State of AI

Meta hired the leadership of ScaleAI and put billions into the data-labeling startup to accelerate its AI efforts.

Renowned investment analyst Mary Meeker is back with a report on the AI market, six years after publishing her last survey of the internet.

An independent AI test lab detailed the rising cost of benchmarking reasoning models.

AI’s thirst for energy is growing, but the technology also could help produce huge energy savings over the next five to 10 years, according to a recent report.

Bots that scrape websites for AI training data often ignore do-not-crawl requests. Now web publishers can enforce such appeals by luring scrapers to AI-generated decoy pages.

The latest international AI summit exposed deep divisions between major world powers regarding AI regulations.

Under a new president, the United States reversed its approach to AI regulation, seeking global dominance by reducing restrictions.

Lawmakers in the U.S. state of Texas are considering stringent AI regulation.

Builders of large AI models have relied on the idea that bigger neural networks trained on more data and given more processing power would show steady improvements. Recent developments are challenging that idea.

More expensive models, superhuman performance, growing impacts on society — an extensive report takes stock of developments in machine learning over the past year. 

Generative AI could add between $2.6 trillion and $4.4 trillion to the global economy annually (roughly 2 percent to 4 percent of the world’s combined gross domestic product this year), according to a new report.

Stanford’s sixth annual AI Index takes stock of a rapidly growing field. The sprawling, 386-page report from the Institute for Human-Centered AI presents the past year’s developments in AI based on a wide variety of sources including benchmarks, papers, market research, job listings, and polls.

Adults in the United States tend to view AI’s medical applications favorably but are leery of text and image generation. Pew Research Center polled 11,004 U.S. adults for their opinions of AI in science, healthcare, and media.

2022 was a big year for AI-driven upstarts and scientific discovery, according to a new survey. The fifth annual State of AI Report details the biggest breakthroughs, business impacts, social trends, and safety concerns.

Worries that automation is stealing jobs may have been greatly exaggerated. A U.S. government report found that employment has increased in many occupations that may be threatened by automation.