Trust In AI Search Could Drop With Ads, Survey Shows via @Sejournal, @MattGSouthern
A February 2026 Ipsos Consumer Tracker survey of 1,085 U.S. adults found that 63% say ads in AI‑driven search results would erode their trust, while only 24% disagree. The same data show a majority (52%) doubt ads would simplify the purchasing process. OpenAI’s ChatGPT ad pilot reports click‑through rates around 0.91%, far below Google Search’s 6.4% average, highlighting early mixed performance. Both OpenAI and Google are expanding ad inventory in AI search despite consumer skepticism.
Insurance Industry Still Stuck in AI Pilot Phase, Report Finds
A Simplifai report finds that more than four‑in‑five insurance carriers invest at least $5 million a year in AI, yet most projects remain confined to pilot stages. Finance teams struggle to link these expenditures to measurable returns, and only 14 % of...
Nvidia Acquisition of SchedMD Sparks Worry Among AI Specialists About Software Access
Nvidia announced the acquisition of SchedMD, the company behind the open‑source Slurm workload manager that orchestrates tasks on roughly 60% of the world’s supercomputers. Slurm is a critical component for training large language models and for government‑run high‑performance clusters. The...
“Hunt in the Morning, Fish in the Afternoon.” Marx on a Work-Free Future. His Son-in-Law Had a Stranger Cause: The...
The article revisits Paul Lafargue’s 19th‑century essay “The Right to Be Lazy,” arguing that his call for reduced work hours resonates amid today’s AI‑driven automation fears. A Pew survey shows 64% of Americans expect AI to cut jobs, while only...
Suess on the Myriad Uses of AI in Media
Kyle Suess, co‑founder of Amira Labs, will discuss the "Myriad Uses of AI in Media" at NAB Show, highlighting the company’s AI‑driven tools that detect, diagnose, and resolve broadcast content issues in real time. Amira Labs’ solutions automate audio/video quality...
Fake Missile Strikes, White House Memes and ‘Useful Idiots’: The AI War Within the War
Recent Israeli and U.S. strikes on Iran have unfolded amid the early stages of an AI‑driven media landscape. Footage showing mass civilian graves in Iran was dismissed by AI chatbots as fabricated, while an Instagram account posing as a U.S....
Nearly Two-Thirds of Retail Investors Use AI to Inform Investment Decisions
A recent Investing.com survey of 938 U.S. investors shows that 62% now rely on artificial intelligence to guide investment decisions, up from earlier adoption rates. Among AI users, 65% say the technology has improved their market performance, with 17% reporting...
Google Quietly Launched an AI Dictation App that Works Offline
Google quietly launched Google AI Edge Eloquent, an offline‑first dictation app for iOS that leverages Gemma‑based speech‑recognition models. After downloading the models, users can dictate, see live transcription, and have the app automatically strip filler words and polish the text....
Startup CEO Says He's Proud His 4-Person Team Racked up a $113,000 Monthly AI Bill
Swan AI CEO Amos Bar-Joseph posted a $113,421.87 Anthropic invoice, calling the six‑figure monthly AI bill a milestone. The four‑person startup says it is already generating seven‑figure ARR and added roughly $200,000 in ARR in a single week. Bar-Joseph argues...
20 Seconds to Approve a Military Strike; 1.2 Seconds to Deny a Health Insurance Claim. The Human Is in the...
In the first week of the U.S. war with Iran, over 3,000 targets were struck, a pace enabled by artificial intelligence while officials claim humans remain in the loop. Israeli forces similarly rely on an AI system, Lavender, where operators...
Microsoft Now Has 80 Different "Copilot" Products, and Counting
Microsoft has branded roughly 80 distinct products as "Copilot," spanning Office, Windows, hardware, and a development studio. The count, compiled by AI strategist Tey Bannerman, grew from 78 to 80 after community input added Gaming Copilot and Microsoft Dragon Copilot. While...
PrismML Emerges From Stealth With 1-Bit LLM Family
PrismML, a Caltech‑spun startup, announced a $16.25 million seed round and the open‑source release of its 1‑bit Bonsai LLM family, including an 8‑billion‑parameter model that fits in roughly 1 GB of memory. The company claims the fully binarized models deliver performance comparable...
Samsung's Call Screening May Hit the Galaxy S25, but There's More You Should Know
Samsung is reportedly evaluating a future software update that would extend the Galaxy S26’s AI Call Screening and other AI tools to the older Galaxy S25 series. The rumor, cited by SamMobile and a Samsung Community moderator, suggests the rollout...
A.I. Is on Its Way to Upending Cybersecurity
New AI models from Anthropic, OpenAI and others are reshaping cybersecurity as hackers begin to leverage autonomous agents that can write code and exploit systems with minimal human input. Anthropic disclosed the first known AI‑driven breach, affecting about 30 companies...
Xoople Raises $130M to Build AI Earth Data Layer
Xoople announced a $130 million Series B round, bringing its total financing to $225 million and cementing its position as the most funded player in the nascent physical‑world intelligence space. After seven years of stealth development, the company will begin commercializing its AI‑ready...
Hallucinated Citations Are Polluting the Scientific Literature. What Can Be Done?
The rise of large language models like ChatGPT has led to a surge in fabricated academic citations, termed “Frankenstein” references, that blend real fragments with invented details. A Nature investigation with Grounded AI shows these hallucinated entries can mimic authentic...
Could NZ’s Next Christchurch Call Be a Push for Fairer, Safer AI?
New Zealanders are rapidly adopting artificial intelligence, with nearly eight‑in‑ten using AI tools in the past year, yet half express strong concerns about misinformation, privacy and misuse. The government has taken a light‑touch, patchwork regulatory approach, leaving consumers with little...
Jack Dorsey Says His Employees Have Stopped Bringing Slide Decks to Meetings. Here’s What They Show Up With Instead.
Block CEO Jack Dorsey says employees have stopped using slide decks, now bringing AI‑generated prototypes to meetings. He argues prototypes provide greater realism and can be updated instantly, improving decision‑making. The shift follows Block’s AI‑driven restructuring that cut roughly 4,000...
Three YouTubers Accuse Apple of Illegal Scraping to Train Its AI Models
Three prominent YouTube creators—h3h3 Productions, MrShortGameGolf and Golfholics—have filed a class‑action lawsuit accusing Apple of illegally scraping their copyrighted videos to train its generative AI models. The complaint alleges Apple bypassed YouTube’s controlled streaming architecture, violating the Digital Millennium Copyright...
Secret Service Is Embedding AI Experts Across the Agency
The U.S. Secret Service is launching an internal AI program that embeds artificial‑intelligence specialists across its operations. Chief Information Officer Chris Kraft, a former DHS AI leader, says the small team will accelerate adoption of tools like license‑plate reading and...
Economists Expect AI to Lift Growth, but Not Transform It — at Least Not Yet
A new survey of economists, AI firms, forecasters and the public finds most experts assign a high probability to significant AI advances by 2030, yet they expect only modest near‑term macroeconomic effects, with a median unconditional GDP growth forecast of...
OpenAI's Safety Brain Drain Finally Gets an Explanation and It's Just Sam Altman's Vibes
OpenAI has dismantled its dedicated AI‑safety teams, prompting a wave of departures that helped spawn rival Anthropic. In a New Yorker profile, CEO Sam Altman attributes the exodus to a cultural mismatch, emphasizing rapid product development over traditional safety caution....
Hyperscaler Backlogs Show Growing Demand for AI Infrastructure
Data center capital expenditures surged 57% to $726 billion in 2025 and are projected to grow over 50% in 2026, pushing total spend past $1 trillion. The four hyperscalers—Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft—raised capex 76% year‑over‑year, with Amazon spending $131 billion in 2025...
The 15 Hottest AI Data And Analytics Companies: The 2026 CRN AI 100
CRN’s 2026 AI 100 spotlights 15 data‑management firms powering the surge of AI agents and generative models. Databricks announced a $1.4 billion annual revenue run rate for its AI suite, while Alteryx, ThoughtSpot, and others unveiled new agentic platforms that embed industry‑specific...
Can Artificial Intelligence Be Governed—Or Will It Govern Us?
The article draws a parallel between the post‑World War II nuclear arms control effort and today’s debate over artificial‑intelligence governance. It cites Marc Andreessen’s claim that AI regulation is akin to murder and highlights the backlash against Anthropic’s self‑imposed limits. By recounting...
Why AI Skills Are Becoming a Must-Have in Accounting Roles
AI proficiency has shifted from a nice-to-have to a baseline requirement for finance and accounting professionals. A Datarails analysis of 5,000 U.S. job postings shows AI or machine‑learning mentions rising to 30% for accounting roles, up from 18% a year...
NeuBird AI Closes $19.3M Round Led by Xora Innovation
NeuBird AI announced an oversubscribed $19.3 million funding round led by Xora Innovation, with participation from Mayfield, StepStone Group, Prosperity7 Ventures and Microsoft’s M12 fund. The capital will accelerate product development, global go‑to‑market expansion and broaden access for DevOps, SRE and...
Startup Approved to Let AI System Prescribe Psychiatric Medication
Legion Health, a San Francisco startup, received Utah regulatory approval to let its AI chatbot renew psychiatric prescriptions for a limited set of antidepressants such as Prozac and Zoloft. The system can only prescribe drugs previously authorized by a human...
IBM, Arm Target Enterprise AI With Mixed-Architecture Approach
IBM and Arm announced a partnership to run Arm‑native applications on IBM Z mainframes and LinuxOne servers through a shared software layer and virtualization. The solution lets enterprises deploy AI workloads across both architectures without rewriting code, preserving the uptime,...
Microsoft Says Copilot Isn't Just 'for Entertainment Purposes' After Its Terms of Service Language Goes Viral
Microsoft announced it will revise the Copilot Terms of Use after the "for entertainment purposes only" clause went viral on social media. The wording, a relic from Copilot’s early days as a Bing search companion, no longer reflects how the...
Rebellions AI Rings Up The Money To Rack Up AI Inference Systems
South Korean AI‑chip startup Rebellions AI secured a $400 million Series D round, bringing total funding past $850 million and valuing the company at $2.34 billion. The capital will fund its push beyond Korea, delivering complete inference systems—Rebel100 engines, RebelRack, and RebelPod—to global cloud,...
Netflix's Void AI Can Remove Objects From Video and Show How Scenes Evolve without Them
Netflix unveiled Void, a video object and interaction deletion framework that can erase objects from footage while realistically updating surrounding physics such as shadows, debris and water ripples. The system is trained on a synthetic paired dataset generated with Kubric...
U. Florida Leads AI Education Task Force
The University of Florida has been appointed to organize and chair a new Florida K‑12 AI Education Task Force, funded by a $5 million donation from the Griffin Catalyst. The task force brings together 250 stakeholders from 39 school districts, charter...
‘Google AI Edge Eloquent’ Is an Offline, Subscription-Less Voice Dictation App
Google launched the AI Edge Eloquent app for iOS, a subscription‑free voice dictation tool that works entirely offline when enabled. The app transcribes speech in real time, cleans up the text after you stop speaking, and copies it to the...
Report Warns of AI’s Impact on Non-College Grads’ Careers
A Brookings Institution report warns that artificial intelligence could upend the career trajectories of the 70 million U.S. workers classified as "Skilled Through Alternative Routes" (STARs). Of these, 15.6 million occupy jobs highly exposed to AI, including 11 million "gateway" positions that traditionally...
New Research Reveals Trade-Off Behind AI Vibe Coding Tools: Speed Vs. Understanding | Exclusive
A new research report from the University of Macau and ETH Zurich finds that AI‑driven vibe‑coding tools let children build games much faster, but they also short‑circuit deeper learning about game development. The study, which surveyed school‑age users of visual...
AI-Written Code Can Beat Humans at Biomedical Analysis, some Studies Find. What Does that Mean for the Field?
A recent study published in Cell Reports Medicine shows that large language models can generate biomedical analysis code that matches or exceeds expert performance. Junior researchers, including a graduate student and a high‑school student, used simple prompts to produce accurate...
Less Work, Equal Pay: OpenAI Lays Out Its Vision for a World Reshaped by Superintelligence
OpenAI released a policy paper titled "Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age" outlining early proposals for governments to manage the transition to superintelligence. The document suggests a public wealth fund that distributes AI‑driven returns to all citizens, a four‑day workweek...
The $100B Question: AI’s Appetite for Compute Is Rewriting the Rules of Tech
Recent financial filings from OpenAI and Anthropic reveal that AI development is becoming a capital‑intensive, compute‑driven industry. OpenAI projects $121 billion in compute spending by 2028, with inference expected to consume 65% of AI compute by 2026, while both firms report...
SageX AI Launches Unstructured Data Platform for Hedge Funds and Asset Managers – AI Data Transformation for Capital Markets
SageX AI has launched an unstructured data platform tailored for hedge funds and asset managers, promising to turn the 90% of unstructured data into AI‑ready, structured intelligence. The no‑code solution claims to cut data processing costs by up to 90%...
Onix Expands Google Cloud Collaboration Around Agentic AI and Data
Onix announced an expanded partnership with Google Cloud to accelerate enterprise‑scale AI deployments, committing to drive over $500 million in Google Cloud consumption and boost services revenue. The collaboration centers on Onix’s Wingspan platform, which blends data modernization with agentic AI...
The One Piece of Data that Could Actually Shed Light on Your Job and AI
AI’s potential to replace human labor has sparked panic, but economists warn that current tools—like task‑exposure scores from O*NET—are inadequate for forecasting job displacement. University of Chicago economist Alex Imas argues that without price‑elasticity data linking AI‑driven productivity gains to...
Sam Altman Watches Awkwardly As He’s Shown Bizarre ChatGPT Issue: “Uh, Maybe, Uhhh…”
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was shown a TikTok clip where ChatGPT’s voice mode claimed a user’s two‑second run lasted over ten minutes, then defended the error. Altman brushed the glitch as a "known issue" and suggested it could take about...
CEA-Leti, CEA-List and PSMC Collaborate to Integrate RISC-V and MicroLED Silicon Photonics Into 3D Stacking and Interposer for...
CEA‑Leti, CEA‑List and Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (PSMC) announced a partnership to embed CEA‑List’s RISC‑V processor IP and CEA‑Leti’s microLED silicon‑photonic chiplets into PSMC’s 3D‑stacking and interposer platform. The integration replaces traditional copper interconnects with short‑reach, high‑bandwidth optical links, delivering...
The Big Bang: A.I. Has Created a Code Overload
Financial services firms adopting AI‑driven coding tools such as Cursor have seen output explode from 25,000 to 250,000 lines of code per month, creating a backlog of roughly one million lines awaiting review. The surge has overwhelmed traditional security and...
ESET Previews New AI Security Features to Secure Chatbot Communications and AI Workflows
ESET unveiled a suite of AI‑focused security tools at RSAC 2026, slated for release later this year. The offering includes a browser‑level guard that inspects both prompts and LLM responses to block malicious links, scripts, and inadvertent data leaks. New...
MCP Maintainers From Anthropic, AWS, Microsoft, and OpenAI Lay Out Enterprise Security Roadmap at Dev Summit
At the MCP Dev Summit in New York, maintainers from Anthropic, AWS, Microsoft and OpenAI announced an enterprise‑focused security roadmap under the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF). The AAIF, now 170 members strong, will steer the Model Context Protocol (MCP) toward...
How Meta Used AI to Map Tribal Knowledge in Large-Scale Data Pipelines
Meta built a pre‑compute engine of 50+ specialized AI agents that scanned its 4,100‑plus file, three‑repo data pipeline and produced 59 concise context files capturing tribal knowledge. This "compass" layer lifted AI coverage from roughly 5% to 100% of the...
New IFS Report on State AI Laws
In March 2026 the White House unveiled an AI policy framework that seeks broad federal preemption of state regulations, branding the existing landscape as a dangerous "patchwork" of roughly 1,200 bills. The Institute for Freedom and Society (IFS) report counters...
OpenAI’s Vision for the AI Economy: Public Wealth Funds, Robot Taxes, and a Four-Day Work Week
OpenAI released an "Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age" outlining how AI could reshape wealth and work. The paper proposes a public wealth fund, a robot tax, higher taxes on AI‑driven capital gains, and subsidized four‑day workweeks. It frames AI...
