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The MIT Ethics of Computing Research Symposium brought together experts and researchers working at the heart of ethical and social impact in technology.
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Researchers found professors preferred AI-generated answers over those written by their peers, raising questions about the role of AI in professional education.
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June 5, 2026 — Cohere has announced the public release of co/plot, an open-source data visualization tool designed to help researchers iterate on charts and figures more efficiently. Developed and […] The post Cohere Shares Internal Visualization Tool with Open-Source Community appeared first on AIwire.
Zcash’s native cryptocurrency, ZEC, crashed by roughly 45% today, as the market reacted to a notable disclosure from the protocol’s founder, Zooko Wilcox, and other key ecosystem figures. The post explained that researchers had recently found and patched a critical vulnerability associated with Zcash’s Orchard shielded pool – one that could have allowed an attacker […]
AI's superior legal reasoning could reshape the legal industry, impacting staffing, smart contract auditing, and regulatory compliance efficiency. The post Stanford study finds AI lawyers outperform law professors in reasoning about 75% of the time appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
A survey of 95,513 students in a representative sample of 20 major U.S. universities found that a third of them use chatbots to produce text, video or code for assignments, and 9 percent admit using them to cheat.
While AI is helping coders produce code faster, it may not be producing better code, researchers warn. And that could cause problems down the road for them.
Researchers in China built a model that uses an AI’s downtime to prepare for users’ next question before they ask it.
Researchers warn that prolonged chatbot interactions could distort how some users experience reality and social connection.