How companies are using AI to pay workers as little as possible
By POPULAR INFORMATION Published on March 26, 2026 As corporate profits surge, American workers are taking home a record-low percentage of the proceeds from their work. In the third quarter of 2025, the “labor share” of Gross Domestic Product in the U.S. decreased to 53.8%, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This was […]
AI Agents Are Mathematically Incapable of Doing Functional Work, Paper Finds
By futurism Published on January 26, 2026 A months-old but until now overlooked study recently featured in Wired claims to mathematically prove that large language models “are incapable of carrying out computational and agentic tasks beyond a certain complexity” — that level of complexity being, crucially, pretty low. The paper, which has not been peer […]
AI is hitting UK harder than other big economies, study finds
By The Guardian Published on January 26, 2026 The UK is losing more jobs than it is creating because of artificial intelligence and is being hit harder than rival large economies, new research suggests. British companies reported that AI had resulted in net job losses over the past 12 months, down 8% – the highest […]
Hospitals Are a Proving Ground for What AI Can Do, and What It Can’t
By THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Published on January 05, 2026 Samir Abboud, chief of emergency radiology for Northwestern Medicine, thought he was already working at maximum speed. In a carefully honed routine, aided by voice dictation, he could finish writing an X-ray report in as little as 75 seconds. Then the Chicago-based health system rolled […]
Organizations can now buy cyber insurance that covers deepfakes
By CYBERSCOOP Published on December 09, 2025 Synthetic media, including AI-generated deepfake audio and video, has been increasingly leveraged by criminals, scammers and spies to deceive individuals and businesses. Sometimes they do so by imitating an employee’s CEO, urging them to transfer large sums of money or provide them access to work accounts. Other times […]
Same Cart, Different Price: Instacart’s Price Experiments Cost Families at Checkout
By GROUNDWORK Published on December 09, 2025 Two shoppers walk into the exact same grocery store, at the exact same time, and pick up the exact same box of Cheerios. Then, they head to the cash register to check out. This sounds like the opening to one of those “three guys walk into a bar” […]
How to fix genetic ‘nonsense’: versatile gene-editing tool could tackle a host of diseases
By nature Published on November 19, 2025 A single multipurpose gene-editing tool can correct several genetic conditions by restoring proteins that have been truncated by disease-causing mutations. The method might one day overcome a key stumbling block faced by gene-editing therapies: the need to design a bespoke treatment for each disease. Read More
A $100,000 Robot Dog Is Becoming Standard in Policing — and Raising Ethical Alarms
By Bloomberg Published on November 18, 2025 Spot, the four-legged robot from Boston Dynamics Inc., is perhaps best known for its viral dance routines to songs like “Uptown Funk.” But beyond its playful antics, Spot’s ability to climb stairs and open doors signals a potentially controversial role as a policing tool. Five years after its […]
Genetically Engineered Babies Are Banned. Tech Titans Are Trying to Make One Anyway.
By WSJ Published on November 08, 2025 For months, a small company in San Francisco has been pursuing a secretive project: the birth of a genetically engineered baby. Backed by OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and his husband, along with Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong, the startup—called Preventive—has been quietly preparing what would amount […]