
From prophet to product: How AI came back down to earth in 2025
In a year where lofty promises collided with inconvenient research, would-be oracles became software tools. ...
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In a year where lofty promises collided with inconvenient research, would-be oracles became software tools. ...

AI pioneer reportedly frustrated with Meta's shift from research to rapid product releases. ...

Basic arithmetic ability lives in the memorization pathways, not logic circuits. ...

New "computational Turing test" reportedly catches AI pretending to be human with 80% accuracy. ...

New paper reveals reducing "bias" means making ChatGPT stop mirroring users' political language. ...

Anthropic study suggests "poison" training attacks don't scale with model size. ...

Rodney Brooks says humanoid robots pose hidden safety challenges and won't learn dexterity from video alone. ...

Chinese lab's v3.2 release explores a technique that could make running AI far less costly. ...

New study examines how a helpful AI response could become a cultural disaster in Iran. ...

Chatbot will "default to the under-18 experience" when age is uncertain after teen suicide lawsuit. ...

Companies work to finalize terms as OpenAI pursues for-profit restructuring. ...

Openly available AI tool creates steerable 3D-like video, but requires serious GPU muscle. ...