Wharton researchers coined ‘cognitive surrender’ to describe what happens when people let AI think for them

A pair of Wharton researchers have put a name to something that many AI users have quietly started doing: letting chatbots make their decisions for them. Steven Shaw and Gideon Nave published a study [...]

Indonesia turns to AI to deliver Prabowo’s biggest promises

The most expensive promise Prabowo Subianto made on his way to Indonesia’s presidency was lunch. His free-meals programme, budgeted at roughly $15bn to feed some 83 million children and pregnant wom [...]

Alibaba's AI video model rises to No. 2 in global rankings, as OpenAI's Sora and ByteDance's Seedance fall away

Alibaba Cloud on Sunday released HappyHorse 1.1, a major upgrade to its AI video generation model that the company says delivers production-ready video synthesis across core content creation scenarios [...]

Spain’s Sherpa.ai raises $18M for AI that never touches your data

Everyone wants the power of AI. Few want to hand their most sensitive data to a foreign cloud to get it. A Basque startup thinks it has the fix. Sherpa.ai has raised $18m to build AI that never sees y [...]

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 dominates new industry benchmarks at a steep premium

Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 tops all six new industry-specific performance indices from Artificial Analysis, covering finance, law, and medicine. But that lead comes at a steep cost. In the Strate [...]

France thinks cheap power is its AI edge. Now it must decide who plugs in

France believes its cheap, low-carbon electricity is Europe’s overlooked advantage in AI. A debate has now opened over that power. Should it go to homegrown AI firms, or to the American giants build [...]

Thinking Machines open sources first multimodal language model, Inkling, focused on low cost and 'resistance to censorship'

Enterprises looking to move more of their agentic AI workloads to open weights models they can customize, control and run on-premises or in virtual private clouds have a strong new contender to consid [...]

Alibaba's Qwen Audio 3.0 TTS Plus tops the competition in the text-to-speech rankings

Alibaba's Qwen Audio 3.0 TTS Plus tops Artificial Analysis' Speech Arena leaderboard. The model supports 16 languages and lets users control speaking style with natural language or tags like [...]

Some Kids Will Never Think AI Is Cool

“I think it should stand for artificial idiot,” one 9-year-old says. Here’s why kids of all ages are calling AI “disgusting” and “creepy.” [...]