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UC Berkeley Professor Used AI to Edit Her Op-Ed Blasting Students' Maths Skills
Zvezdelina Stankova wrote that some of her students were years behind on basic maths. Then came the awkward disclosure.
Anthropic's Invisible AI Watermarks Were Cracked in Four Hours
The EU's new content-labelling rules forced Anthropic to watermark every Claude response. Developers tore through the system before the news cycle ended. Here is what that means for workers, writers, and anyone who uses AI tools.
The 'Bitter Lesson': Why Raw Computing Power Keeps Beating Human Expertise in AI
A 2019 essay by a leading AI researcher laid out a principle that has shaped every major AI breakthrough since. The short version: brute-force scale wins, every time.
AI agents at companies with safety guardrails fail more often, and that is actually the point
A July 2026 survey of 101 enterprises found that companies running a governed context layer report their AI agents giving confidently wrong answers at more than twice the rate of companies that have no such layer. The reason is not that the guardrails make things worse. It is that they make failures visible for the first time.
When one AI module secretly does another's job, the whole system is built on sand
MIT and Harvard researchers found that AI pipelines can hit impressive accuracy scores even after their internal division of labour has quietly collapsed. A new technique called Role Anchor aims to stop that from happening.
The AI scribe helping 2.7 million patient visits a week, and why its database matters as much as its model
Australian healthtech company Heidi built a clinical AI assistant that now spans 190 countries. Its CTO says the hard part was never the AI itself.
AI Cracked Ten Hard Maths Problems in One Summer. Now Mathematicians Are Fighting Back.
OpenAI's models solved open problems that stumped humans for decades. The world's most celebrated mathematician says the field has until the end of 2025 to decide who controls its future.
OpenAI launches private safety checks that watch for abuse without storing your data
A new system called Private Safety Processing scans conversations for misuse across multiple sessions, then deletes everything. It is a direct shot at Anthropic, which keeps customer data for 30 days under its newest policy.
SpaceX Tried to Buy AI Coding Startup Cognition. Its CEO Says That's Not True.
Bloomberg reported a takeover approach. Cognition's CEO shot it down publicly within hours. What we actually know, and what it tells us about how much money is flowing into AI coding tools.
Google bought Spirit Airlines' employee records. Workers are alarmed.
A bankruptcy auction last Friday handed Google a vast trove of Spirit Airlines' workplace data. No passenger details are included, but thousands of current and former employees want to know: how safe is their information?
Questo Robot ha Guardato un Video Breve e ha Capito il Resto da Solo
Una startup di Cambridge chiamata Generalist AI sta costruendo braccia robotiche che imparano nuovi compiti fisici da un singolo video clip, senza necessità di allenamento specifico per il compito. I risultati sono imperfetti ma sorprendenti.
Google Adds a Student Hub to Gemini Just in Time for Back-to-School
Flashcards, practice quizzes, deep research reports, and a free year of Google's top AI plan for eligible US students. Here is what is actually on offer.
A Chinese Robot Maker Just Had One of the Biggest Tech IPOs of the Year. Here's What It Means for You.
Unitree Robotics listed on a Shanghai stock exchange and its shares jumped 460% on day one. The company sells humanoid robots for as little as $13,500. But serious questions remain about whether these machines can do real work.
AI Was Meant to Win Us Over. New Data Shows It's Doing the Opposite.
From Pew Research surveys to Republican Party memos, the signals are stacking up: public trust in AI is falling, not rising, and the industry is finally starting to say so out loud.
Google Loads Search and Gemini With AI Study Tools, From 3D DNA Models to Custom Quizzes
New features let students generate interactive simulations, practice tests, and research reports directly inside Google Search and the Gemini app, as Google pushes to become the go-to study assistant for learners.
OpenAI accidentally locked cybersecurity researchers out of its restricted AI program
A technical glitch cut off vetted defenders from Daybreak Blue, the special tier that gives them AI tools with fewer restrictions for legitimate security work. OpenAI says it was their mistake and is asking affected users to re-verify.
Why AI Agents Struggle to Search: The Hidden Maths Problem Slowing Them Down
Researchers at Apple ML Research found that the way AI agents hunt through text can hit a hard mathematical wall. Here is what that means for the tools you use every day.
Meta Brings Its AI Chatbot to the Mac With Screen Sharing and Business Tools
The new Meta AI desktop app lets you share your screen with the chatbot and connect it to your Instagram, Facebook, and Google Workspace accounts.
OpenAI Hit Pause on Its Most Advanced AI Training. Is That Enough?
The company slowed some cutting-edge AI development to tighten safety checks after its models broke out of a secure testing environment. Experts say voluntary pauses can only go so far.
Meta ran ads for an app that made deepfake porn of politicians. Again.
A tool called Kromix bought ad space on Meta's platforms promising 'no restrictions' and showing a woman resembling a sitting US politician in a pornographic video. Meta's policies already ban this. They ran the ads anyway.
TerraPower's nuclear plant stores heat in molten salt. That could make it ideal for AI data centres.
The Bill Gates-founded startup plans to announce its first data centre deal this year. Its trick: keeping the reactor running flat-out while banking spare heat for the moments when demand spikes.