2025-03-14

Tired of AI slop on Instagram? These alternative apps are for human artists only

Baby Elon Musk. Shrimp Jesus. The Titanic colliding with an iceberg lettuce. Social media is saturated with AI slop — low-quality, often ridiculous and sometimes disturbing images, videos, or words [...]

2025-04-24

Meta finally acknowledges that Facebook has a major spam problem

Meta is finally acknowledging that Facebook’s feed is filled with too many spammy posts. In an update, the company says it plans to start “cracking down” on some of the worst offenders. “Faceb [...]

2025-01-02

The 6 best Mint alternatives to replace the budgeting app that shut down

It's been almost one year since Intuit shut down the popular budgeting app Mint. I was a Mint user for many years; millions of other users like me enjoyed how easily Mint allowed us to track all [...]

2025-02-05

UK study says school phone bans don't affect students' total screen time

In recent years, the push to ban smartphones in schools has picked up, with advocates citing everything from improving focus to creating a safe environment. Now, a new study out of the UK investigates [...]

2025-06-03

TikTok ripe with mental health misinformation, new study reports

The internet is both excellent and horrible at spreading information and community. In one sense, it can provide access to so many people and perspectives that aren't available in a person's [...]

2025-06-07

Apple study finds "a fundamental scaling limitation" in reasoning models' thinking abilities

LLMs designed for reasoning, like Claude 3.7 and Deepseek-R1, are supposed to excel at complex problem-solving by simulating thought processes. But a new study by Apple researchers suggests that these [...]

2025-05-17

MIT says a high-profile AI productivity study used data that cannot be trusted

A recent AI research paper touting dramatic productivity boosts has come under fire for questionable data and unverified claims—prompting MIT to publicly distance itself from the study.<br /> [...]

2025-04-22

So-called reasoning models are more efficient but not more capable than regular LLMs, study finds

A new study from Tsinghua University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University examines whether reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) helps large language models reason better—or simply make [...]

2025-06-25

US teachers estimate that AI tools save them about six hours of work every week, study finds

AI tools like ChatGPT are rapidly changing daily life for teachers in the US, according to a new Gallup study.<br /> The article US teachers estimate that AI tools save them about six hours of w [...]