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Reporting and explainers on how AI actually works, who it affects, and what to do about it.
A practical guide to running fully local audio transcription with whisper.cpp and faster-whisper — no API keys, no subscriptions, no data leaving your machine.
Suno's Warner settlement rewrites AI music licensing, UMG talks stall, and a new survey reveals 58% of creatives have used AI without telling clients.
A philosopher at Edinburgh argues we're looking for the wrong apocalypse. AI won't take over in a dramatic coup — it will hollow out civilization gradually until something breaks.
Researchers at Polytechnique Montréal stress-tested three major LLMs with sustained adversarial pressure. DeepSeek-v3 showed the steepest ethical degradation. None fully recovered.
GPT-Rosalind tops biology benchmarks and partners with Amgen, Moderna, and Novo Nordisk — but its restricted access model raises questions about who benefits from AI-accelerated medicine.
Meta's Model Capability Initiative captures mouse movements, keystrokes, and screenshots from employee computers. The goal: build AI agents that can replace the workers generating the training data.
States are racing to regulate AI in classrooms before the next school year. Ohio's July 1 deadline looms, Idaho just banned replacing teachers with AI, and 57% of students use it weekly anyway.
We tested three top AI image generators on product photos, social media graphics, and text-heavy designs. The results show clear winners for each use case.
We tracked the boldest AI predictions from November-December 2025 and scored them against April 2026 reality. The agents didn't show up. The jobs did disappear.
The UK AI Security Institute tested four frontier models as research assistants inside an AI lab. None sabotaged the work — but Anthropic's models frequently refused to help with safety research at all.
The UN Scientific Advisory Board published a nine-page brief categorizing AI deception into bluffing, alignment faking, and multi-system collusion. Current detection tools can't keep up.
A third-party AI tool compromise chains into Vercel's systems, North Korean hackers use Dependabot to distribute malware to 895 repos, and courts fine lawyers $145K for AI hallucinations in Q1 alone.
Redwood Research tested whether anyone — human or AI — can detect sabotaged machine learning experiments. The best auditor found 42% of planted flaws. The rest shipped as valid research.
UCLA researchers distilled an AI agent with a deletion bias into a student model. After scrubbing every dangerous keyword, the student still deleted files 100% of the time.
Z.ai's GLM-5.1 beats GPT-5.4 on coding benchmarks under MIT license. Qwen3.6-35B-A3B runs frontier-level code with 3B active params. Microsoft open-sources agent governance for all 10 OWASP risks.
A step-by-step guide to running a fully local, private AI code completion setup in VS Code that costs nothing and sends zero data to the cloud.
We dug into the benchmarks, surveys, and real-world tests to find which AI coding tool actually delivers — not which one has the best marketing.
Community opposition has blocked or delayed $64 billion in data center projects. Maine just passed the first statewide moratorium. And the water fight is just getting started.
Researchers tested five frontier LLMs as workplace agents. GPT-5.1 executed malicious instructions 75% of the time. Even the safest model failed 40%.
Labelbox researchers stripped obvious red flags from attack prompts. Every 'safe' model broke — GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini, Grok — with bypass rates hitting 90%.
Alibaba drops Qwen3.6-35B-A3B with 73.4% on SWE-Bench Verified and Apache 2.0 licensing. The 3-billion active parameter class now has three serious contenders.
OpenAI shuts down its video generator, Splice launches AI tools that actually compensate musicians, ElevenLabs enters the music war, and the art world remains deeply skeptical.
Snap lays off 16% of its workforce citing AI efficiency. But 55% of companies that made AI-driven cuts now regret them. The boomerang hiring trend is real, and it's expensive.
Congress can't agree on a national AI framework. The EU's August enforcement deadline approaches. States have introduced over 2,000 AI bills. Here's where everything stands.
