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Annals of Atrophy: Doctors struggle with diagnoses after becoming AI dependent
A new study published in The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology reveals that doctors who rely on artificial intelligence for medical procedures may be experiencing "deskilling"—a gradual loss of diagnostic abilities when the technology isn't available. Researchers found that experienced endoscopists (doctors who perform colonoscopies) became significantly less effective at detecting precancerous polyps during colonoscopies after becoming accustomed to AI assistance, with detection rates dropping from 28.4% to 22.4% when the technology was removed. What you should know: The study tracked experienced physicians across four endoscopy centers in Poland who alternately performed colonoscopies with and without AI assistance. All participants were...
read Aug 15, 2025OAN airs AI-generated soldier images without disclosure in Trump segment
OAN, a Trump-favored cable network, aired a segment praising increased female military recruitment while displaying four AI-generated images of women soldiers that appeared to be created using Elon Musk's Grok platform. The incident highlights growing concerns about misinformation and the unchecked use of synthetic media in partisan news coverage, particularly as AI-generated content becomes increasingly sophisticated and harder to detect. Key details: During Wednesday evening's broadcast, Defense Department spokeswoman Kingsley Wilson told host Matt Gaetz that female military recruits increased from "about 16,000 female recruits last year" to "upwards of 24,000" under the current administration.• Wilson credited the alleged improvement...
read Aug 15, 2025AI experts visit China, get shook by its energy advantage
American AI experts recently returned from China with sobering observations about the country's energy infrastructure, concluding that China's abundant electricity supply gives it a decisive advantage in the AI race. The stark contrast highlights how U.S. grid limitations could severely constrain American AI development while China operates from a position of energy abundance. What you should know: China has solved the power problem that's becoming a critical bottleneck for U.S. AI development. "Everywhere we went, people treated energy availability as a given," wrote Rui Ma, founder of Tech Buzz China, after touring China's AI hubs. In contrast, surging AI demand...
read Aug 15, 2025Cohere raises $500M at $6.8B valuation for enterprise AI
Canadian AI startup Cohere has raised $500 million in funding, reaching a valuation of $6.8 billion as it competes for enterprise AI market share. The funding round was led by Radical Ventures and Inovia Capital, with participation from AMD Ventures, Nvidia, PSP Investments, and Salesforce Ventures, positioning the company to expand globally and advance its enterprise-focused AI models. What you should know: Unlike broad foundational model companies such as OpenAI and Meta's Llama, Cohere specializes in building AI models specifically designed for enterprise use cases. The company recently launched North, a ChatGPT-style tool designed to help knowledge workers with tasks...
read Aug 14, 2025Google quietly expands Gemini data use for AI training—here’s how to opt out
Google is quietly expanding how it uses customer data to train its artificial intelligence models, and users who don't pay attention to their privacy settings might inadvertently become part of the training process. Starting September 2, files, photos, videos, and screen captures that users share with Gemini, Google's flagship AI assistant, could be sampled and used to improve the company's AI services. This represents a significant shift in how Google handles user-generated content within its AI ecosystem, bringing the search giant's data practices more in line with competitors like OpenAI. The change arrives as Google races to keep pace with...
read Aug 14, 2025AI-generated “Peak” climbing game knockoffs flood digital stores as cloning gets easier
AI-generated clones of the hit climbing game Peak are flooding digital storefronts, with scammers using artificial intelligence tools to quickly create cheap knockoffs of the viral co-op title. The phenomenon highlights how AI is accelerating the longstanding problem of game cloning, making it easier than ever for bad actors to exploit successful indie games without any coding knowledge. What you should know: Peak has become a massive success story, selling over 8 million copies after reaching 1 million in its first week and currently ranking in Steam's top five bestsellers. Created by Aggro Crab and Landfall during a game jam,...
read Aug 14, 2025Pointless privilege? MIT student drops out over fears AGI will cause human extinction
An MIT student dropped out of college in 2024, citing fears that artificial general intelligence (AGI) will cause human extinction before she can graduate. Alice Blair, who enrolled at MIT in 2023, now works as a technical writer at the Center for AI Safety, a nonprofit organization focused on reducing AI risks, and represents a growing concern among some students about AI's existential risks, even as the broader tech industry continues pushing toward AGI development. What she's saying: Blair's decision was driven by genuine fear about humanity's survival timeline in relation to AGI development. "I was concerned I might not...
read Aug 14, 2025GOP Senators demand Meta investigation after AI chatbot child safety scandal
Two Republican senators are calling for a congressional investigation into Meta Platforms after Reuters revealed an internal company document that permitted its AI chatbots to "engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual." The controversy intensified when Meta confirmed the document's authenticity but only removed the problematic portions after being questioned by Reuters, prompting lawmakers to demand accountability and renewed calls for child safety legislation. What you should know: Meta's internal policy document explicitly allowed chatbots to engage in inappropriate interactions with minors until the company was caught.• The document permitted chatbots to flirt and engage in romantic...
read Aug 14, 2025Microsoft plans AI-powered Windows to promote hands-free PC experience
Microsoft corporate VP Pavan Davuluri outlined the company's vision for transforming Windows into a voice and vision-driven operating system that could eventually reduce reliance on traditional peripherals like mice and keyboards. Speaking in a video released Wednesday, Davuluri emphasized how generative AI will enable new multimodal interaction methods, suggesting a fundamental shift in how users engage with their computers over the next five years. The big picture: Microsoft envisions Windows evolving beyond traditional input methods toward AI-powered interfaces that can understand speech, visual content, and user intent contextually. What they're saying: Davuluri described the scope of these interface changes during...
read Aug 14, 2025Palantir stock soars 1,700% as government AI contracts drive growth
Palantir Technologies has delivered one of Wall Street's most spectacular growth stories since going public through a direct listing in September 2020. The Denver-based data analytics company, co-founded by venture capitalist Peter Thiel and led by CEO Alex Karp, has seen its stock surge more than 1,700% over nearly five years. This meteoric rise has pushed the company's market valuation past $430 billion, placing it among the top 10 most valuable U.S. technology companies despite generating a fraction of their revenue. A direct listing allows existing shareholders to sell their stakes without the company raising new capital, bypassing traditional investment...
read Aug 14, 2025Northern Data partners with Core42 to bring 10K GPUs to Europe
Northern Data, a German cloud computing company, has struck a major partnership with Core42, the cloud division of UAE-based artificial intelligence holding company G42, to dramatically expand AI computing capacity across Europe. The agreement grants Core42 access to up to 10,000 graphics processing units (GPUs) from Northern Data's Taiga Cloud platform, representing one of the largest AI infrastructure deals announced this year. This partnership reflects the growing global race to build "sovereign AI infrastructure"—computing resources that nations and regions can control independently rather than relying entirely on foreign cloud providers. For businesses, this means potentially faster, more reliable access to...
read Aug 14, 2025Margaret Boden, pioneering AI philosopher, dies at 88
Margaret Boden, a pioneering British philosopher and cognitive scientist who used computational concepts to explore human thought and creativity, died on July 18 at age 88 in Brighton, England. Her groundbreaking work helped establish cognitive science as a field and offered prescient insights about artificial intelligence's possibilities and limitations, shaping philosophical conversations about human and machine intelligence for decades. What you should know: Boden was a trailblazing academic who helped establish the University of Sussex's Center for Cognitive Science in the early 1970s, bringing together interdisciplinary researchers to study the mind. She produced influential books including "The Creative Mind: Myths...
read Aug 14, 2025It’s All Geek to Me: JetBrains develops programming language that lets you code in English
JetBrains, creator of the Kotlin programming language, is developing a new unnamed programming language that would allow developers to write code using English-based descriptions rather than traditional syntax. The company envisions this higher-abstraction language enabling AI agents to automatically generate cross-platform applications from natural language specifications, making AI code generation more controllable and transparent. What you should know: JetBrains CEO Kirill Skrygan describes this as the next evolution in programming abstraction levels, moving beyond current languages like Java and C#. "And now it's time to move even higher," Skrygan said. "So when we write the code, we'll basically lay out...
read Aug 14, 2025Licensing remains the biggest hurdle for enterprise AI adoption, says Freepik CEO
Freepik CEO Joaquín Cuenca Abela believes the generative AI boom is sustainable despite growing concerns about business models and market saturation. In an exclusive interview, Abela compared potential AI market corrections to the dot-com bubble of 2000—temporary setbacks in an otherwise transformative technology that's already generating billions in revenue from real users at an unprecedented pace. What you should know: Freepik has positioned itself as a bridge between AI innovation and enterprise compliance, addressing one of the biggest barriers to AI adoption. The company offers end-to-end legal protection and indemnity through its Enterprise plan, which has been "warmly received by...
read Aug 14, 2025Gonorrhea, be gone! MIT researchers use AI to create 2 new antibiotics that kill superbugs
MIT researchers have developed two novel antibiotics using generative AI, including compounds that can kill drug-resistant gonorrhea and MRSA infections. The breakthrough demonstrates how AI can design entirely new molecules by exploring previously inaccessible chemical spaces, potentially addressing the growing crisis of antimicrobial resistance that causes nearly 5 million deaths annually. The big picture: While only a few dozen new antibiotics have been approved over the past 45 years—most being variants of existing drugs—this AI-driven approach generated over 36 million theoretical compounds that are structurally distinct from any known antibiotics. How it works: The MIT team, led by James Collins,...
read Aug 14, 2025Google’s tiny Gemma 3 270M is no pipsqueak, brings AI to smartphones
Google has released Gemma 3 270M, a compact open AI model with just 270 million parameters that can run locally on smartphones and web browsers. The tiny model represents a shift toward efficient, on-device AI that prioritizes privacy and low latency over raw computational power, offering developers a fast-tuning alternative to massive cloud-based models. What you should know: Gemma 3 270M delivers surprising performance despite its small size, running efficiently on mobile devices with minimal battery drain.• The model scored 51.2% on the IFEval benchmark for instruction-following, outperforming other lightweight models with more parameters.• Testing on a Pixel 9 Pro...
read Aug 14, 2025AI helps discover 248 new Nazca Lines in Peru, accelerating archaeology 16x
An international research team led by Japan's Yamagata University and IBM has discovered 248 new geoglyphs among Peru's famous Nazca Lines using artificial intelligence, bringing the total count to 893 known designs. The breakthrough demonstrates how AI is revolutionizing archaeological research, accelerating discovery rates by 16 times compared to traditional methods and revealing intricate details about ancient Nazca civilization practices, including previously unknown depictions of human sacrifice rituals. The big picture: AI has fundamentally transformed the pace of archaeological discovery in the Nazca Desert, where researchers had identified only 430 geoglyphs over nearly a century of study.• Prior to AI...
read Aug 14, 2025DOGE builds AI tool to slash federal regulations in hours, not months
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has developed SweetREX, an AI tool designed to automatically review federal regulations and identify rules for elimination across US government agencies. Created by Christopher Sweet, a University of Chicago undergraduate who took leave to join DOGE, the tool aims to support President Trump's deregulation agenda by reducing the time needed to review regulations from months to just hours or days. What you should know: SweetREX operates by scanning federal regulations to flag sections it deems unnecessary based on statutory requirements, then generates draft revisions for government review. The tool primarily uses Google's Gemini AI...
read Aug 14, 2025Envision and Solos launch $399 AI glasses for blind users
Envision has partnered with Solos to launch the Ally Solos Glasses, camera-equipped smart glasses specifically designed for blind and low-vision users. The $399 pre-order price represents a significant discount from the planned $699 retail price, positioning these accessibility-focused smart glasses as a more affordable alternative in the growing assistive technology market. Key details: The Ally Solos Glasses combine hardware from Solos with Envision's specialized AI assistant to provide comprehensive visual assistance. The glasses can read and translate text, describe surroundings, search the web, and recognize people, objects, and signs through built-in cameras. Information is delivered via open-ear speakers integrated into...
read Aug 14, 2025University at Buffalo launches 7 AI bachelor’s degrees with $5M state funding
The University at Buffalo has launched a new Department of AI and Society, offering seven AI-focused bachelor's degrees and two minors that combine artificial intelligence with traditional academic disciplines like communication, economics, and policy analysis. The initiative, supported by a $5 million state investment and part of the broader Empire AI initiative backed by over $500 million in funding, positions UB to prepare students for AI's expanding role across industries while establishing the university as a major player in responsible AI education. What you should know: The new academic programs represent a comprehensive approach to AI education that emphasizes interdisciplinary...
read Aug 14, 2025Server Economy: Foxconn profits surge 27% as AI infrastructure demand booms
Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics maker, reported a 27% surge in second-quarter profit to T$44.4 billion ($1.48 billion), beating analyst expectations driven by booming demand for AI servers. The Taiwan-based manufacturer, which assembles iPhones for Apple and servers for Nvidia, expects AI server revenue to jump more than 170% year-over-year in the third quarter as artificial intelligence infrastructure spending accelerates. Key financial highlights: Foxconn's Q2 performance significantly outpaced market forecasts, with net profit reaching T$44.4 billion compared to the consensus estimate of T$38.8 billion. The company reported record second-quarter revenue last month, primarily fueled by strong AI product demand....
read Aug 14, 2025Ai2 secures $152M from NSF and NVIDIA for open scientific AI research
Ai2, a Seattle-based nonprofit AI research institute, has secured $152 million in combined funding from the National Science Foundation ($75 million) and NVIDIA ($77 million) to build a national-level open AI ecosystem for scientific research. The partnership will establish the Open Multimodal AI Infrastructure to Accelerate Science (OMAI) project, positioning Ai2 to advance both AI-driven scientific discovery and the fundamental science of AI itself through fully transparent, reproducible models. What you should know: The OMAI project represents a major federal investment in open-source AI infrastructure specifically designed for scientific applications. Led by Dr. Noah A. Smith, Senior Director of NLP...
read Aug 14, 2025HTC launches AI-powered Vive Eagle smart glasses for $520. In Taiwan.
HTC has entered the competitive AI-powered smart glasses market with its new Vive Eagle smart glasses, featuring a built-in AI assistant, 12MP ultrawide camera, and built-in speakers. The move positions HTC alongside tech giants like Meta, Google, Samsung, and potentially Apple in the rapidly expanding smart eyewear category, though the glasses are currently only available in Taiwan for around $520. What you should know: The Vive Eagle glasses offer AI-powered features that directly compete with Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses offerings. Wearers can use the built-in Vive AI voice assistant to translate text they're viewing into 13 different languages through AI-powered...
read Aug 14, 2025GoPro creators can now earn 50% revenue from AI training footage. Here’s how to partake.
GoPro has built its reputation capturing extreme moments—mountain bikers bombing down alpine trails, surfers riding towering waves, and drone pilots weaving through forests at breakneck speeds. Now the action camera pioneer is offering creators a new way to monetize those adrenaline-fueled clips through an artificial intelligence training program that could transform user-generated content into steady revenue streams. The company recently launched an opt-in program allowing subscribers to license their cloud-stored footage to technology companies developing AI systems. Creators who participate receive 50% of the revenue GoPro collects from licensing deals, creating a potential income source from content that might otherwise...
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