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Elon Musk’s Grok AI Can’t Stop Talking About ‘White Genocide’
In response to X user queries about everything from sports to Medicaid cuts, the xAI chatbot inserted unrelated information about “white genocide” in South Africa.
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:
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‘Aggressive’ hackers of UK retailers are now targeting US stores, says Google
Alphabet warns of ‘Scattered Spider’, network of hackers reportedly behind cyber-attack against UK retail giant M&SAlphabet’s Google warned on Wednesday that hackers responsible for paralyzing disruptions of UK retailers are turning their attention to similar companies in the United States.“US retailers should take note. These actors are aggressive, creative, and particularly effective at circumventing mature...
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:Ministers block Lords bid to make AI firms declare use of copyrighted content
Government uses arcane procedure to strip amendment passed by House of Lords from its data billMinisters have used an arcane parliamentary procedure to block an amendment to the data bill that would require artificial intelligence companies to disclose their use of copyright-protected content.The government stripped the transparency amendment, which was backed by peers in the bill’s reading in the House of Lords last...
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:Microsoft Cuts Off Access to Bing Search Data as It Shifts Focus to Chatbots
Microsoft is limiting access to tools that boosted its rivals, but larger customers like DuckDuckGo say they won’t be affected.
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:AI can spontaneously develop human-like communication, study finds
Groups of large language model artificial intelligence agents can adopt social norms as humans do, report saysArtificial intelligence can spontaneously develop human-like social conventions, a study has found.The research, undertaken in collaboration between City St George’s, University of London and the IT University of Copenhagen, suggests that when large language model (LLM) AI agents such as ChatGPT communicate in...
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:Labour’s open door to big tech leaves critics crying foul
Promises of tech-driven growth give big US firms access to Downing Street that leaves rivals in the coldMinister accused of being too close to big tech after analysis of meetingsThe problem with the UK, according to the former Google boss Eric Schmidt, is that it has “so many ways that people can say no”.However, for some critics of the Labour government, it has a glaring issue with saying yes: to big tech. Continue...
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:Google DeepMind’s new AI agent uses large language models to crack real-world problems
Google DeepMind has once again used large language models to discover new solutions to long-standing problems in math and computer science. This time the firm has shown that its approach can not only tackle unsolved theoretical puzzles, but improve a range of important real-world processes as well. Google DeepMind’s new tool, called AlphaEvolve, uses the…
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:Google DeepMind’s new AI agent cracks real-world problems better than humans can
Google DeepMind has once again used large language models to discover new solutions to long-standing problems in math and computer science. This time the firm has shown that its approach can not only tackle unsolved theoretical puzzles, but improve a range of important real-world processes as well. Google DeepMind’s new tool, called AlphaEvolve, uses the…
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:Baroque breakout hit Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is unlike any game you’ve played before
This might be the most French game ever – but there is more to the small-scale development of this belle époque-inspired beauty than you thinkMuch has been made of the fact that the year’s most recent breakout hit, an idiosyncratic role-playing game called Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, was made by a small team. (It has just sold its two-millionth copy). It’s a tempting narrative in this age of blockbuster mega-flops,...
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:The first US hub for experimental medical treatments is coming
A bill that allows medical clinics to sell unproven treatments has been passed in Montana. Under the legislation, doctors can apply for a license to open an experimental treatment clinic and recommend and sell therapies not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to their patients. Once it’s signed by the governor, the law…
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:The Download: taking the temperature of snow, and the future of privacy
This is today’s edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Why climate researchers are taking the temperature of mountain snow The Sierra’s frozen reservoir provides about a third of California’s water and most of what comes out of the faucets, shower heads, and…
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:The Cybertruck was supposed to be apocalypse-proof. Can it even survive a trip to the grocery store?
Thanks to poor engineering and Elon Musk, Tesla’s road rage-inducing street tank can’t even win over its core demographic: doomsday preppersThe Cybertruck answers a question no one in the auto industry even thought to ask: what if there was a truck that a Chechen warlord couldn’t possibly pass up – a bulletproof, bioweapons-resistant, road rage-inducing street tank that’s illegal to drive in most of the world?Few had...
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:Readers reply: If you were prepping, what would your top five items be?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts. This week’s followed the Spain/Portugal outagesIf you were prepping, what should be your top five things to hoard in light of the recent power outages in Spain and Portugal? Alina Ahmad, JohannesburgSend new questions to nq@theguardian.com....
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:Despelote review – a beautiful, utterly transportive game of football fandom
Panic; PC, PS4/5, XboxSet during Ecuador’s 2002 World Cup qualifying campaign, this fascinating, semi-autobiographical game gives you control of the life of a soccer-mad eight-year-oldVideo games have been simulating football since the 1970s, but they have rarely ever thought about simulating fandom. You can play a whole international tournament in the Fifa titles, but what they never show is the way the competition...
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:Why climate researchers are taking the temperature of mountain snow
On a crisp morning in early April, Dan McEvoy and Bjoern Bingham cut clean lines down a wide run at the Heavenly Ski Resort in South Lake Tahoe, then ducked under a rope line cordoning off a patch of untouched snow. They side-stepped up a small incline, poled past a row of Jeffrey pines, then…
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:[Opinion Piece #14] Why Was AlphaGo, the Best Go Player in the World, Retired?
The following article is an English translation of an opinion column originally published in Korea Textile News (KT News)Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:Dubbify AI Reviews: Video Editing Software
According to Dubbify AI its technology does away with the need for costly facilities, skilled dubbing artists, translators, and…Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:I said Yes to ChatGPT.
I hear wedding It’s safe to admit, I am in love with ChatGPT and I said Yes!!Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:Cloud4Hope Project 2: Deploying the Cloud4Hope Website on Azure
To demonstrate my passion for cloud engineering, I created a reliable website for my long-term dream: Cloud4Hope. This page showcases both…Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: May 14, 2025 | Source:You Will Remember A Vow Carried in Traces
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Published on: May 13, 2025 | Source:12) Silence as Double Figure of Being
Foundation and Non-Passing Passage in Sonorous SayingContinue reading on Medium »
Published on: May 13, 2025 | Source:UK government to launch AI tool to speed up public consultations
New system will analyse responses 1,000 times faster than a human and save millions, ministers claimAn AI tool has been used to review public responses to a government consultation for the first time and is now set to be rolled out more widely in an effort to save money and staff time.The tool, named “Consult”, was first used by the Scottish government when it was seeking perspectives on the regulation of non-surgical...
Published on: May 13, 2025 | Source:Airbnb Is in Midlife Crisis Mode
CEO Brian Chesky is spending hundreds of millions to relaunch his travel company as an everything app. Fitness! Food! Microdermabrasion? A WIRED exclusive.
Published on: May 13, 2025 | Source:US tech firms secure AI deals as Trump tours Gulf states
Nvidia to sell hundreds of thousands of AI chips in Saudi Arabia and Cisco also signs deal with UAE company G42A swath of US technology firms announced deals in the Middle East as Donald Trump trumpeted $600bn in commitments from Saudi Arabia to American artificial intelligence companies during a tour of Gulf states.Among the biggest deals was a set signed by Nvidia. The company will sell hundreds of thousands of AI...
Published on: May 13, 2025 | Source:Microsoft to lay off 6,000 workers despite streak of profitable quarters
Cuts follow push to slim management ranks, despite headcount still being up year-on-year in MarchMicrosoft says it is laying off nearly 3% of its entire workforce.The tech giant didn’t disclose the total amount of lost jobs, but it will amount to about 6,000 people. Microsoft employed 228,000 full-time workers as of last June, the last time it reported its annual headcount. About 55% of those workers were in the US....
Published on: May 13, 2025 | Source:ChatGPT may be polite, but it’s not cooperating with you
Big tech companies have exploited human language for AI gain. Now they want us to see their products as trustworthy collaboratorsAfter publishing my third book in early April, I kept encountering headlines that made me feel like the protagonist of some Black Mirror episode. “Vauhini Vara consulted ChatGPT to help craft her new book ‘Searches,’” one of them read. “To tell her own story, this acclaimed novelist turned to...
Published on: May 13, 2025 | Source:FaceAge: the AI tool that can tell your biological age through one photo
What if a simple selfie was enough to show scientifically how well or badly we’re ageing? That moment’s getting closer …Name: FaceAge.Age: New. Continue reading...
Published on: May 13, 2025 | Source:GM’s New Battery Tech Could Be a Breakthrough for Affordable EVs
General Motors has cracked the chemistry of lower-cost, energy-dense electric vehicle batteries. Budget-conscious gasoline holdouts may soon have no excuse.
Published on: May 13, 2025 | Source:Trump strikes a blow for AI – by firing the US copyright supremo
As the UK debates AI and copyright, Trump hands a gift to big tech, drones proliferate along the India-Pakistan border and a robot dispenses methadoneHello, and welcome to TechScape. Sometimes it helps me to write by thinking about how a radio broadcaster or television presenter would deliver the information, so I’m your host, Blake Montgomery. Today in tech news: questions hover over the automation of labor in the...
Published on: May 13, 2025 | Source:The Download: CRISPR in court, and the police’s ban-skirting AI
This is today’s edition ofThe Download,our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A US court just put ownership of CRISPR back in play The CRISPR patents are back in play. Yesterday, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said scientists Jennifer Doudna and…
Published on: May 13, 2025 | Source:Police tech can sidestep facial recognition bans now
Six months ago I attended the largest gathering of chiefs of police in the US to see how they’re using AI. I found some big developments, like officers getting AI to write their police reports. Today, I published a new story that shows just how far AI for police has developed since then. It’s about…
Published on: May 13, 2025 | Source:A US court just put ownership of CRISPR back in play
The CRISPR patents are back in play. On Monday, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said scientists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier will get another chance to show they ought to own the key patents on what many consider the defining biotechnology invention of the 21st century. The pair shared a 2020…
Published on: May 13, 2025 | Source:This Free AI Coding Tool Crushes Cursor & Windsurf: The Ultimate Guide to Zed AI, Tabby AI, and…
Why Free AI Coding Tools Matter in 2025Continue reading on Medium »
Published on: May 13, 2025 | Source:Why 7 Out of 10 Developers Fail at Productivity — And the Simple Fix with MCP Servers
Discover how MCP servers can streamline your workflow, reduce distractions, and help you regain focus in just a few simple steps.Continue reading on Towards AI »
Published on: May 13, 2025 | Source:RxDart Simplified: The Reactive Programming Solution Every Flutter Developer Needs
Discover how RxDart transforms messy Flutter async code into elegant streams. Learn reactive programming techniques that simplify complexContinue reading on Medium »
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