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The popular fan fiction website Archive of Our Own (AO3) went offline Thursday, and its millions of users are freaking out. The nonprofit behind AO3, the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), initially announced Thursday that the website was down for maintenance. But later updates revealed that the outage was more serious than routine maintenance. OTW warned that restoring the website could take at least two weeks and possibly up to four weeks. “Dur

Alphabet, Google’s parent company, and several other Silicon Valley giants are having a rough week on Wall Street. Shares of major tech companies have plunged in recent days as investors grow increasingly concerned about how much money they’re spending on AI and when and if those investments will pay off. Alphabet, for example, had its worst day ever on the stock market Thursday, with shares plunging more than 12% and wiping roughly $500 billion off the co

Even Sam “magic intelligence in the sky” Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI and the poster child of the AI boom, has mixed feelings about the speed at which the technology is developing. In an appearance earlier this week on Stripe cofounder John Collison’s podcast, called Cheeky Pint, Altman reclined in a pub booth, sipped IPA and Guinness, and eulogized the many experts whose careers are actively being upended by the rise of AI. That sting has been fe

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is really gunning for villain-of-the-year status with PC gamers in particular, but owners of pretty much any computing device everywhere. Altman appeared on Stripe cofounder John Collison’s Cheeky Pint podcast this week, sipping beers and weighing in on the state of AI. Gizmodo covered and analyzed the bulk of Altman’s remarks here, though another moment from the podcast is worthy of a shout-out. Altman thinks it’s “quite terrible” th

Newly cancer-free Pope Leo XIV is urging the nations of the world to “disarm” AI, including a specific call for United Nations members to “take concrete steps toward banning lethal autonomous weapons” during a meeting in Geneva scheduled for November. He also called for nations to form global institutions to manage AI development and shot down claims of AI personhood. In a papal address on Friday, Leo said: “First, the future of artificial intelligence is

How to build a segment in Yandex Metrica for traffic from AI assistants by source domain and UTM tagAI traffic in Metrica is identified by a segment with two conditions combined using OR: the referrer domain and the utm_source value, because an AI visit can come from either one.Regexes in Metrica use RE2 syntax, and Metrica distinguishes label values by case, so the label condition uses the (?i) flag. In Metrica, create a visit-based segment and add two co

What Are the Requirements for Product Engineers / Product EngineersIf you look at the Y Combinator website and their specialized job listings hub for the Product Engineer role — 1, 2, 3 — a candidate must have product thinking, communication skills with potential product users, the ability to identify a business problem and find a solution for it, as well as technical full-stack skills to independently implement that solution and deliver it to the end user

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Regulations limit both the intensity and frequency of whip use during horse racing. Nevertheless, compliance is currently verified manually after each race. Researchers at University of Tsukuba have developed an innovative system combining high-resolution audio recording with artificial intelligence for automatic detection of whip sounds. The work is published in the journal Engineering Applications of Artificial Intellig

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new evidence-based online educational tool aims to curb the watching, sharing, and creation of AI-generated explicit imagery. Developed by researchers at University College Cork (UCC), the free 10-minute intervention titled Deepfakes/Real Harms is designed to reduce users' willingness to engage with harmful uses of deepfake technology, including non-consensual explicit content. In the wake of the ongoing Grok AI-undress

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A speech study by a research team from The University of Texas at El Paso has identified an underappreciated aspect of speech in English and Spanish speakers that could lead to improvements in artificial intelligence (AI) spoken dialogue systems. People tend to articulate their words less precisely when expressing a positive feeling, according to new research led by Nigel Ward, Ph.D., a professor in UTEP's Department of Co

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain AI is ubiquitous now—from interpreting medical results to driving cars, not to mention answering every question under the sun as we search for information online. But how do we know it is safe to use, and that it's not generating answers from thin air? Ken Archer, A96, has an insider's knowledge of how safeguards come into play. He is lead for responsible AI at Microsoft. When a new product gets flagged internally for safe

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Mark Zuckerberg's vision for the metaverse was meant to reimagine how we interact with each other and the world, providing us with an immersive world where we could seamlessly combine digital and physical information. The parent company, renamed Meta along the way, had begun introducing headsets and reimagining everyday computing with its Project Orion augmented-reality glasses. Now, however, Meta is making deep budget cu

Researchers fabricated an AI-driven dating website that delivered below or beyond expectations of the user. They found that how expectations were matched—or mismatched—correlated to whether the user wanted to better understand how the AI system worked. Credit: Pennsylvania State University Artificial intelligence (AI) is said to be a "black box," with its logic obscured from human understanding—but how much does the average user actually care to know how A

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain As artificial intelligence threatens to upend job markets in countries around the world, Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang brushed off longer term concerns and made the case that skilled vocational workers are seeing increasing demand now. Plumbers, electricians and construction workers are going to be able to command "six-figure salaries," thanks to demand to build data centers that run and train artifici

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Businesses are acting fast to adopt agentic AI—artificial intelligence systems that work without human guidance—but have been much slower to put governance in place to oversee them, a new survey shows. That mismatch is a major source of risk in AI adoption. In my view, it's also a business opportunity. I'm a professor of management information systems at Drexel University's LeBow College of Business, which recently survey

ION (Ingroup-Outgroup Neutralization). The team's strategy to mitigate the us vs. them bias in LLMs. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2512.13699 Large language models (LLMs), the computational models underpinning the functioning of ChatGPT, Gemini and other widely used artificial intelligence (AI) platforms, can rapidly source information and generate texts tailored for specific purposes. As these models are trained on large amounts of texts writt

Datasets used to train AI algorithms may underrepresent older people. Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain It is a stereotype that Canadians apologize for everything. We say sorry when you bump into us. We say sorry for the weather. But as we trudge through the gray days of winter, that national instinct for politeness hits a wall of fatigue. The temptation is obvious. With a single click, Gmail's "Help me write" or ChatGPT can draft a polite decline to an in

Muuttolintujen Kevät (Migration Birds Spring) is a mobile application developed at the University of Jyväskylä, enabling users to record bird songs and make bird observations using state-of-the-art artificial intelligence. Credit: University of Jyväskylä New cutting-edge research, led by Academy Professor Otso Ovaskainen of the University of Jyväskylä and David Dunson at Duke University, combines citizen bird observations with artificial intelligence and t