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Pangram CEO: People believe AI writing is indistinguishable from ours. It’s not.

When the first commercial AI detectors arrived in late 2022 and early 2023, it wasn’t exactly an auspicious start. News articles and social media posts showing AI detectors flagging the Declaration of

Journal bigthink.com 21.10.2026

AI hasn’t taken my writing job — but it is living rent-free in my head

When a growing chorus of readers and critics accused Jamir Nazir, winner of the prestigious Commonwealth Short Story Prize, of using AI to write his winning entry, I did what any writer with a healthy

Journal bigthink.com 21.10.2026

See the Scientific and the Mundane Become Surprisingly Dazzling When Viewed Through a Microscope, From Neurons to Ballpoint Pens

The Nikon Small World Competition has announced its photography winners for its 52nd annual contest. This comes weeks after its video winner was dethroned for use of generative A.I.

Journal smithsonianmag.com 21.10.2026

Lit Hub Daily: October 21, 2026

American classrooms are racially segregated, and AI is only making it worse. | Lit Hub Politics Nina Chayka searches for the rarest Nabokov paperbacks in America: “Ardis lives on less through its corp

Journal lithub.com 21.10.2026

The idea of a “permanent underclass” started as a meme. It’s tapping real anxieties in Silicon Valley.

A rationalist blog forum popular in the Bay Area, LessWrong is known for its sprawling, hyper-logical takes on everything from AI research to optimal reproductive strategies. But during the 2025 holid

Journal bigthink.com 21.10.2026

The new economics of enterprise AI

Imagine your company just discovered electricity. At first only a few machines run on it, and nobody worries about efficiency — consumption is low and the value is obvious. But once electricity become

Journal technologyreview.com 20.10.2026

A visit to Samsung’s massive new semiconductor hub

Generative AI models run on powerful chips known as GPUs, which depend on stacks of specialized memory chips packaged with the processor. To meet growing demand for memory, Samsung is building a massi

Journal technologyreview.com 20.10.2026

Making the internet better for AI agents might make it worse for everyone else

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Until recently, you could divide internet users into just two

Journal technologyreview.com 19.10.2026

AI researchers stranded Claude on a virtual desert island. It started to “play.”

What do AI agents do if you don’t tell them to do anything? The answer looks a lot like play. Researchers repeatedly stranded them alone on a virtual desert island for 30 hours in an experiment remini

Journal technologyreview.com 19.10.2026

Lit Hub Weekly: October 12 – 16, 2026

Is it or isn’t it? James Folta considers how generative AI is poisoning the literary well for everyone. | Lit Hub Technology “The embodied realm is eager for inquiry, if one is willing and interested.

Journal lithub.com 17.10.2026

Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses

Listen to the session or watch below Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up with a preliminary answer when he used a generative AI model to propose

Journal technologyreview.com 16.10.2026

He Wants AI Benchmarking To Be a Science, Not a Dark Art

Moritz Hardt, author of a new book on benchmarks, believes these “standardized tests” for artificial intelligence are fundamentally broken — but not unfixable. The post He Wants AI Benchmarking To Be

Journal quantamagazine.org 16.10.2026

Protected: How Do We Know? AI and I read “I felt a Funeral – in my Brain,” by Emily Dickinson (Part II)

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Journal guernicamag.com 15.10.2026

Why Are Publishers Suing Big Tech With One Hand and Embracing AI With the Other?

Last weekend I had a little stagefright before I was set to appear on a panel about authorship and AI for an event called Whose Truth? Writers and Readers Forum presented by the Authors Guild. I had a

Journal lithub.com 15.10.2026

Mere Minutes With AI Causes a Sharp Drop in Persistence

How much cognitive offloading is too much? The post Mere Minutes With AI Causes a Sharp Drop in Persistence appeared first on Nautilus.

Journal nautil.us 13.10.2026

AI won’t replace  biologists – it’ll just join the staff

Jennifer Doudna, Nobel Prize winner, biochemist, and CRISPR co-inventor, breaks down how AI is already reshaping experimental biology: speeding up mundane tasks like data cleanup and formatting, and i

Journal bigthink.com 08.10.2026

If AI becomes conscious, how would we treat it? Animals may hold a clue.

Consciousness remains the deepest puzzle in human science. Even as we begin to understand how the brain processes information, we remain as far as ever from understanding why any of that processing sh

Journal bigthink.com 07.10.2026

As AI Closed In on ‘Unique Games’ Proof, Researchers Raced to Beat the Machines

In the shadow of a rumored AI proof of one of the biggest problems in their field, three computer scientists rushed to publish their own milestone result. The post As AI Closed In on ‘Unique Games’ Pr

Journal quantamagazine.org 07.10.2026

Human Vision Has Quirks That AI Can’t Match

Your robot butler can’t do a Magic Eye poster… yet The post Human Vision Has Quirks That AI Can’t Match appeared first on Nautilus.

Journal nautil.us 06.10.2026

Connecting AI agents to enterprise knowledge

For all the data that AI systems continually amass and analyze, enterprise AI agents often suffer from a curious shortcoming: a lack of knowledge. More than data, knowledge is the understanding of wha

Journal technologyreview.com 05.10.2026