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AI Is Rapidly Changing Education and Research Needs To Keep Up
Stacey Alicea and Meghan McCormick argue that traditional randomized controlled trials move too slowly to evaluate fast-evolving AI education tools.…
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China’s Crackdown on AI Companions Won’t Fill the Emotional Void
Phoebe Zhang writes that China’s new regulations, imposed on July 15, 2026, restrict AI companion services out of concern for…
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What AI Companions Do to Our Deepest Psychological Needs
Sefik Tagay examines how AI companions affect well-being through a framework of six fundamental human needs: safety, belonging, autonomy, competence,…
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If You Flirt With an AI Companion, Does That Count as Cheating?
A study of 1,815 Canadian adults found that roughly half consider a partner’s use of a romantic AI companion to…
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The Missing Ingredient for European Tech Sovereignty
Giorgos Verdi argues that Europe’s dependence on US technology firms is both an economic and strategic vulnerability that the European…
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Superintelligence Soon: How Seriously Should I Take the AI 2040 Scenario?
This AEI commentary critically analyzes the AI Futures Project’s ‘AI 2040: Plan A’ scenario, which proposes delaying superintelligence until 2040…
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What Humanity Needs to Flourish in the Next Decade
In a July 21, 2026 essay for Noema, E. Glen Weyl, James Evans, and Chris White argue that AI development…
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China’s AI Models Have Trump’s AI World at War With Itself
A July 20, 2026 MIT Technology Review analysis examines divisions within the Trump administration over how to respond to Kimi,…
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Measuring Reward-Seeking by Instilling Contrastive Beliefs
OpenAI published research on July 21, 2026 introducing Contrastive Synthetic Document Finetuning, a method for measuring whether AI models change…
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Open-Model AI Is Good Competition for Anthropic and OpenAI
In a July 20, 2026 opinion piece for The Washington Post, Bill Gurley, president of the P3 Institute and a…
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AI Won’t Replace Everyone. That’s Not The Good News
The column argues that AI is displacing specific workers and tasks rather than replacing jobs wholesale, citing Microsoft’s recent reduction…
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Demis Hassabis, AGI and the growing competition between human and machine intelligence
The column traces Demis Hassabis’s career path from neuroscientist to Google DeepMind chief, highlighting his work on AlphaGo and AlphaFold…