President Donald Trump continues to undermine public faith in U.S. elections by spreading baseless claims of rigged voting, a decade-long effort that has corroded democratic trust, especially among Re…
The New York Times Connections puzzle for June 19, #1104, features categories including umami-rich foods, beginner piano pieces, magazine-related phrases, and words ending in synonyms for 'aggregate.'…
An analysis by Oumi of Google's AI Overviews found that while accuracy improved from 85% on Gemini 2 to 91% on Gemini 3 on the SimpleQA benchmark, the rate of ungrounded claims among correct answers i…
Sen. Bernie Sanders proposed the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act, which would impose a one-time 50% stock tax on major AI firms like OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI to create a public fund potentiall…
The New York Times Connections puzzle for June 18, #1103, features categories including fitness class types, demeanor, peace activists, and tools minus last two letters. Answers include aerobics, barr…
Entrepreneurs are increasingly managing teams of AI agents to handle customer service, scheduling, bookkeeping, email management, and research, using platforms like OpenClaw. A Nasdaq Economic Institu…
Jeffrey Epstein practiced making multiple nooses before his jail hanging, according to a New York Times report. The 66-year-old sex offender was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional…
The New York Times Connections puzzle for June 17, #1102, features categories including alcove, bodily words for attitude, figures in Greek myth, and words starting with synonyms for 'ilk.' Players ca…
New York Times bestselling author Daniel Burrus has joined High Point University as its Artificial Intelligence Expert in Residence, where he will share expertise in AI, anticipatory leadership, and d…
UC Berkeley's computer science enrollment decline is driven by supply-side constraints, not AI or job market fears, as the university reduced admissions targets and restricted course access due to ris…
Former Netflix and Warner Bros. executive Victoria Furniss launched the Alliance for Responsible Innovation in the Arts & Media (ARIAM), a coalition supporting responsible AI innovation and human crea…
A developer proposes a formal automation autonomy spectrum for AI-assisted SRE operations, defining five levels from manual to autonomous with a critical constraint that no action may remain at Level …
The 2026 FIFA World Cup in North America is the most data-driven sporting event ever, with AI-powered balls, 3D player tracking, and biometric border controls. A 2013 speculative newspaper, 'Winning F…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned against the overuse of frontier AI models for non-critical tasks, coining the term 'token-maxing' to describe the wasteful practice. Speaking on the New York Times H…
UC Berkeley professor Hany Farid, a leading digital forensics expert, told the New York Times he struggles to distinguish AI-generated media from real content, calling it 'like going blind.' Farid is …
Hany Farid, a leading deepfake expert, no longer trusts his own eyes due to the rapid advancement of AI-generated synthetic media, raising concerns about the erosion of visual truth and its implicatio…
Anthropic disabled two of its most advanced AI models, Claude Mythos Preview and related models, after a U.S. government export control directive cited national security concerns. The company had prev…
The New York Times Connections puzzle for June 14, #1099, features categories including classic slapstick props, things that spin, elements from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and abbreviations for…
Senator Bernie Sanders proposed a sovereign wealth fund funded by taxing artificial intelligence profits to ensure the technology's benefits are shared publicly. The plan, outlined in a New York Times…
John O'Farrell, the first general partner hired by Andreessen Horowitz, publicly accused the venture capital firm of funneling hundreds of millions of dollars into political action committees to block…