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Human-powered AI chatbot exposes our need to be heard
The billboard went up in San Francisco in late July, and the first thing you notice is the confidence. A man's face, a simple promise: "the leading chat interface powered by AI." The joke only lands if you read the fine...
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AI designed new phages to fight resistant bacteria
In 1917, a French Canadian microbiologist named Félix d'Hérelle discovered something that would briefly make him one of the most famous scientists on Earth. He had been studying dysentery outbreaks among soldiers, and...
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AI Safety Team Targets Machine Overconfidence
The most dangerous moment in the AI era is not when a machine gives a wrong answer. It is when the machine sounds absolutely certain about something it never actually verified. Nvidia's recent decision to assemble a...
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AI Model Gives Hurricane Warnings an Extra Day of Lead Time
The gap between what AI researchers publish in journals and what actually reaches people in harm's way is usually a canyon. Papers announce breakthroughs, companies issue press releases, and then the work quietly...
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AI forecasters replace human weather judgment
The gap between what AI promises and what it actually delivers is rarely as visible as it is in weather forecasting. For decades, simulating the atmosphere required supercomputers that cost hundreds of millions of...
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Anthropic custom chips signal AI hardware shift
Artificial intelligence has reached a point where the models are no longer the limiting factor. The algorithms have advanced to a stage where the hardware running them determines how fast users get answers, how much...
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AI Browsers Strip Away Human Judgment
The attack does not look like an attack. It looks like a newsletter sign up page, the kind of frictionless web form that millions of people click through every day without a second thought. But buried inside that page,...
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AI Makes Grid Operator Judgment Superfluous
A control room operator watches the screen. Power flows across the map in bright lines. Then, without warning, one line dims and another brightens. The machine rerouted around a problem the operator did not see....
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Scientists Propose Papers for AI Instead of People
In 1665, the Royal Society launched Philosophical Transactions, and with it came a strange new contract between scientists and their readers. 1] For the first time, a researcher could publish a finding and expect others...
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AI automates the judgment of security experts
The security expert's judgment was the skill automation was never supposed to touch. A government assessment of Anthropic's Mythos has shown it can be reproduced in a single automated pass. For two decades, the most...
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Marketers Cannot Reach the New AI Buyers
The buyer's journey used to begin with a human question. A procurement officer wonders which software to choose, calls a colleague, skims a trade magazine, maybe asks a LinkedIn connection. That entire sequence now...
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AI Best Used for Early Research and Development
A study published in March 2026 links three things that rarely share a sentence: human physical well being, health outcomes, and the state of the planet. Phys.org](https://phys.org/news/2026 03 physical linked health...
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