The AI-Powered PDF Marks the End of an Era
The AI-Powered PDF Marks the End of an Era Summary The Portable Document Format (PDF), introduced by Adobe in 1993, changed how institutions and individuals shared faithful, print-like documents. Adobe…
WIRED Roundup: Why GPT-5 Flopped
WIRED Roundup: Why GPT-5 Flopped Summary On the latest Uncanny Valley podcast, hosts Zoë Schiffer and Jake Lahut recap five of WIRED’s biggest stories from the week — from crude…
I Saw the Future of AI Film and It Was Empty
I Saw the Future of AI Film and It Was Empty Summary John Semley reports from an AI film festival curated by Runway AI that screened ten short films generated…
AI Isn’t Coming for Hollywood. It’s Already Arrived
AI Isn’t Coming for Hollywood. It’s Already Arrived Summary This WIRED feature traces how Stability AI—after a near-collapse amid leadership and legal turmoil—was taken over by Prem Akkaraju and Sean…
Chinese ‘Virtual Human’ Salespeople Are Outperforming Their Real Human Counterparts
Chinese ‘Virtual Human’ Salespeople Are Outperforming Their Real Human Counterparts Summary AI-powered “virtual human” avatars created with video models from Baidu and language models from DeepSeek are streaming on Chinese…
Secure AI Use Without the Blind Spots
Secure AI Use Without the Blind Spots Summary This Dark Reading piece by Joan Goodchild warns that many organisations are adopting AI rapidly but lag behind on formal, enforceable AI…
Beyond AlphaFold: how AI is decoding the grammar of the genome
Beyond AlphaFold: how AI is decoding the grammar of the genome Summary This Nature feature surveys a rapidly expanding set of AI tools that aim to read, interpret and design…
Finding your academic voice: faster, healthier writing with AI speech recognition
Finding your academic voice: faster, healthier writing with AI speech recognition Summary Zhicheng Lin argues that modern AI-powered voice-to-text tools can speed up academic writing, reduce physical strain and change…
Electron flow matching for generative reaction mechanism prediction
Electron flow matching for generative reaction mechanism prediction Summary The paper introduces FlowER, a generative model for predicting chemical reaction mechanisms that explicitly models electron redistribution and enforces exact mass…
Facial recognition works better in the lab than on the street, researchers show
Facial recognition works better in the lab than on the street, researchers show Summary Facial recognition systems post very high accuracy on standard benchmarks, but Oxford academics and other researchers…