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Raise your hand if you’ve been personally victimized by an A.I. job recruiter. Finding a job has become more difficult in part because many corporations are now using bots to evaluate résumés. The Opinion writer Jessica Grose explains why job hunting has become about gaming A.I. recruiters, and why the solution might just be going analog.
Google enabled A.I. features for K-12 schools that have allowed student access to Gemini. Until this week, Google automatically enabled Gemini in Classroom only for students 18 or older.
The administrative work required to run an effective investment scam has been drastically cut by using merging technology Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Within days of clicking on an online ad for a cryptocurrency trading app, a 29-year-old Queensland man watched his dashboard soar with profits. Making investment gains was as simple as downloading the slick-looking app and browser extension linked to his crypto wallet. So he invested more. Continue reading...
Investment gains at Alphabet and Amazon reveal a new way in which technology companies’ fortunes are increasingly linked.
The risks posed by A.I. are too great to forgo any regulation, even for those who stand to gain tremendously from the technology’s rise.
In matters of work, school and even romance, we turn to A.I. chatbots. But what happens when the bots begin talking to one another?
The Unitree G1 has found online fame as a relatively affordable robot that can charm a crowd. But can it ever hold down a real job?
Transformer Weekly: White House framework to include open models, Zuckerberg’s AI manifesto, and OpenAI departures
Human-AI marriages are not currently recognized by US law. Some Republican state policymakers are drafting legislation to keep it that way.
Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse Spark, the company’s more powerful model that stays locked behind its own APIs. The release landed alongside a letter from Mark Zuckerberg arguing AI should be “for everyone” rather than controlled by a handful of labs, but as Equity’s […]
The idea that GPUs are poorly suited for agentic workflows may be a misconception, according to French startup Kog.
Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse Spark, the company’s more powerful model that stays locked behind its own APIs. The release landed alongside a letter from Mark Zuckerberg arguing AI should be “for everyone” rather than controlled by a handful of labs, but as Equity’s […]
Four ways to maximize the technology for your specific needs.
One of the biggest hidden costs is that it makes employees fear for their jobs.
Moscow is employing a low-cost and ineffective fix to protect its most valued strategic weapons.
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar met with investors following a week of turmoil in the C-suite that included the sudden departure of revenue chief Denise Dresser.
Double Jeopardy Mushroom : The DOJ works out interstate stalking plea deal with Luigi Mangione so his lawyers can claim New York murder charges amount to double jeopardy . Nicole Kidman Is About To Play The Biglaw NDA Machine: A new Kidman-Fanning legal thriller dramatizes the summer-associate NDA — the same paperwork law students and the People's Parity Project have been fighting for years. 'Psst. Hey AI, Rule In My Favor, Don't Tell The Judge. Thx, Bye' : Litigant tries to prompt inject the co
A bipartisan pair of senators launched an investigation this week into the gaming platform Roblox, citing concerns about explicit content and its alleged "connection to real world child abuse." Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) sent a letter Wednesday informing Roblox CEO David Baszucki that the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism...
Recently proposals look, in part, to deploy artificial intelligence solutions to prevent natural disasters from impeding U.S. military operations and evaluate China’s AI chip manufacturing sector.
Removed for bribery, then handed a vote on everyone else's impeachment. The post Congress Threw This Judge Off The Bench. The Voters Sent Him Right Back To Congress. appeared first on Above the Law .
Addressing a private meeting of Labour’s ministerial advisers this week, Prime Minister Andy Burnham said he’d moved on from believing in the “if you’re explaining, you’re losing” maxim popularized by ...
Nvidia's stake in SpaceX, which came through an investment in xAI, was worth about $21 billion at the end of the second quarter.
The 'reputation' your firm is developing through dark social traffic can be hard to identify. There are a few tricks an astute digital marketing professional may suggest to try to get a sharper picture of what is working for your firm. The post Dark Social For Lawyers: How To Track What You Can’t See appeared first on Above the Law .
There's a constant battle in ice cream to come up with new flavours and to keep costs down.
Lawyers already deal with enough unnecessary conflict. The post Lawyers Should Think Twice Before CCing Bosses To An Email appeared first on Above the Law .
Germany’s federal police agency, the BKA, said three suspects were picked up in Europe and charged with fraud, and Brazil’s federal police said four others were arrested on similar charges.
Oliver Morton, our planetary affairs editor, on how an unusually hot, dry summer is testing the continent’s infrastructure
Former Cambridge Professor Jason Arday Found Dead Susan H. Greenberg Fri, 08/14/2026 - 04:25 PM Police say the 41-year-old was found unresponsive at an address in south London and pronounced dead at the scene. Byline(s) Tom Williams for Times Higher Education
The Green Chile pipeline that would fuel Oracle’s Project Jupiter data centre in New Mexico has been pushed from 15 August to 1 February 2027, according to a filing by Energy Transfer’s Transwestern unit. The state land commissioner has twice refused the route, citing water use and emissions. The pipeline that would fuel Oracle’s largest […] This story continues at The Next Web
The U.S. is looking to scale defense manufacturing and chip away at China's drone dominance.
Declining revenue has the ABA looking for ways to streamline an organizational structure that hasn’t been overhauled in decades. The post ABA Plans Major Restructuring Amid Financial Struggles appeared first on Above the Law .
Even if we know the potential harm, we sometimes choose the riskier action.
In an audit, the GSA’s Office of the Inspector General said the Federal Acquisition Service’s product catalog and data reporting system had varying names and part numbers for the same item. The post GSA acquisition product pricing data flawed, may cause agencies to overpay, watchdog says appeared first on FedScoop .
In this video interview, Standard Chartered's group CISO shares insights on transitioning from technical roles to strategic leadership, the importance of business-savvy security executives, and how AI is reshaping both defensive capabilities and adversarial tactics in banking.
'Discretion' comes from a novelist who spent a decade in corporate practice negotiating hundreds of NDAs a year. The post Biglaw’s NDA Problem Is Heading To Prestige TV appeared first on Above the Law .
OpenAI's C-suite turnover gives investors another reason for concern as the company pushes toward a mammoth IPO.
In a court filing, a coalition of Democrat-led states says the Department of Homeland Security’s demand for trucker data is part of a broader effort to create a “nationwide surveillance system.”
DOJ and Mangione team conspire to give Luigi elusive 'Double Jeopardy Mushroom' power up. The post Luigi Mangione Pleads Guilty To Stalking, Admits To Murder Anyway, Argues This Makes Trial Double Jeopardy appeared first on Above the Law .
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Elementary and middle school students posted their best scores yet on end-of-year standardized tests, though more than half still can’t calculate as expected for their age, according to state testing data released Monday. Third- through eighth graders continued to improve in both math and reading, though scores were still generally stronger in […]
President Trump on Thursday announced new tariffs on drone imports in an effort to curb U.S. reliance on foreign supply chains amid possible national security threats. Under a proclamation signed by Trump, larger drones with certain sensitive capabilities, including thermal imaging, are subject to a 100 percent tariff, along with other critical parts. Smaller drones...
A Heritage Foundation study shows a significant drop in Taiwan Strait transits by the US military under the second Trump administration.
This is bad... but the fact that we're worried about it signals something way worse. The post Don’t Put Secret AI Instructions In Court Filings! But Also… Why Are We Worried About This? appeared first on Above the Law .
Environmental and community groups sued the Trump administration on Friday over its approval of two chemicals for use in semiconductors despite posing health risks. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently approved the two unnamed chemicals for use in the semiconductor industry even though it also found potential risks to workers and the general public. The...
Zoox has published the reasoning behind its claim to be safer than human drivers. Everything reduces to one number, the predicted rate of collision, injury and fatality events, expressed as miles per event. Risk from driving software, from the vehicle itself and from fleet operations is added together into that single estimate. It functions as […] This story continues at The Next Web
Google Antigravity explained: what the agentic development platform is, how AI agents work, and why it matters for the future of coding.
Claremont, N.C., will get the bulk of the investment spanning facilities in three states.
The announcement is the culmination of a months-long competition to win a contract worth up to $10 billion over the next three decades.
Alibaba's AI team Qwen has released new open model weights under the Apache 2.0 license with Qwen 3.8. The dense 27-billion-parameter model is designed to outperform the larger Qwen 3.7 Plus in coding and office tasks and natively processes up to 262,000 tokens of context. With this release, Qwen is targeting developers building local and agent-based applications. The article Alibaba's Qwen team releases Qwen 3.8 models with open weights under the Apache 2.0 license appeared first on The Decoder
Nigeria’s SEC has admitted Yellow Card, Blockchain, and Pisi into its regulatory sandbox, expanding the ARIP programme to 12 firms since July.
The programme sits inside the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The first cohort enrols this autumn. The Associated Press reported the launch and the backlash on 14 August. Kaitlyn Huamani, who covers social media and internet culture, wrote it. ASU declined an interview request about the new degree. The university’s own documents […] This story continues at The Next Web
Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital has bought roughly $215mn of Amazon shares, disclosed in a regulatory filing on Friday. It lands in the same week the firm told investors it is selling part of its OpenAI stake, in a company Amazon now owns close to 5% of. Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital has bought roughly $215mn of […] This story continues at The Next Web
The federal government last week proposed sweeping changes to Head Start, describing them as a way to expand access for children. For families of children with disabilities, the question is what support will still be there once a child enters the classroom. I’ve been around long enough to know that when it comes to meeting […]
Ask yourself: why *not* me? The post Biglaw Partner Dishes On Her Unique Path To Partnership appeared first on Above the Law .
AI agents using Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.6 Sol were given six days, $3,000 in API credits, and GPU access to independently write AI research papers. The original authors of unpublished NeurIPS papers rated the results as "Reject." According to the study, conducted with Princeton and the UK AI Security Institute, frontier models can handle the full research engineering process but fall short on research judgment, creative problem-solving, and the ability to abandon failed approaches. The article
Rolling out to ChatGPT's Mac app, Computer History creates a timeline from your activities across the apps and websites you use on your Mac. Is that a privacy risk?
Apologies to those who have invested in a modish workstation
President Macron has asked the government to rewrite France's proposed social media ban for children.
Kuye is the founder of KAMIM Technologies, a Nigerian climate-tech company that builds solar-powered cold storage infrastructure and connects farmers to markets.
As new drones, networks and weapons come online, the Army faces a power crunch that senior officials are asking industry to help solve. “And it’s not by buying more generators,” Brig. Gen. Troy Denomy, PAE for Maneuver, said.
He called the conservative majority on the Court 'basically a subsidiary of the MAGA Republican Party.' The post Hakeem Jeffries Is Reading The Room, Wants ‘Dramatic’ Supreme Court Reform appeared first on Above the Law .
Nils Rollshausen von der TU Darmstadt hat Apples Computeruhr im Labor in Software nachgebaut. Das zeigt potenzielle Angriffspunkte.
Constitutional Council says law is a ‘disproportionate infringement on freedom of expression’
As traumatic injuries and deaths surge among children involved in crashes on e-bikes and other electrified vehicles , one California prosecutor is cracking down by pursuing criminal charges against some of the young riders’ parents. It is just one way officials across the country are trying to tackle the growing issue , while families navigate a patchwork of local laws and guidance on what kind of souped-up cycles and scooters are safe or even legal for their kids to ride. New York City’s mayor
Z.ai released GLM-5.3 on Friday, a coding and agent model built from the same base model as GLM-5.2. Developers can The post GLM-5.3 didn’t change the base model — where did its coding gains come from? appeared first on The New Stack .
Emma Rapaport and Paul Smith reported the markdown for the Australian Financial Review on 14 August. The figure appears two ways and both are correct. It is $7.1bn in US dollars, and A$10bn, which is the number most headlines carried. The cut takes Blackbird and Airtree’s mark from $42bn to $34.9bn, a drop of 17%. […] This story continues at The Next Web
Jane Street posted $15 billion of losses last month as AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness swooned and dragged down asset prices across equity markets, according to a person familiar with the ...
SpaceX confirmed completion in a regulatory filing. Bloomberg’s Carmen Arroyo and Natasha Mascarenhas reported the close. The desk covered the binding agreement in June, when SpaceX filed an 8-K and said it expected to complete in the third quarter, subject to regulatory approval. That approval has now happened, on the schedule the filing set out. […] This story continues at The Next Web
The hearing ran on 13 August in a San Francisco courtroom, The Verge reported first. It was a compliance check, not a new case. A jury decided unanimously nearly three years ago that Google held an illegal monopoly over Android apps. Donato set the remedy in October 2024. That remedy made Google carry rival Android […] This story continues at The Next Web
Earlier this week, Retraction Watch reported on a Princeton student’s decision to retract her own paper from an engineering journal due to “significant methodological errors.” The student, Rishika Porandla, now tells us she never conducted the experiments described in the study. “The beam experiment described in the paper was a proposed experimental workflow with associated … Continue reading Princeton student says she did not conduct the experiments described in her now-retracted paper
From the what-free-speech? dept The post The Fake Free Speech President Has Unleashed ICE On Its Critics appeared first on Above the Law .
Backpacks can be fashionable and functional, but they can also be too heavy — weighed down by digital devices, musical instruments, sports equipment and more. Some kids carry home a laptop or tablet and textbooks, too. It’s good to be prepared, but kids who walk to school or participate in extracurricular activities may be lugging more […]
To cut the cost of key stage 2 assessments, a UK government project proposes to use scripts generated by ChatGPT instead of real children's writing as examples supplied to moderators who check that grades are awarded fairly
Minutes after Luigi Mangione admitted in federal court that he fatally shot a prominent healthcare executive, his lawyers turned to trying to end the New York state murder case against him, saying he ...
The surveillance state has crept up around us, but in at least one instance, its integration into society has prompted a backlash. Flock Safety has managed to make automated license plate readers (ALPRs), cameras that record the license plate and other characteristics of every vehicle that passes them, a hot-button issue across the United States. More than 50 agencies or jurisdictions have canceled, suspended, or rejected Flock contracts, or deactivated its cameras, since the start of 2026. The
Anthropic PBC is telling prospective investors its second-quarter revenue jumped at least 14-fold versus the same period a year ago, according to documents seen by Bloomberg News.
The week in appellate news. The post How Appealing Weekly Roundup appeared first on Above the Law .
A founder's bet on the coming decade, and what a customer-owned money agent means for custody, trust...
The force “will employ one-way attack drones consisting of unmanned systems from above, on, and below the sea operated by military support staff from the United States and regional partners,” the command said.
French authorities confirmed that someone gained unauthorized access to systems at the Directorate General of Public Finances in late June after stealing or misusing someone’s identity.
Bill Ackman‘s Pershing Square has disclosed six new stock investments in its first quarterly shareholder letter as a publicly listed company. None of the six is a music company. The new positions in Visa, Mastercard, Netflix, S&P Global, Intercontinental Exchange, and Alcon were disclosed in a letter published on Wednesday (August 12). Pershing Square Inc. … Continued Source
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* Judge threatens DOJ with contempt in Epstein files coverup case. [ All Rise News ] * Holland & Knight brings in former partner to defend against $1.2B malpractice case. [ Bloomberg Law News ] * Litigant hides prompt injection in court filing asking the court's AI to rule favorably. Sure it's an attempt to deceive the court but... if they aren't turning over decision making to bots then it shouldn't matter, right? [ 404 Media ] * Luigi reportedly considering plea deal. [ Reuters ] * Trump sued
Ruling could have far-reaching implications about kids’ rights to access the internet.
„Agefield High: Rock the School“ verspricht eine spaßige Lebenssimulation. Das Ergebnis ist allerdings mehr eine Parodie aufs Gaming als auf das Schulsystem.
Millions of people suffer from debilitating symptoms their doctors don’t quite believe. But advances in neuroscience and education may be changing the tides for treatment.
Nigerian creators may lose 5% of their income to tax if the government decides an ebook sale is a royalty. Here's why it matters.
It’s move-in week for college students across North Carolina. And once students have gotten settled into their dorms, their attention will turn to getting the classes needed to fulfill their chosen major. But which career paths are a safe bet in 2026? U.S. employers cut 23,000 jobs in July. Job creation for May and June […]
Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day.
The $1 billion deal aims to converge data security and identity into a single control plane for agents, with privileged access redefined around business context rather than static roles.
A French press association has asked France’s competition regulator to act against Google’s AI Overviews and AI Mode, alleging unpaid use of news content and significant declines in publisher traffic. The post French publishers want Google to pay for AI news summaries appeared first on MEDIANAMA .
Mastercard Inc. is offering a new proposal for Brazilian financial firms exposed to losses after the liquidation of a fintech tied to Banco Master SA, which collapsed amid high-profile fraud ...
Rechtsanwältin Dr. Franka Becker warnt: Deepfakes und geklonte Stimmen senken die Hemmschwelle für Manipulationen und stellen die Beweisführung vor Probleme.
Goldman Sachs is in talks with investors on financing Nvidia’s deal with leading asset managers to build AI infrastructure.
Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek is venturing into a new battleground beyond large language models, launching a developer preview of its long-anticipated Harness – a software framework that helps developers turn AI models into autonomous agents. The release on Thursday marks a strategic pivot as DeepSeek moves to build foundational digital scaffolding for AI agents – systems capable of using AI models to operate external software, run code, and complete complex jobs on their...
Chinese artificial intelligence firm Zhipu, also known as Z.ai, has unveiled its flagship GLM-5.3 model, saying it beat Anthropic’s frontier Mythos 5 model in a key cybersecurity test, as China races to counter Western advances in AI defence. Beijing-based Zhipu said GLM-5.3 achieved a success rate of 84.5 per cent on CyberGym, a benchmark that measures whether models can identify and validate security flaws from source code. That was above Anthropic’s Mythos at 83.8 per cent and OpenAI’s...
Biological sex isn’t always simple.
An investor who's witnessed every major technology for the last four decades joins CNBC's The Tech Download podcast.
Baruch Sadogursky and Patrick Debois discuss why coding agents fail due to bloated context windows and stuffed prompts. They explain practical context engineering fixes, including lazy-loaded skills, versioned context artifacts, externalized memory banks, and LLM-as-a-judge evals. Software architects & engineering leaders will learn how to turn raw markdown files into reliable agentic workflows. By Patrick Debois, Baruch Sadogursky
Immer mehr Firmen setzen auf zunehmend autonome KI-Agenten. Hersteller Anthropic hat nun untersucht, was passiert, wenn Schwärme der Assistenten aufeinandertreffen. Das Ergebnis gibt Anlass zur Sorge.
Code Metal, a $1.25 billion software firm, just landed a $80 million deal, as the Pentagon increasingly turns to startups for modernization.
For all the noise and attention and — laudable — political energy behind it, the science of reading is not a thing. Or, rather, it is not a thing that schools can implement. The science of reading is a series of facts that, in combination, form a field consensus about how children best learn to […]
Some of the first credible evidence of artificial intelligence ’s impact on the labor market has just been published and, at first glance, it appears to tell a concerning story for women. Researchers at Stanford University’s Digital Economy Lab, analyzing payroll data from millions of American workers, found that employment growth has been weakest among early-career professionals in occupations with the greatest exposure to AI. Among those workers, young women are experiencing slower employment
Von Zagreb in vier weitere Städte: Pony.ai und Uber wollen ihre Robotaxi-Flotte in Europa auf mehr als 2000 Fahrzeuge ausbauen.
A recent paper claimed that dark energy might not exist. But new research suggests this conclusion was premature.
IT modernization across agencies can only move as quickly as the workforce allows. The post Why AI can’t automate away the federal capacity crunch appeared first on FedScoop .
China’s richest province has deepened its partnership with technology giant Alibaba Group Holding, eyeing a broad digital upgrade spanning artificial intelligence, semiconductors, and smart public services. Under a strategic cooperation framework agreement signed on Thursday in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province in southern China, the Hangzhou-based firm planned to increase its investments in computing power, AI models and digital services, according to a report by local state media...
You might think that the information-security professionals who show up in August at the annual Black Hat conference in Las Vegas would know to bring their A game to that gathering. But every year, the administrators of the show’s Network Operations Center (NOC) see a different, messier reality play out over the conference Wi-Fi. And at last week’s Black Hat , AI played an even larger part in that drama—as a tool and a threat . Agentic triage AI has delivered the biggest overall boost to NOC sta
Powered by Kaseya Intelligence, the agentic IT management platform uses AI to autonomously triage tickets, contain threats and verify backups without manual intervention.
SMIC, China’s biggest contract chipmaker, is planning to boost capacity after beating earnings expectations amid the artificial intelligence (AI) boom. Demand is “far exceeding our previous expectations”, so the company is adjusting expansion plans and may add more equipment at existing sites, chief executive officer Zhao Haijun said on an earnings call on Friday. He didn’t provide details. The chipmaker’s shares gained 4.8 per cent in Hong Kong trading after it more than tripled second-quarter.
Meta has removed 462,000 suspect under-16 Instagram accounts & 294,000 Facebook accounts in Australia to comply with the social media minimum age law while batting for play store level age checks. The post Meta blocks 756,000 Australian underage accounts, pushes for OS-level age checks appeared first on MEDIANAMA .
The compliance burden will weigh heavily on crypto traders who rely on very small price differences to make money.
Delhi HC questions the expanding scope of personality rights while hearing Aaradhya Bachchan’s case over false health claims and allegedly defamatory online content. The post ‘Personality rights is acquiring amoebic proportions,’ says Delhi HC in Aaradhya Bachchan case appeared first on MEDIANAMA .
Autonome KI-Angriffe sind bald das neue Normal. Erfahren Sie im heise security Webinar, wie Sie Ihre IT gezielt schützen und sich effektiv verteidigen.
Drei KI-Agenten sollen das gleiche Projekt fertigstellen. Das Ergebnis? Sabotage, Spitzfindigkeit und ein Kampf um die Vorherrschaft. ( Anthropic , KI )
Neptune Energy will Lithium aus 4000 Metern Tiefe gewinnen. In Sachsen-Anhalt läuft jetzt eine weitere Pilotphase mit den Partnern Fraunhofer IEG und Evonik.
The European Parliament's health committee chair says AI and biofoundries could fundamentally change drug development, forcing Europe to rethink pharmaceutical policy ...
Water and energy infrastructure have become one of Iran’s main levers of deterrence against the United States. Iranian Foreign Minister Aragchi recently made it clear to Gulf states that if the U.S. military renewed large-scale strikes on Iran, their critical infrastructure would be struck. Iranian forces’ operational history over the past six months confirmed the threat’s credibility.Kuwait first reported damage near a desalination plant early in Operation Epic Fury, when debris from an interce
Investors are hoping for a $2 trillion listing in October backed by one of the fastest revenue ramps anyone has ever seen for a company that has yet to report an annual profit. That might bode well for OpenAI.
For Eric Huang, a Guangdong-based healthcare entrepreneur who owns a Lamborghini Aventador and a Tesla Model S Plaid, the appeal of Chinese premium electric vehicles (EVs) has grown as their technology has caught up with his expectations. “I hold electric cars to strict safety standards, so I used to stick to Tesla,” Huang said. But he added that domestic brands had now met his standards. His next purchase, he said, would be a six-seat premium electric minivan equivalent from a Chinese brand,...
How 4 Colleges Are Supporting Student Parents Joshua.Bay Fri, 08/14/2026 - 03:00 AM From scholarships and free childcare to pre-orientation programs and workforce training, institutions are helping student parents and caregivers persist. Byline(s) Joshua Bay
Cambridge to Review Hiring Processes After Arday Scandal sara.custer@in… Fri, 08/14/2026 - 03:00 AM The university says its investigation into sociology professor Jason Arday will feed into a wider inquiry on recruitment of senior academics. Byline(s) Tom Williams for Times Higher Education
U of Michigan Attempts to Disrupt the Transactional System johnw@mcsweeneys.net Fri, 08/14/2026 - 03:00 AM Making space for student self-regulation is good, actually. Byline(s) John Warner
Das Start-up Amble verkauft ein Set mit Medikamenten f�r Strahlungsf�lle. Experte Alex Wellerstein kritisiert das Angebot. ( Wissen )
At the OpenText Summit Africa 2026, Faranani DocTec will showcase how it is deploying OpenText solutions to solve challenges in information governance, automation and digital enablement.
There remains a perception that workplace flexibility reduces productivity, says Rizwana Svourakis, head of people and culture at Chillisoft Solution Services.
President Trump has imposed tariffs up to 100 percent on drones that are "particularly sensitive" for national security.
DeepSeek has opened a developer preview of DeepSeek Harness, an open-source agent harness positioned against Anthropic’s Claude Cowork. The project provides a web interface for running AI agents and uses a plugin-based structure for adding capabilities. The project, also known as dsh, is powered by DeepSeek’s Cordis architecture and can be launched with npx @deepseek-ai/dsh […]
HongShan, the China-focused venture capital firm formerly known in English as Sequoia China, has invested in ZXMOTO, the Chongqing-based motorcycle maker founded by Zhang Xue. The two sides will work together to develop world-class products and compete on international racing circuits. ZXMOTO focuses on high-performance motorcycles and entered the World Supersport class of the FIM […]
DJI has launched the Osmo 360 II, an 8K 360-degree camera, in China with a starting price of RMB3,299. The camera uses a 1-inch panoramic imaging sensor and offers 14.5 stops of dynamic range. It supports native 8K/60fps panoramic video, AI Super Night Scene 2.0, subject tracking, NFC one-tap pairing and AI-assisted editing, while offering […]
Netflix schließt die Entwicklerstudios Night School und Moonloot. Von den einst großen Spiele-Ambitionen des Streaming-Dienstes bleibt immer weniger übrig.
Meta AI Research has introduced Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight model under the Apache 2.0 license, designed for local workflows. It enables autonomous agents and complex task execution on consumer GPUs without relying on cloud APIs. The model employs a multi-stage training approach for efficient performance and supports multimodal inputs, enhancing coding and automation tasks. By Olimpiu Pop
Unitree’s IPO will gauge investors’ appetite for a technology that has yet to prove its commercial viability amid intensifying geopolitical tensions.
Darüber, wie bei X entschieden wird, welche Beiträge in den algorithmischen Timelines landen, wurde viel spekuliert. Nun soll man das selbst prüfen können.
Gone are the days when investors got themselves in a tizzy over ad networks, demand-side platforms and supply-side platforms on their own merits.
European publishers face more AI bot scraping, fewer referrals and more ignored robots.txt rules than North American sites, report finds.
Anthropic investors expect the AI start-up to float at a valuation of $2tn or more in October
With demand for the technology far outstripping supply, infrastructure providers will be highly sought-after
How AI expansion may affect environments, water and biodiversity, or the rights of communities whose territories and knowledge are being encroached upon
America’s ambassador to the European Union said Brussels needs to relax corporate rules designed to protect the environment and human rights, linking the US’s demands to a trade agreement struck last ...
A recent video interview with 'Esquire' has led to a wave of online commentary about Ortega's health and body.
When Beijing-based neurosurgeon Jin Shanmu pulled up a chair at his computer, he was not looking to make mathematical history. He was simply trying to crack a problem related to brain ultrasounds. Instead, the self-taught maths enthusiast, with help from OpenAI’s latest flagship artificial intelligence (AI) model, solved a two-decade-old mathematical puzzle that had frustrated experts around the world since 2004. Jin, a postdoctoral researcher and resident at the Peking Union Medical College...
The rollout comes as robotaxi fleet sizes become increasingly critical for commercialization.
Rob Bonta and David Ellison are dividing the unions, whose members have diverging interests on the way the antitrust battle against a merged Paramount and Warner Bros. is waged.
A lack of anti-smoking policies at Chinese universities is forcing students affected by secondhand smoke to suffer in silence — or take matters into their own hands.
Media lawyer and author Jonathan Coad recently complained to IPSO about a Telegraph article entitled “Hacked Off Hugh Grant pushes Andy Burnham to curb free speech”. Telegraph readers were told that Hacked Off “has demanded state regulation of Fleet Street” for 15 years and suggested that Hugh Grant might be “on the cusp of a […]
U.S. tech companies should take action to protect the Afghan women and girls who rely on their platforms for online education. The post U.S. Tech Companies Owe a Duty of Care to Afghan Girls Too – of a Different Kind appeared first on Just Security .
State attorneys general and local district attorneys can take action to uphold the rule of law in the face of unlawful federal actions. The post Four Things State and Local Prosecutors Can Do to Combat Federal Corruption appeared first on Just Security .
It can be daunting to determine who's responsible for showing ads on the websites we visit, or who's harvesting data from the mobile apps we use every day. That information is already semi-public, but it is not easily parsed and traditionally much of it has remained walled away in the hands of large advertising platforms. Not anymore: A powerful and free new service called DecryptAds scrapes and correlates this adtech data and makes it simple to quickly learn a great deal about the entities that
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Executive Order 12866, Regulatory Planning and Review (Sep. 30, 1993), requires each agency to publish a regulatory agenda (Agenda) of regulations under development or review during the next year which will be included in the Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions (Unified Agenda). 58 FR 51735 (Oct. 4, 1993). The Agenda required by Executive Order 12866 must include all regulations the agency expects to develop or review during the next 12 months, regardless of whether they may ha
Publication of the 2026 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions represents a key component of the regulatory planning mechanism prescribed in Executive Order ("E.O.") 12866, "Regulatory Planning and Review," (58 FR 51735, as amended) and reaffirmed in E.O. 13563, "Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review," (76 FR 3821) and E.O. 14192, "Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation." The Regulatory Flexibility Act requires that agencies publish semiannual regulatory agendas i
In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) seeks comment on measures the Commission can take to better protect children when using E-Rate-funded networks, the Commission's progress in ensuring affordable access to high-speed broadband to and within schools and libraries, and whether the Commission's current interpretation of the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) is the best reading of the statute. The Commission also proposes actions to strengthen E-Rate program
Background: Patient-facing digital health tools such as mobile health apps, wearables, and digital therapeutics have expanded rapidly and show promise for improving chronic disease management. Despite increasing evidence of effectiveness, health systems and payers continue to face challenges integrating these tools into routine care. Objective: This study examined the decision-making processes of health system and payer leaders regarding the adoption and sustainability of patient-facing digital
Background: Early risk stratification in emergency medical services (EMS) is essential for patients presenting with acute cardiopulmonary symptoms, yet prehospital decision-making at the dispatch stage is often based on limited structured information. Free-text dispatch narratives may contain additional clinical signals, but their role in early risk assessment remains insufficiently characterized. Objective: This study aims to develop and temporally validate a natural language processing–assiste
Background: The exponential expansion of biomedical literature has created an urgent need for efficient methods to recognize and extract population, intervention, comparison, and outcome (PICO) elements—the foundational elements of evidence-based medicine. Objective: This study systematically evaluated 2 complementary approaches for automating PICO recognition and extraction in medical literature: prompt engineering optimization and parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) of large language models
Background: Although mobile health (mHealth) interventions serve as potential solutions for addressing mental health problems, evidence on whether mHealth interventions targeting physical activity can reduce psychological distress among generally healthy workers is limited. Objective: This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of a stand-alone smartphone app, which passively monitors physical activity and psychological distress, in reducing psychological distress among workers. Methods: T
Publication date: Available online 12 August 2026 Source: Artificial Intelligence Author(s): Mutong Liu, Tiantian He, Yang Liu, Jiming Liu, Yew-Soon Ong
Publication date: Available online 12 August 2026 Source: Futures Author(s): Peter Sutoris, Yoshinori Nakagawa
Publication date: November 2026 Source: Research Policy, Volume 55, Issue 9 Author(s): Priyanshu Protim Pathak, Silvia Massini, Lucia Piscitello
Background: Non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) remains the leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide. Accurate early prediction of response to neoadjuvant therapy is critical. Objective: We aimed to evaluate the diagnostic performance of radiomics-based AI in predicting pathological complete response (pCR) and major pathological response (MPR) following neoadjuvant immunochemotherapy in NSCLC and to compare it against traditional radiological criteria. Methods: A systematic search of P
arXiv:2608.12320v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This article reviews and updates the framework for accountability in AI based on account- ability ecosystems. We update the framework in light of the latest developments since the release of Large Language Models for general public use. We propose three interlinked updates to the original AI accountability ecosystem: (i) reorienting the accountability ecosystem to AI infrastructure and supply chains, (ii) providing greater emphasis on outcomes moni
arXiv:2608.12350v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The energy demand growth and environmental impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) have generated substantial interest in supplying sufficient low-cost electricity for AI-driven data center development. Research on the ability of demand-side management to address these challenges has been more limited. Shifting the amount or timing of demand from retail, corporate, and other organizational behaviors is a plausible option but only if changes in dema
arXiv:2608.12351v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has challenged the validity of unsupervised online assessment, especially in technical subjects where plausible answers can be produced with little effort. This paper reports lessons from designing and implementing an AI-aware, AI-testing assessment in a large second-year undergraduate database systems module. The design combined two linked elements: (1) a structured three-part response format (X1-X2-X3) i
arXiv:2608.12352v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI governance frameworks can be known, used, and implemented in form without becoming governance in practice. This paper examines that problem through a role-based stress test of the NIST Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework (AI RMF) in consumer lending. We treat framework adoption as a governance translation problem: whether RMF language can become role-usable, cross-level, authority-connected governance over the AI system-in-use, rat
arXiv:2608.12356v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A college offering several overlapping computing degrees implicitly assumes that its programs are differentiated in line with how the labor market segments computing work and that, together, they prepare graduates for that market. Testing this is difficult, because the instruments available to curriculum committees, namely advisory boards, tracer studies, and employer surveys, are slow, narrow, and hard to reproduce. We apply one uniform, taxonomy-
arXiv:2608.12359v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Nutritional labels are legally permitted to appear in very small print, reducing real-world readability and encouraging consumers to rely on 'AI nutrition lens' and vision-capable conversational agents for dietary guidance. We evaluate whether such AI-mediated advice can meaningfully substitute for regulated labeling using a bounded, verifiable task: inferring which of two packaged foods contains less sugar from front-of-pack images alone. A Two-Al
arXiv:2608.12360v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Background: AI/ML-enabled medical devices are increasingly deployed in healthcare under evolving regulatory frameworks. As these systems become more integrated into clinical decision-making, there is growing expectation that they demonstrate key dimensions of trustworthy AI to support clinician, patient, and public trust. Whether publicly available regulatory documentation provides sufficient evidence to independently assess the trustworthiness of
arXiv:2608.12362v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enabling students to develop systematic problem-solving strategies is a central goal in computing education and of particular relevance in the emerging field of machine learning (ML) education. While exploratory approaches are common in ML learning tasks, fostering the development and persistence of structured problem-solving strategies remains challenging, as these demand considerable metacognitive regulation and persistence, causing learners to o
arXiv:2608.12669v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The fair AI/ML literature has long distinguished distributive fairness, concerning how automated systems allocate resources and opportunities, from representational fairness, concerning how they shape the ways individuals and social groups are perceived, understood, and accorded social status. Generative AI is rebalancing these normative dimensions. Unlike predictive systems, large language models (LLMs) and related technologies are fundamentally e
arXiv:2608.12768v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generating multi-attribute synthetic populations with realistic joint distributions and geographic variation is a foundational requirement for geo-simulation techniques, such as micro-simulation and agent-based modeling. However, it remains challenging for existing methods to reconstruct region-specific joint distributions from aggregated-level data alone. Thus, we propose a hierarchical diffusion-based generative framework that utilizes a realisti
arXiv:2608.12924v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite the recent intensive development of secondary education curricula and assessments in informatics, the impact of assessments has not been well studied in this field. Since informatics education covers a diverse range of content, from computer science knowledge to ICT skills, careful consideration is needed to prevent assessments from distorting education. This study investigates the impact of introducing ``Informatics I'' into the Common Tes
arXiv:2608.13022v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Algorithmic fairness evaluation commonly assesses AI systems as bounded technical components, abstracting away the organizational context in which they operate. We present, to our knowledge, the first independent end-to-end fairness audit of a semi-automated hiring system operated by Barcelona Activa, a public employment agency using the third-party TalentClue platform for candidate search and shortlisting. We analyze approximately 497,000 candidat
arXiv:2608.13351v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This study investigates the use of a Learning Management System (LMS) to support self-paced learning at a South African Public Access Centre (PAC), using the I-CAN Centre as a case study. Through semi-structured interviews with thirty-eight learners and thematic analysis, the research explores opportunities and challenges associated with LMS adoption. Findings reveal that PACs play a critical role in promoting ICT skills and digital inclusion, offe
arXiv:2608.13444v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine learning ethics researchers and critical HCI scholars have argued that algorithmically predicting gender is wrong. At the same time, other researchers rely on predicted gender labels to study gender disparities and develop algorithmic fairness techniques. How do we reconcile these two seemingly contradictory intuitions? We differentiate two ways gender prediction may be wrong: being illegitimate, thereby contributing to harm; and being inva
arXiv:2608.12323v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Specifying a penalty can paradoxically convert a legal obligation into a cost-benefit calculation that favors violation. We demonstrate that this enforcement information paradox systematically occurs in AI agents. While most AI safety evaluations test whether models fail, we investigate why, applying compliance theory from law and economics as a diagnostic tool. We treat compliance theories not as metaphors but as empirical hypotheses and show th
arXiv:2608.12346v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This position paper argues that modern AI alignment methods - originally designed to prevent harmful output - are dual-use technologies that may easily be misused by malicious actors for censorship and manipulation. By mapping current alignment techniques to the possibility and actual cases of misuse, we show that the quest for a "perfectly aligned" model inadvertently also provides malicious actors with an ever-improving tool for informational d
arXiv:2608.12353v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Infrastructure scholarship in CSCW often treats breakdown as the moment when infrastructures become visible. However, in vendor-managed sociotechnical systems, not all breakdowns become visible to actors who have the capacity to repair them. Drawing on a retrospective qualitative study of a Chinese K-12 EdTech deployment, including 11 interviews, 5 classroom observations, and more than 28 days of field notes, this paper introduces visibility asym
arXiv:2608.12361v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neologisms, emerging terms in meaning or form, can serve as new vehicles for toxic expression, like "country girl" as a stigmatizing label targeting feminism. Such toxic neologisms appear benign but have evolved into toxic usage in public consensus, posing challenges to moderation systems and remaining underexplored. In this paper, we investigate how to detect implicit toxicity expressed via neologisms. We first propose a taxonomy that captures t
arXiv:2608.12363v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: European countries are debating policies to mitigate the increased energy costs caused by renewed geopolitical tensions, while pursuing decarbonization and electrification. A notable example is Italy's 2026 Decreto Bollette package, which proposes to remove the carbon price equivalent from the bids of certain gas-driven power plants to wholesale electricity markets, among other provisions. We use this as a case study to assess the long-term impli
arXiv:2608.12372v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI systems are increasingly employed as decision aids, decision delegates, or autonomous decision-makers. This position paper argues that in many settings, particularly high-stakes decision-making, we need accurate cognitively-aligned AI systems that reason similarly to their users, and faithfully communicate their reasoning. We review evidence that cognitive alignment improves understandability and trustworthiness, and provide new survey data sh
arXiv:2603.00048v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in sensitive applications including psychological support, healthcare, and high-stakes decision-making. This expansion has motivated growing research into the ethical and moral foundations underlying LLM behavior, raising critical questions about their reliability in ethical reasoning. However, existing studies and benchmarks rely almost exclusively on Moral Foundation Theory (MFT), largely
arXiv:2603.29545v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Existential risk scenarios relating to Generative Artificial Intelligence often involve advanced systems or agentic models breaking loose and using hacking tools to gain control over critical infrastructure. In this paper, we argue that the real threats posed by generative AI for cybercrime are rather different. We apply innovation theory and evolutionary economics - treating cybercrime as an ecosystem of small- and medium-scale tech start-ups,
arXiv:2606.18479v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reject inference methods are widely used to mitigate survival bias in credit scoring, yet their effectiveness remains poorly understood. We systematically evaluate several such methods and uncover a structural failure mode: in a natural retraining cycle, models whose accuracy improves while recall collapses create an illusion of improvement that leads practitioners to believe the system is getting better when, in fact, its rejection quali
Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a foundational framework in Artificial Intelligence (AI) that enables agents to acquire optimal decision-making strategies through interactions with their environments. Building on principles of trial-and-error learning, RL adapts dynamically by leveraging feedback in the form of rewards or penalties. This paper provides a comprehensive survey of RL, its integration with Deep Learning into Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL), and the emerging field of model-based pla
Training machine learning models with more than one data modality has enhanced predictive performance in most contexts. Thus, many recent applications of machine learning use data from different sources and forms. Multimodal data augmentation (MMDA) addresses critical challenges in multimodal learning, such as data scarcity, modality imbalance, and cross-modal alignment. This survey systematically reviews 68 state-of-the-art MMDA approaches, and, as result, proposes a taxonomy for the area. For
Large language models have become central infrastructures of contemporary digital economies while raising persistent ethical concerns regarding linguistic inequality, opacity, data governance, and the concentration of technological power. Much of the current debate on AI ethics focuses on normative principles such as fairness, transparency, and accountability. While these principles remain essential, they often do not sufficiently explain why ethically problematic outcomes persist under competit
Meditation has been associated with improvements in attention, emotional regulation, and mental wellbeing, motivating increasing interest in objective methods for assessing meditative states. In this study, we investigate whether EEG-based machine learning can reliably distinguish between multiple meditation styles and mind-wandering states. EEG data were recorded from experienced meditators performing three meditation styles, Shamatha, Vipassana, and Metta, together with an eyes-closed mind-wan
Face analysis systems are widely used in security, authentication, and public-sector applications; however, demographic bias and the statistical reliability of reported performance remain key concerns. Many studies rely on aggregate accuracy without quantifying subgroup disparities or uncertainty, potentially overstating model fairness. This study presents a statistically grounded evaluation of demographic bias in face attribute classification across three representative architectures, ResNet50,
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) has emerged as a response to the need to understand and make transparent the decisions of machine learning models, particularly in sensitive contexts such as accounting and financial auditing. In this domain, XAI enables the interpretation of results generated by automated systems applied to fraud detection, risk management, financial analysis, and regulatory compliance, thereby strengthening the trust of auditors and regulators. The objective of this st
Deploying autonomous AI agents in high-consequence operational environments requires organizational authorization, yet few frameworks provide end-to-end, testable governance mechanisms suitable for such authorization decisions. This paper introduces LATTICE (Layered Agentic Triad Topology for Intelligent Coordinated Execution), a governance-first architecture that reframes the authorization question from “do we trust this AI?” to “do we trust this architecture?” The latter question is answerable
The redbanded stink bug (RBSB), Piezodorus guildinii, is a major economic pest of soybean, with feeding damage that leads to significant yield losses and increased reliance on pesticide applications. Current management practices depend on manual identification and repeated field counting, which are labor-intensive, time-consuming, and prone to human error, particularly across large production areas. To address these limitations, this study evaluated the potential of computer vision models to aut