Swedish PM Under Fire For Using AI In Role
Summary Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has found himself in hot water after revealing that he often turns to AI tools like ChatGPT to seek second opinions on political issues.…
Perplexity Says Cloudflare’s Accusations of ‘Stealth’ AI Scraping Are Based On Embarrassing Errors
Summary Cloudflare has accused Perplexity of using undeclared web crawlers that impersonate legitimate Chrome browsers to access content from restricted websites. In response, Perplexity has vehemently refuted these claims, labelling…
Jim Acosta Interviews AI Version of Teenager Killed in Parkland Shooting
Jim Acosta Interviews AI Version of Teenager Killed in Parkland Shooting Jim Acosta, former CNN correspondent turned independent YouTuber, has conducted a unique interview with an AI-generated avatar of Joaquín…
RIP To the Macintosh HD Hard Drive Icon, 2000-2025
RIP To the Macintosh HD Hard Drive Icon, 2000-2025 In a significant change, Apple has replaced the long-standing Macintosh HD hard drive icon, which was first introduced in 2000, with…
Brace yourselves, Backup Exec and InfoScale users, Cloud Software Group just acquired your tools
Summary The Cloud Software Group has announced its acquisition of Arctera, a data management tools vendor best known for its Backup Exec and InfoScale products. Following this acquisition, users can…
‘No One Cares’ About Elite Degrees at Palantir, CEO Tells Investors
Palantir CEO Alex Karp has controversially stated that the company evaluates prospective employees without regard to their academic credentials, explicitly mentioning that graduates from elite institutions like Harvard, Princeton, and…
Wikipedia Editors Adopt ‘Speedy Deletion’ Policy for AI Slop Articles
Wikipedia Editors Adopt ‘Speedy Deletion’ Policy for AI Slop Articles Wikipedia has introduced a new policy that allows editors to rapidly delete AI-generated content without the usual lengthy discussion periods.…
Three US Agencies Get Failing Grades For Not Following IT Best Practices
Three US Agencies Get Failing Grades For Not Following IT Best Practices The Government Accountability Office has taken aim at three major US agencies—Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Environmental Protection…
OpenAI Releases First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2
Summary OpenAI has released two open-weight language models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, which are their first since GPT-2 in 2019. These models can run locally on consumer devices, allowing users to…
Retraction-Prone Editors Identified at Megajournal PLoS ONE
Summary A recent investigation into PLoS ONE has found that nearly one-third of its retractions can be linked back to just 45 editors. These editors represented only 1.3% of articles…