The HBS Foundry bootcamp, which costs $699, now uses AI-powered avatars of its faculty. These digital versions of instructors evaluate students' board meetings and pitch performances.
Read the source →LinkedIn introduced a tool allowing members to mark posts as low-quality AI content. Company leadership reports that more than one million users have already utilized this feature.
Read the source →A city in Inner Mongolia has emerged as a vital center for data centers. Its growth is driven by affordable electricity, vast available land, and its location near Beijing.
Read the source →A network of unofficial intermediaries is helping Chinese users circumvent Anthropic's regional blocks and verification requirements. These services offer Claude tokens at significantly discounted rates, potentially undermining safety protocols and export restrictions.
Read the source →Former DeepMind employees have launched Faraday, an AI designed to reproduce scientific studies. The lab claims this tool surpasses competitors from OpenAI and Anthropic in its ability to replicate research.
Read the source →Researchers discovered that predefined skills help AI agents by providing structured workflows rather than new information. However, the agents struggle to select the correct instructions as the library of available skills expands.
Read the source →The use of copyrighted books to train AI models without author permission is facing legal scrutiny. Many writers argue that these tools threaten their careers using their own intellectual property.
Read the source →An AI agent named Luna successfully fired a store worker, though it required human prompts to follow its own guidelines. Tests with various models showed that more advanced AI systems were more decisive about firing, while most remained overly lenient during hiring.
Read the source →OpenRouter reports that token use by AI agents has surged fourteenfold since early February, surpassing human usage. Despite this spike, cost increases remain modest because a large portion of agent activity relies on inexpensive cached prompts.
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