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Concrete Steps towards AI in the Public Interest from Abeba Birhane

Concrete Steps towards AI in the Public Interest from Abeba Birhane

Cognitive scientist Abeba Birhane reflects on the Paris AI Action Summit, and critiques the dominant narratives around “public interest AI.” In our main article today, she explores how powerful corporations, militarization, and technosolutionism can stall real progress, and lays out concrete steps to push technology toward the public good. But

DeepSeek and the Creative Power of Constraints: Doing More with Less Compute

DeepSeek and the Creative Power of Constraints: Doing More with Less Compute

DeepSeek’s success challenges the belief that bigger compute means better AI. Facing chip shortages and export restrictions, it built a powerful reasoning model using reinforcement learning over brute-force scale. In our main article today, Betty Li Hou, Computer Science PhD Student and Machine Learning Researcher at NYU, explores how

AI is Evolving Fast—But Implementation will take longer

AI is Evolving Fast—But Implementation will take longer

AI is advancing fast, but its real impact will take longer than you might expect. In our featured article below, Mozilla Fellow and AI researcher Sayash Kapoor explores why adoption lags behind innovation—and what it will take to bridge the gap. But first: Join Mallory for an Inspiring Fireside