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Science has a spam problem. And the spam filter is getting clogged up. According to all reports, academic publishing is drowning in what has come to be called AI slop: low-quality, mass-produced content generated with AI. By 2025, an estimated 57 percent of all published academic articles exhibited detectable evidence of large language model (LLM) influence, a massive jump from 12 percent in 2023. What's more, over 12 percent of Nature Communications reviews were found to be completely AI-generated...
GeekSpin - 1 day 11 hours agoRichard Borcherds, an acclaimed mathematician who won the Fields Medal (often described as the Nobel Prize of mathematics) in 1998 and has taught at UC Berkeley for years, has stopped grading homework for correctness. His reason is simple: with AI, he can no longer tell who actually did the work. He told The Daily Californian […] Read the original article here: Top Berkeley professor says grading homework is now pointless...
GeekSpin - 1 day 12 hours agoHave you ever wished you could actually smell what you are looking at while browsing online? While sending scents across the web has long felt like a distant sci-fi dream, researchers have just taken a massive leap forward by developing a way to transmit real aromas digitally. The end of clunky desktop setups Unlike older, […] Read the original article here: New technology detects and sends real aromas over the internet...
GeekSpin - 1 day 13 hours agoWhat if your phone plan could give you more than calls, texts, and data? T-Mobile is introducing a new lineup of wireless plans that lets eligible customers choose perks such as Xbox Game Pass, streaming services, and music subscriptions. The move could give gamers a new way to access a huge library of games without […] Read the original article here: T-Mobile adds free Xbox Game Pass to new wireless phone plans...
Vox - 1 day 13 hours agoAnthropic CEO Dario Amodei says his AI company can drive a "race to the top." Where's the evidence? | Finn Gomez/Getty Images We're living through an AI-fueled " Black October " and things are changing fast. Hackers are using AI to breach countless companies. AI tools have uncovered security flaws that could leave 70 percent of all websites vulnerable. Governments are scrambling to secure their sites . Banks , too. And because cyberhacks can hurt supply chains, some longtime...
Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is promoting her new AI assistant called Dazzle, and an interview with the New York Times has inadvertently made her the subject of ridicule. The piece explained that the teacher of Mayer's 10-year-old daughter asked for three bullets on what made the girl special, adding...
Owners of Apple's first foldable iPhone have reported problems with the device's screen - just days after the product went on sale.
NPR - 2 days 3 hours agoDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced initiatives to speed the adoption of drones and AI across the military. Meanwhile, Congress is considered at least some safeguards for autonomous systems.
Popular Mechanics - 2 days 3 hours agoIt's about more than the cameras, speakers, and built-in artificial intelligence. I ranked nine frames based on style, wearability, and features that make them worth considering.
The internet has always been more physical and fragile than it seems.
Anthropic's Code W/ Claude event in San Francisco in May. In a filing, the company provided rare insight into the business of a "frontier" A.I. lab that makes cutting-edge A.I. models.
Tech companies are shrinking the size of their workforce as they restructure and spend more on artificial intelligence.
Observer - 2 days 5 hours agoA.I. is making it easier for employees to generate dashboards and custom applications without waiting on data teams. The next challenge, argues MotherDuck's Jordan Tigani, is ensuring those tools reflect the way a business actually operates.
Observer - 2 days 5 hours agoMary Barra still depends on pickups and SUVs to fund GM. At its New York technology event, her executives outlined ambitions ranging from an A.I. assistant to vehicles that could one day run errands alone.
Popular Mechanics - 2 days 8 hours agoA portable console that's just as powerful as your desktop? Yes, please.
Microsoft has offered 60,000 employees, or about 27% of its global workforce, voluntary buyouts as the software giant spends heavily on artificial intelligence, per the AP . Company exec Amy Coleman (her title is "chief people officer") said in a blog post Monday that the company's voluntary exit offer was...
Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic, the company behind the popular Claude chatbot, has filed papers to sell shares to the public for the first time.
Like many a nerd, I have a certain fascination with locks. This originates in reading the memoir Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman as a teenager, in which Richard Feynman recounts picking locks and cracking combinations while at his day job working on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. I currently have a couple of locksport pick sets and training locks that I purchased at hacker conferences over the years (although I'm still terrible at it), and I delight in the YouTube exploits of folks...
Observer - 2 days 23 hours agoExamining Elon Musk's push beyond Tesla's vehicle business, from the flying Roadster spectacle to the spending and control questions behind a possible SpaceX merger.
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