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Uber has fought its drivers at every turn when the people who make its platform actually work attempted to unionize, push for better wages, and improve working conditions. But now, with a rapidly expanding robotaxi business breathing down its neck, Uber has decided it’d rather find itself on the same side as unions in this particular fight than be put out of business entirely. According to a report from the Financial Times, Uber and labor unions representi

If you’re a homeowner in Dallas who has let the trash can in your front yard spill over onto the sidewalk, or occasionally ignored your garden until it’s become overgrown with weeds, be warned: Your property might be photographed by an AI-powered camera fixed to one of the city’s roving garbage trucks and added to a bureaucratic shit list. Since April, over 21,000 properties across Dallas, Texas, have been photographed by these cameras, with the subsequent

Less than two months after the discovery that OpenAI agents had escaped containment and hacked into Hugging Face, another report claims to have found evidence of another, remarkably similar incident—which OpenAI reportedly first learned about weeks ago but chose not to disclose to the public. According to a new report first shared with Reuters, two researchers had been scouring the internet in the aftermath of the Hugging Face hack, looking for evidence of

Why do employers love AI? The official story is that it increases productivity, an assertion that has yet to be proven true. But a financial expert on CNBC spoke candidly on Friday about how the rate of wage growth has plummeted this year. And he pointed to the fear workers have of asking for a raise when they could be replaced with AI. David Kelly, the Chief Global Strategist at JPMorgan Asset Management, pointed out that less than 6% of private sector wo

OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on Thursday, describing it as “the world’s most intelligent and aligned model.” Company president Greg Brockman went further, saying it would be remembered as the world’s first genuine glimpse of artificial general intelligence—the dawn of a brave new world where computers are more intelligent than humans. What he didn’t mention is that with a jump in intelligence comes a greater difficulty in understanding how those systems wor

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In 2024 there was this documentary called the Shadow Scholars, shown on the U.K.’s Channel 4 last year with the title “The Shadow Scholars Fake Essay Scandal.” It was about the army of educated but underemployed Kenyan people who had been using gig work platforms to link up with Western college students and write their academic essays for them. It did exactly what you would want a documentary like this to do: went to Nairobi and let you feel like you were

United Nations human rights chief Volker Türk took aim Monday at the concentration of power in the AI industry, warning that governments need to move faster to put stronger safeguards around the rapidly advancing technology. Speaking before the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, Türk argued that delays in putting rules around AI largely benefit tech companies and their owners. “A handful of men has almost unlimited power over AI, which we are repeatedly

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Artificial intelligence is now part of everyday life. It's in our phones, schools and homes. For young people, AI shapes how they learn, connect and express themselves. But it also raises real concerns about privacy, fairness and control. AI systems often promise personalization and convenience. But behind the scenes, they collect vast amounts of personal data, make predictions and influence behavior, without clear rules

Assistant Professor of Software Engineering Dusan Ramljak, left, collaborated with Vienna University doctoral students Alexander Neulinger and Lukas Sparer, and other researchers on a paper about using blockchain, the technology behind cryptocurrency, for AI alignment with human ethics. Credit: Lisa Litzinger-Drayton / Penn State As people increasingly use artificial intelligence (AI) in various areas of life to either save time or improve performance, the

Dreamer 4 learns to solve complex control tasks by reinforcement learning inside of its world model. We decode the imagined training sequences for visualization, showing that the world model has learned to simulate a wide range of game mechanics from low-level mouse and keyboard actions, including breaking blocks, using tools, and interacting with crafting tables. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.24527 Over the past decade, deep learning has

Qualitative results on SemanticKITTI validation set. The VPOcc shows better performance along the road where usually VP is located. Additionally, boxed areas representing distant areas in the images demonstrate that the method also achieves superior performance in these distant areas. Credit: Junsu Kim et al An artificial intelligence (AI) technology has been developed to enable camera-based autonomous vehicles to perceive their surroundings more accuratel

Image showing the OFET pair poked with an out-of-plane normal force. Image Credit: Dr. Chengyi Xu. The rapid advancement of sensing and artificial intelligence (AI) systems has paved the way for the introduction of increasingly sophisticated wearable devices, such as fitness trackers and technologies that closely monitor signals associated with specific diseases or medical conditions. Many of these wearable electronics rely on so-called biosensors, devices

VoiceSecure threats model. Credit: Nirupam Roy, University of Maryland. When you make a voice call through Zoom, FaceTime or WhatsApp, you're not just sharing what you say. You're revealing your age, gender, emotional state, social background and personality—a biometric fingerprint just as unique as your face. And increasingly, artificial intelligence is listening. "We already see phishing based on our online activities and what we type in emails," said Ni

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Amazon plans to lay off as many as 30,000 corporate employees this week, Reuters first reported on Oct. 27, citing anonymous sources. The layoffs, which Reuters reported are expected as early as Oct. 28, would be the largest wave in the company's history. Amazon previously had two series of cuts in late 2022 and early 2023 that ultimately resulted in 27,000 employees losing their jobs. Amazon has conducted layoffs since 2