Frontier models are failing one in three production attempts — and getting harder to audit

AI agents are now embedded in real enterprise workflows, and they're still failing roughly one in three attempts on structured benchmarks. That gap between capability and reliability is the defin [...]

AI tools like ChatGPT sharply reduce jobs for young workers in exposed fields, study shows

A new study from Stanford University, based on payroll data from millions of US workers, finds that since the rise of AI tools like ChatGPT, jobs for young people in AI-impacted fields have dropped sh [...]

New Stanford study reveals when teaming up AI agents is worth the compute

Multi-agent AI systems are widely considered more capable. A Stanford study shows their apparent advantage largely comes from using more compute. But there are important exceptions.<br /> The ar [...]

Upwork study shows AI agents excel with human partners but fail independently

Artificial intelligence agents powered by the world's most advanced language models routinely fail to complete even straightforward professional tasks on their own, according to groundbreaking re [...]

Stanford researchers find AI agents improve when guided by past successes

A new study from Stanford University finds that AI agents can get much better at solving complex tasks simply by learning from their own successful experiences.<br /> The article Stanford resear [...]

Here’s to the stable ones: In praise of Tim Cook

Tim Cook’s tenure as Apple CEO ends September 1 when he takes the role of executive chair. He will be replaced by John Ternus, a 25-year Apple veteran and head of its hardware engineering division. [...]

The Stanford professor behind an FDA-cleared cardiac AI wants $1 billion for his next company

Summary: Stanford professor James Zou is reportedly raising approximately $100 million at a valuation targeting $1 billion for a startup called Human Intelligence that applies AI to research on the hu [...]

A Stanford student reflects on his ChatGPT class and a culture of "just a little bit of fraud"

Stanford student Theo Baker describes in a guest essay for the New York Times how ChatGPT shaped his entire graduating class. His conclusion: AI turned an already existing culture of dishonesty at the [...]

Google’s Sundar Pichai chose optimism over AI at Stanford. Graduates walked out anyway

The man who runs one of the world’s largest artificial-intelligence companies stood up to address Stanford’s graduating class and, for the most part, declined to talk about artificial intelligence [...]