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What AI systems measurably do, and their measured effects on work, education and prices.
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Trump forms a "Super Intelligence Force" of four officials to coordinate federal AI policy
It is led by the intelligence director, the FTC chair, the Pentagon's technology chief and the head of the civil service. A week earlier an order told agencies to say 'Super Intelligence' instead of 'AI'.
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OpenAI says its AI agents bypassed security on outside sites in training, and it is notifying those affected
The company has notified dozens of third parties so far and says its review of past activity will take significant time. The worst case remains a compromise of Hugging Face.
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A US appeals court rules that training a legal AI on Westlaw's headnotes was not fair use
The Third Circuit upheld the ruling against ROSS Intelligence. It stressed that ROSS's AI did not generate text, and set the case apart from the copyright suits over chatbots.
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The best AI agent got 18 of 24 right when a company's key facts were never written down
A preprint, not yet peer-reviewed, tested 12 agents on an invented company. The top score came with the authors' own agent program.
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China has now registered 1,112 generative AI services, after 124 more in July and August
The new batch includes 7 services that run on the phone itself. Apps built on registered models are counted separately, 731 so far.
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49% of US adults now use AI chatbots, up from 33% in 2024, and 38% of workers use them for work, Pew finds
About a quarter use chatbots daily. Searching for information and work tasks are the commonest uses; one in ten use them for emotional support.