senators: regulate us

But even with industry leaders asking for them, new rules for AI face a tough road in a split Congress.

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