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Published on August 5, 2025 at 06:31 Comment 2 𝕏 Print © Perplexity The IA search engine Perplexity was caught red-handed by Cloudflare. The company bypasses the blocks set by websites to access their content, which is against the best practices in place for decades. This provides fodder for those who accuse AI companies of shamelessly stealing content. To answer its users' questions, the Perplexity service explores the web and retrieves the most relevant

Published on August 6, 2025 at 18:11 Commenter 0 𝕏 Print © Perplexity Two fundamentally opposing views of the web are clashing between Cloudflare and Perplexity. On one side, the traditional functioning of the web as it has existed for decades, where bots must adhere to the publisher's choices. On the other side, an AI that claims to act on behalf of the user and does not want to be subject to the same constraints. Back to the sender. This week, Cloudflare

Published on August 7, 2025 at 07:00 Commenter 1 𝕏 Print © Google It's a little tune that is resonating more and more strongly, as generative AI takes hold in the landscape and particularly on Google. Website editors bitterly lament that the volume of clicks coming from the search engine is deflating due to AI Overviews, these AI-generated responses that sit at the top of the results. Google insists, however, that it is not the case. Google defends its AI

The Essential The press has taken note of Apple's admission of dependence on Google, but the agreement is more nuanced: Google would provide Gemini as a « teacher » through distillation during training, while inference would take place in the cloud. This technical division nuances the media narrative and illustrates the complexity of the partnership between Apple and Google. Create a watch on this topic Receive the next developments if any, with an AI watc

Who in the world is Elias Thorne? He’s a regular fixture in stories told by chatbots, as first spotted by software engineer Daniel May, but no one knows why… until now. According to a new preprint research paper first reported by 404 Media, the proliferation of the legend of Elias might be related to guardrails put in place for AI models during safety and alignment training. If you need to catch up on the Elias Thorne of it all, the paper published by rese

Usually, it goes like this: product description on the site takes three screens, everything is chewed over and looks tasty to the reader, while ChatGPT, GigaChat, Alice AI, and Perplexity respond with general terms or confuse it with a competitor. The whole point is that neural networks read not the entire site, but several found fragments, and if there is no direct text explaining what the product is and who it is for, details on other pages won't help. P

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Ad blockers, the digital shields that nearly one billion internet users deploy to protect themselves from intrusive advertising, may be inadvertently exposing their users to more problematic content, according to a new study from NYU Tandon School of Engineering. The study, which analyzed over 1,200 advertisements across the United States and Germany, found that users of Adblock Plus's "Acceptable Ads" feature encountered

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In a study published in the journal Information Systems Research, Texas Tech University's Shuo Yu and his collaborators developed a generative machine learning model to detect instability before a fall occurs. The hope is that the model could work within fall detection devices, such as anti-fall airbag vests or medical alert systems, to minimize injuries, increase emergency response effectiveness and lower medical costs. "

Researchers Tim Jeffers (left) and Amari Hill (right) studying corn growing in the NYU Irene Rose Sohn Zegar Memorial Greenhouse. Credit: Tracey Friedman/NYU New York University scientists are using artificial intelligence to determine which genes collectively govern nitrogen use efficiency in plants such as corn, with the goal of helping farmers improve their crop yields and minimize the cost of nitrogen fertilizers. "By identifying genes-of-importance to

Image from the study demonstrating how machine learning tools can enhance image and mapping analysis with Mars surface images. Credit: Annex (2025) How can artificial intelligence (AI) be used to advance mapping and imaging methods on other planets? This is what a study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference hopes to address as a lone researcher investigated using machine learning models to enhance mapping and imaging capabilities fro

Key challenges (red background) and potential solutions (green background) for fast-charging LSBs. Credit: Advanced Energy Materials (2025). DOI: 10.1002/aenm.202404383 Grab a coffee and your car is fully charged—this is how many people envision the future of mobility. But today's batteries still fall short of this ideal. While modern lithium–ion batteries can charge from 20% to 80% in about 20 to 30 minutes, a full charge takes considerably longer—and fas

MASNS-implemented robot arm having habituation and sensitization characteristics. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-60818-x In the midst of the co-development of artificial intelligence and robotic advancements, developing technologies that enable robots to efficiently perceive and respond to their surroundings like humans has become a crucial task. In this context, Korean researchers are gaining attention for newly implementing

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Imagine a future where artificial intelligence quietly shoulders the drudgery of software development: refactoring tangled code, migrating legacy systems, and hunting down race conditions, so that human engineers can devote themselves to architecture, design, and the genuinely novel problems still beyond a machine's reach. Recent advances appear to have nudged that future tantalizingly close, but a new paper by researchers

An example of mapping urban sentiment hotspots as visualized through an AI-drive framework. Credit: Jayedi Aman When Jayedi Aman looks at a city, he notices more than just its buildings and streets—he considers how people move through and connect with those spaces. Aman, an assistant professor of architectural studies at the University of Missouri, suggests that the future design of cities may be guided as much by human experience as by physical materials.

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Proteins catalyze life by changing shape when they interact with other molecules. The result is a muscle twitching, the perception of light, or a bit of energy extracted from food. But this crucial ability has eluded the growing field of AI-augmented protein engineering. Now, researchers at UCSF have shown it is possible to make new proteins that move and change shape like those in nature. This ability will help scientists

A24 has apparently decided that just distributing the film Ex Machina isn’t enough—it needs to make it real. The film production and distribution darling has entered an agreement with Google that will see the tech giant pour $75 million into the studio as part of what is being positioned as an artificial intelligence research partnership. What does that mean? It seems, per Google’s press release, that A24 will gain access to Google DeepMind’s lab and the b

Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 AI model was released to the public on June 9 and taken down on June 12. By my math, it was available for a little over three days. Anthropic took down Fable 5 voluntarily in a manner of speaking, but by all accounts it was complying with an export control directive from the U.S. government under threat of penalties. Now a startup called Legion says in a new lawsuit against the government that Claude Fable 5 was so critical to it

In just a year, AI psychosis became a term the internet is all too familiar with. Though some have contested the science behind it, various reports of psychotic breaks and, at times, fatal delusions linked to intense reliance on AI have flooded timelines. Some scientists now have a hypothesis on how chatbots could be directly responsible for these incidents. In a new study published in the Nature journal Digital Psychiatry and Neuroscience, researchers in