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Trump administration efforts to gut government-funded media face pushback in court

Efforts by the Trump administration to gut Congressionally approved funds for agencies overseen by the 

AI eats social media as xAI swallows X

Elon Musk's self-deal for his AI company xAI to acquire X, formerly Twitter, is the strongest sign yet that the AI business is devouring the social media world. Musk's move is a maneuver

Teachers warn AI is impacting students' critical thinking

Artificial intelligence is playing an increasingly dominant role in how students navigate

America's biggest cyber threat is inside the government

When government officials "move fast, break things," they risk unintentionally breaking systems they didn't real

AI infrastructure's all-out spending spree

Chipmakers, cloud providers, energy producers and artificial intelligence companies are all flooring the pedal on infrastructure spending to support an AI-driven world that doesn't yet exist. Investors are placing hundred-billion-dollar bets that demand for AI is about to explode, while the technology has yet to persuasively demonstrate its 

AI failed to detect critical health conditions: study

Artificial Intelligence systems designed to predict the likelihood of a hospitalized patient dying largely aren't detecting worsening health conditions, according to a new study. Some machine learning models trained exclusively on existing patient data didn't recognize about 66 percent of injuries that could lead to patient death in the hospital, according to the research published in Nature's Communications Medicine journal. Researchers 

OpenAI finds new Chinese influence campaigns using its tools

OpenAI spotted and disrupted two uses of its AI tools as part of broader Chinese influence campaigns, including one designed to spread Spanish-language anti-American disinformation. AI's potential to supercharge disinformation and speed the work of nation state-backed cyberattacks is steadily moving from scary theory to complex reality.