Daily 'AI for Work' Pulse: 23rd of September

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Daily 'AI for Work' Pulse: 23rd of September

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Latest AI News for Creatives

Higgsfield AI ships new video features in a day with GPT-6 Astra

Higgsfield AI shipped new video exploration features one day after gaining access to GPT-6 Astra. A single engineer delivered the release, turning a 100-ad variation request into a same-day result.
Read more →

Professors abandon writing assignments as AI detectors fail to stop cheating

Four years after ChatGPT launched, colleges are no closer to solving AI cheating. One professor caught 60 AI-written essays in a single assignment among 350 students, but university guidelines now discourage relying on detectors alone.
Read more →

Unsealed filings show OpenAI and Microsoft executives knew their book piracy was illegal and would displace authors

OpenAI and Microsoft executives knowingly trained AI on pirated books from "sketchy" sources and discussed the technology as a direct threat to writers' livelihoods, newly unsealed court filings show.
Read more →

Apple's $12,300 M5 Ultra Mac Studio outpaces our standard benchmarks

Apple's Mac Studio with an M5 Ultra chip tops out at $12,299 for a 256GB RAM, 4TB configuration aimed at AI developers and high-end 3D teams. The M5 Max model starts at $2,499, undercutting an equivalent MacBook Pro by $800.
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Latest AI News for Customer Support

Amazon blocks Meta's AI shopping assistant Muse from its platform

Amazon blocked Meta's AI shopping assistant Muse from its marketplace 12 hours ago, cutting off access to the world's largest e-commerce platform to protect its own Rufus assistant and customer data.
Read more →

Mosaic Insurance launches AI-powered underwriting platform for SME specialty products

Mosaic Insurance launched HALO, an AI underwriting system that cuts quote-to-bind times to minutes for small and midsize businesses. The platform gives underwriters real-time portfolio visibility across their entire book, starting with a Cyber Tech E&O product backed by Lloyd's capacity.
Read more →

Corridor raises $25 million to build AI-powered health benefits brokerage for small businesses

Corridor raised a $25 million seed round led by Bain Capital Ventures to pair human advisors with AI agents that handle health benefits administration for small businesses. The company is racing toward Q4, when 80% of small businesses choose their health plans.
Read more →

V7 turns company files into agent context with 89% accuracy on hardest graph-query tests

V7's platform cut one customer's expert costs by $12,000 per task, shrinking a 100-hour review process to under 10 hours.
Read more →

SENA Health raises series A funding led by Rittenhouse Ventures

SENA Health closed a Series A led by Rittenhouse Ventures, whose deals typically range $5 million or less, to scale its AI-powered Clinical Command Center for medical practices.
Read more →

Latest AI News for Education

OpenAI calls for global AI standards as it warns of risks from recursive self-improvement

OpenAI is pushing for international safety standards to manage risks from AI systems that can accelerate their own development. The proposal warns that without shared protocols, recursive self-improvement could cause humans to lose practical control over AI research.
Read more →

Google.org commits $4 million to expand free AI training for educators

Google.org is putting $4 million into free AI skills training for all 6 million U.S. K-12 teachers and higher ed faculty. The grant funds Digital Promise to scale the Google AI Educator Series through state agencies and community colleges.
Read more →

Bill Gates pushes for inclusive AI data as foundation builds language models for underserved communities

Bill Gates is directing foundation funds to collect language data from underrepresented communities, aiming to fix AI's failure in health, education, and agriculture across the Global South.
Read more →

OpenAI forms independent advisory group after its new model solves over 100 open math problems

OpenAI's new model solved over 100 long-standing open math problems, including the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem, and the company is forming an independent advisory group to coordinate responsible deployment.
Read more →

Professors abandon writing assignments as AI detectors fail to stop cheating

Four years after ChatGPT launched, colleges are no closer to solving AI cheating. One professor caught 60 AI-written essays in a single assignment among 350 students, but university guidelines now discourage relying on detectors alone.
Read more →

Latest AI News for Executives and Strategy

UN panel warns governments must act on AI risks before they are fully understood

A UN panel urges immediate AI safeguards despite scientific uncertainty, citing the precautionary principle after breaches at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta.
Read more →

OpenAI calls for global AI standards as it warns of risks from recursive self-improvement

OpenAI is pushing for international safety standards to manage risks from AI systems that can accelerate their own development. The proposal warns that without shared protocols, recursive self-improvement could cause humans to lose practical control over AI research.
Read more →

Trump and Xi see tensions flare over AI, trade and Iran but still seek stability

The brief says US-China AI rivalry now shapes diplomacy alongside trade and security, creating friction through tech restrictions while both sides try to avoid escalation.
Read more →

SB Energy Faces Investor Skepticism in IPO, Report Says

SB Energy’s IPO to fund an OpenAI-leased data center faces investor doubt over its valuation, testing public market appetite for AI infrastructure risk.
Read more →

California governor signs laws to block data centers from passing utility costs to residents

California just blocked AI data centers from shifting infrastructure costs to residents, requiring operators to pay for their own grid and water upgrades. The seven-bill package also forces developers to disclose water use and efficiency metrics before getting permits.
Read more →

AI buildout faces financial crisis-like risk from opaque interconnection, analysts warn

AI supply chain concentration now mirrors pre-2008 mortgage risk, with 255 public companies holding a combined $50 trillion market cap. Some firms depend on a single customer for survival-CoreWeave gets 67% of revenue from Microsoft alone.
Read more →

Latest AI News for Finance

SB Energy Faces Investor Skepticism in IPO, Report Says

SB Energy’s IPO to fund an OpenAI-leased data center faces investor doubt over its valuation, testing public market appetite for AI infrastructure risk.
Read more →

AI data center boom fuels inflation and may force higher rates, Fed official says

Chicago Fed president Austan Goolsbee warns the AI data center construction boom could overheat the economy and force further interest rate hikes. Higher rates would then squeeze commercial construction, housing, and consumer spending even if AI projects themselves proceed.
Read more →

California governor signs laws to block data centers from passing utility costs to residents

California just blocked AI data centers from shifting infrastructure costs to residents, requiring operators to pay for their own grid and water upgrades. The seven-bill package also forces developers to disclose water use and efficiency metrics before getting permits.
Read more →

Alibaba unveils China's most powerful AI chip ahead of Xi-Trump meeting

Alibaba launched its Zhenwu V900 chip, claiming it triples the performance of its predecessor. The company also plans to scale cloud computing capacity to over 20 gigawatts by 2032.
Read more →

Corridor raises $25 million to build AI-powered health benefits brokerage for small businesses

Corridor raised a $25 million seed round led by Bain Capital Ventures to pair human advisors with AI agents that handle health benefits administration for small businesses. The company is racing toward Q4, when 80% of small businesses choose their health plans.
Read more →

AI buildout faces financial crisis-like risk from opaque interconnection, analysts warn

AI supply chain concentration now mirrors pre-2008 mortgage risk, with 255 public companies holding a combined $50 trillion market cap. Some firms depend on a single customer for survival-CoreWeave gets 67% of revenue from Microsoft alone.
Read more →

Latest AI News for Government

UN panel warns governments must act on AI risks before they are fully understood

A UN panel urges immediate AI safeguards despite scientific uncertainty, citing the precautionary principle after breaches at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta.
Read more →

OpenAI calls for global AI standards as it warns of risks from recursive self-improvement

OpenAI is pushing for international safety standards to manage risks from AI systems that can accelerate their own development. The proposal warns that without shared protocols, recursive self-improvement could cause humans to lose practical control over AI research.
Read more →

Trump and Xi see tensions flare over AI, trade and Iran but still seek stability

The brief says US-China AI rivalry now shapes diplomacy alongside trade and security, creating friction through tech restrictions while both sides try to avoid escalation.
Read more →

British Columbia sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over Tumbler Ridge mass school shooting

British Columbia is suing OpenAI, claiming it should have warned authorities after ChatGPT activity signaled a risk of violence before a school shooting.
Read more →

California governor signs laws to block data centers from passing utility costs to residents

California just blocked AI data centers from shifting infrastructure costs to residents, requiring operators to pay for their own grid and water upgrades. The seven-bill package also forces developers to disclose water use and efficiency metrics before getting permits.
Read more →

British PM Burnham faces Trump meeting and UN address in diplomatic debut

British PM Andy Burnham meets Trump and addresses the UN in a single day, testing whether he can steer the UK back to global relevance. The talks carry direct stakes for defense commitments, Middle East stability, and AI regulation.
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Latest AI News for Healthcare

September 2026 healthcare AI briefing separates evidence from vendor announcements

A clinical-and-blood-model AI tool improved lung cancer disease-control prediction accuracy from 57% to 65% across 2,396 patients, but clinicians also accepted incorrect AI suggestions.
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Bill Gates pushes for inclusive AI data as foundation builds language models for underserved communities

Bill Gates is directing foundation funds to collect language data from underrepresented communities, aiming to fix AI's failure in health, education, and agriculture across the Global South.
Read more →

AHA physician executive says healthcare AI must focus on workflow and human connection, not just technology

AI won't transform healthcare unless clinicians are involved from the start and at least 75% of project resources go to people and process, not the technology itself, says Dr. Chris DeRienzo.
Read more →

Corridor raises $25 million to build AI-powered health benefits brokerage for small businesses

Corridor raised a $25 million seed round led by Bain Capital Ventures to pair human advisors with AI agents that handle health benefits administration for small businesses. The company is racing toward Q4, when 80% of small businesses choose their health plans.
Read more →

Arpa-h commits $62.7 million to develop autonomous AI agents for cardiac care

ARPA-H is putting $62.7 million toward autonomous AI agents for cardiac care after finding nearly half of U.S. counties lack cardiology providers. The program aims to cut $28 billion in annual costs from preventable hospitalizations.
Read more →

SENA Health raises series A funding led by Rittenhouse Ventures

SENA Health closed a Series A led by Rittenhouse Ventures, whose deals typically range $5 million or less, to scale its AI-powered Clinical Command Center for medical practices.
Read more →

FDA launches expedited IND pilot and approves first gene therapy for Sanfilippo syndrome type A

FDA approved the first gene therapy for Sanfilippo syndrome type A and launched an Expedited IND Pilot, while CMS expanded a value-based care model to cover three in four Medicare beneficiaries.
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Latest AI News for Hospitality and Events

Amazon blocks Meta's AI shopping assistant Muse from its platform

Amazon blocked Meta's AI shopping assistant Muse from its marketplace 12 hours ago, cutting off access to the world's largest e-commerce platform to protect its own Rufus assistant and customer data.
Read more →

V7 turns company files into agent context with 89% accuracy on hardest graph-query tests

V7's platform cut one customer's expert costs by $12,000 per task, shrinking a 100-hour review process to under 10 hours.
Read more →

Hospitality leaders explore agentic AI for scheduling, compliance and frontline operations at London breakfast event

A London breakfast event on 22 September 2026 will show hospitality leaders how agentic AI can handle scheduling, payroll checks, and compliance tasks-not just chat.
Read more →

Latest AI News for Human Resources

Google.org commits $4 million to expand free AI training for educators

Google.org is putting $4 million into free AI skills training for all 6 million U.S. K-12 teachers and higher ed faculty. The grant funds Digital Promise to scale the Google AI Educator Series through state agencies and community colleges.
Read more →

Higgsfield AI ships new video features in a day with GPT-6 Astra

Higgsfield AI shipped new video exploration features one day after gaining access to GPT-6 Astra. A single engineer delivered the release, turning a 100-ad variation request into a same-day result.
Read more →

V7 turns company files into agent context with 89% accuracy on hardest graph-query tests

V7's platform cut one customer's expert costs by $12,000 per task, shrinking a 100-hour review process to under 10 hours.
Read more →

Hospitality leaders explore agentic AI for scheduling, compliance and frontline operations at London breakfast event

A London breakfast event on 22 September 2026 will show hospitality leaders how agentic AI can handle scheduling, payroll checks, and compliance tasks-not just chat.
Read more →

Latest AI News for Insurance

Trust and relationships remain core to London market despite AI advances, Liiba study finds

AI will radically reshape digital trading in the London insurance market, but human judgment and relationships built over 340 years will remain its core pillars.
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Mosaic Insurance launches AI-powered underwriting platform for SME specialty products

Mosaic Insurance launched HALO, an AI underwriting system that cuts quote-to-bind times to minutes for small and midsize businesses. The platform gives underwriters real-time portfolio visibility across their entire book, starting with a Cyber Tech E&O product backed by Lloyd's capacity.
Read more →

British Columbia sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over Tumbler Ridge mass school shooting

British Columbia is suing OpenAI, claiming it should have warned authorities after ChatGPT activity signaled a risk of violence before a school shooting.
Read more →

Corridor raises $25 million to build AI-powered health benefits brokerage for small businesses

Corridor raised a $25 million seed round led by Bain Capital Ventures to pair human advisors with AI agents that handle health benefits administration for small businesses. The company is racing toward Q4, when 80% of small businesses choose their health plans.
Read more →

AI buildout faces financial crisis-like risk from opaque interconnection, analysts warn

AI supply chain concentration now mirrors pre-2008 mortgage risk, with 255 public companies holding a combined $50 trillion market cap. Some firms depend on a single customer for survival-CoreWeave gets 67% of revenue from Microsoft alone.
Read more →

Latest AI News for IT and Development

V7 turns company files into agent context with 89% accuracy on hardest graph-query tests

V7's platform cut one customer's expert costs by $12,000 per task, shrinking a 100-hour review process to under 10 hours.
Read more →

New block removal method maps pruning to an ising glass problem and beats baseline by 23 points on MMLU at 50 percent compression

Multiverse Computing achieved a 23-percentage-point gain on MMLU at 50% compression of Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct by reformulating LLM block removal as an Ising-glass optimization problem.
Read more →

Apple's $12,300 M5 Ultra Mac Studio outpaces our standard benchmarks

Apple's Mac Studio with an M5 Ultra chip tops out at $12,299 for a 256GB RAM, 4TB configuration aimed at AI developers and high-end 3D teams. The M5 Max model starts at $2,499, undercutting an equivalent MacBook Pro by $800.
Read more →

Enablence Technologies secures C$25 million investment to expand optical chip manufacturing for AI and data centers

Enablence Technologies secured a C$25 million investment to expand optical chip manufacturing. The capital will increase production capacity in Silicon Valley and Vietnam as demand rises from AI and data center markets.
Read more →

Latest AI News for Management

Higgsfield AI ships new video features in a day with GPT-6 Astra

Higgsfield AI shipped new video exploration features one day after gaining access to GPT-6 Astra. A single engineer delivered the release, turning a 100-ad variation request into a same-day result.
Read more →

AHA physician executive says healthcare AI must focus on workflow and human connection, not just technology

AI won't transform healthcare unless clinicians are involved from the start and at least 75% of project resources go to people and process, not the technology itself, says Dr. Chris DeRienzo.
Read more →

V7 turns company files into agent context with 89% accuracy on hardest graph-query tests

V7's platform cut one customer's expert costs by $12,000 per task, shrinking a 100-hour review process to under 10 hours.
Read more →

Hospitality leaders explore agentic AI for scheduling, compliance and frontline operations at London breakfast event

A London breakfast event on 22 September 2026 will show hospitality leaders how agentic AI can handle scheduling, payroll checks, and compliance tasks-not just chat.
Read more →

Latest AI News for Marketing

Amazon blocks Meta's AI shopping assistant Muse from its platform

Amazon blocked Meta's AI shopping assistant Muse from its marketplace 12 hours ago, cutting off access to the world's largest e-commerce platform to protect its own Rufus assistant and customer data.
Read more →

Higgsfield AI ships new video features in a day with GPT-6 Astra

Higgsfield AI shipped new video exploration features one day after gaining access to GPT-6 Astra. A single engineer delivered the release, turning a 100-ad variation request into a same-day result.
Read more →

Unsealed filings show OpenAI and Microsoft executives knew their book piracy was illegal and would displace authors

OpenAI and Microsoft executives knowingly trained AI on pirated books from "sketchy" sources and discussed the technology as a direct threat to writers' livelihoods, newly unsealed court filings show.
Read more →

Latest AI News for Operations

Mosaic Insurance launches AI-powered underwriting platform for SME specialty products

Mosaic Insurance launched HALO, an AI underwriting system that cuts quote-to-bind times to minutes for small and midsize businesses. The platform gives underwriters real-time portfolio visibility across their entire book, starting with a Cyber Tech E&O product backed by Lloyd's capacity.
Read more →

AHA physician executive says healthcare AI must focus on workflow and human connection, not just technology

AI won't transform healthcare unless clinicians are involved from the start and at least 75% of project resources go to people and process, not the technology itself, says Dr. Chris DeRienzo.
Read more →

V7 turns company files into agent context with 89% accuracy on hardest graph-query tests

V7's platform cut one customer's expert costs by $12,000 per task, shrinking a 100-hour review process to under 10 hours.
Read more →

Hospitality leaders explore agentic AI for scheduling, compliance and frontline operations at London breakfast event

A London breakfast event on 22 September 2026 will show hospitality leaders how agentic AI can handle scheduling, payroll checks, and compliance tasks-not just chat.
Read more →

SENA Health raises series A funding led by Rittenhouse Ventures

SENA Health closed a Series A led by Rittenhouse Ventures, whose deals typically range $5 million or less, to scale its AI-powered Clinical Command Center for medical practices.
Read more →

Latest AI News for PR and Communications

UN panel warns governments must act on AI risks before they are fully understood

A UN panel urges immediate AI safeguards despite scientific uncertainty, citing the precautionary principle after breaches at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta.
Read more →

OpenAI calls for global AI standards as it warns of risks from recursive self-improvement

OpenAI is pushing for international safety standards to manage risks from AI systems that can accelerate their own development. The proposal warns that without shared protocols, recursive self-improvement could cause humans to lose practical control over AI research.
Read more →

Trump and Xi see tensions flare over AI, trade and Iran but still seek stability

The brief says US-China AI rivalry now shapes diplomacy alongside trade and security, creating friction through tech restrictions while both sides try to avoid escalation.
Read more →

Amazon blocks Meta's AI shopping assistant Muse from its platform

Amazon blocked Meta's AI shopping assistant Muse from its marketplace 12 hours ago, cutting off access to the world's largest e-commerce platform to protect its own Rufus assistant and customer data.
Read more →

British Columbia sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over Tumbler Ridge mass school shooting

British Columbia is suing OpenAI, claiming it should have warned authorities after ChatGPT activity signaled a risk of violence before a school shooting.
Read more →

Unsealed filings show OpenAI and Microsoft executives knew their book piracy was illegal and would displace authors

OpenAI and Microsoft executives knowingly trained AI on pirated books from "sketchy" sources and discussed the technology as a direct threat to writers' livelihoods, newly unsealed court filings show.
Read more →

Latest AI News for Product Development

Higgsfield AI ships new video features in a day with GPT-6 Astra

Higgsfield AI shipped new video exploration features one day after gaining access to GPT-6 Astra. A single engineer delivered the release, turning a 100-ad variation request into a same-day result.
Read more →

V7 turns company files into agent context with 89% accuracy on hardest graph-query tests

V7's platform cut one customer's expert costs by $12,000 per task, shrinking a 100-hour review process to under 10 hours.
Read more →

New block removal method maps pruning to an ising glass problem and beats baseline by 23 points on MMLU at 50 percent compression

Multiverse Computing achieved a 23-percentage-point gain on MMLU at 50% compression of Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct by reformulating LLM block removal as an Ising-glass optimization problem.
Read more →

Latest AI News for Real Estate and Construction

SB Energy Faces Investor Skepticism in IPO, Report Says

SB Energy’s IPO to fund an OpenAI-leased data center faces investor doubt over its valuation, testing public market appetite for AI infrastructure risk.
Read more →

AI data center boom fuels inflation and may force higher rates, Fed official says

Chicago Fed president Austan Goolsbee warns the AI data center construction boom could overheat the economy and force further interest rate hikes. Higher rates would then squeeze commercial construction, housing, and consumer spending even if AI projects themselves proceed.
Read more →

California governor signs laws to block data centers from passing utility costs to residents

California just blocked AI data centers from shifting infrastructure costs to residents, requiring operators to pay for their own grid and water upgrades. The seven-bill package also forces developers to disclose water use and efficiency metrics before getting permits.
Read more →

Alibaba unveils China's most powerful AI chip ahead of Xi-Trump meeting

Alibaba launched its Zhenwu V900 chip, claiming it triples the performance of its predecessor. The company also plans to scale cloud computing capacity to over 20 gigawatts by 2032.
Read more →

AI buildout faces financial crisis-like risk from opaque interconnection, analysts warn

AI supply chain concentration now mirrors pre-2008 mortgage risk, with 255 public companies holding a combined $50 trillion market cap. Some firms depend on a single customer for survival-CoreWeave gets 67% of revenue from Microsoft alone.
Read more →

Enablence Technologies secures C$25 million investment to expand optical chip manufacturing for AI and data centers

Enablence Technologies secured a C$25 million investment to expand optical chip manufacturing. The capital will increase production capacity in Silicon Valley and Vietnam as demand rises from AI and data center markets.
Read more →

Latest AI News for Sales

Amazon blocks Meta's AI shopping assistant Muse from its platform

Amazon blocked Meta's AI shopping assistant Muse from its marketplace 12 hours ago, cutting off access to the world's largest e-commerce platform to protect its own Rufus assistant and customer data.
Read more →

Higgsfield AI ships new video features in a day with GPT-6 Astra

Higgsfield AI shipped new video exploration features one day after gaining access to GPT-6 Astra. A single engineer delivered the release, turning a 100-ad variation request into a same-day result.
Read more →

Mosaic Insurance launches AI-powered underwriting platform for SME specialty products

Mosaic Insurance launched HALO, an AI underwriting system that cuts quote-to-bind times to minutes for small and midsize businesses. The platform gives underwriters real-time portfolio visibility across their entire book, starting with a Cyber Tech E&O product backed by Lloyd's capacity.
Read more →

V7 turns company files into agent context with 89% accuracy on hardest graph-query tests

V7's platform cut one customer's expert costs by $12,000 per task, shrinking a 100-hour review process to under 10 hours.
Read more →

Latest AI News for Science and Research

OpenAI forms independent advisory group after its new model solves over 100 open math problems

OpenAI's new model solved over 100 long-standing open math problems, including the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem, and the company is forming an independent advisory group to coordinate responsible deployment.
Read more →

Alibaba unveils China's most powerful AI chip ahead of Xi-Trump meeting

Alibaba launched its Zhenwu V900 chip, claiming it triples the performance of its predecessor. The company also plans to scale cloud computing capacity to over 20 gigawatts by 2032.
Read more →

New block removal method maps pruning to an ising glass problem and beats baseline by 23 points on MMLU at 50 percent compression

Multiverse Computing achieved a 23-percentage-point gain on MMLU at 50% compression of Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct by reformulating LLM block removal as an Ising-glass optimization problem.
Read more →

Arpa-h commits $62.7 million to develop autonomous AI agents for cardiac care

ARPA-H is putting $62.7 million toward autonomous AI agents for cardiac care after finding nearly half of U.S. counties lack cardiology providers. The program aims to cut $28 billion in annual costs from preventable hospitalizations.
Read more →

Latest AI News for Writers

OpenAI calls for global AI standards as it warns of risks from recursive self-improvement

OpenAI is pushing for international safety standards to manage risks from AI systems that can accelerate their own development. The proposal warns that without shared protocols, recursive self-improvement could cause humans to lose practical control over AI research.
Read more →

Higgsfield AI ships new video features in a day with GPT-6 Astra

Higgsfield AI shipped new video exploration features one day after gaining access to GPT-6 Astra. A single engineer delivered the release, turning a 100-ad variation request into a same-day result.
Read more →

Professors abandon writing assignments as AI detectors fail to stop cheating

Four years after ChatGPT launched, colleges are no closer to solving AI cheating. One professor caught 60 AI-written essays in a single assignment among 350 students, but university guidelines now discourage relying on detectors alone.
Read more →

Unsealed filings show OpenAI and Microsoft executives knew their book piracy was illegal and would displace authors

OpenAI and Microsoft executives knowingly trained AI on pirated books from "sketchy" sources and discussed the technology as a direct threat to writers' livelihoods, newly unsealed court filings show.
Read more →