1+ hour, 5+ min ago   (979+ words) A while ago, I was working on a chemistry manuscript about Ce³⁺-doped perovskite microlasers, and one AI-generated continuation caught my attention. The manuscript had reached this sentence: It was trying to explain a specific experimental observation: in CsPbBr₃ crystals used for…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (290+ words) Design: three estimators, the reference class fitted leave-self-out, a Marcel-class blend as the honest third party, strict rolling-origin validation, 32 origins, test seasons 1991 to 2022, roughly 11,500 held-out cases per metric. One more honesty, visible in the figures: the blend beats both pure…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (378+ words) Are you waiting for the second season of the Lindsay Clancy trial? Mistrial. Retrial. Betrayal. Crime TV on peptides. In the meantime, the AI-generated child porn has been legalized: One judge summed it up painfully and perfectly. Unfortunately, it wasn't…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1149+ words) A friend of mine works in compliance at a mid-sized bank. Last quarter, she got pulled into an incident that I keep thinking about, though not for the reasons she does. An automated underwriting system had denied a loan application....

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (883+ words) Digitalisation has already become an integral part of our lives. It is reshaping the economy and changing the way we work, make decisions, and communicate with each other. We are definitely moving towards this future, and most likely we will…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (328+ words) That's the part of this story we like to tell. It's also, if we're honest, the easy part. In food security and poverty, the honest near-term promise is logistics: AI-optimized supply chains that get food to where it's needed before…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1068+ words) I am not a member of a cult, but I have my rituals. So, I was playing CS 1.6 with my homies the other night. We like them classics. Every Friday from dusk till dawn. We have smoke and beer breaks....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (134+ words) NewsGuard is currently monitoring 3,749 AI-generated content farms across 16 languages. The figure was, as one would expect, smaller last month and will, of course, be greater next month. The main point is that it has definitely become cheap to publish large…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1614+ words) If the people who understand the attention economy better than almost anyone are limiting their own children's exposure to it, maybe the problem isn't simply screen time. Maybe it's what we've designed screens to optimize for. If the people who…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (741+ words) What if the most hated building in American land use became the anchor of the local food system? Last week, at POLITICO's California Agenda summit in Sacramento, OpenAI's vice president for global policy, Ann O'Leary, said something you rarely hear…...