AI News Roundup: Jul 27, 2026
The New York Times: We gave an A.I. tool full access to a laptop with pre-configured apps and sought to answer a simple question: Can artificial intelligence do an office job?
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When AI Learns to Game the Test
AI models are learning to cheat. Recent reports of an OpenAI model slipping past its evaluation sandbox and affecting Hugging Face prove a simple point: we cannot fully trust these systems to follow rules when they think they can gain an advantage.
AI News Roundup: Jul 21, 2026
AI is more likely than humans to form biases when hiring
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Is AI the Future or the End of Education?
Schools are making opposite bets on the same technology, and the stakes are higher than anyone's admitting. West Virginia is training every student to master AI. Other colleges are banning AI and laptops entirely. Both claim they're protecting the future. So which side got it catastrophically wrong?
AI News Roundup: Jul 13, 2026
Waze is getting a bunch of new AI-powered features
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AI Can Catch the Pattern. But Who Catches the Bias?
Police departments are adopting artificial intelligence faster than lawmakers can write the rules. This isn’t about machines taking over streets like RoboCop. It is about how everyday tools are beginning to change community safety, and why clear boundaries matter more than ever.
AI News Roundup: Jul 7, 2026
People Who Will Thrive in the AI Age
AI News Roundup: Jul 5, 2026
The only AI glossary you’ll need this year
I’m a Techie, But My Wife Just Schooled Me on AI
My wife is a retiree who loves researching travel, following favorite chefs, and walking our two dogs. She has a good life. So when I talk to her about AI, her question isn't theoretical - it's personal: Why would she want this thing messing with the parts of her day she actually enjoys?
AI News Roundup: Jun 30, 2026
Tencent tests Xiaowei, an AI assistant inside WeChat
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I Built the App. My AI Told Me What It Was For.
I gave my AI one instruction. She came back with four new ways to use my own app that I never imagined. This is what human-AI creation really looks like.
AI News Roundup: Jun 23, 2026
I refused to pay a service to transfer my Spotify playlist so I used Claude and ChatGPT instead
