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Kurt Rathmann told his big-name investors he had developed groundbreaking AI to do the books for small businesses. In reality, humans did most of the work.

Records obtained by Motherboard show the police department used sub-par images in almost half of its facial recognition searches, increasing the chance of misidentifying suspects.

This investigation examines the Home Office’s response to suspected cheating in the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC).

Algorithmic auditing, a burgeoning industry, lacks the necessary incentives to function as a check on AI applications.

A Google search summary of measures to be carried out after a seizure left out the words "do not", resulting in instructions that could well kill a person. Soft Linden, the director of informa...

After its triumph on Jeopardy!, IBM’s AI seemed poised to revolutionize medicine. Doctors are still waiting

A sweeping drug addiction risk algorithm has become central to how the US handles the opioid crisis. It may only be making the crisis worse.

First attempts last year to record and identify faces of drivers as they zip along the highway at the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge have failed, according to an internal Metropolitan Transportation Auth…

Facebook said the onion-seed ad had been removed for breaking its rules on "products with overtly sexual positioning."

Facebook's censors are digging deep -- flagging the word "hoe" in a western New York gardening group because they apparently confused the tool for a disparaging term for women.

Experts say the MIDAS false fraud fiasco is only one of the most glaring examples of government \

The long read: Josiah Elleston-Burrell had done everything to make his dream of studying architecture a reality. But, suddenly, in the summer of 2020, he found his fate was no longer in his hands

Computer algorithms that scan everything from terror watch lists to eviction records spit out flawed tenant screening reports. And almost nobody is watching

When Arkansas started using an algorithm for a crucial health service, the program’s recipients struggled to understand what happened.

A novel approach from the Allen Institute for AI enables data to be removed from an artificial intelligence model even after it has already been used for training.

Japanese technology firm Air Danshin has devised an airbag system that can raise a house 3cm off the ground to protect it from earthquake tremors. Sensors detect when a quake starts and ends, and gently deflates the airbags afterwards. The first anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan that killed more than 15,000 people last year is on 11 March

Researchers in Darwin added First Nations seasonal calendars to solar irradiance forecasting and came up with some vastly improved results.

Explore the transformation of "ohitorisama" in Japan, from a term denoting a lone customer to a celebrated figure symbolizing individuality and wisdom. Discover the origins of the term and its shift in meaning, particularly in the context of societal changes and the emphasis on embracing a

Nature - These sophisticated models will be used for human-development studies and drug testing.

Dozens of organizations in the region have partnered to develop a large language model that better understands Latin America’s cultural and linguistic nuances.

"This material gives us a way to tap into nature's most abundant resources and make water from air—anytime, anywhere."

The return of Comet 1P/Halley will promote a worldwide interest for ground and space observations of a celestial body of outstanding scientific and cu…

One of the results of my recent post-election “news ecosystem” effort was the presence of YouTube. Beyond YouTube’s role in hosting videos…

Businesses that rush to use AI to write content or computer code, often have to pay humans to fix it.

This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed...

June temperature records have been broken in Portugal and Spain, as French schools close amid heat

Microsoft researchers introduce MatterGen, a model that can discover new materials tailored to specific needs—like efficient solar cells or CO2 recycling—advancing progress beyond trial-and-error experiments.

Foxes have ‘begun to dig burrows’ in soil of rooftop garden at the as yet unopened King’s Cross headquarters

‘Pretty devastating’ Apple paper raises doubts about race to reach stage of AI at which it matches human intelligence