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Your AI Assistant Wants Access to Your Bank Account. Banks Are Getting Nervous.

Major financial institutions are restricting AI agents that can access customer accounts, raising questions about security, financial responsibility and who pays when automated technology makes a mistake.

Goldman Says AI Could Displace 15 Million Workers. A Recession Would Make It Faster.

Goldman’s baseline treats AI displacement as gradual, but the same report says a downturn would speed it up, which would turn a temporary layoff into a permanent one.

Bill Gates Says the AI Transition Will Take 20 Years. Who Lives Through It?

Even Gates’s best-case scenario includes two decades of winners and losers, and the people on the losing end of that timeline have no seat where its length is decided.

He Wrote the Job Description. The Filter Rejected Him in Six Minutes.

An unverified story about one missing dot is spreading because candidates recognize the pattern, and the problem it points to is that nobody sees what an automated filter rejects.

You Came to Shop. The Store’s Cameras May Be Tracking Your Car.

Ulta Beauty, Lowe's and Home Depot are facing scrutiny over license plate surveillance technology. Retailers say the cameras help prevent theft, but customers and privacy advocates want to know what happens to the information collected.

AI Found a Security Flaw That Could Put 70% of the Web at Risk. Now Comes the Race to Fix It.

Two critical vulnerabilities in PHP, the programming language behind millions of websites, could let hackers take control of servers and steal sensitive information. Artificial intelligence helped uncover the flaws, but it could also make them easier to exploit.

Washington Is Removing DeepSeek From Federal Systems. The AI Market Is Becoming a Security Boundary.

Federal civilian agencies have been ordered to remove DeepSeek-related products and services from their technology systems, reflecting growing concerns over the national-security implications of foreign-developed artificial intelligence.

A Third of Shoppers Say They Will Ask AI for Holiday Gift Ideas This Year

A Gartner survey found 34% of U.S. consumers are very or extremely willing to use AI chatbots for gift recommendations, mostly for inspiration and price checks rather than letting AI make the purchase.

AI Is Reshaping Office Work. Women Without Degrees Are Losing Ground.

A new Pew Research Center analysis finds that men’s employment rises as jobs become more exposed to AI while women’s stays flat. For women without a bachelor’s degree, it falls.

The Music Industry Is Learning to Label AI Songs. Paying the Artists Is Another Matter.

YouTube Music is introducing labels that tell listeners when artificial intelligence helped create a song. A new music startup wants to go further by compensating the artists whose work trains the technology. Together, the developments expose an unresolved problem in the streaming economy: knowing how music was made is not the same as knowing who deserves to profit from it.

At Brown University, AI Helped Students Ace an Exam. Then Their Scores Collapsed.

Imagine grading a college exam and discovering that nearly half the students earned perfect scores. For a professor, that might ordinarily be cause for celebration. But at Brown University, economics professor Roberto Serrano became suspicious when 40 students scored 100 on a take-home midterm in his advanced mathematical economics course. Some answers closely resembled responses generated by ChatGPT, prompting concerns about widespread AI-assisted cheating. According to EL PAÍS, Serrano believes at least 50 students cheated. When he required an in-person final exam, the class average plunged from 96 to 48, and 22 students who had previously earned perfect midterm scores did not show up. The results raise troubling questions about how much students are actually learning when artificial intelligence can complete increasingly sophisticated academic work.

Harvard’s Professors Have AI Clones. Who’s Really Teaching the Students?

Harvard Business School and Imperial College London are experimenting with digital replicas of professors that can answer questions around the clock. The technology promises greater access to education, but raises concerns about accuracy, ownership, and accountability.

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Your AI Assistant Wants Access to Your Bank Account. Banks Are Getting Nervous.

Goldman Says AI Could Displace 15 Million Workers. A Recession Would Make It Faster.

Bill Gates Says the AI Transition Will Take 20 Years. Who Lives Through It?

He Wrote the Job Description. The Filter Rejected Him in Six Minutes.

You Came to Shop. The Store’s Cameras May Be Tracking Your Car.

Washington Is Removing DeepSeek From Federal Systems. The AI Market Is Becoming a Security Boundary.

The Music Industry Is Learning to Label AI Songs. Paying the Artists Is Another Matter.

AI’s Chip Boom Is Making Africa’s Cheapest Smartphones Harder to Find

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Anthropic Says AI Could Add Nearly $14 Trillion to the U.S. Economy. The Warning Came in the Same Speech.

Dubai Is Building a Technology Strategy Around Access, Not Invention

Women Are Using AI as Much as Men. They’re Still More Skeptical About Where It Is Headed.

Black Poverty Is Falling. Why Are We Still Calling This Progress?

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Five AI Prompts That Can Help You Organize Your Life Every Day

The UAE Is Drawing a Line Between What AI Can Do and What It Should Be Allowed to Decide

Amazon Wants AI to Remember Your Conversations. Everyone Around You Has to Live With That Choice.

Southwest Airlines Now Lets Travelers Shop for Flights Inside ChatGPT

Target Joins Walmart in Drawing a Public Line Around Dynamic Pricing

Before You Trust an AI Answer, Figure Out What Kind of Answer It Is

Disney Laid Off Hundreds of Workers. Then It Agreed to Pay $60 Million a Year for 66 AI Specialists.

AI Agents Are Starting to Network for Their Owners. Who Gets to Make the Decisions?

Getty Images Built Its Business on Scarcity. AI Just Broke That Model

Meta’s Muse Wins the First Day. ChatGPT Still Wins the Second Week.

Half of Americans Still Don’t Use AI Chatbots. Pew Says Most Don’t Plan To.

AI Companies Want to Police Themselves. The Public Wants More Control.

Your AI Assistant Wants Access to Your Bank Account. Banks Are Getting Nervous.

Goldman Says AI Could Displace 15 Million Workers. A Recession Would Make It Faster.

Bill Gates Says the AI Transition Will Take 20 Years. Who Lives Through It?

He Wrote the Job Description. The Filter Rejected Him in Six Minutes.

You Came to Shop. The Store’s Cameras May Be Tracking Your Car.

AI Found a Security Flaw That Could Put 70% of the Web at Risk. Now Comes the Race to Fix It.

Washington Is Removing DeepSeek From Federal Systems. The AI Market Is Becoming a Security Boundary.

A Third of Shoppers Say They Will Ask AI for Holiday Gift Ideas This Year

AI Is Reshaping Office Work. Women Without Degrees Are Losing Ground.

The Music Industry Is Learning to Label AI Songs. Paying the Artists Is Another Matter.

At Brown University, AI Helped Students Ace an Exam. Then Their Scores Collapsed.

Harvard’s Professors Have AI Clones. Who’s Really Teaching the Students?

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Your AI Assistant Wants Access to Your Bank Account. Banks Are Getting Nervous.

Goldman Says AI Could Displace 15 Million Workers. A Recession Would Make It Faster.

Bill Gates Says the AI Transition Will Take 20 Years. Who Lives Through It?

He Wrote the Job Description. The Filter Rejected Him in Six Minutes.

You Came to Shop. The Store’s Cameras May Be Tracking Your Car.

Washington Is Removing DeepSeek From Federal Systems. The AI Market Is Becoming a Security Boundary.

The Music Industry Is Learning to Label AI Songs. Paying the Artists Is Another Matter.

AI’s Chip Boom Is Making Africa’s Cheapest Smartphones Harder to Find

From the Newsroom

Anthropic Says AI Could Add Nearly $14 Trillion to the U.S. Economy. The Warning Came in the Same Speech.

Dubai Is Building a Technology Strategy Around Access, Not Invention

Women Are Using AI as Much as Men. They’re Still More Skeptical About Where It Is Headed.

Black Poverty Is Falling. Why Are We Still Calling This Progress?

In Case You Missed It

Five AI Prompts That Can Help You Organize Your Life Every Day

The UAE Is Drawing a Line Between What AI Can Do and What It Should Be Allowed to Decide

Amazon Wants AI to Remember Your Conversations. Everyone Around You Has to Live With That Choice.

Southwest Airlines Now Lets Travelers Shop for Flights Inside ChatGPT

Target Joins Walmart in Drawing a Public Line Around Dynamic Pricing

Before You Trust an AI Answer, Figure Out What Kind of Answer It Is

Disney Laid Off Hundreds of Workers. Then It Agreed to Pay $60 Million a Year for 66 AI Specialists.

AI Agents Are Starting to Network for Their Owners. Who Gets to Make the Decisions?

Getty Images Built Its Business on Scarcity. AI Just Broke That Model

Meta’s Muse Wins the First Day. ChatGPT Still Wins the Second Week.

Half of Americans Still Don’t Use AI Chatbots. Pew Says Most Don’t Plan To.

AI Companies Want to Police Themselves. The Public Wants More Control.