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GraphRAG vs. plain RAG: the honest scorecard
A knowledge graph can make AI answers far better, but only for certain questions, and the indexing bill can shock you. Here is what five studies actually found.
Palantir posts record profits, then its CEO calls the AI industry 'Marxist'
Alex Karp says frontier AI labs are quietly capturing companies' knowledge and expertise. His own results, though, show just how well his firm is riding the AI wave.
An AI Music App's Own Detector Is Now Flagging Two Rappers' Songs as AI-Generated
Fenix Flexin and Tyga both denied using AI to make their retro-synth tracks. Then the app they allegedly used built a detector and ran the songs through it.
Ukraine Fits 50,000 Attack Drones With AI That Locks On and Follows Moving Targets
A US software company has developed a 'fire-and-forget' kit for Ukraine's cheap Shrike drones, letting a human point at a target and hand the rest to an AI system.
igus Unveils Cable Chain That Lets Small Industrial Robots Spin More Than 600 Degrees Without Tangling
The German motion-plastics company says its new twisterchain solves a long-standing wiring headache on the first and fifth axes of compact industrial robots, and needs no guide troughs to work.
AI exam proctoring went wrong at Mexico's biggest university, and 58,000 students must sit the test again
Nearly 160,000 applicants took UNAM's entrance exam remotely this year, watched by AI software instead of human invigilators. The results looked nothing like any previous year, and now tens of thousands of students face a retake.
AWS Signs On With Vibe-Coding Startup Superblocks, and the Message to Big Tech Is Clear
Amazon Web Services is helping Superblocks bring 'vibe coding', the art of building apps by describing them in plain English, into the locked-down private clouds of major companies. It's a small deal with a loud signal.
Five million people rank AI designs so machines can learn what looks good
A startup called Intelligence has raised $7.9 million to run a platform where ordinary users vote on AI-generated images and websites, and the data it collects is already worth $60 million a year to the companies that build AI models.
OpenAI's luxury influencer retreat sparks backlash over AI's environmental and ethical costs
A farm-to-table weekend in upstate New York was meant to win over content creators. Instead, it handed critics a very photogenic target.
The US just banned foreign robots. That could backfire on American robotics research.
The FTC's sweeping import ban on Chinese humanoid and quadruped robots is meant to protect a US industry that barely exists yet. The problem: American researchers depend on those cheap Chinese machines to build the next generation of AI.
Apple Finally Fixed Siri. It Just Took Long Enough for Everyone Else to Catch Up.
The new Siri is genuinely better. But after years of delays, Apple's AI assistant arrives in a world where its rivals can already write code, reason through problems, and complete complex tasks on your behalf.
The EU Now Requires Companies to Label AI Chatbots and Deepfakes
New rules that took effect on 2 August 2025 force any company operating in Europe to tell users when they are talking to an AI, or viewing AI-generated content. Fines of up to €15 million are on the table for those that ignore them.
NASA Gives Pittsburgh Robotics Firm a Contract to Build Tinier, Tougher Robot Joints
HEBI Robotics just picked up a second NASA small-business contract. The goal: shrink the motors that move robot arms down to a size that fits inside a small satellite, without jacking up the price.
ChatGPT Is Pulling In 90% of Congress's AI Spending
House disbursement records show lawmakers spent around $100,580 on ChatGPT in a single year, dwarfing all other AI tools combined. Anthropic's Claude came second, at a distant $13,160.
Why AI Image Models Still Make Things Up, and What Apple's Researchers Are Doing About It
A new study from Apple ML Research digs into why multimodal AI models hallucinate, meaning they describe images with confident-sounding details that simply are not there, and how a training technique called preference alignment could fix it.
Bayreuth's AI-Directed Wagner Opera Is a Lesson in What AI Gets Wrong About Art
The world's most famous Wagner festival handed its landmark 150th anniversary production to an AI-assisted creative team. Critics say the result proves that cultural memory and genuine drama are harder to fake than anyone hoped.
Alibaba's Qwen3 Max Is a 2.4-Trillion-Parameter Model That Rivals the Best From Anthropic and OpenAI
China's biggest tech company just released a free, open-weight AI model it says matches Anthropic's flagship on most tests. The weights drop next week.
A $20 million startup wants AI to fix its own deployment mess
Getting AI to actually work inside a large company is so painful that a new wave of expensive consultants has emerged just to handle it. June thinks software can replace them.
The Robot at the Drive-Thru Window Is Back, and This Time It Might Stick
After a rocky first attempt, fast-food chains are quietly rolling AI voice ordering back out to millions of customers. A few are winning. A few are still figuring it out.
This London startup wants factory workers to train robots the same way they would train a new hire
Reimagine Robotics says its system cuts the time to teach a robot a new task from a full day down to ten minutes, and it needs no specialist programmers to do it.
Broadway's New AI Thriller Has a Knockout Cast and a Three-Year-Old Argument
John David Washington stars in Disruption, a slick off-Broadway play about Big Tech and your personal data. The acting is terrific. The ideas, sadly, are not keeping pace with the headlines.