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Ozzy Osbourne appeared as an AI-generated image at a recent Rod Stewart concert, prompting questions about how the ghoulish phenomenon will affect grieving

A major project in Saudi Arabia is responsible for one fifth of all global steel, according to its chief investment officer.

Thanks to advances in AI, we are no longer allowed to truly die. The peace of the grave and the finality that defines the human condition are all being sacrificed on the altar of artificial intelligence. We are normalizing digital necromancy, a grotesque spectacle where the dead are reanimated as

Law enforcement used license-plate readers in several states to search for a woman who had an abortion

Security researchers found a weakness in OpenAI’s Connectors, which let you hook up ChatGPT to other services, that allowed them to extract data from a Google Drive without any user interaction.

Video obtained and verified by 404 Media shows a CBP official wearing Meta's AI glasses, which are capable of recording and connecting with AI. “I think it should be seen in the context of an agency that is really encouraging its agents to actively intimidate and terrorize people," one expert said.

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Initiative aims to unlock commercial potential in 3 key areas: leather, medicinal products, and meat. Read more at straitstimes.com.

How did China get a cut of the global diamond trade?

When Meta embedded AI bots in its apps, even students in the most remote corners of Colombia gained access. But rather than boosting learning, it’s getting in the way.

Overreliance on artificial intelligence may put us in intellectual debt.

A 2025 survey across six countries finds that citizens are not in favor of deregulation and allowing AI innovation to progress unchecked.

Viral Instagram accounts making LeBron 'brainrot' videos have also been banned.

Who needs Starlink when you've got an actual starling

Heavy industry relies on fossil fuels not just for power, but heat. Thermal batteries could help make electrification a reality for those companies.

The startup has devised a durable way to store solar power as heat that can then be used for household heating or hot water.

Pornainen recently turned on a 100 MWh thermal battery filled with ground up soapstone.

Researchers in the United Kingdom have announced the successful birth of eight babies after a clinical trial of an IVF technique known as mitochondrial donation.

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