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An AI-Generated Love Island Parody Is Going Viral on TikTok. and Studios Are Paying Attention
AI

An AI-Generated Love Island Parody Is Going Viral on TikTok. and Studios Are Paying Attention

A TikTok account called Fruit Love Island, an AI-generated parody of the reality series Love Island featuring animated fruit characters, has gone viral, the Wal...

AI

Waymo Cars Still Can't Reliably Stop for School Buses. Even After a District Tried to Help Train Them

A school district in Austin, Texas attempted to work directly with Waymo to help train its autonomous vehicles to consistently stop for school buses, but the ef...

Study: While Social Media Rewards Sensationalism, LLMs Steer Conversations Toward Civil Discourse
AI

Study: While Social Media Rewards Sensationalism, LLMs Steer Conversations Toward Civil Discourse

A new analysis published in the Financial Times finds that while social media platforms algorithmically reward inflammatory and sensationalist content, large la...

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan on Platform Dominance, Kids, Trump's Account, and AI Slop
Tech & Business

YouTube CEO Neal Mohan on Platform Dominance, Kids, Trump's Account, and AI Slop

New York Times writer Lulu Garcia-Navarro sat down with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan for a wide-ranging interview covering the platform's dominant position in online ...

A man taking a polygraph test.
Policy

Polygraphs Have Major Scientific Flaws. Researchers Are Looking for Better Alternatives

Polygraph tests remain in widespread use for government security clearances and law enforcement despite decades of scientific consensus that the technology is u...

Vinod Khosla: AI Is Accelerating a Shift of Wealth and Power Away From Workers
Policy

Vinod Khosla: AI Is Accelerating a Shift of Wealth and Power Away From Workers

Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla says artificial intelligence is speeding up a structural transfer of wealth and power away from workers and toward capital owner...

Qualified Health Raises $125 Million to Help Health Systems Evaluate and Adopt AI Tools
Startups

Qualified Health Raises $125 Million to Help Health Systems Evaluate and Adopt AI Tools

Qualified Health, a company that helps hospital systems and health networks evaluate, select, and safely deploy artificial intelligence tools, has raised $125 m...

Your Photos Are Leaking Your Location. Here's What the Metadata Contains
Cybersecurity

Your Photos Are Leaking Your Location. Here's What the Metadata Contains

Every photograph taken on a smartphone or digital camera contains embedded metadata, including GPS coordinates, device model, timestamp, and software version, t...

Rows of solar panels on water in Vietnam Da Mi
Infrastructure

Solar Is Winning the Global Energy Race

Solar power has emerged as the dominant force in the global energy transition, outpacing wind, gas, and nuclear on new capacity additions, Deutsche Welle report...

Could the AI Data Centre Boom Turn Into a $9 Trillion Bust?
Infrastructure

Could the AI Data Centre Boom Turn Into a $9 Trillion Bust?

The Financial Times examines whether the extraordinary capital investment pouring into AI data centers. projected to reach nine trillion dollars. could become o...