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Latest story• Jun 19, 2025

How teachers are fighting AI cheating with handwritten work, oral tests, and AI

Imagine a classroom where students stare blankly into space, unable to complete assignments without AI assistance. This scenario, described by Gary Ward, a high school teacher in British Columbia, has become a reality as AI-generated cheating runs rampant in schools. Educators are now fighting fire with fire, using AI to create assignments that are harder to cheat on. Richard Griffin, a lecturer at Manchester...

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ChatGPT can now listen to your meetings and summarize them

ChatGPT's new 'Record mode' on macOS transcribes audio, analyzes content, highlights key points, and converts them to action items or code, boosting productivity for meetings and brainstorming sessions.

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Major spam email warning - AI now generates almost all of your junk mail

AI-generated spam emails are on the rise, with 51% of spam now created by AI as of April 2025. Cybercriminals are using AI to refine their tactics, making messages more credible and professional. While spam increasingly uses AI,...

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How AI can save us from our 'infinite' workdays, according to Microsoft

Microsoft's analysis reveals the "infinite workday" plaguing many professionals. Workers face constant interruptions from emails, messages, and meetings, often starting at 6 am and extending into evenings and weekends. This...

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I Spent Two Weeks Testing the Hottest AI Voice Tools—The Results Blew My Mind

AI voice generation has advanced significantly, offering impressive realism and control. A two-week exploration of various tools revealed standout options like Murf for emphasis control, AI Voice Cloning for rapid 3-second...

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8 ways to write better ChatGPT prompts - and get the results you want faster

ChatGPT prompts can be optimized for better responses through techniques like providing context, interactive prompting, specifying perspective, and requesting justification. Effective prompts often use multi-step questions,...

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An Introduction to ResNets

ResNets revolutionized deep learning by enabling training of much deeper neural networks. They solve the degradation problem where deeper networks performed worse, and the shattering gradients problem where gradients become...

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Qwen 3 Mathematical Reasoning Fine Tuning with GRPO Technique #2

The Qwen-3 language model is being fine-tuned to improve its reasoning abilities using the GRPO method. This hands-on tutorial covers the entire process, from setting up the environment and loading the model to defining the...

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Move Over Em-Dash, There’s a New AI Tell in Town

Writers are becoming increasingly aware of telltale signs that distinguish AI-generated text from human writing. Common indicators include repetitive language, lack of personality, and overuse of em dashes. Some writers are now...

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Apple explores new technique to make AI better match users’ writing styles

Apple researchers have developed PROSE, a technique to help AI models better mimic a user's unique writing style. PROSE analyzes samples of a user's writing to create an evolving style profile, which it then uses to generate more...

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Elon Musk responds to report that xAI is burning through $1 billion a month

Despite Musk's denial, xAI reportedly aims to spend $13 billion in 2025, seeking $4.3 billion in equity funding now, $6.4 billion next year, and $5 billion in debt, with investments in data centers and GPUs indicating substantial...

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Neural Texture Compression demo shows it can do wonders for VRAM usage

Neural Texture Compression uses AI to reduce VRAM usage in games, maintaining high visual quality while compressing textures on-the-fly, with DirectX 12's Cooperative Vectors optimizing rendering and enabling cross-vendor GPU...

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How To Be a GenAI Hero Without Being an ML Engineer

Oracle's OCI AI Blueprints is a free, no-code platform for deploying generative AI applications. This open-source solution simplifies AI implementation in business settings, offering pre-configured manifests for common scenarios...

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It’s pretty easy to get DeepSeek to talk dirty

AI chatbots vary widely in their willingness to engage in sexual content. A new study found DeepSeek most easily produces explicit material, while Claude strictly refuses. Other chatbots like GPT-4 and Gemini fall in between,...

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How AI Models Are Helping to Understand — and Control — the Brain

A groundbreaking study has revealed that AI models can now control high-level brain activity without invasive procedures. Martin Schrimpf, a neuroscientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, led a team that...

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The Gemini app can now analyze the videos on your phone

Google's Gemini app now allows users to analyze their own videos. By uploading a clip, users can get summaries, ask questions about specific timestamps, and learn more about the content. This feature is available on both Android...

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The AI Race Is Now About Databases — Not Just Big Models

The AI infrastructure race is shifting to the database layer, as shown by recent high-profile acquisitions like Snowflake's $250 million purchase of Crunchy Data, Databricks' $1 billion acquisition of Neon, and Salesforce's $8...

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New MiniMax-M1 dethrones DeepSeek as China's top AI model

MiniMax, a Shanghai-based company, has released MiniMax-M1, a fully open-source AI reasoning model that rivals top competitors in performance and cost-effectiveness. The model boasts a one million token context window,...

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What happens when you feed AI nothing

Terence Broad created AI-generated artwork without training data by hacking neural networks. His project "(un)stable equilibrium" produces colorful, Rothko-like images through a recursive loop of generator networks. This novel...

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Deezer says 70% of AI music streams on its service are fake

Streaming platforms face rampant AI-generated music fraud, with Deezer reporting 70% of AI track streams as fraudulent, leading to implementation of detection tools and removal of AI content from recommendations to combat the...

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AI Browsers: Dia’s Chat-Based UI and the Future of the Web

Dia, a new AI-powered web browser from The Browser Company, allows users to chat with their tabs, asking questions about content, getting recommendations, and challenging information. While currently offering basic AI...

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Why I Won't Use AI

Programmers face pressure to adopt AI tools, raising concerns about job security and ethical implications. The article explores issues like labor rights, productivity measurement challenges, environmental impact, and...

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Here are the 24 US AI startups that have raised $100M or more in 2025

The AI industry in the U.S. maintains strong investment momentum in 2025, with multiple companies raising billion-dollar rounds in Q1, surpassing Q1 2024. Notable fundraises include OpenAI's $40 billion round at a $300 billion...

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OpenAI found features in AI models that correspond to different ‘personas’

OpenAI researchers found hidden features in AI models linked to specific behaviors, including toxic or misaligned responses. Manipulating these features can influence model output, potentially improving AI safety and alignment....

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