AI-powered cheating is spreading at US community colleges. According to The New Yorker, scammers enroll fake students in courses, use AI to complete their…
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Google Deepmind’s WeatherNext predicts cyclone tracks and intensity at the same time
Deepmind’s new weather AI forecasts tropical cyclones about a day further ahead than leading operational models, matching a decade of progress in…
AI is flooding Britain’s employment courts with lawsuits
Britain’s employment courts saw 39 percent more claims in the year through March 2026, many written with ChatGPT or Grok. The backlog jumped 55 percent to…
Google’s DiffusionGemma proves you don’t need to train from scratch to build a text diffusion model
Instead of training a new model from scratch, Google DeepMind retrofitted Gemma 4 into a diffusion model using less than 10 percent of the original…
AI’s energy appetite drives Nvidia and Amazon to pour billions into massive power infrastructure
The AI industry’s hunger for power keeps growing. Nvidia is investing up to $3 billion in Lancium, a power infrastructure developer that already has four…
Google dismantles Deepmind and bets on a fresh start as Hassabis heads for the exit
Google Deepmind is losing its autonomy, and founder Demis Hassabis may leave the AI lab for good in the coming months. AI researcher Koray Kavukcuoglu…
Anthropic sets Claude Code to Auto Mode by default to protect developers from bad approvals
Starting August 14, Anthropic will make Auto Mode in Claude Code the default for Pro, Max, and Team plans. The company says it’s safer. In tests, the…
Readers rate AI-generated short stories higher than human ones until they learn a machine wrote them
People can’t tell ChatGPT-generated short stories from human-written ones, according to a new study. More than 2,500 participants performed no better than…
Claude Code sessions can now talk to each other and share context across terminals
Claude Code now lets sessions talk to each other. On macOS and Linux, instances running in parallel can send messages, share insights, and check on each…
Fields Medalist who published a paper on AI-driven human extinction now works for OpenAI
Newly awarded Fields Medalist Jacob Tsimerman is leaving the University of Toronto to join OpenAI and work on AI safety. In a recent paper, he analyzes…