Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Most of us would like to believe we’re independent thinkers who make decisions based on facts, logic and personal values. But according to some of the world’s biggest AI models, we’re not nearly as independent as we think. In a…
We had no idea quite how creepy the conversation would get when we booked cybersecurity expert Mike Piper to be a guest on The Long View podcast. The full episode covers why passkeys offer stronger protection from scams, the interplay between cybercrimes and cognitive decline, and how to make your financial accounts harder to compromise….
Dalby, Australia — The first rainfall in months splashes off the windshield as the mayor of Western Downs Andrew Smith drives to the site of a proposed AI data center behind a cattle feedlot in rural Queensland. It’s feeding time and 16,000 cattle are standing under shade sails waiting for a passing truck to shoot grain…
Mau (UP): Artificial intelligence supplied the superimposed face, and a goat supplied the torso under a shroud, for a man in Uttar Pradesh to stage his own death to get away with murder, almost. After arresting Rajkumar Rajbhar on Sunday, police said he had already got documents filed in court stating that he was no…
A UC Berkeley professor has stopped grading students’ homework for correctness after noticing artificial intelligence tools were helping them rack up top marks. Richard Borcherds, a renowned mathematician who received the prestigious Fields Medal in 1998, said widespread student use of AI has undermined the value of traditional homework grading. “Student use of AI for homework is now widespread,” Borcherds told The California Post. “Grading for correctness just adds a huge incentive for them to use AI for homework instead of doing it themselves, and penalizes students for honesty.” Sign up for the California Morning Report newsletter The biggest news, opinion and culture shaping California right now. Thanks for signing up! Paying graders to evaluate AI generated answers is also a waste of time and money, he said. Borcherds now awards credit based primarily on whether students complete their assignments rather than whether their answers are correct, acknowledging that he does not know of a better solution. The professor said it has become increasingly difficult to distinguish work produced by artificial intelligence from work written by students themselves. “There is no easy…
The owners of Elvis Presley’s music have sued Anthropic for allegedly using his copyrighted lyrics without permission to train its AI models and generating infringing versions of his songs. In a lawsuit filed Friday, Authentic Brands Group, the licensing platform that controls Presley’s intellectual property — along with other companies, trusts and individuals who own…
In late January 2026, a Russian BM-35 strike drone flew over the government quarter of Kyiv. It was being steered through a Starlink satellite terminal, a link Ukrainian jammers could not easily touch. Ukraine’s defense minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, took the evidence to SpaceX. According to The Atlantic, the company built a whitelist of authorized Ukrainian…
Nathan Chen announced on social media on Oct. 15 that he had recently departed the Beijing-based company behind the Kimi chatbot. He joined Moonshot at just 16 while still attending high school. His departure came just months after Moonshot launched Kimi K3, an AI model that drew widespread attention in Silicon Valley for rivaling leading…
In September, just weeks before Americans were set to vote in this year’s midterm elections, a sudden panic over the dangers posed by artificial intelligence caught the White House off guard. A whistleblower had gained viral attention warning the technology could soon pose an existential threat. President Trump was quick to dismiss concerns, evoking urgency…
Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has put the annual cost of licensing the company’s AI software at around $2,000 per GPU to ‘run all the software that Nvidia provides that runs agents on these AI factories,’ according to a recent video…