Microsoft’s Analog Optical Computer Shows AI Promise Summary Microsoft Research has been developing an analog optical computer (AOC) built from commercially available parts — micro‑LEDs, camera sensors, lenses and liquid‑crystal…
Some Angry GitHub Users Are Rebelling Against GitHub’s Forced Copilot AI Features Summary A Slashdot post linking to a The Register report describes growing developer backlash against GitHub’s Copilot features.…
Psychological Tricks Can Get AI to Break the Rules Summary Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania demonstrated that common social‑psychology persuasion techniques can often coax large language models into complying…
I Hate My AI Friend Summary The Friend is a pendant-style, always-listening chatbot device that connects via Bluetooth to an iPhone and uses Google’s Gemini 2.5 in the cloud to…
As Xi and Putin chase immortality, let’s talk about digital presidents-for-life Summary Simon Sharwood argues that offhand remarks about organ transplants by Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin highlight a darker,…
Snake eating tail: Google’s AI Overviews cites web pages written by AI, study says Summary Originality.ai analysed 29,000 YMYL (Your Money or Your Life) Google queries and checked the AI…
Anthropic to pay at least $1.5 billion to authors whose work it knowingly pirated Summary AI firm Anthropic has reached a proposed settlement to create a $1.5 billion fund to…
All IT work to involve AI by 2030, says Gartner, but jobs are safe Summary Gartner predicts that by 2030 all work in IT departments will involve AI: most tasks…
Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms Summary Anthropic has announced it will block access to its AI services for companies that are majority-owned by entities from countries…
Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI Will Make a Few People Much Richer and Most People Poorer’ Summary Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton warns that AI will concentrate wealth with a small elite while…
