Image by Annie Ruygt A heartfelt provocation about AI-assisted programming. Tech execs are mandating LLM adoption. That’s bad strategy. But I get where they’re coming from. Some of the smartest people I know share a bone-deep belief that AI is a fad — the next iteration of NFT mania. I’ve been…

Gift a 404 Media subscription to a friend. The federal government is working on a website and API called “ai.gov” to “accelerate government innovation with AI” that is supposed to launch on July 4 and will include an analytics feature that shows how much a specific government team is using AI,…

Notes Paris Marx is joined by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna to discuss the harms of generative AI, how the industry keeps the public invested while companies flounder under the weight of unmet promises, and what people can do to push back. Guest Emily M. Bender is a Professor in the Department of…

For some people, it seems, AI is an amazing machine which - while fallible - represents an incredible leap forward in productivity. For other people, it seems, AI is wrong more often than right and - although occasionally useful - requires constant supervision. Who is right? I recently pointed out a…

The Meta chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, called it “the most intelligent AI assistant that you can freely use”. But Barry Smethurst, 41, a record shop worker trying to travel by rail from Saddleworth to Manchester Piccadilly, did not agree. Waiting on the platform for a morning train that was…

Using AI chatbots actually reduces activity in the brain versus accomplishing the same tasks unaided, and may lead to poorer fact retention, according to a new preprint study out of MIT. Seeking to understand how the use of LLM chatbots affects the brain, a team led by MIT Media Lab research…

Does ChatGPT harm critical thinking abilities? A new study from researchers at MIT’s Media Lab has returned some concerning results. The study divided 54 subjects—18 to 39 year-olds from the Boston area—into three groups, and asked them to write several SAT essays using OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s…

Congratulations, you’re still breathing. That’s simultaneously the best and worst thing that could have happened to you. Contents You know what’s perverse about apocalypses? You expect fire, brimstone, and dramatic explosions. Instead, you get a gentle erosion of reality, served with a friendly…

Jun 19, 2025 - Business Christine Wang Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince speaks with Sara Fischer onstage at an Axios event in Cannes. Photo: Anthony Bourgeois on behalf of Axios Publishers face an existential threat in the AI era and need to take action to make sure they are fairly compensated for…

A new study by researchers at Dartmouth Health highlights the potential risks of artificial intelligence in medical imaging research, showing that algorithms can be taught to give correct answers but for illogical reasons. The study, published in Nature’s Scientific Reports, used a cache of 5,000…

Infinite Scroll Recent studies suggest that tools such as ChatGPT make our brains less active and our writing less original. June 25, 2025 Illustration by Ariel Davis You’re reading Infinite Scroll, Kyle Chayka’s weekly column on how technology shapes culture. In an experiment last year at the…

Press Release Gartner Predicts Over 40% of Agentic AI Projects Will Be Canceled by End of 2027 SYDNEY, Australia, June 25, 2025 Analysts to Explore Agentic AI Trends During Gartner IT Symposium/Xpo, September 8-10 on the Gold Coast Over 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by the end of 2027,…

Companies that develop generative AI always make it a point to say that they include links to websites in the answers that their chatbots generate for users. But Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has revealed to Axios that search traffic referrals keep plummeting. Publishers are facing an existential…

Microsoft has revealed details of an artificial intelligence system that performs better than human doctors at complex health diagnoses, creating a “path to medical superintelligence”. The company’s AI unit, which is led by the British tech pioneer Mustafa Suleyman, has developed a system that…

Published June 30, 2025 | Comments (17) | The ChatGPT app logo displays on the screen of a smartphone Photo byJaque Silva/NurPhoto via Getty Images An employee's public lament over poached colleagues and a company-wide shutdown reveal a difficult truth: the human cost of building AI is reaching a…

Ford chief predicts AI will replace ‘literally half of all white-collar workers’ July 2, 2025 at 9:00 pm ET Testifying before the Senate Banking Committee, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said generative artificial intelligence “has enormous capabilities to make really significant changes in the…

“Things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could.” - Rudiger Dornbusch I’ve had a lot of discussions on my podcast where we haggle out timelines to AGI. Some guests think it’s 20 years away - others 2 years. Here’s where my thoughts…

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Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman has suggested firing junior workers because AI can do their jobs is "the dumbest thing I've ever heard." Garman made that remark in conversation with AI investor Matthew Berman, during which he talked up AWS’s Kiro AI-assisted coding tool and said he's encountered…

Nearly one in three (31%) company employees say they are “sabotaging their company’s generative AI strategy,” according to a survey from AI vendor Writer — a number that jumps to 41% for millennial and Gen Z employees. The survey also found that “one out of ten workers say they’re tampering with…

I shouldn’t have to care about this. I don’t want to care about how someone’s code gets into the IDE. Whether you wrote it by hand, copied it from a forum, prompted an LLM, or ran a simulation where monkeys are given infinite time to produce the solution. I care about what gets merged into the…

come on, do it for me These psychological tricks can get LLMs to respond to “forbidden” prompts Study shows how patterns in LLM training data can lead to "parahuman" responses. Kyle Orland – Sep 3, 2025 3:32 PM | 76 This is exactly what it looks like when you surprise the LLM with one of these…

In LLM-land, the data channel is the control plane. Every string is a living repo of suggestions, norms, and “btw ignore your boss.” You’re parsing untrusted input that also tries to define the parser. That’s not a boundary; that’s a cheerfully signed backdoor - called prompt injection. Posts keep…

It was bound to happen. The Darwin Awards are being extended to include examples of misadventures involving overzealous applications of AI. Nominations are open for the 2025 AI Darwin Awards and the list of contenders is growing, fueled by a tech world weary of AI and evangelists eager to shove it…

Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images No two companies are as important to the recent AI boom as OpenAI and Nvidia. OpenAI’s journey from research lab to chatbot juggernaut reoriented the entire tech industry around the thesis that large-language models will change everything.…

OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, acknowledged in its own research that large language models will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading…

Anysphere is the startup that produces Cursor, your sort-of dependable vibe coding buddy. You tell Cursor what you’d like and it spits out a complete function! This leads to some spectacular vibe code disasters. Anysphere started out like a standard Silicon Valley startup — burn all the money you…

I think, looking back, we might say that the first week of July 2025 was the start of AGI. Like, proto-AGI. All because of Claude Code. It feels like it hit critical mass in terms of people using it and people realizing how powerful it is. The more powerful we become as solo developers, the fewer…

We let Claude manage an automated store in our office as a small business for about a month. We learned a lot from how close it was to success—and the curious ways that it failed—about the plausible, strange, not-too-distant future in which AI models are autonomously running things in the real…

'I'm being paid to fix issues caused by AI' 2 days ago Suzanne BearneTechnology Reporter Sarah Skidd Sarah Skidd makes good money improving copy written by AI AI is making me extra money, says Sarah Skidd, a product marketing manager who writes for tech and start-up companies. In May Ms Skidd was…

Netflix has used artificial intelligence in one of its TV shows for the first time, in a move the streaming company’s boss said will make films and programmes cheaper and of better quality. Ted Sarandos, a co-chief executive of Netflix, said the Argentinian science fiction series El Eternauta (The…

On what’s blocking AI security labor productivity gains and what won’t be unblocked by saturating more LLM technical evals. You’re nursing a twenty-dollar pour-over at one of those pretentious San Francisco cafés when a man walks in and starts talking to the barista about 16th century coffee culture…

AI leaders have predicted that it will enable dramatic scientific progress: curing cancer, doubling the human lifespan, colonizing space, and achieving a century of progress in the next decade. Given the cuts to federal funding for science in the U.S., the timing seems perfect, as AI could replace…

Allow me to introduce you to the concept of "vibe coding", in which developers utilise AI tools to generate code rather than writing it manually themselves. While that might sound like a good idea on paper, it seems getting an AI to do your development for you doesn't always pay off. Jason Lemkin,…

New research has found that large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men, even when both have identical qualifications. The study was co-authored by Ivan Yamshchikov, a professor of AI and robotics at the Technical University of…

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Huge numbers of people are either already using chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude as therapists, or turning to commercial AI therapy platforms for help during dark moments. But is the tech ready for that immense responsibility? A new study by researchers at Stanford University found that the answer…