Archive: June 2020

Ezra Shaw/Getty Images/Futurism An Oregon man falsely posing as a professional football player and his young accomplice scammed roughly $1.3 million out of at least 26 women across four states, the FBI alleges. The duo’s efforts to bolster the con online eventually got sucked into Google’s misinformation-plagued AI Overviews feature, which parroted it back as fact — a blunder that the accused scammers seemingly tried to use to further ensnare victims. The

What comes next is mostly a guessing game, even for the people who study how boards are supposed to handle crises. Two corporate governance professors, Ann Lipton of the University of Colorado and Todd Henderson of the University of Chicago, say there is no real precedent for a CEO caught up in a suspected honeypot. And while they have views on what the investigation should ask, like everyone else, they’re watching to see how it plays out. “There have actu

Sargassum observed during a sampling cruise. Credit: Sully Sullivan For the first time and with help from artificial intelligence, researchers have conducted a comprehensive study of global floating algae and found that blooms are expanding across the ocean. These trends are likely the result of changes to ocean temperature, currents and nutrients, according to the authors, and could have a significant impact on marine life, tourism, and coastal economies.

Unless you take extraordinary measures, you’re probably not getting your hands on an iPhone Duo for the remainder of this calendar year. There’s a whole constellation of reasons for this, and according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, one bright star in that formation is that sharp-elbowed scalpers—as well as non-scalping consumers—are using AI agents to jostle for advantage. As Gurman phrases it, “scalpers and other buyers are using AI-powered bots to monitor

A Claude model autonomously chose a gene therapy and operated on a mouse brain with no human decision-making Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Oct 30, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Key Points An AI agent running on Claude Sonnet 5 picked the drug, brain region, and injection coordinates for brain surgery on a mouse, then controlled the procedure through a motorized surgical rig. According to Gabriel Ocana-Santero

Tyler Shultz didn’t need to see “You Can See Everything” to make up his mind about Holmes. Shultz, whose first job out of college was at Theranos, was a key whistleblower who exposed the company’s dangerously inaccurate blood testing devices, which made their way into Walgreens stores and delivered faulty results to real patients. (Theranos reached a peak valuation of around $10 billion despite its technology never actually working — the company only used

The proposed arrangement would help Nscale secure financing for the electricity and construction costs of its West Virginia campus. Under what’s known as a residual value guarantee, Nvidia would step in if Nscale defaulted on construction payments, temporarily take over the facility, and help find a buyer and new tenant, according to The Information. Nvidia’s earlier support for cloud providers has mostly covered leases and chip purchases, not construction

Reported by Synced In multi-stage reasoning, local misjudgments can become premises for subsequent judgments and continue to influence later steps. This problem is particularly prominent in empathetic speech dialogue: perception, psychological-state inference, and response generation are closely interconnected, and early biases may ultimately lead to misunderstandings of the speaker’s needs and inappropriate responses. Even if the subsequent analysis is lo

In 2025, OpenAI has battled the perception that it was ceding ground in the AI race to Chinese rivals like DeepSeek, all while the company has tried to shore up its relationship with Washington, pursued ambitious data center projects, and laid the groundwork for one of the largest funding rounds in history. Most recently though, headlines around OpenAI have focused on its competition gaining ground, with CEO Sam Altman’s “code red” internal memo shifting c

Securities lawyers were already moving. At least four firms, including Schall, Brown & Schwartz and Levi & Korsinsky, announced investigations Monday into whether Nvidia misled investors. Robert Bartlett, a Stanford Law professor and securities law expert, expects them to have plenty of company. “I would definitely wager that there’ll be a filing,” Bartlett said in an interview Monday morning, adding that he wouldn’t be surprised if a case had been filed b

AI Takes Over an 80,000-Star Open-Source Company, Handling Everything from Coding and Task Assignment to Debugging 2026-11-09 13:47:58 Source: QbitAI Not Enough Workers? The Supervisor Agent Can Hire on Its Own! Wenting, reporting from Aofeisi QbitAI | WeChat Official Account QbitAI An AI editor-in-chief leads three AI staff writers, each keeping a close eye on cutting-edge large models, open-source projects, and personnel moves at major tech companies. I

Capital Is Withdrawing from “World Models” 2026-11-08 12:09:55 Source: QbitAI Summer Never Lasts Forever Hengyu from Aofeisi QbitAI | WeChat Official Account QbitAI The sensational startup saga of Tian Keyu may have been no more than a footnote to this year’s “world model” boom taking a sharp downturn. Amid the public debate, venture capitalists’ demands regarding founders’ professional ethics became a topic of ongoing discussion and reflection both inside