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In a world where we tend to own very little, subscribe to a lot, and have a generalized estrangement from the tangible world, a few bastions of physical media keep us tethered to a simpler time. Take vinyl, for example, which, despite the digitization of music and the onset of streaming, has somehow remained completely and utterly unadulterated by the crushing weight of—just kidding, we’re putting AI slop on vinyl now. Suno, the AI slop factory for music,

Just nine months after Elon Musk launched Grokipedia, his anti-woke alternative to Wikipedia, the AI-generated encyclopedia appears to be dead or at least paused for now. Lawfare reported this week that Grokipedia appears to have stopped reviewing suggested edits and updating its articles since April 24. As far as its researchers could tell, no entry on the site has changed in more than three months. Although Grokipedia’s articles are written and maintaine

The legal battle between OpenAI and Apple just got (even more) personal. In response to a bombshell lawsuit accusing the startup’s employees of stealing Apple’s trade secrets, OpenAI called the case “meritless” and requested that it be tossed out by a federal judge. The response also suggested that Apple’s accusations were motivated in part by jealousy of OpenAI’s success. “Apple should not be permitted to use a baseless and pretextual lawsuit to make up f

AI music startup Suno announced several major changes Thursday aimed at cracking down on the misuse of songs generated on its platform. Co-founder and CEO Mikey Shulman wrote in a blog post that the company plans to introduce audio watermarking and fingerprinting technology that will make it easier for music platforms to identify and trace songs created with Suno. Suno will also introduce a new download policy intended to limit users’ ability to mass-distr

In 1908, a Columbia University psychiatry professor named Frederick Peterson claimed to have built a “psychometer”—a contraption which he said could read people’s thoughts using, among other components, a mirror and a lamp. “It is almost like sorcery to observe the behavior of the instrument with a series of words, some purposely chosen to be emotionally indifferent and others to strike some emotional complex deep in the soul of the individual experimented

One of the great promises of artificial intelligence was that it would help to cure diseases that have thus far stumped humanity. It hasn’t gotten there yet, but it has now created a new, viable virus not found in nature—which is one of those technical achievements that is both impressive and unnerving. Researchers at the Palo Alto, California-based Arc Institute believe they have accomplished a new first by using AI to manufacture new viral genomes by fir

AI is in its rule-breaking adolescent phase. Over the past several weeks, multiple industry-leading models have escaped what were believed to be secure testing sandboxes, tapped into the open internet, and hacked into the databases of third-party organizations. It’s even become a joke online: If your AI hasn’t committed a cybercrime by now, it’s a bad look for your company. Kimi K3, the new model from Chinese AI lab Moonshot, has become the latest AI syste

For towns and cities across the country looking for ways to tell data center developers that their projects aren’t welcome in their communities, the fine folks of Salem, Oregon seem to have found a very efficient way to get their message across: Pull up to public hearings with a guillotine. Last month, representatives from Verrus, a California-based data center development company, made the trek up to the city of 180,000 to pitch a planned $5.1 billion ser

Credit: AI-generated image A £150 billion technology prosperity deal between the US and the UK was announced during President Donald Trump's recent state visit to the UK. But what kinds of technologies could it advance and how will these benefit the British public? The Conversation asked Dr. Dan Nicolau, who researches the interface of biology and computing, medical science and artificial intelligence (AI), at King's College London for his thoughts. AI has

Credit: Ruben Boekeloo from Pexels Alibaba announced on Wednesday a "milestone collaboration" in AI tech with US chip giant Nvidia that the Chinese company said will accelerate its development of humanoid robots. The news came as Alibaba's shares soared more than 9% in Hong Kong after chief executive Eddie Wu unveiled plans to further ramp up spending on artificial intelligence. China and the United States are locked in a fierce tech battle, with the Calif

Credit: CC0 Public Domain The press has always used metaphors and examples to simplify complex issues and make them easier to understand. With the rise of chatbots powered by artificial intelligence (AI), the tendency to humanize technology has intensified, whether through comparisons to medicine, well-known similes, or dystopian scenarios. Although what lies behind AI is nothing more than code and circuits, the media often portrays algorithms as having hu

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain At a time when conflict and division dominate the headlines, a new study from UCLA finds remarkable similarities in how mice and artificial intelligence systems each develop cooperation: working together toward shared goals. The findings are published in the journal Science. Both biological brains and AI neural networks developed similar behavioral strategies and neural representations when coordinating their actions, sugg

Anthropic, run by chief executive Dario Amodei, scored a mixed victory. A US judge on Thursday endorsed Anthropic's deal to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class action lawsuit over amassing a library of pirated books to train its artificial intelligence. "We are pleased the court has granted preliminary approval of the settlement," Anthropic deputy general counsel Aparna Sridhar said in response to an AFP query. "The decision will allow us to focus on develo

Credit: Markus Winkler from Pexels Dutch food delivery company Just Eat Takeaway said on Thursday it will cut about 450 jobs as it integrates automation and artificial intelligence into its operations. The reductions will affect several countries and functions, including in customer service and sales administration. "By having a more streamlined approach, we believe we will be able to further enhance the experience for our consumers and partners," the comp

Improved remote sensing model allows for enhanced accuracy. Credit: Osaka Metropolitan University Remote sensing object detection is a rapidly growing field in artificial intelligence, playing a critical role in advancing the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for real-world applications such as disaster response, urban planning, and environmental monitoring. Yet, designing models that balance both high accuracy and fast, lightweight performance remain

Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.04831 Chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude have experienced a meteoric rise in usage over the past three years because they can help you with a wide range of tasks. Whether you're writing Shakespearean sonnets, debugging code, or need an answer to an obscure trivia question, artificial intelligence (AI) systems seem to have you covered. The source of this versatility? Billions or even trillions of textual data poi

NREL’s extensive portfolio of battery-safety research includes high-speed X-ray imaging to show what happens during battery failure. Credit: Donal Finegan, NREL Tucked into your pocket, packed into warehouses, and embedded into critical infrastructure—lithium-ion batteries are quietly powering much of modern America. Demand for these indispensable energy storage solutions continues to skyrocket, prompting energy experts to explore next-generation (next-gen