Historian Warns Tech Industry Undermining Democracy
Harvard historian Jill Lepore warns that tech companies are replacing democratic functions with algorithms and machines, a trend she calls 'a return to tyranny.'
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AI Lawsuits Flood Britain's Employment Courts
Employment court claims in Britain rose 39% in the year through March 2026, with a backlog of 64,000 unresolved cases.
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Google Deepmind's WeatherNext Cyclones Predicts Cyclone Tracks and Intensity Simultaneously
Google Deepmind's WeatherNext Cyclones (WN-C) forecasts tropical cyclones with greater accuracy than specialized models, improving track and intensity predictions by up to 28 percent.
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Scammers Use AI to Enroll Fake Students at US Community Colleges
Scammers are enrolling fake students at US community colleges to collect financial aid, using AI to complete coursework, according to The New Yorker.
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Google Restructures DeepMind as Hassabis Prepares to Leave
Google is centralizing AI development, with DeepMind losing independence and founder Demis Hassabis possibly exiting soon. DeepMind's annualized Gemini revenue reached $12 billion in Q2 2026.
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Nvidia and Amazon Invest Billions in Power Infrastructure for AI
Nvidia is investing up to $3 billion in Lancium, a power infrastructure developer, according to The Information.
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Google's DiffusionGemma Shows Text Diffusion Without Full Retraining
Google DeepMind released DiffusionGemma, a text diffusion model built by retrofitting Gemma 4 with less than 10% of the original training token budget, achieving 1,500 tokens per second.
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AI Billionaires Pledge Wealth to Charity
David Silver, founder of Ineffable Intelligence, has pledged to donate all proceeds from his company to charity, following a trend among AI entrepreneurs.
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GLInt Model Surpasses LateOn in Retrieval Tasks
GLInt, a late-interaction retriever, achieves 57.43 mean nDCG on 15 BEIR Tasks, outperforming LateOn's 57.22 score.
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Fields Medalist Joins OpenAI to Focus on AI Safety
Jacob Tsimerman, newly awarded Fields Medalist, joins OpenAI to address AI safety risks, citing the need for greater societal preparedness.
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Backflip AI Releases CAD Model Generator for 3D Scans
Backflip AI's new tool transforms 3D scans into editable CAD models in minutes, addressing a critical gap in digital manufacturing.
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Claude Code Sessions Can Communicate Across Terminals
Claude Code sessions on macOS and Linux can now send messages to each other, sharing context without manual copying, according to Anthropic.