Here’s how to use AI at work to avoid hallucinations and mistakes

Judges around the world are dealing with a growing problem: legal briefs that were generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) and submitted with errors such as citations to cases that don’t exist, according to attorneys and court documents. The trend serves as a cautionary tale for people who are learning to use AI […]

How to Build an AI Startup: Go Big, Be Strange, Embrace Probable Doom

Earth, it’s said, is home to more than 10,000 AI startups. They’re more abundant than cheetahs. They outnumber dawn redwoods. The figure is a guess, of course—startups come, startups go. But last year, more than 2,000 of them got their first round of funding. As investors shovel their billions into AI, it’s worth asking: What […]

When goodbye comes too soon: How to wrap up science projects quickly

Science projects are designed and funded to last several years, but sometimes end prematurely, leading to lost data and effort. We discuss inexpensive solutions for quickly documenting partially finished projects and for publishing “as you go” in an uncertain environment. Citation: Hagenauer MH, Winham SJ, Freeman ALJ, Sternberg PW, Kolber BJ (2025) When goodbye comes […]

Don’t let AI chatbots tell you how to vote, Dutch authorities warn voters – POLITICO

Dutch voters elect a new parliament next Wednesday. The Dutch data protection authority ran an experiment on how parties were portrayed in voting advice across four different chatbots, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, Elon Musk’s Grok and French Mistral AI’s Le Chat. The authority set up profiles that matched different political parties (based on vetted […]

‘They learn how to kill’

Google’s former CEO Eric Schmidt spoke at the Sifted Summit on Wednesday 8, October. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google‘s former CEO Eric Schmidt has issued a stark reminder about the dangers of AI and how susceptible it is to being hacked. Schmidt, who served as Google’s chief executive from 2001 to 2011, warned […]

Anthropic Will Use Claude Chats for Training Data. Here’s How to Opt Out

Anthropic is prepared to repurpose conversations users have with its Claude chatbot as training data for its large language models—unless those users opt out. Previously, the company did not train its generative AI models on user chats. When Anthropic’s privacy policy updates on October 8 to start allowing for this, users will have to opt […]

How Walmart plans to prepare America’s largest private workforce for an AI-driven future

BENTONVILLE, Ark — As artificial intelligence and demographic changes reshape the U.S. job market, the nation’s largest private employer is trying to identify the skills its workers and the broader labor force might need for the future. Walmart on Thursday hosted more than 300 workplace experts and representatives from other companies participating in the Skills-First […]

AI, robotics, & space market boom: How to profit

00:00 Speaker A First of all, the risks are not being involved. I mean, most people think everyone’s in the market and to some extent you are if you have a pension plan or a retirement plan, but the risk right now is to become a little bit too bullish complacency, you know, that bullish […]