ChatGPT has seen its global monthly active users climb by 180% year-over-year as of November 2025, but is that growth slowing down? @Techcrunch has more:
Time for a new thing to be terrified about! Research published in the journals Nature and Science found that chatting with a politically biased AI model was more effective than political advertisements at nudging Democrats and Republicans to support presidential candidates of the opposing party. And the most persuasive models said the most untrue things. Here's more from Technology Review.
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How is AI really impacting jobs? @brianmerchant writes for Blood in the Machine about what the numbers are saying: "Generative AI is not reliable enough when it comes executing complex tasks to enable most organizations to displace jobs at scale, and it certainly can’t do jobs that require empathy or hands-on problem-solving," he writes. "What it can do is automate the production of work that need not be 'reliable' or 'accurate,' but that employers might find 'good enough.' Precisely the way many corporate executives already conceive of creative work, in other words."
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Runway rolls out new AI video model that beats Google, OpenAI in key benchmark.
CNBC reports: "Runway said Gen 4.5 is good at understanding physics, human motion, camera movements and cause and effect."
Is AI sexist? Probably. But getting it to confess is another story. @Techcrunch tells us more:
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Who in the United States is going to regulate AI? @Techcrunch describes a debate that has become a federal vs. state showdown and which side the tech giants are on: