MIT AI expert warns automating Gen Z entry-level jobs could backfire—and cost companies their future workforce

One niche that Anthropic spends more time and money on than other AI companies is called mechanistic interpretability, which means looking inside the complex math of an AI model to learn why it comes up with one particular output and not another. It’s complicated stuff; there are millions of data points that might contribute to…

There are a lot of things that we have written about on Smart Data Collective over the years. It is clear that AI is becoming a bigger part of how companies choose dedicated development team companies in 2026. Timothy Prestianni of National University reports that 77% of businesses are either using AI or plan to…

Ukraine, which is fighting a years-long war of attrition against Russian aggression, has seen a lot of combat innovations, especially in drone warfare. But even as modern technologies like Starlink-powered long-range drones and jam-proof fiber optic drones enter the battlefield, troops on both sides are also relying on their own ingenuity and deploying “field upgrades”…

In the previous chapter of this series, we followed the quiet birth of machine learning. Continue reading on Medium »

You may have heard that OpenAI released its first piece of hardware this week: a $230 mini keyboard. You may not have heard that alongside this “command center for agentic work,” OpenAI also released a ChatGPT basketball. “This basketball comes from the Pause. Play. Prompt. campaign, a physical reminder that creativity doesn’t just live on…