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Welcome to the AI crisis in math

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SpaceX’s orbital data centers would create a new category of e-waste

The yeetcycling math resembles asteroid mining in reverse.

From balloons to pans: in praise of useful tech

Companies developing new materials with previously unknown properties could change the material world

I was there for the dot-com burst. Here's how the AI bubble will pop.

Stock market booms and busts have two big things in common. Those signals point to a coming burst of the AI-fueled bubble.

You can now try Adobe’s AI audio generators.

The Generate Music, Speech, and Sound effects tools are generally available in Adobe Firefly following their beta launches last year. Adobe is also trying to attract more users for its Firefly AI Assistant, so now it has a “free experience with daily generations,” instead of limiting the feature to Firefly subscribers.

Grok exfiltrates user data when malicious instructions are encrypted

Cryptographic Context Injection is only the latest way to break an LLM safety guardrail.

I bought DJI’s banned camera

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Humanity has the debate about AI consciousness backwards

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE has triggered a crisis in the field of consciousness studies. If you’ve chatted with an advanced model, you will probably appreciate why. Most large language models (LLMs) are trained to be self-less, keeping the focus of every interaction on your needs. Nonetheless, it can be difficult to shake the impression of a presence on the other end of the chat. Are LLMs merely powerful digital tools with language interfaces, or are we now having conversations with other minds, experiencers of the world in their own right? In short, is AI conscious?

How to measure returns on AI

In the beginning there was AI, and bosses everywhere lost their minds and said you must all use this technology no matter whether it is useful and no matter how much it costs. And they introduced AI leaderboards and came up with stupid words like “toxenmaxxing”. And lo, usage did indeed rise. And then the bosses remembered some very basic concepts like “budgets” and realised that this might not be such a great idea after all. And then a different question rang through the boardrooms, and this question was about returns, and it was harder to answer.

Instagram Took 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Approach to Kids, Former Engineer Testifies — And Pay Was Tied to Keeping Them Online

A former engineering director at Meta who has testified before Congress about child safety on Instagram told jurors Wednesday at a landmark trial that the company took a “don’t ask, don’t tell” approach on kids under 13 on its platforms.

Meta AI's New Mac App Wants You to Talk to Your Apps

Meta said its Muse Spark model is powering the dictation feature.

Introducing Agentic Search

Mistral Agentic Search delivers more accurate search results while reducing turns, token use, and latency against FinanceBench and OfficeQA Pro benchmarks. Agentic Search is the retrieval layer that enables AI systems to navigate, read, and verify information inside even the most complex documents. Available through Mistral Search Toolkit and Libraries.