People walk on the campus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 15, 2025. Joseph Prezioso | AFP | Getty Images Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Wednesday released a study that found that artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor…

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal The Oatmeal Home Comics Animations Games Books Subscribe Blog A cartoonist's review of AI art This is a comic about AI art. A note from the author Special thanks to my friends Matt Harding and Allie Brosh for their insight and inspiration when writing…

The Big Short guy is short on trust in the state of the current economy. Earlier this week, it came to light that Michael Burry, famously depicted by Christian Bale in Adam McKay’s telling of the 2008 housing crisis, is shutting the doors to his hedge fund Scion Capital because he believes the…

updated Microsoft reported earnings for the quarter ended Sept. 30 on Wednesday after market close and buried in its financial filings were a couple of passages suggesting that OpenAI suffered a net loss of $11.5 billion or more during the quarter. Let's look first at page 9 of the official earnings…

As a graduate student in the 1980s, Yann LeCun had trouble finding an adviser for his Ph.D. thesis on machine learning—because no one else was studying the topic, he recalled later. More recently, he’s become the odd man out at Meta. Despite worldwide renown as one of the godfathers of artificial…

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese technology giant SoftBank said Tuesday it has sold its stake in Nvidia, raising $5.8 billion to pour into other investments. It also reported its profit nearly tripled in the first half of this fiscal year from a year earlier. Tokyo-based SoftBank Group Corp. said it sold the…

Anthropic made headlines Thursday when it released research claiming that a previously unknown Chinese state-sponsored hacking group used the company’s Claude AI generative AI product to breach at least 30 different organizations. According to Anthropic’s report, the threat actor was able to bypass…

On 14 October 2025, the CEO of OpenAI made an extraordinary announcement. “We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive,” it says, “to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues.” As a psychiatrist who studies emerging psychosis in adolescents and young adults, this was news to me. Researchers…

Many organizations rushing to cut staff in the name of AI efficiency are expected to quietly rehire those roles – often "offshore or at lower salary." According to Forrester's "Predictions 2026: The Future Of Work" analysis, half of AI-attributed layoffs are likely to be reversed. Tech industry grad…

OpenAI Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar said on Wednesday that the company is not planning to go public anytime soon, speaking on stage at the Wall Street Journal’s Tech Live conference. “IPO is not on the cards right now,” Friar said. “We are continuing to get the company into a state of…

The fact that Sam Altman is a liar is no longer news. As I argued here in late 2023, Altman truly was fired for being “not completely candid” — just like the board said. Recent books by Karen Hao and Keach Hagey pretty much confirm this. I dissected his 2023 Senate testimony here. But just in case…

AI may not simply be “a bubble,” or even an enormous bubble. It may be the ultimate bubble. What you might cook up in a lab if your aim was to engineer the Platonic ideal of a tech bubble. One bubble to burst them all. I’ll explain. Since ChatGPT’s viral success in late 2022, which drove every…

A joint study by Stanford University researchers and a workplace performance consulting firm published in the Harvard Business Review details the plight of workers who have to fix their colleagues’ AI-generated “workslop,” which they describe as work content that “masquerades as good work, but lacks…

Bubble Bobble Is the AI bubble about to pop? Sam Altman is prepared either way. "Someone will lose a phenomenal amount of money," says CEO while fundraising at record prices. Benj Edwards – Aug 21, 2025 6:06 PM | 136 Sam Altman during the AI Action Summit in Paris, France, on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025.…

An essential part of being able to say ‘I told you so’ is in fact having told you so. Here goes. In April 2023, I wrote an article titled AI: Guaranteed to disrupt our economies. In this piece I also announced I was going to make a fool of myself by making some AI predictions. I have singularly…

(See how I cleverly did not mention AI in the title!) You know we have seen more than our fair share of slop reports sent to the curl project so it seems only fair that I also write something about the state of AI when we get to enjoy some positive aspects of this technology. Let’s try doing this in…

Greetings all, Hope everyone’s hanging in, hammers at the ready. So, I know I promised a podcast in the last newsletter, but, well, I blew it on the recording. I am not, I regret to inform you, an audio engineer, and the sound quality just wasn’t there. However! The conversation, with the New…

Reference librarian Eddie Kristan said lenders at the library where he works have been asking him to find books that don’t exist without realizing they were hallucinated by AI ever since the release of GPT-3.5 in late 2022. But the problem escalated over the summer after fielding patron requests for…

You have been warned: Warnings about the overinflated prospects of a still-hypothetical "AI economy" continue to mount. Some analysts expect the AI bubble to burst sooner rather than later, arguing that current investment growth cannot continue indefinitely in a finite world. According to a research…

The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy — and four times the subprime bubble, analyst says Site Search Search Results Symbols No results found All NewsArticlesVideoPodcasts 0 Results No Results Found Authors No results found Sections No results found Columns No results found DJIA…

The message from global regulators this week was blunt: the AI boom is driving stocks to dotcom-bubble highs – and the world is finally listening. With so much cash riding on so few firms, any loss of faith could send shares tumbling and drag down the wider economy. China’s proposed export controls…

I did a short post (and a video) about how AI shouldn't be thought of as a bubble because a bubble is a false belief that nobody will believe once it crashes and burns. But as I said in the note on that post, it's a semantic argument, and if the name is already being used as "overinvestment in…

Despite massive investments in AI infrastructure by high-tech giants, revenue growth from AI has yet to materialize, indicating a significant gap in the ecosystem's end-user value. In fact, David Cahn, a partner at Sequoia Capital, believes that AI companies will have to earn about $600 billion per…

Add Amazon (AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos to the growing list of people calling Wall Street's AI craze a bubble. During a conversation at Italian Tech Week, Bezos said the artificial intelligence hype cycle is pushing investors to spend billions on both good and bad ideas. Despite that, Bezos said he…

ai-pocalypse Workers are getting lazy about using AI to do their jobs for them, and the results are both costly and increasing distrust in the workplace. An ongoing study by Stanford's Social Media Lab and behavioral research business BetterUp Labs says 40 percent of US workers are reporting…

Cite as: van Rooij, I. (2025) AI slop and the destruction of knowledge. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16905560 This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curious, because the nuances are relevant for something I am…

Google has patched a critical graphics library vulnerability in the Chrome browser, discovered by its AI-powered detection tool, Google Big Sleep. Google has released the Chrome Stable version 139.0.7258.154/.155 for Windows, macOS, and Linux, addressing a critical security vulnerability. Users are…

Today we’re announcing the beta release of mcp-context-protector, a security wrapper for LLM apps using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). It defends against the line jumping attacks documented earlier in this blog series, such as prompt injection via tool descriptions and ANSI terminal escape codes,…

Prompt injection pervades discussions about security for LLMs and AI agents. But there is little public information on how to write powerful, discreet, and reliable prompt injection exploits. In this post, we will design and implement a prompt injection exploit targeting GitHub’s Copilot Agent, with…

Multi-agent systems (MASs) are an increasingly popular paradigm for AI applications. As Leslie Lamport famously noted, “a distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer unusable.” It turns out that a similar aphorism applies to…

ArticlesOnline firstAugust 12, 2025 Krzysztof Budzyń, MD Affiliations Department of Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine, Academy of Silesia, Katowice, Poland Endoterapia, H-T Centrum Medyczne, Tychy, Poland , ∙ Marcin Romańczyk, MD Correspondence Correspondence to: Dr Marcin Romańczyk,…

Sign up for Work in Progress, a newsletter about work, technology, and how to solve some of America’s biggest problems. It is a Monday afternoon in August, and I am on the internet watching a former cable-news anchor interview a dead teenager on Substack. This dead teenager—Joaquin Oliver, killed in…

Picture this: you send a seemingly harmless image to an LLM and suddenly it exfiltrates all of your user data. By delivering a multi-modal prompt injection not visible to the user, we achieved data exfiltration on systems including the Google Gemini CLI. This attack works because AI systems often…

Here's a different way to think about the change coming to the workforce and economy from AI. Imagine everyone in the world has 10,000 brains, 20,000 eyes, 20,000 arms, and 20,000 legs. And they can deploy them anywhere in the world to do whatever task needs doing. In this world, we don't have…

Everyone suddenly became an AI expert last year. The same people who couldn’t explain a neural network in 2022 had “AI thought leader” in their LinkedIn bios overnight. Ask them about attention mechanisms or backpropagation, and watch them scramble for the ChatGPT definition they memorized. Glass…

Annals of Education The demise of the English paper will end a long intellectual tradition, but it’s also an opportunity to reëxamine the purpose of higher education. June 30, 2025 There are no reliable figures for how many students use A.I., just stories about how everyone is doing it.Illustration…

03-24-2025 Justifying the High Salaries of Early-Career Professionals The following are anecdotes of a typical work schedule for young professionals in established, tracked professions. Following these profiles, I provide explanations for why young professionals command such high compensation,…