Axios
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
Young Americans down on DOGE (Axios)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Thu, 03/06/2025 - 14:58"Humans in the loop" make AI work, for now (Axios)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Thu, 03/06/2025 - 14:58OpenAI 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.