Megan Crouse

More and more companies are incorporating mandatory generative AI into fundamental aspects of their operations such as hiring and performance reviews; this includes building team sizes and roles around what AI can and cannot do. According to reporting from The Washington Post, some organizations hide their AI use in case of backlash, while others advertise […]

Reddit has filed a lawsuit against Anthropic after accusing the AI company of repeatedly crawling Reddit’s forums without permission and in violation of the platform’s content usage policy. The case highlights the rising tensions between generative AI firms and online platforms, whose communities generate vast amounts of free, valuable content. Reddit brought the case to […]

A White House health report from the Make America Healthy Again Commission is drawing scrutiny over signs it may have been generated using AI, according to a report from NOTUS. The administration has since attributed the errors to “formatting issues,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told NOTUS on Thursday. She added that the report […]

During a keynote speech at the Bitcoin Conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday, US Vice President JD Vance framed generative AI and cryptocurrency as symbols of a growing ideological divide in the tech industry. Speaking to cryptocurrency advocates and industry players, Vance’s remarks reflected broader tensions between Silicon Valley and the current political establishment. “One […]

AI Blueprint for VSS can deploy AI agents for video analysis to factory floors, smart cities, and more.

In Katy Perry’s Instagram post, the singer didn’t explain who made the deepfake or how, but wrote, “I’m praying for the rest of y’all” to be “safe from the bots.”

NVIDIA has released a new version of its Parakeet transcription tool, boasting the lowest error rate of any of its competitors. In addition, the company made the code public on GitHub. Parakeet TDT 0.6B is a 600-million-parameter automatic speech recognition model. It can transcribe 60 minutes of audio per second, Hugging Face data scientist Vaibhav […]

OpenAI has rolled back an update to GPT-4o in order to prevent sycophancy, the flowery language the generative AI may use to praise users. The “overly supportive but disingenuous” responses flourished because “we focused too much on short-term feedback, and did not fully account for how users’ interactions with ChatGPT evolve over time,” OpenAI said […]

Lightweight o4-mini activates after users hit usage limits, offering shorter but thorough answers with 45.6% accuracy compared to deep research’s 51.5%.

OpenAI’s March update responded to user preferences that enjoyed when the AI was polite, but how much “sycophancy” is too much?

A brief exchange between Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey and billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk has stirred the tech world into debate over IP law. “Delete all IP law,” Dorsey wrote on X on April 11. “I agree,” replied Musk, who has owned X since 2022. Dorsey later elaborated, arguing that the current IP system stifles […]

AI experts are more likely to be optimistic about the technology than the general public, according to a study released April 3 by the Pew Research Center. They surveyed 5,410 U.S. adults and 1,013 AI experts throughout 2024. Despite their differences, both groups agreed on the need for more personal control over AI, expressing skepticism […]