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We gave Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol the same song, a budget, web search, and local ffmpeg, then let each autonomously direct a music video.

Models demand trust without offering verification

The petition to Sundar Pichai, the CEO, included more than 4,500 signatures and included calls for buyout options

Industry says government’s failure to address cooling demands means AI growth plans are ‘fatally flawed’

In the data-center age, the business of tech companies is more like oil-refining than coding.

AI doesn’t just learn stereotypes from its training. It can cook up new ones, too.

Researchers in Sweden and Hong Kong say students may experience a deceptive sense of fluency – AI makes tasks feel effortless.

Once you learn what the "uni-context" is, you won't stop seeing it everywhere

China's open-weights AI strategy is winning: its companies are taking the lead. America's closed-first, locked-down strategy is doomed to failure - and it could take the US economy down with it.

Every 2026 World Cup match as a living data-portrait — two territory blankets, a momentum pulse, honest football made beautiful.

An evolutionary psychologist is challenging the popular understanding of kids and technology.

Twenty-two loading screens from your life, rebuilt so they actually make you wait. At the end, we tell you the truth.

On reward functions, dopamine, and what it actually feels like when the code starts writing itself

A playbook for turning good governance into a competitive edge.

Pascal Finette – Co-Founder and Chief Heretic at radical. Author. Speaker. GYSHIDO-San.

Vinyl may still dominate the conversation, but CDs are making the biggest gains.

Hyundai aims to deploy 25,000 Atlas robots starting with US factories in 2028.

A federal judge has approved a $1.5 billion copyright settlement involving AI company Anthropic. The company will pay thousands of authors about $3,000 per book for using pirated copies to train its Claude chatbot. On Monday, District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín said the settlement provides “meaningful relief” to affected authors and publishers. About 91% of the 482,000 covered works have been claimed. Plaintiff attorney Justin Nelson called it "the largest known copyright recovery in history." The case began when bestselling novelist Andrea Bartz and two other authors filed the suit in 2024.

A thought experiment in what we built without noticing.

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Interoception helps your brain read internal signals like hunger, heart rate, and tension, and problems with it may affect mood and anxiety.

Lorde says ‘fuck the glasses’ they’re ‘not sexy’ about festival sponsor Ray-Ban’s Meta AI smart glasses.

Why chatbots love “it’s not X, it’s Y”

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.

Nearly 50% of survey respondents believe that the information listed on LinkedIn is more trustworthy than the information that's listed on dating profiles.

The development of AI will require investment of $5 trillion each year by 2040, and any talk ‌of a bubble forming around the technology is "absurd", SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son said on Tuesday.

If scrolling feels more exhausting than entertaining, you're not alone. I feel the same way, and a recent study backs up the sentiment: Social media is losing its fun factor.