A top researcher says a new divide is emerging in AI use — and most people are on the losing side

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Vivienne Ming
Vivienne Ming warned that the "overwhelming" trend is "substitution," as most people let AI do their thinking for them.

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This researcher has a new way to measure AI performance. It's BS, literally.

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Peter Gostev, AI capability lead at Arena
Peter Gostev, AI capability lead at Arena

Peter Gostev

I used Anthropic's Claude to pick Oscar winners at a party. It made odd mistakes, but still beat everyone else.

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Alistair Barr (right) winning the Oscar ballot at a friend's party
Alistair Barr (right) winning the Oscar ballot at a friend's party

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The AI software freakout is a massive overreaction. Here's why.

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AI's first wave was about cutting costs. The second wave is about building things we've never seen.

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People watch a surfer riding a wave in Praia do Norte, Nazare, Portugal.

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Apple makes a huge bet on AI models becoming commodities

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Apple CEO Tim Cook

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Business spending on OpenAI models jumps to a record, new data shows

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

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Anthropic expands into healthcare a week after OpenAI launched a similar product

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei

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AI has been all about GPUs. That's changing fast.

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Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang speaks during Nvidia Live at CES 2026 ahead of the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, on January 5, 2026. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images)
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

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Some elite AI researchers say language is limiting. Here's the new kind of model they are building instead.

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Top AI researchers, such as Fei-Fei Li and Yann LeCun, are building world models, which they say have more potential than large language models.

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