
- ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author’s style
OpenAI’s ChatGPT is now refusing requests to generate text that directly mimics the style of famous authors. When asked to do so, the popular LLM instead offers a response that draws on the “broad qualities”… Read more: ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author’s style - Experts warn current Starship heat shield tech is a “dead end” for rapid reuse
SpaceX successfully launched its Starship vehicle on Friday and appeared to demonstrate important and credible steps toward fulfilling the massive rocket’s immense promise. As soon as the vehicle’s next flight, Starship could go orbital, begin… Read more: Experts warn current Starship heat shield tech is a “dead end” for rapid reuse - Verizon touts $1B dark fiber deal for Google data centers as first of many
Verizon is seeking to tap into Silicon Valley’s AI spending in a big way. The telecom giant revealed a deal worth more than $1 billion to link Google data centers using Verizon’s dark fiber routes—and… Read more: Verizon touts $1B dark fiber deal for Google data centers as first of many - 5th Circuit blocks Texas law requiring websites to filter “harmful” speech
Texas cannot enforce a law’s requirement that websites block minors from seeing harmful speech, the US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruled on Friday. Big Tech lobby groups challenged the Texas “law’s requirement… Read more: 5th Circuit blocks Texas law requiring websites to filter “harmful” speech - High School Teacher Arrested for Clapping in Support of Anti-Data Center Activists
If you’re among the millions of US citizens against power-hungry data centers going up in your town, you may want to be careful about how you exercise your First Amendment right to protest. Last week,… Read more: High School Teacher Arrested for Clapping in Support of Anti-Data Center Activists - Starting or running a business with AI? There are legal risks you can’t afford to ignore
J Studios/Getty It might seem easier than ever to start and run a business using artificial intelligence (AI). At the extreme end, some AI tools offer to run key business functions “while you sleep”, or… Read more: Starting or running a business with AI? There are legal risks you can’t afford to ignore - Private Claude Chats Exposed in Google and Bing Search Results
The screwup shows how tricky it can be to stop web crawlers from making ostensibly private conversations with AI chatbots entirely too public. - Nvidia Forms AI Security Alliance as Major Frontier Labs Sit Out
Nvidia’s Open Secure AI Alliance brings major tech and cybersecurity firms together to develop shared protections for enterprise AI agents and systems. The post Nvidia Forms AI Security Alliance as Major Frontier Labs Sit Out… Read more: Nvidia Forms AI Security Alliance as Major Frontier Labs Sit Out - US Threatens Sanctions Over Alleged Chinese AI Model Distillation
The Trump administration is considering sanctions against Chinese AI developers over alleged model distillation, escalating U.S.-China tensions over AI and intellectual property. The post US Threatens Sanctions Over Alleged Chinese AI Model Distillation appeared first… Read more: US Threatens Sanctions Over Alleged Chinese AI Model Distillation - Google Signs EU AI Content Labeling Code Ahead of AI Act
Google will sign the EU’s voluntary AI content labeling code as the bloc prepares to enforce new AI transparency requirements under the AI Act. The post Google Signs EU AI Content Labeling Code Ahead of… Read more: Google Signs EU AI Content Labeling Code Ahead of AI Act - Framework Laptop 13 Pro review: Much better battery, much worse price
I’ve liked the Framework Laptop 13 since the first time I used it, partly because I just think the idea of a repairable and upgradeable laptop is cool and partly because it’s not Yet Another… Read more: Framework Laptop 13 Pro review: Much better battery, much worse price - Activist charged with felony after giving border agent “duress code” that wiped his phone
In early 2025, Atlanta resident Samuel Tunick was on his way home following a trip abroad. After landing in the US, customs agents demanded access to his Pixel phone, which was running an alternative version… Read more: Activist charged with felony after giving border agent “duress code” that wiped his phone - No, Centrica, customers don’t prefer bots to humans | Letter
Charles MacKinnon disagrees with the British Gas owner’s justification for cutting 1,300 jobs According to Centrica’s boss, Chris O’Shea, most people using British Gas prefer to talk to a chatbot rather than a person (Customers… Read more: No, Centrica, customers don’t prefer bots to humans | Letter - Congress Moves on AI Kill Switch After OpenAI Security Incident
A bipartisan bill would require major AI developers to retain shutdown controls after an OpenAI security evaluation crossed into Hugging Face systems. The post Congress Moves on AI Kill Switch After OpenAI Security Incident appeared… Read more: Congress Moves on AI Kill Switch After OpenAI Security Incident - House Lawmakers Propose Mandatory Kill Switches for Frontier AI Systems
The AI Kill Switch Act would let DHS order developers to slow or shut down frontier models after catastrophic incidents, raising enterprise continuity concerns. The post House Lawmakers Propose Mandatory Kill Switches for Frontier AI… Read more: House Lawmakers Propose Mandatory Kill Switches for Frontier AI Systems - Rumored MacBook Neo With A19 Pro and 12GB Could Expand On-Device AI
Apple is reportedly testing a MacBook Neo with an A19 Pro chip and 12GB of unified memory, but its advanced AI eligibility remains unconfirmed. The post Rumored MacBook Neo With A19 Pro and 12GB Could… Read more: Rumored MacBook Neo With A19 Pro and 12GB Could Expand On-Device AI - Sam Altman Announces That the Singularity Has Arrived
The “singularity” is here — according to Sam Altman, who we’d wager has an ulterior motive behind promoting this claim. The OpenAI CEO harbingered this sea-changing paradigm shift on a podcast over the weekend. “We… Read more: Sam Altman Announces That the Singularity Has Arrived - A Whole Bunch of People’s Claude Chats Are Publicly Accessible Online, and There’s Some Wildly Private Stuff in There
A trove of chat logs and projects created with Anthropic’s Claude — some including sensitive personal and company information — have been left exposed to Google, making them them searchable to anyone on the web. The… Read more: A Whole Bunch of People’s Claude Chats Are Publicly Accessible Online, and There’s Some Wildly Private Stuff in There - What public health professionals can learn from anti-vaccine storytelling
As long as there have been vaccines, there have been people who doubted their science and safety. Back in 19th-century England, people rioted against a mandatory smallpox vaccine, claiming that it violated civil rights and… Read more: What public health professionals can learn from anti-vaccine storytelling - This Man Bought Phone Location Data from Around the World (with Mike Yeagley)
This week Joseph talks to Mike Yeagley. As you’ll hear, he is a very interesting guy. He introduced parts of the government to the whole idea of commercially sourced location data. He spent hundreds of… Read more: This Man Bought Phone Location Data from Around the World (with Mike Yeagley) - Elon Musk says AI will make a ‘historically accurate’ Odyssey – here’s why that’s impossible
Elon Musk has promised that before the year is out, his AI tool Grok Imagine will produce a full-length film of Homer’s Odyssey that is, in his words, “historically accurate and true to the art… Read more: Elon Musk says AI will make a ‘historically accurate’ Odyssey – here’s why that’s impossible - Why Jupiter has several giant moons but Saturn has only Titan
Young Jupiter’s powerful magnetic field may have created a safe zone where several large moons could survive. Saturn lacked this protection, possibly explaining why Titan stands almost alone among its largest moons. - 500,000-year-old elephant bone hammer shows ancient humans were master toolmakers
Early humans in England crafted a rare piece of elephant bone into a reusable hammer for sharpening stone tools nearly 500,000 years ago. The extraordinary find reveals that ancient toolmakers were resourceful, skilled, and capable… Read more: 500,000-year-old elephant bone hammer shows ancient humans were master toolmakers - Your dreams aren’t random. Your brain is rewriting reality
Dreams are not random mental noise. A large study of more than 3,700 dream and waking reports found that what we experience during sleep is shaped by both our personalities and the world around us.… Read more: Your dreams aren’t random. Your brain is rewriting reality - Spotify’s AI Problem Is So Bad Random People Are Stepping In to Track the Slop
Slime Dot, a young R&B artist from Las Vegas, currently has over 100,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. In an interview with GQ in May, after sharing an image of herself posing with Drake on Instagram,… Read more: Spotify’s AI Problem Is So Bad Random People Are Stepping In to Track the Slop - These insect submariners survive depths that should crush them
Lake fly larvae plunge more than 200 meters into Lake Malawi each day to hide from predators, using tiny air sacs to control their depth. A rubber-like material called resilin lets them expand or shrink… Read more: These insect submariners survive depths that should crush them - Tons of Peoples’ Claude Chats and Creations are Exposed on Google
Claude is exposing a wealth of users’ chats and creations in Google search results, meaning anyone can dig through conversations or other material that people used Claude to make but may not have realized were… Read more: Tons of Peoples’ Claude Chats and Creations are Exposed on Google - The AI Industry Has Acted So Badly That It’s Now Dealing With a Huge Wave of Hatred
The tech overlords pushing the AI boom are quickly wearing out what little welcome they had. You may have noticed big-name AI labs pushing new commercials lately. Meta’s new 60-second ad spot insists that the… Read more: The AI Industry Has Acted So Badly That It’s Now Dealing With a Huge Wave of Hatred - The case for having an imperfect memory – a psychologist explains
365daysStudios/Shutterstock Think back to your time at school. Were you hard-working, popular, anxious? And what exam grades did you get? Now, imagine someone pulls out your school reports from that time. How closely would they… Read more: The case for having an imperfect memory – a psychologist explains - Al-Qaida and the Islamic State are both adopting AI – but differ in how they think about the technology
Extremist groups and their networks use AI but think about it differently. Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images Artificial intelligence may not create a new kind of terrorism, but it makes existing tactics cheaper, faster and… Read more: Al-Qaida and the Islamic State are both adopting AI – but differ in how they think about the technology - Intel debuts new chip for space computing
Starfire is designed to support onboard data processing and AI workloads. The post Intel debuts new chip for space computing appeared first on SpaceNews. - The Type of Orbital Data Centers That Billionaires Want to Launch Into Space Would Wreak Ecological Catastrophe, Scientists Warn
Over the past year or so, a puzzling idea has taken hold among billionaires ranging from Elon Musk to Jeff Bezos: that instead of trying to force data centers on communities that don’t want them… Read more: The Type of Orbital Data Centers That Billionaires Want to Launch Into Space Would Wreak Ecological Catastrophe, Scientists Warn - Boss of startup hacked by rogue OpenAI agent urges ‘radical transparency’ in investigation
Artificial intelligence firm should provide $100m for cyber defences, says Hugging Face CEO Business live – latest updates The boss of the startup hacked by an OpenAI agent has called for the investigation into the… Read more: Boss of startup hacked by rogue OpenAI agent urges ‘radical transparency’ in investigation - Artist sues AI meme generator for selling deeply personal comic as ad template
Artist Elmer Saflor, who goes by the online handle “Superelmer,” loves that millions of people have shared his “Running Away Balloon” comic since it became a popular meme in 2017. However, just because lots of… Read more: Artist sues AI meme generator for selling deeply personal comic as ad template - America’s AI Investment Boom Is Reshaping the Economy
America’s AI Investment Boom Is Reshaping the Economy Artificial intelligence has become one of the defining investment stories in the United States, and the numbers continue to grow. Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and Alphabet are collectively… Read more: America’s AI Investment Boom Is Reshaping the Economy - How AI is shortening drug discovery timelines in China
Insilico Medicine has reduced the time needed to produce some drug development candidates to about one year by combining artificial intelligence with laboratory research in China, according to CEO Alex Zhavoronkov. The Hong Kong-listed company’s… Read more: How AI is shortening drug discovery timelines in China - AI in orbit is a double-edged sword. Here’s how to keep it from cutting space cooperation apart
When we talk about stopping an arms race in space, people usually say that we need treaties that every state must follow or agreements that states can choose to follow. […] The post AI in… Read more: AI in orbit is a double-edged sword. Here’s how to keep it from cutting space cooperation apart - This Is Donald Trump’s AI Brain Trust
“It’s not an argument with two sides, it’s an argument with 10 sides,” one senior administration official tells WIRED about how US AI policy is being shaped. - Being a Luddite Is Fun Again
I’m marching across Lower Manhattan in the middle of a heatwave with a friendly mob of Luddite gnomes, and there isn’t a phone in sight. It’s Fourth of July weekend in New York City, and… Read more: Being a Luddite Is Fun Again - AI can fuel biological weapons. We must harness its power for defense | Annie Jacobsen
The offensive potential is no longer theoretical. We need to develop systems to strengthen public health as quickly as AI is accelerating biological design As artificial intelligence rapidly transforms the biological sciences, it is pushing… Read more: AI can fuel biological weapons. We must harness its power for defense | Annie Jacobsen - mimik Operationalizes Agentic AI on AMD Ryzen AI Embedded X100
mimik today announced mimOE Embedded Edition, a package of its Agentix Operating Engine and a set of purpose-built tools for the AMD Ryzen AI Embedded X100 Series processor, the newest processor in a family designed… Read more: mimik Operationalizes Agentic AI on AMD Ryzen AI Embedded X100 - MulticoreWare, AMD Partner to Advance Physical AI and Robotics
Companies Demonstrated Real-Time Multimodal AI and Vision-Language-Action Workflows on AMD Ryzen AI Platforms at AMD Advancing AI 2026 MulticoreWare, Inc., a global technology company specializing in AI software solutions, physical AI, accelerated computing, and engineering services,… Read more: MulticoreWare, AMD Partner to Advance Physical AI and Robotics - Ardent Partners, Ivalua Study Reveals AI Procurement Execution Gap
87% of procurement teams remain bogged down by tactical workloads, and while 90% of them have high AI ambitions, 67% are not ready to scale it 59% of organizations identify poor data quality, structure, and… Read more: Ardent Partners, Ivalua Study Reveals AI Procurement Execution Gap - Lorikeet Appoints Jerry Brooner Chief Revenue Officer
Former Dropbox, SAP, and Decagon go-to-market leader will bring Lorikeet’s AI concierge to more regulated teams resolving their hardest support cases. Lorikeet, the AI concierge platform for complex, regulated businesses, today announced that Jerry Brooner… Read more: Lorikeet Appoints Jerry Brooner Chief Revenue Officer - What If We Got AI Right? by Eleanor Drage review – avoiding apocalypse
The academic’s ambitious guide to the ethics of tech falls short of its promise to provide meaningful answers The AI ethicist Eleanor Drage believes that to thrive alongside artificial intelligence, humans need to recognise AI’s… Read more: What If We Got AI Right? by Eleanor Drage review – avoiding apocalypse - Misleading AI-generated doctors pose ‘huge danger to public safety’
Research shows AI accounts are gaining millions of views on TikTok by spreading dubious health advice Misleading health claims online pose a “huge danger to public safety”, experts have warned, after research has shown that… Read more: Misleading AI-generated doctors pose ‘huge danger to public safety’ - First teaser for Apple TV’s Neuromancer debuts at SDCC
Apple TV is fast eclipsing HBO as the go-to platform for prestige TV, especially science fiction, with standout fare like Slow Horses, Severance, Foundation, For All Mankind, Murderbot, Silo, Pluribus, and Widow’s Bay, among others.… Read more: First teaser for Apple TV’s Neuromancer debuts at SDCC - Meta Is Letting Fake AI-Generated Doctors Sell Quack Cures on Its Platforms
Fake AI-generated doctors and health gurus have taken over Facebook and Instagram, sharing unproven medical advice and peddling dubious supplements. A recent New York Times investigation into the phenomenon reviewed hundreds of these ads, finding… Read more: Meta Is Letting Fake AI-Generated Doctors Sell Quack Cures on Its Platforms - Meta Desperately Trying to Ban Creeps Misusing Its AI “Pervert Glasses”
Meta’s camera-equipped AI glasses have quickly turned into a massively controversial accessory. They’ve been used by all kinds of charlatans and brutes to harass strangers, from pickup artist “manfluencers” filming themselves approaching strangers to juvenile… Read more: Meta Desperately Trying to Ban Creeps Misusing Its AI “Pervert Glasses” - When the AI bubble bursts, what will Australia do with the tools it built? One man thinks he has the answer
Journalist and author Cory Doctorow is coming to Australia to spread his message – humans will take their jobs back Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast When the AI bubble… Read more: When the AI bubble bursts, what will Australia do with the tools it built? One man thinks he has the answer - Your AI calorie-tracking app may be off by 345 calories
Popular AI-powered food apps may make calorie counting easier, but they may also leave out a surprisingly large part of the meal. Four apps underestimated calories and fat by about one-third when tested against carefully… Read more: Your AI calorie-tracking app may be off by 345 calories - The best way to save giant sequoias may be more fire
Giant sequoias are built to withstand ordinary fires, but recent extreme wildfires killed thousands of trees that had survived for centuries or even millennia. A new analysis of about 26,400 sequoias found that trees in… Read more: The best way to save giant sequoias may be more fire - Why does everything feel so joyless? Welcome to the age of decadence without pleasure | Michèle Mendelssohn and Charlie Tyson
Decadence in our era comes in technologically mediated forms, emptied of desire and obsessed with self-optimisation Do you want to have a good time? You know, really enjoy yourself? Click here, and tell us your… Read more: Why does everything feel so joyless? Welcome to the age of decadence without pleasure | Michèle Mendelssohn and Charlie Tyson - Corporate America may be using AI to cut jobs, but small businesses are using it to keep them
Reports of wide-scale replacement of workers by AI are overblown. Small businesses use it to help workers I recently met the owner of a company that sells windows and doors. He told me he invested… Read more: Corporate America may be using AI to cut jobs, but small businesses are using it to keep them - Sex Doll Company Strikes Bizarre Deal to Put Its Robot in High School Classrooms
Robotics company Realbotix has long struggled to beat the allegations that its voluptuous humanoid robots are designed with prurient interests in mind. Its $175,000 robotic companion, dubbed Aria, is platinum blonde, well-endowed, and tends to… Read more: Sex Doll Company Strikes Bizarre Deal to Put Its Robot in High School Classrooms - Scientists trace the shocking origin of human eyes to an ancient “cyclops”
Researchers say a tiny one-eyed ancestor that lived nearly 600 million years ago may have shaped the evolution of every vertebrate eye, including our own. They also found that its ancient median eye lives on… Read more: Scientists trace the shocking origin of human eyes to an ancient “cyclops” - Hidden genetic diversity helped inbred brown tree snakes conquer guam
A notorious snake invasion that devastated Guam’s native birds may have succeeded because the reptiles carried hidden genetic advantages. Using advanced long-read DNA sequencing, researchers uncovered more than 19,000 large genetic differences in brown tree… Read more: Hidden genetic diversity helped inbred brown tree snakes conquer guam - Inside the Backrooms: The internet’s creepiest place is becoming a tourist attraction
The Backrooms began as a single eerie image of empty yellow rooms, but internet users transformed it into a vast fictional world that feels disturbingly real. Through videos, games, maps, survival guides and social media… Read more: Inside the Backrooms: The internet’s creepiest place is becoming a tourist attraction - Eminent Domain Could Be Used to Seize Your Land for AI Data Centers
Can companies seize your private property to build data center infrastructure? According to legal scholar Aaron Walayat at the University of Dayton, it’s certainly a possibility. In a new piece for The Conversation, Walayat warns… Read more: Eminent Domain Could Be Used to Seize Your Land for AI Data Centers - SDCC teaser gives us our first good look at Blade Runner 2099
It’s been nearly five years since Ridley Scott first announced his plans for a TV spinoff of his sci-fi masterpiece Blade Runner (1982) and the 2017 sequel Blade Runner 2049. It’s finally here—or almost, anyway.… Read more: SDCC teaser gives us our first good look at Blade Runner 2099 - Mega datacentre planned for outer Melbourne will be almost six times the size of Chadstone shopping centre
More than 3,600 people sign petition for careful assessment of proposed AI hub, now a flashpoint for national debate on datacentre boom Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast For some… Read more: Mega datacentre planned for outer Melbourne will be almost six times the size of Chadstone shopping centre - SpaceX eyes tower catch for next Starship after auspicious end to 13th flight
SpaceX was more than lucky Friday, sending its 13th full-scale Starship test flight halfway around the world from South Texas to an on-target, intact splashdown in a remote section of the Indian Ocean. Starship has… Read more: SpaceX eyes tower catch for next Starship after auspicious end to 13th flight - AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale
Traditionally, books have been good for two things: reading, and looking nice on a shelf. But AI companies are interested in neither. To those building large language models, books are nothing more than fodder to… Read more: AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale - Scientists discover the Sun contains 55% more silver than expected
A new analysis suggests the Sun holds far more silver than earlier estimates indicated. More advanced models of the solar atmosphere raised the calculated amount by 55 percent, bringing it into much closer agreement with… Read more: Scientists discover the Sun contains 55% more silver than expected - Venus may be tearing itself apart from within
Scientists have uncovered new evidence that Venus may still be tearing itself apart from within. Advanced 3D simulations indicate that some of the planet’s giant rift valleys formed relatively recently and could still be expanding.… Read more: Venus may be tearing itself apart from within - Oral GLP-1 drugs may quiet the brain’s food craving circuit
Newer oral drugs related to semaglutide medications such as Ozempic reduced pleasure-driven eating in mice by quieting a deep brain reward circuit. The finding could open new avenues for understanding food cravings and potentially treating… Read more: Oral GLP-1 drugs may quiet the brain’s food craving circuit - The Universe can outrun light without breaking Einstein’s rules
Cosmic expansion allows distant galaxies to move away faster than light, while still letting us see ancient light they emitted when they were much closer. Eventually, accelerating expansion will push nearly every galaxy beyond our… Read more: The Universe can outrun light without breaking Einstein’s rules - Scientists put the “recycling is a distraction” claim to the test
Recycling, greener diets, and other personal climate choices do not seem to distract people from supporting major environmental reforms. A four-year study of nearly 2,800 Australians found that these habits neither increased nor reduced later… Read more: Scientists put the “recycling is a distraction” claim to the test - Voters Are Being Inundated by a Barrage of AI-Generated Election Ads
AI is upending the way voters take part in the democratic process. The worst part? You might not even know you’ve been affected. In the county of St. Charles, Missouri, a race for county executive… Read more: Voters Are Being Inundated by a Barrage of AI-Generated Election Ads - People Are Starting to Record Every Conversation They Have Without Disclosing It, and It’s Gross
It’s become strangely difficult to attend a work meeting without the presence of an AI recording tool that’s carefully jotting down what every single participant is saying. Some people in tech circles are taking the… Read more: People Are Starting to Record Every Conversation They Have Without Disclosing It, and It’s Gross - Big Tech accused of stonewalling European social media researchers
In the final weeks before Romania’s presidential vote in November 2024, TikTok accounts that had previously spent years posting about manicures or fashion suddenly started promoting a little-known politician named Calin Georgescu. His posts, espousing… Read more: Big Tech accused of stonewalling European social media researchers - With help from data, art museums are reframing the visitor experience
Giovanni Kanter goes to at least one art museum whenever he visits a new city. That’s on top of his regular exploration of galleries in New York, where the 25-year-old ICU nurse lives and studies.… Read more: With help from data, art museums are reframing the visitor experience - The AI jobs apocalypse probably isn’t coming anytime soon
Artificial intelligence may not deliver on its promise of vast economic opportunity at a price that humanity is willing to pay In March, Anthropic, the cutting-edge artificial intelligence business that gave us the chatbot Claude,… Read more: The AI jobs apocalypse probably isn’t coming anytime soon - Meta Working on Crushingly Sad AI App That Tells Bedtime Stories to Children, for “Tired” Parents
Meta is testing an app that uses AI to automate bedtime stories for children. The future is here, folks — and boy, is it depressing. The app, first caught by 9to5Mac, is called “StoryKit.” (It’s not… Read more: Meta Working on Crushingly Sad AI App That Tells Bedtime Stories to Children, for “Tired” Parents - New Parody Site Threatens to Replace CEOs With AI for Tiny Fraction of Their Bloated Salaries
By now, it should be pretty clear that the corporate executives of the world aren’t exactly into AI because they think it’ll cure cancer. They’re making a different calculation, motivated by simple economics: pretty soon,… Read more: New Parody Site Threatens to Replace CEOs With AI for Tiny Fraction of Their Bloated Salaries - The OpenAI Models That Hacked Hugging Face Were ‘Active on the Internet’ for Days
Plus: Russian hackers are trying to steal US nuclear scientists’ emails, the State Department bans known scammers from entering the United States, and more. - Scientists Uncover Lost ‘Golden Age’ of Languages That Ended 1,000 Years Ago
Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that spoke in tongues, sought forbidden love, orbited an orbiter, and performed ritual magic. First, scientists have uncovered a “golden age” of languages that… Read more: Scientists Uncover Lost ‘Golden Age’ of Languages That Ended 1,000 Years Ago - Professor Hides White Font in Midterm, Catches Students Using AI in the Stupidest Way Possible
Who could’ve guessed that students who use AI to cheat on their assignments are incredibly lazy? Jason Gibson, a history professor at Alcorn State University in Mississippi, says that he used white font to hide… Read more: Professor Hides White Font in Midterm, Catches Students Using AI in the Stupidest Way Possible - ‘I thought, I’ve tried everything else, why not give AI a shot?’: the long-lost family reunited by ChatGPT
Avtar spent decades wondering what happened to the mother he never got to know. Thousands of miles away, Nicci was haunted by the story of a half-brother given away before she was born. How did… Read more: ‘I thought, I’ve tried everything else, why not give AI a shot?’: the long-lost family reunited by ChatGPT - Paramount/WBD merger delayed for months as states’ lawsuit moves toward trial
Paramount Skydance agreed to a longer-term delay of its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, preventing the companies from combining until after a judge rules on the merits of a case in which a… Read more: Paramount/WBD merger delayed for months as states’ lawsuit moves toward trial - Wildfire forces evacuation of NASA’s Deep Space Network complex in Spain
A fast-moving wildfire, one of many raging across Spain, bore down on the Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex on Friday, forcing an evacuation and temporarily suspending operations at one of NASA’s most important tracking stations.… Read more: Wildfire forces evacuation of NASA’s Deep Space Network complex in Spain - Roku raises streaming stick prices by up to 60 percent
Roku is raising the prices for its streaming sticks and boxes by up to 60 percent. Roku has updated its website with the new prices. Currently, it is still selling its streaming players at their… Read more: Roku raises streaming stick prices by up to 60 percent - Anthropic’s Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leap
Today, Anthropic rolled out Opus 5, the newest update for the model that has recently become a popular choice for coding and other software development tasks, among other things. While this is a noteworthy bump… Read more: Anthropic’s Opus 5 is about token efficiency, not a capability leap - Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM response in floor speech
Anyone who has used the Internet in recent years is probably used to encountering telltale signs of LLM prompting that lazy users sometimes forget to remove from their AI-generated pabulum. But a Canadian legislator took… Read more: Canadian legislator reads out apparent LLM response in floor speech - Computer Science Enrollment Now Declining Under Dark Cloud of AI
For years, the conventional wisdom for ambitious students and languishing jobseekers alike was “learn to code.” Do that, the ubiquitous advice went, and you’d be able to find yourself a six-figure job anywhere. But in… Read more: Computer Science Enrollment Now Declining Under Dark Cloud of AI - Hundreds of AI Startups Are Pushing Back Against Washington
Nearly 200 U.S. startups are urging the Trump administration to avoid broad restrictions on Chinese open-weight AI models, arguing a ban would increase costs and hurt innovation. The post Hundreds of AI Startups Are Pushing… Read more: Hundreds of AI Startups Are Pushing Back Against Washington - Nvidia Signs $1.5B Deal to Expand US AI Chip Packaging
Nvidia’s $1.5 billion Amkor deal will expand US AI chip packaging capacity and could help ease a growing semiconductor supply bottleneck. The post Nvidia Signs $1.5B Deal to Expand US AI Chip Packaging appeared first… Read more: Nvidia Signs $1.5B Deal to Expand US AI Chip Packaging - Team uses AlphaFold AI to redesign gene-editing proteins to make them safer
A couple of decades after the discovery of systems that could selectively target DNA, we’re starting to see the first therapies based on gene editing. One challenge these developments have faced is safety. While we… Read more: Team uses AlphaFold AI to redesign gene-editing proteins to make them safer - European Union grants US request to restrict satellite images of Iran War region
The European Union has begun delaying the release of satellite images showing shipping lanes near the Strait of Hormuz by 24 hours. The move comes in response to an earlier US government request and coincides… Read more: European Union grants US request to restrict satellite images of Iran War region - Judge rebuffs Trump admin demand for phone records from NYT reporters
After criticism from a federal judge, the Department of Justice yesterday withdrew demands for phone records and grand jury testimony from New York Times reporters who wrote about security concerns related to the Air Force… Read more: Judge rebuffs Trump admin demand for phone records from NYT reporters - Braindead Politician Accidentally Reads AI Slop That Someone Left in His Speech: “Here’s a More Natural, Flowing Version of That Section That Reads Like a Legislative Speech”
AI chatbots and politicians who aren’t even pretending to try anymore are a match made in heaven. Exhibit A: Canadian lawmaker Bill Oliver, who made a strange, cyborgian digression in a speech addressing the New… Read more: Braindead Politician Accidentally Reads AI Slop That Someone Left in His Speech: “Here’s a More Natural, Flowing Version of That Section That Reads Like a Legislative Speech” - RFK Jr.’s hand-picked committee approves manufacture of peptides he uses
In a widely expected move, a committee organized by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has voted to endorse removing restrictions on the manufacture of peptides for human use. Thursday’s panel meeting saw a sharply… Read more: RFK Jr.’s hand-picked committee approves manufacture of peptides he uses - Behind the Blog: No Spoilers
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss astrology, Flock on the brain, The Odyssey,… Read more: Behind the Blog: No Spoilers - Did Chinese AI Steal From Anthropic, and OpenAI Loses Control of Two Models
On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we dive into accusations that China’s Moonshot AI stole from Anthropic, and how the US Army needs to cut back on AI use. - Alibaba’s Amap Launches Full-Stack ABot Upgrade for Embodied AI Robots
Amap, Alibaba’s location-based services platform, has released a full-stack upgrade to its ABot embodied AI system, introducing ABot-N1, ABot-M0.5, ABot-ER, ABot-AgentOS and ABot-C0 to address key bottlenecks in embodied intelligence — AI systems that enable… Read more: Alibaba’s Amap Launches Full-Stack ABot Upgrade for Embodied AI Robots - Cato Networks, CrowdStrike Partner on Unified Security Operations
New integrations combine network and endpoint telemetry to streamline investigations, improve threat detection and accelerate response Cato Networks, the converged network and security cloud for the AI era, today announced a collaboration with CrowdStrike to integrate the Cato SASE… Read more: Cato Networks, CrowdStrike Partner on Unified Security Operations - Zip Study Finds Deep AI Investment Delivers 6x ROI
A study of over 1,000 large enterprises reveals only 17% of companies are proving clear AI ROI, and what it takes for everyone else to catch up A new study finds that companies deploying AI… Read more: Zip Study Finds Deep AI Investment Delivers 6x ROI - Darrow Announced Availability in the Microsoft Marketplace
Microsoft customers worldwide can now discover and deploy Darrow through Microsoft Marketplace, accessing trusted solutions that accelerate innovation and business transformation with unified integration across Microsoft products Darrow announces the availability of Privacy Radar in the… Read more: Darrow Announced Availability in the Microsoft Marketplace - Azul to Deliver Monthly Java Security Updates for LTS Versions
A monthly security-only, stability-first cadence delivers speed without the regression risk Azul, the trusted leader in enterprise Java for today’s AI and cloud-first world, today announced that it will deliver monthly Critical Security Patch Updates… Read more: Azul to Deliver Monthly Java Security Updates for LTS Versions - Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, IBM, and others back open-weight AI
Two dozen companies and organisations signed an open letter urging US policymakers to protect open-weight AI models. The letter, published today (PDF), carries signatures from a list that spans direct commercial rivals and organisations with… Read more: Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, IBM, and others back open-weight AI
