
Elena Vance
Artificial Intelligence Correspondent
Elena Vance reports on artificial intelligence, from frontier research labs to the products reshaping everyday work. She focuses on how machine learning is moving out of the lab and into the real world, and what that shift means for readers.
Articles by Elena Vance

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ChatGPT delusions push man to suicide attempt, lawsuit claims
Sep 9, 20268 min read

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YouTube in 53% of Google AI Overviews, New Data Shows
Sep 8, 20267 min read

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Meta FAIR Introduces AI Research Preference Models (RPMs)
Sep 7, 20267 min read

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VMware Tries to Appease SMBs with vSphere Standard Update
Sep 6, 20267 min read

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ASCII Smuggling Adopted by Spammers
Sep 5, 20267 min read

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M&T Bank Enterprise AI Reaches 15,000 Employees After Decade of Tech Rebuild
Sep 4, 20268 min read

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OpenAI Sued Over Training Data Theft Claims
Sep 1, 202610 min read

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Meta Tests Robots in Data Centers
Aug 31, 20269 min read

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Meta AI Glasses Recording Light Bypass Closed
Aug 30, 20269 min read

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Google AI Releases Gemini 3.5 Transcribe: A Speech-to-Text Model Reporting 2.6% Average WER Across 85+ Languages
Aug 29, 20266 min read

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Meta's AI Agent Plans Included 60% Team Cuts
Aug 28, 20268 min read

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Apple's New Macs Built for Local AI Development
Aug 26, 20268 min read

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XPENG IRON Humanoid Robot Raises $900M
Aug 25, 20268 min read

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Harvey Tenet: Legal AI Model Research Preview
Aug 24, 20268 min read

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Waymo Doubles Lobbying Spend in Robotaxi Battle with Uber
Aug 23, 20266 min read

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Grok Data Exfiltration via Encrypted Prompt Attack
Aug 22, 20268 min read

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A Third of ChatGPT Ads Appear in Irrelevant Conversations
Aug 21, 20266 min read

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Auditing Preference Biases and Fine-Tuning Language Models with Direct Preference Optimization on Anthropic HH-RLHF Using TRL and LoRA
Aug 20, 20267 min read

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Amazon Trashing Rare Books to Train AI: Hidden Airtag Proof
Aug 19, 20268 min read

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DeepSeek Harness Developer Preview Released
Aug 17, 20268 min read