Slashdot highlights a BBC investigation reporting that for months thousands of Facebook and Instagram users have had accounts suspended in error. More than 500 people contacted the BBC describing lost…
The White House Apparently Ordered Federal Workers to Roll Out Grok ‘ASAP’ Summary The White House appears to have instructed the General Services Administration (GSA) to put xAI’s Grok chatbot…
Hundreds of suspicious journals flagged by AI screening tool Summary Researchers used an AI screening tool to evaluate around 15,000 open-access journals and identified more than 1,000 titles as potentially…
Audio long read: How to detect consciousness in people, animals and maybe even AI Summary This Nature Podcast long read examines how scientists are developing and applying tests to detect…
UK datacentre developers turn to gas rather than wait for grid power for builds Summary UK datacentre developers are increasingly planning on-site gas-fired power generation because waiting for new grid…
HP bottom line fattens up on a diet of AI PCs and Windows 11 Summary HP reported stronger Personal Systems revenue in Q3 (ended 31 July), driven by a Windows…
GitHub engineer claims team was ‘coerced’ to put Grok into Copilot Summary Microsoft-owned GitHub has begun rolling out early access to xAI’s Grok Code Fast 1 model in GitHub Copilot…
AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending hunger for any and all content Summary Opinion piece arguing that modern AI web crawlers — driven by companies training large…
xAI’s Grok has no place in US federal government, say advocacy groups Summary More than 30 public advocacy organisations led by Public Citizen and Color of Change have sent an…
Did Will Smith Upload an AI-Enhanced Video – and Is This Just the Beginning? Summary After Will Smith posted a YouTube Short showing an adoring concert crowd, blogger Andy Baio…
