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Will AI find its feet after bubble bursts?

Big Tech's AI spending is skyrocketing, with projections reaching $700 billion this year. Critics like Gary Marcus and Cory Doctorow label this an unsustainable "capital misallocation." Doctorow's new book explores a post-AI world, questioning the current AI bubble driven by investor hopes of mass worker replacement. He argues AI's escalating…

The Times of India

Hyperscalers could end up resembling airlines—plagued by small margins, intense competition, and high expenses, AI skeptic warns

“In placing massive hyperscaling bets, investors are setting lavish expectations about future earnings.”

Fortune

US order cutting access to Anthropic's AI models sparks criticism

NEW YORK - The US government's order for Anthropic to withdraw its most powerful artificial intelligence models has sparked a wave of criticism from both advocates and opponents of AI regulation.

Bangkok Post

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The 'godfather of AI' says we're not just creating new beings — they'll be much smarter than us, and soon

The race to make the smartest possible AI that can do the most things will "lead to things that aren't nice beings towards us," Geofrey Hinton said.

Fortune

OpenAI and Anthropic spark coding revolution as developers abandoned traditional programming

New releases from OpenAI and Anthropic sparked an existential crisis among coders, but many engineers say they stopped coding months ago.

Fortune

Top AI leaders are begging people not to use Moltbook, a social media platform for AI agents: It’s a ‘disaster waiting to happen’

Moltbook might be fake, but even worse, it’s dangerous to run on your personal computer, experts say.

Fortune

Mark Zuckerberg And Sam Altman Admitted Today's AI Surge Is Bubble-Like, Now A Researcher Compares The Boom With 18th Century Tulip Mania

Artificial intelligence may be powering record investment and innovation, but one of the industry's most outspoken skeptics says the hype looks eerily like past manias.

Benzinga

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Why the Oracle-OpenAI deal has set 'AI Bubble' alarm bells ringing

Oracle’s $300B deal with OpenAI drove a stock surge, but investors worry both companies could fail to deliver

Fortune

Elon Musk says Optimus robots will save Tesla. But many of them don’t work yet

As Tesla suffers a worldwide slowdown in sales, the world’s richest person is pinning his hopes on humanoid robots to conquer the future. But it’s not even clear yet whether they can operate on their own

The Independent UK

The AI bubble may be about to pop — here’s what MIT’s 95% failure stat means

Billions of dollars are being poured into AI development, but most pilot programs don't succeed.

Windows Central

95% of corporate AI pilots are flopping — MIT just said the quiet part out loud

Billions of dollars are being poured into AI development, but most pilot programs don't succeed.

Windows Central

‘It’s almost tragic’: Bubble or not, the AI backlash is validating one critic’s warnings

Gary Marcus told Fortune that AI valuations remind him of Wile E. Coyote. “We are off the cliff.”

Fortune

43 People Ask ChatGPT To Age Up Their Childhood Photos And Compare The Prediction With Reality

Which predictions do you think AI got 100% right?

Bored Panda

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

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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

International Business Times 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

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.

The Guardian - UK

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

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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.

Windows Central

"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.

Fortune

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

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