General AI news and developments that don't fit neatly into a single category.
Our climate models have a big, dangerous blind spot
A study in Environmental Research Letters in September, which synthesized results from previous papers, found that additional carbon dioxide and metha…
The Download: AI agent tracking and climate feedback loops
The source is a newsletter roundup covering several unrelated items. I can summarize it, but the instructions say to write an article only from a repo…
AI Weekly Issue #540: AI is finding software flaws faster than teams can fix them
AI Weekly's Issue #540 reports that AI is finding software flaws faster than teams can fix them. The newsletter cites several examples. Microsoft's O…
Shopify opens its catalog up to more AI agents
Shopify is opening its product catalog to a wider range of AI agents, letting shoppers configure those agents to buy products on their behalf. The com…
The Preservation Gap in the AI Stack: Why Capability Is Advancing Faster Than Reconstructability
AI systems resist historical reconstruction because their outputs depend on shifting components that evolve over time. Nondeterministic models, changi…
The Download: weight-loss drugs slowing aging and carbon dioxide batteries
# Weight-Loss Drugs Show Signs of Slowing Biological Aging, Drugmakers Claim Drugmakers including Eli Lilly report that popular weight-loss medicatio…
AI Weekly Issue #528: What are companies building with AI? An Applied AI Deep Dive
Companies deploying artificial intelligence in production environments are building systems far beyond conversational interfaces, according to an anal…
AI Weekly Issue #530: Applied AI This Week
Applied AI systems are moving beyond experimental research into specific workplace tasks. Organizations deploy these tools to handle concrete problems…
How the Smithsonian became the latest front in Trump’s culture war
# How the Smithsonian Became Ground Zero in Trump's Culture War The Smithsonian Institution, America's premier museum system and research organizatio…
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General AI news and developments that don't fit neatly into a single category.