Business
Benchmarking Costs Climb: Reasoning LLMs Are Pricey to Test
An independent AI test lab detailed the rising cost of benchmarking reasoning models.
State of AI
Tech & Society
AI Uses Energy, AI Saves Energy: The International Energy Agency examines the energy costs and potential savings of the AI boom
AI’s thirst for energy is growing, but the technology also could help produce huge energy savings over the next five to 10 years, according to a recent report.
Tech & Society
Scraping the Web? Beware the Maze: Cloudflare’s AI Labyrinth traps scrapers with decoy pages
Bots that scrape websites for AI training data often ignore do-not-crawl requests. Now web publishers can enforce such appeals by luring scrapers to AI-generated decoy pages.
Tech & Society
World Powers Move to Lighten AI Regulation: Global AI summit reveals deep divisions on regulation and governance
The latest international AI summit exposed deep divisions between major world powers regarding AI regulations.
Tech & Society
White House Orders Muscular AI Policy: U.S. shifts AI strategy to remove regulations and reinforce global leadership
Under a new president, the United States reversed its approach to AI regulation, seeking global dominance by reducing restrictions.
Tech & Society
Texas Moves to Regulate AI: Texas introduces landmark bill to regulate AI development and use
Lawmakers in the U.S. state of Texas are considering stringent AI regulation.
Machine Learning Research
Next-Gen Models Show Limited Gains: AI giants rethink model training strategy as scaling laws break down
Builders of large AI models have relied on the idea that bigger neural networks trained on more data and given more processing power would show steady improvements. Recent developments are challenging that idea.
Tech & Society
AI Trends in Depth: Stanford’s AI Index Report shows the state of AI in 2024
More expensive models, superhuman performance, growing impacts on society — an extensive report takes stock of developments in machine learning over the past year.
Business
Economic Forecast — GenAI Boom: McKinsey projects generative AI's impact on global economy.
Generative AI could add between $2.6 trillion and $4.4 trillion to the global economy annually (roughly 2 percent to 4 percent of the world’s combined gross domestic product this year), according to a new report.
Tech & Society
AI Trends Tracked: 2023's AI trends from Stanford's AI Index
Stanford’s sixth annual AI Index takes stock of a rapidly growing field. The sprawling, 386-page report from the Institute for Human-Centered AI presents the past year’s developments in AI based on a wide variety of sources including benchmarks, papers, market research, job listings, and polls.
Tech & Society
What Americans Want From AI: Pew survey asks 11,000 Americans about AI.
Adults in the United States tend to view AI’s medical applications favorably but are leery of text and image generation. Pew Research Center polled 11,004 U.S. adults for their opinions of AI in science, healthcare, and media.
Tech & Society
AI’s Year in Review: Fifth Annual State of AI Report Details 2022 Trends
2022 was a big year for AI-driven upstarts and scientific discovery, according to a new survey. The fifth annual State of AI Report details the biggest breakthroughs, business impacts, social trends, and safety concerns.