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Grand Theft Auto VI exists in its own universe

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Synthetic everything is warping America

It's poisoning the signals people rely on to understand reality.

I created a viral AI watermark remover. I wasn't ready for all the attention.

A tech entrepreneur developed an open-source project to remove AI watermarks, challenging Anthropic's watermark plan.

Government can bring robotics to life

Without policy, there are few incentives to automate business functions where labour costs are low

Volcanoes That Made History

Enormous eruptions altered Earth’s climate and societies all over the globe.

Opinion

Regarding the Aug. 12 news article “The data center backlash is building, just in time for the midterm elections”:

The CEO of $1.2 billion learning platform Preply says it all started with his online search for an English tutor

Behind the glitz of multimillion-dollar funding rounds that define today’s unicorns are often years of founder sacrifices and barely-there paychecks. Kirill Bigai, the cofounder and CEO of online education marketplace Preply, paid himself virtually nothing for an entire year while getting his now $1.2 billion business off the ground.

Fears of AI-induced armageddon are overdone

A LITTLE AFTER 9am on May 19th 1998, seven hackers from a group called L0pht walked into a Senate office building in Washington, DC. Granted pseudonymity, “Mudge”, “Space Rogue”, “Kingpin” and four others came in ill-fitting suits to warn the Committee on Governmental Affairs that any one of them could make the internet unusable in 30 minutes. Fourteen years later Leon Panetta, then America’s defence secretary, warned of a “cyber Pearl Harbour”.

Alibaba announces $10.2bn share placement as Chinese companies expand AI investment

Equity issuance follows a strong reception for its latest Qwen 3.8-Max model

Anthropic’s best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive

AI lab’s Fable 5 has met with sluggish demand from corporate clients

Investors try to catch ‘falling knife’ with bets on risky funds during chip rout

Leveraged single-stock ETFs attracted billions of dollars of net inflows even as they plunged during market sell-off

Legal tech start-ups put AI disruption in a risky new wrapper

Legora is betting AI giants will leave lucrative niches unconquered