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People Are Pushing Back Against AI They Never Asked For, and It Is Working
From deepfake opt-outs to data centre protests, ordinary people are increasingly fed up with generative AI being forced into daily life. And companies are starting to listen.
A Peer Reviewer Missed the Point of a Vaccine Study. AI Might Make That Worse.
When a health economist found that school HPV vaccine mandates barely move the needle on cervical cancer rates, his peer reviewer thought he was attacking the vaccine itself. That kind of misread is common. AI-generated reviews could make it routine.
Ford Adds a Free AI Assistant to Its App for 8 Million Owners
Got a Ford or Lincoln? A new chatbot already knows your truck's towing limit, your fuel level, and what your owner's manual says. Here is what it does and what it costs.
Midnight Job Interviews Are Real, and AI Is Why They Exist
Millions of job seekers are now completing AI-run video interviews at 1 am. It solves a real scheduling problem. It also raises questions nobody is ready to answer.
Meta's Muse Glimmer Is a 30-Billion-Parameter AI You Can Run on Your Own Machine
The new open-source model sees images, understands video, and can act as a personal assistant, all without sending your data to a cloud server.
A New Trick Slashes the Cost of Shrinking Giant AI Models
Researchers have found a way to train smaller, cheaper AI models from giant ones using a fraction of the memory previously required, opening the door to experiments that once needed a warehouse of hardware.
This horror game makes you argue with an AI that thinks it's alive
Prove You're Human flips the Captcha on its head: you are the human, but the machine is not convinced.
Four startups betting the next wave of AI runs on something better than transformers
The neural network design powering every major chatbot is hitting real limits. A small group of companies thinks it has found a way around them.
Science's next AI leap will come from reasoning agents, not data-hungry models like AlphaFold
AlphaFold was a landmark, but the conditions that made it possible took 53 years and $21 billion to build. For most of science, a different kind of AI, one that reasons and experiments step by step, is already showing what comes next.
AI-Generated Far-Right Memes Are Flooding Facebook. Here Is How the Machine Works.
Automated accounts are mass-producing politically charged images and text using AI tools, then pushing them through Facebook at scale. A Guardian cartoonist's satirical take on the trend points to a real and growing problem.
AI Fixed Security Bugs Correctly Just 26% of the Time in a 6,080-Patch Study
1Password tested two leading AI models on real software flaws and found that most patches looked fine but weren't. Here's what that means for the software you use every day.
Nearly a third of UK manufacturers hit by cyber-attacks, survey finds
A new survey shows 30% of British manufacturers suffered a cyber-attack on themselves or a supplier in the past year, yet only half have a formal plan to respond when one strikes.
Tencent's Team Memory lets AI agents share knowledge, but a wrong fact now spreads to the whole team
Tencent has open-sourced a shared memory system for teams of AI agents. The idea is compelling: agents stop relearning what the team already knows. The catch is just as plain: one bad piece of information now reaches every agent at once, and there is no fix for that yet.
Is China Winning the AI Race? A Clearer Picture Than the Headlines Suggest
Chinese AI models are cheaper, widely adopted, and strong in robotics. American labs still hold the frontier. The gap is closing faster than most people expected.
NSW Deputy Premier Wants to Ban Unsupervised AI-Assisted Homework Amid HSC Integrity Fears
Half of every NSW student's final school result comes from take-home work. Officials now worry AI is quietly doing that work for them.
Battered AI Hedge Fund Situational Awareness Bets $400 Million on Chip Startup Source Foundry
Despite selling off half its assets last month, the fund founded by a former OpenAI researcher has now put a total of $500 million into a Stanford-born startup trying to make chip manufacturing faster and cheaper.
Anthropic puts Claude Code on autopilot by default from August 14
The AI coding tool will now act on its own and only pause for truly risky steps. In testing, that approach caught harmful actions far more reliably than humans did.
Analog Devices doubles down on robotics startups with renewed MassRobotics sponsorship
The semiconductor giant is giving Boston-area robotics founders direct access to its engineers, sensor technology and seed funding through its internal startup incubator.
AI Writing Detectors Are Ruining Careers. They Are Also Frequently Wrong.
Students have been suspended, book deals have collapsed, and journalists have been harassed, all based on AI detection tools that their own makers admit are not fully reliable.
The Data Centre Dilemma: How AI's Hunger for Power Is Reshaping British Towns
The UK government wants three times as many data centres. In Slough, locals are already living next to metal-clad giants that drink water and burn electricity at a scale that rivals whole neighbourhoods.
Free App Meetily Transcribes and Summarises Your Meetings Without Sending Data to the Cloud
Most AI meeting tools cost $10 to $20 a month and upload your conversations to someone else's servers. Meetily runs entirely on your own computer, for free, using open-source AI models.