A new Brookings Institution study warns that the widespread use of AI in education is actively weakening how students think, learn and engage cognitively, raising the risk of long-term intellectual decline. The findings come from a global premortem conducted by Brookings researchers, who examined how AI tools are reshaping learning behavior across classrooms, homes and education systems. The study draws on interviews, focus groups, and consultations with 505 students, teachers, parents, education leaders and technologists spanning 50 countries. Researchers describe the trend as a “great unwiring” of students’ cognitive capacities, driven not only by overuse of AI tools but by…
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Henry Kanapi is a journalist and editor covering the intersection of artificial intelligence, financial markets, and technology disruption. He has sourced, written, and edited thousands of stories on crypto, banking, and macroeconomics as Senior Editor at The Daily Hodl, where he helped shape coverage for an audience of over two million monthly readers. At CapitalAI Daily, Henry brings a decade of newsroom experience to fast-paced reporting on AI breakthroughs, market shifts, fraud cases, and regulatory battles. His focus is on accuracy, clarity, and exposing how money moves in the age of artificial intelligence. Henry’s work has been cited by leading financial outlets, investment firms, and research communities tracking the future of markets. He is committed to a high editorial standard rooted in transparency and trust.
Sam Altman says OpenAI is preparing to introduce advertising into ChatGPT as it looks to support growing demand from users who want access to AI tools without a subscription fee. In a new post on X, Altman says OpenAI is beginning to test ads in ChatGPT’s Free tier and its new Go tier, priced at $8 per month. Altman says the move is a response to scale rather than a shift in product philosophy, emphasizing that OpenAI sees sustained demand from users unwilling or unable to pay for AI access. “Here are our principles. Most importantly, we will not accept…
Goldman Sachs sees the potential for more investor gains as a set of powerful macro tailwinds lines up behind US financial markets. In an interview with Chris Hussey, Kunal Shah, co-CEO of Goldman Sachs International and global co-head of the firm’s Fixed Income, Currency, and Commodities business, says the macro backdrop looks bullish for US equities. Shah says multiple forces are converging at once, reinforcing investor optimism and extending the market’s run rather than capping it. “And I think there are quite a lot of tailwinds there at play. On one hand, you just got easy financial conditions. You’ve got…
Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang says the accelerating speed of AI-powered computing is fundamentally shrinking the scale of human problems, a shift he believes will drive higher productivity and ultimately create more work rather than eliminate it. Speaking in an interview with podcaster Jodi Shelton, Huang says AI and advanced computing are tools that compress complexity, making challenges that once felt overwhelming appear increasingly manageable. “When the tool is way, way faster, then the problem looks way smaller. And so let me give you an example. If an airplane were to travel Mach 10, then obviously, the world becomes a…
Tesla’s push into humanoid robotics faces a vastly steeper technical climb than its self-driving ambitions, according to Ark Invest chief executive Cathie Wood. Speaking in a new CNBC interview, Wood says Ark’s internal analysis suggests that building Tesla’s Optimus robot to function reliably in the real world is orders of magnitude more complex than deploying autonomous vehicles. Wood says Ark’s conclusion is based on work by the firm’s research team, including chief futurist Brett Winton, who has been analyzing the technical requirements behind humanoid robotics alongside other senior researchers. “An Optimus robot is going to be 200,000 times more difficult…
Actor and director Ben Affleck says today’s leading AI models fall short when it comes to writing meaningful stories, even as he sees the technology reshaping how movies are made behind the scenes. Speaking in a new interview with Joe Rogan, Affleck says AI tools tend to produce average, uninspired writing that lacks reliability and creative depth. “If you try to get ChatGPT or Claude or Gemini to write you something, it’s really shitty, and it’s shitty because by its nature, it goes to the mean, to the average. And it’s not reliable. I actually don’t think it’s very likely…
A surge in AI-generated child sexual abuse videos pushed 2025 to the worst year on record for online child sexual abuse material, according to new data from the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF). The IWF says its analysts identified a dramatic escalation in photo-realistic AI videos depicting child sexual abuse, warning that rapidly improving tools are enabling criminals to create extreme material at scale with minimal technical skill. Analysts at the watchdog say that offenders are exploiting realism and accessibility to produce content that would previously have required organized networks or direct access to victims. According to data released on January…
A new economics study is pushing back on the idea that artificial intelligence will mainly widen inequality by rewarding only highly skilled workers. In a recent paper, researchers from Stanford University and CREi analyzed how generative AI affects work at the task level and found that AI could raise average wages, while reducing wage inequality across the labor market. Rather than focusing on whether AI replaces jobs outright, the study examines how AI changes what workers actually do inside their jobs. The researchers model how AI affects individual tasks, how those changes alter worker productivity and how wages adjust across…
The equity market may finally be entering a sustained rotation away from Big Tech after years of failed attempts, according to Wells Fargo. In a new CNBC interview, Wells Fargo chief equity strategist Ohsung Kwon says the conditions driving repeated false starts over the past three years are now materially different, with physical and financial tailwinds reshaping market leadership. Kwon says investors have heard similar rotation calls before, but those moves repeatedly collapsed as money flowed back into AI and mega-cap technology stocks. “And we have seen this move before. Every December and into January, all the strategists come out…
OpenAI president Greg Brockman is pushing back after Elon Musk cited excerpts from his private journal in court filings, showing that OpenAI’s senior leadership discussed a potential shift toward a for-profit structure as early as 2017. In February 2024, Musk sued OpenAI, alleging that the firm violated its founding mission as a nonprofit research lab dedicated to developing AI for the benefit of humanity. In a new court filing, Musk points to Brockman’s late-2017 journal entries as evidence that OpenAI’s leadership privately contemplated a for-profit pivot while publicly presenting the organization as a mission-first nonprofit. “It would be nice to…