Researchers from three French and Italian universities found that access to AI advice collapsed people’s willingness to say “I don’t know” from 44% to 3%. Accuracy dropped from 27% to 9%. Confidence, meanwhile, rose from 30% to 76%. “People became much worse, the accuracy was only one third, but they were twice as confident,” said […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
Meta didn't consult its Oversight Board last year when it announced sweeping policy changes to content moderation and a rollback of third-party fact checking in the United States in favor of Community Notes. But the company did ask the board for advice on how to expand the crowd-sourced fact checks to other countries.Now the Oversight Board is publishing its advice to Meta. In a 15,000-word p [...]
In short: OpenAI has paused its Stargate UK data centre project, citing the high cost of industrial electricity in Britain and an unfavourable regulatory environment around AI copyright. The project, announced in September 2025 alongside Nvidia and Nscale, had planned to deploy 8,000 GPUs at sites in north-east England, scalable to 31,000 over time. OpenAI says […]<br /> This story contin [...]
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT and numerous other commercial AI applications, has long pursued the goal of developing artificial general intelligence (AGI) that "benefits all of humanity." Now, the organization is significantly revising its perspective on how this transformative technology might emerge.<br /> The article OpenAI shifts away from sudden AGI breakthrough theory ap [...]