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Coinbase's AI system falsely reported a 3-2 Norway victory over Brazil in a World Cup match before the game started, which was delayed due to weather. The AI hallucinated the result, including two goals by Erling Haaland…
Large language models lack grounding in the physical world and proposes creating Large Earth Models (LEMs) that combine satellite imagery and sensor data with AI to form a 'Planetary Intelligence.' This system could grou…
Wall Street analysts issued bullish calls on SpaceX, with an average price target of $236 per share, representing 47% growth from Monday's close. More than a dozen brokers including Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and Goldman S…
UN Secretary General António Guterres called for a global ban on autonomous weapons systems, or 'killer robots,' during the first Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva, stating that decisions to take human life must…
Developer Ashutosh Rath released Atrophy, a command-line tool that treats coding skills like Elo chess ratings and offers drills in five areas to combat skill decay from over-reliance on AI coding assistants. The tool me…
Two teenagers and children have joined a class-action lawsuit against xAI, alleging that its Grok AI tool was used by family members and acquaintances to create nonconsensual deepfake child sexual assault material (CSAM)…
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi unveiled a ¥370 trillion ($2.3 trillion) growth strategy targeting 17 strategic sectors by 2040, with major investments in AI and semiconductors. The plan aims to revive Japan's chi…
Tim O'Reilly argues that the current AI industry's focus on frontier models and heroic inventors is misguided, drawing on political scientist Jeff Ding's diffusion theory which holds that economic leadership comes from w…
British Columbia's Attorney General Niki Sharma announced on July 7 that the province has retained legal counsel to explore legal action against OpenAI, alleging the company failed to alert authorities about violent thre…
An engineer argues that while AI accelerates coding, it cannot replace the human judgment, collaboration, and struggle that build true engineering intuition. The author warns against outsourcing architectural decisions a…
James Cameron's 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day' returns to theaters in late August 2026 for its 35th anniversary, featuring a remastered 3D version. The film, which explores AI sentience and humanity's survival, will screen…
AI has made building software trivial, shifting the competitive advantage from engineering to distribution and customer selection. SaaS is not dead, but the old moat of hard-to-build code is gone, replaced by the need to…
Stockholm produces AI-era founders at a rate nearly matching Silicon Valley, driven by the city's unique compression of industries and institutional support for cross-disciplinary talent. The E-shaped professional—combin…
The Nasdaq Composite fell 4.18% on June 5, its worst single-day drop since April 2025, as a trillion-dollar selloff in semiconductor stocks dragged the Dow and S&P 500 lower and spilled into crypto markets, with Bitcoin …
Neuronpedia, an open-source platform for AI interpretability, launched the world's first interpretability API in March 2024, enabling users to visualize, steer, and search over 50 million latents in AI models. Created by…
Anthropic filed a lawsuit against Abnormal AI on July 1, alleging unfair competition and trademark infringement. Abnormal CEO Evan Reiser responded, stating Anthropic never notified them, the logo was designed before Ant…
Comma.ai CTO Harald Schaefer announced on July 7th that Anthropic is now a banned vendor at the autonomous-driving software company, citing concerns over user sovereignty and high usage costs. Schaefer warned other compa…
Discord admitted a bug in its AI moderation system wrongfully banned over 8,000 users since May, flagging harmless images like spreadsheets and chessboards as harmful. The company fixed the issue and is restoring account…
Tripadvisor's AI-generated hotel review summaries downplay serious complaints including food poisoning, sexual harassment, and hygiene issues, according to an investigation by Which?. The AI described a Cape Verde hotel …
Fans are increasingly using reverse image search tools like Face2social to verify celebrity social media profiles amid a surge of AI-generated fake accounts. Impersonators use advanced image editing to create convincing …