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The AI industry's claims about world models being revolutionary are met with skepticism due to a lack of empirical evidence and real-world applications. Despite billions in investment, these models remain largely theoret…
Inkfold, a new digital journaling app, integrates AI to help users reflect on past entries, but critics question whether it offers real value or is just another app. The app aims to make journaling a habit through an int…
A new benchmark measuring the political neutrality of 18 AI models from 12 labs across four regions found that 97 out of 108 measured positions landed left of center, with only xAI's Grok models approaching center. The r…
A shirtless man climbed onto a Waymo autonomous vehicle and smashed it in a crowded Los Angeles street, leading to his arrest. The incident sparked online debate about whether his actions were driven by frustration over …
Z.ai released ZCode, a free desktop AI coding environment powered by its open-weights GLM-5.2 model, which benchmarks within one percentage point of Claude Sonnet 5 on coding tasks while undercutting competitors on price…
A blogger argues that becoming highly skilled at using ChatGPT and similar LLMs is detrimental to career growth for digital technicians, as it accelerates commoditization of their labor. Instead, they advise focusing on …
Bots now account for 57% of web traffic, with AI-generated content making up 25% of long-form posts on platforms like LinkedIn, Medium, and Twitter, eroding trust in online authenticity. The surge in AI-scripted material…
In a podcast episode, Felienne Hermans and Hanna Schraffenberger discuss Peter Naur's 1985 paper 'Programming as Theory Building,' arguing that programming is more than writing code—it involves building a theory that ena…
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is set to deliver a speech on artificial intelligence amid a growing conflict between attracting tech investments and protecting creative rights. Authors like Anna Funder accuse…
Hackers are exploiting lesser-known languages to bypass AI safety mechanisms, challenging tech makers to adapt. The technique targets gaps in AI training datasets, which are typically centered around widely spoken langua…
Bots now account for 57-58% of web traffic, according to Cloudflare, and AI-generated content dominates platforms like LinkedIn and Twitter, where over 40% of long-form posts are fully AI-generated. The shift threatens h…
Big Tech companies downplay flagship LLMs as mere token predictors to evade regulation, but these models have achieved human-level reasoning and are deployed via Mixture of Experts (MoE) architectures that fractionate in…
Jennifer Kerns, a 60-year-old former GitHub program manager, retired early in March partly because she did not want to adapt to AI-focused changes at her company. A growing number of tech workers are choosing early retir…
AI researcher George Hotz, founder of comma.ai and creator of TinyGrad, criticizes hype around artificial intelligence while expressing enthusiasm for LLMs, self-driving cars, and coding agents. He argues that AI progres…
A new set of guidelines, dubbed the 'AI Rulebook,' outlines essential do's and don'ts for using artificial intelligence responsibly, covering privacy, transparency, and bias prevention. The rules aim to ensure AI systems…
Moltrust shipped eight endpoints on api.moltrust.ch (v2.5), including three that implement EU AI Act obligations directly. The compliance-as-an-API approach uses deterministic code branching on the pinned EUR-Lex text, a…
Anthropic has accused Chinese firms of systematically extracting knowledge from its Claude AI models through a process known as distillation, escalating a secretive AI war between Silicon Valley and China. The allegation…
Sovereign Ventures published an open letter to early employees and founders of frontier AI labs, comparing them to the Medici family and urging them to convert their temporary 'frontier premium' into lasting influence an…
AI can teach engineering fundamentals but cannot build the judgment that separates senior engineers from novices. The 'olfact'—an instinct for detecting problems before they occur—comes only from repeated hands-on practi…
A designer reflects on the concept of taste in the age of AI, arguing that true design quality stems from creating forms that fit their context naturally rather than from taste. The author suggests that focusing on whole…