The face on an AI interviewer may matter as much as the decision it makes

Applicants reacted differently to identical AI hiring rejections depending on the avatar’s race and gender, suggesting that fairness problems can begin with interface design before anyone examines the algorithm.

Apple sues OpenAI for stealing hardware designs, alleging employees brought prototypes to “show and tell” interviews
Apple sues OpenAI for stealing hardware designs, alleging employees brought prototypes to “show and tell” interviews

Apple has sued OpenAI in a California federal court, accusing the ChatGPT maker of using current and former employees to steal hardware designs as it prepares to launch AI-focused consumer devices. The lawsuit, filed on Friday, names OpenAI’s chief har…

Musk tells Tesla staff to switch to Grok — a model he admits is worse
Musk tells Tesla staff to switch to Grok — a model he admits is worse

Elon Musk told Tesla staff to move to using Grok, the AI model from his own xAI (now folded into SpaceX), according to a memo sent to employees on Friday.
The push comes days after Tesla capped employee spending on third-party AI tools — and it lands e…

Monitoring systemic drift may guide the next phase of organizational resilience
Monitoring systemic drift may guide the next phase of organizational resilience

Artificial intelligence seems to be creating increasingly interconnected enterprise ecosystems, expanding the complexity of how organizations govern technology across their operations. As AI becomes more deeply embedded in critical workflows, maintaini…

SK hynix and TetraMem collaborate on experimental chip to bolster energy efficiency for edge AI devices — memristor-based in-memory SoC research leaves performance questions up in the air
SK hynix and TetraMem collaborate on experimental chip to bolster energy efficiency for edge AI devices — memristor-based in-memory SoC research leaves performance questions up in the air

SK hynix, TetraMem, and the University of Southern California built a memristor-based in-memory computing system-on-chip for AI edge devices, achieving promising energy efficiency, but failed to demonstrate its full potential.

Anthropic says it can read Claude’s ‘thoughts,’ as detailed in new research paper — models observed to have a global workspace, revealing more of what makes LLMs tick

Anthropic has discovered an internal “J-space” for its Claude AI that displays similarities to human internal processing. While the AI developer anthropomorphizes it as thought, it may yet prove useful as a method of improving LLM honesty, oversight, and guardrails.

The Eval Stack: Proving the agents are right instead of claiming It
The Eval Stack: Proving the agents are right instead of claiming It

Most AI research tools point a language model at the web and trust the output. Saarth Shah built Sixtyfour around the opposite instinct: grade everything, ship only what improves the score. Saarth Shah keeps a scoreboard. Every build of Sixtyfour’s res…

Tingyu Su on why AI startups should treat the founding designer as a strategic hire from the start of company building
Tingyu Su on why AI startups should treat the founding designer as a strategic hire from the start of company building

Artificial intelligence has dramatically accelerated software development, making it easier than ever to transform ideas into working products. According to Stanford’s recent report, AI performance on a key coding benchmark jumped from 60% to nearly 10…

A US senator has a plan to make AI answer for its harms. It starts with your local data centre
A US senator has a plan to make AI answer for its harms. It starts with your local data centre

The fight over AI’s harms has played out state by state. One US senator wants to make it federal, all at once. Ed Markey has a long list of worries about artificial intelligence. Thirsty data centres. Workplace surveillance. Biased algorithms. Chatbots…

Tencent is reportedly in talks to acquire Manus from Meta, following Beijing intervention — company expects to remain independent of Chinese tech giant
Tencent is reportedly in talks to acquire Manus from Meta, following Beijing intervention — company expects to remain independent of Chinese tech giant

Tencent is in talks with Manus and other investors to raise the $2 billion needed to buy back the startup from Meta. Beijing ordered the two companies to unwind the deal six months after the surprise announcement of its purchase.