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AI is quietly reshaping American Christianity, with millions skipping church in favor of podcasts and AI chatbots for spiritual guidance, a shift theologians warn is fueling unorthodox beliefs at massive scale.
LeMario, a JEPA-based world model trained on Super Mario Bros, outperformed baselines by 45.5% at predicting short-horizon game states, but failed at gameplay due to visually similar locations confusing the planner and poor...
Adding a deterministic tie-breaker to SQL retrieval queries fixed inconsistent RAG evaluation scores caused by unpredictable row ordering, not model randomness, making evals reliable without affecting retrieval quality.
Mozilla's first open-source AI report shows open models are just 3.3% behind closed ones. The company aims to shift AI control to individuals, with plans to release its own AI "harness" tool soon.
Scammers uploaded altered recordings from folk duo Makeshift Hammer to Spotify under fake names, using bots to steal royalties via Spotify's streamshare system. Takedown requests were largely ignored, leaving small artists...
Chinese open-weight AI models make up 41% of Hugging Face downloads, with the top six OpenRouter models from Chinese firms. Half of Fortune 500 companies now deploy private, customizable models instead of costly closed APIs.
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GPT-5.6 Sol outscored Claude Fable 5 (9.10 vs. 8.04) on system-design tasks using a self-audit loop to catch internal contradictions, but took 53 minutes and cost 13% more than Fable 5's faster, flawed outputs.
U.S. new business applications hit 5.6 million in 2025, up 24% since ChatGPT launched, as AI slashes startup costs. One founder built a $401M telehealth company in a year with $20K and no employees, using AI tools.
VR, motion capture, and photogrammetry were used in a South Korean documentary to recreate a deceased child, letting her mother say a final goodbye, raising ethical questions about digital resurrection and grief.
Spotify's AI assistant lets Premium users in the U.S., Ireland, and Sweden chat by text or voice to find music, podcasts, and audiobooks, explore listening history, and control playback on iOS and Android.
Tech leaders cherry-pick science fiction's cool aesthetics from works like Star Trek and Foundation while ignoring their core warnings about unchecked power and their emphasis on collective action and shared governance.
Ikigai Labs, co-founded by MIT's Devavrat Shah, uses AI to forecast demand and optimize pricing from spreadsheet-style business data. Its acquisition by Celonis now deploys this technology across 1,400 large enterprises.
Boston Dynamics is testing a conveyor belt attachment for its $75,000 robot dog, Spot, to assist with last-mile deliveries. Spot navigates stairs and cluttered paths, potentially allowing drivers to fit one extra package per...
Google Search now lets users generate AI images via the Nano Banana model directly within AI Overviews. Google Images is also being redesigned with real-time updates, personalized results, and tabbed access to saved collections.
AI tools can boost productivity by automating tedious tasks, but over-reliance risks eroding critical thinking and personal agency, raising the question of whether we're gradually losing the ability to think for ourselves.
OpenAI is developing a smart speaker with a camera, sensors, and moving parts for human-like ChatGPT interactions. Designed with Jony Ive post a $6.5B acquisition, it's set to launch in 2027.
Bonsai 27B compresses a 27B-parameter model to 3.9GB using 1-bit weights, fitting on an iPhone 17 Pro. It retains 90% performance, supporting agentic tasks, tool use, and vision, all on-device, no cloud needed.
Montefiore Medical Center laid off 12 utilization review nurses, replacing them with Datavant's AI software, potentially violating a recently negotiated union contract that explicitly included protections against AI-driven...
Inspired by the cerebellum, a Northwestern University chip detects anomalies, like irregular heartbeats, with 98% accuracy in milliseconds, using 10,000x fewer computing operations than standard AI, making it ideal for efficient...
ZETIC's open-source GitHub project delivers 36 on-device AI apps, covering chat, translation, health screening, and more, that run offline via their Melange runtime, eliminating server costs and simplifying GDPR/HIPAA compliance.
The morphAIR project uses AI to reshape aircraft wings mid-flight, reducing drag and potentially replacing traditional tails. Tested on a 70kg drone, the €1M initiative could significantly improve fuel efficiency and cut future...
Build a perceptron from scratch in code, linking each step directly to weights, bias, and activation functions. The same prediction examples from Part 1 are used to make abstract concepts concrete.
Companies using AI pay twice: financially, and in the proprietary knowledge leaked through prompts and usage patterns. Nadella warns of this risk while selling the Microsoft AI tools that create it.
The revamped Siri in iOS 27 beta can search the web, read your screen, and act across apps using plain language. Third-party app support requires developer updates, expected when iOS 27 fully launches in fall 2026.