Judges in Latin America are struggling to rule on cases of AI-generated images even as courts increasingly adopt AI tools to clear case backlogs (Juliana Bedoya/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/latin-america-judges-ai-crimes/
Claude.ai Invents a New Language
As a Boles.ai experiment, I asked three AI Bots -- Claude.ai and Gemini and ChatGPT -- to create a language and then I asked them if the language was actually created by them or not. Because of the length of the responses, I created three separate articles demonstrating the language invention capabilities of each Bot. You can decide which language Bot was most effective and inventive.
The UK's flagship programme to embed AI into NHS hospitals is facing significant hurdles, with a new study revealing that implementing the technology is far more difficult than policymakers anticipated.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/a
Beyond Predictions: A Study of AI Strength and Weakness Transparency Communication on Human-AI Collaboration
Tina Behzad, Nikolos Gurney, Ning Wang, David V. Pynadath
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09033
Generating code via an LLM prompt at breakneck speed can, predictably, lead to less-than-stellar work.
Now, in an ironic twist, it seems that, having dispensed with more skilled coders for the cheap effectiveness of a chatbot-aided code monkey,
companies are having to hire additional contractors to fix the AI’s screw-ups.
In the run-up to Dutch elections (29 October), it turns out that two Dutch MP's of Wilders' far-right PVV are using Sora AI to generate fake pictures of attractive blond women threatened by migrants. The prompts they used were published in this article.
AI Security Map: Holistic Organization of AI Security Technologies and Impacts on Stakeholders
Hiroya Kato, Kentaro Kita, Kento Hasegawa, Seira Hidano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08583
“If you don’t like <insert Big Tech here>, just don’t use it” is a refrain I’ve often heard. Been warning folks for years that these things will become no longer optional. Maybe we need a new colloquialism; a corollary to “fuck around and find out.” Maybe “stay indifferent and find out?” https://mastodon.green/@g…
«UK government suggests deleting files to save water»
The same government that wants to "turbocharge AI" with "AI Growth Zones", that puts "AI" into public services left and right, and the government that generally seems to be fully "AI"-pilled now has the audacity to ask people to delete emails "to save water"? 😂
https://www.theverge.com/science/758275/drought-delete-files-email-data-center-water-uk
Replaced article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
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- Generative AI for Cel-Animation: A Survey
Tang, Guo, Liu, Wang, Hua, Zhong, Xiao, Huang, Song, Liang, Song, He, Bi, Feng, Li, Zhang, Xu
"AI Summaries" have infested #ScienceDirect now with their inaccurate but confidently-formulated statements... Fortunately some people are fighting back, like @… who emailed them about it:
"In short, the OpenAI paper inadvertently highlights an uncomfortable truth: the business incentives driving consumer AI development remain fundamentally misaligned with reducing hallucinations. Until these incentives change, hallucinations will persist."
https://
"Te vaak negeren we in Nederland opwinding over AI, simpelweg omdat we AI-ontwikkelaars niet vertrouwen. Maar het is logisch consistent om de integriteit van tech-ceo’s in twijfel te trekken én te geloven dat hun technologie de wereld fundamenteel zal veranderen."
https://www.
Micro1, a Scale AI competitor that lets AI companies find contractors for data labeling and training, raised a $35M Series A led by O1A at a $500M valuation (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/12/micro1-a-competitor-to-sc…
Gemini Invents a New Language
As a Boles.ai experiment, I asked three AI Bots -- Claude.ai and Gemini and ChatGPT -- to create a language and then I asked them if the language was actually created by them or not. Because of the length of the responses, I created three separate articles demonstrating the language invention capabilities of each Bot. You can decide which language Bot was most effective and inventive.
Even Malala's been ghosted: '"not one of them picked up the phone, or replied to my messages [regarding her pleas to evacuate Afghan partners]. To the men who ran the world, I was just a photo op." [...] She notes, pointedly, that female politicians did.'
Deeply reflexive piece on her unrelenting efforts on the right to education. Personal, political, professional. From child activist to global woman leader.
At 28 she has done more than most of us will in ou…
AI has sparked a new wave of competition in the browser market, as agentic AI browsers like Perplexity's Comet and others compete with Gemini-enhanced Chrome (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/10/11/ai-browser-wars-agents-google-perplexity…
Generative AI and the Musician, Creativity and the Human Element
- #LLM #NoAI -
https://muz4now.com/2025/generativ…
Explaining the Reputational Risks of AI-Mediated Communication: Messages Labeled as AI-Assisted Are Viewed as Less Diagnostic of the Sender's Moral Character
Pranav Khadpe, Kimi Wenzel, George Loewenstein, Geoff Kaufman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09645
Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
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- Explainable AI for Accelerated Microstructure Imaging: A SHAP-Guided Protocol on the Connectome 2...
Uhl, Pavan, Gerold, Chan, Jun, Fujita, Bhatt, Ma, Wang, Lee, Huang, Bilgic, Jelescu
I mean sure, "AI" might make that somehow easier to pull off, but "politicians holding signs that could be manipulated" has been the source of hilarity since Photoshop v1 released.
And every generation of politicians and political campaign managers seems to have to re-learn this lesson. 😅
«Swedish Prime Minister Pulls AI Campaign Tool After It Was Used to Ask Hitler for Support»
https://www.404media.co/swedish-prime-minister-pulls-ai-campaign-tool-after-it-was-used-to-ask-hitler-for-support/
ChatGPT Invents a New Language
As a Boles.ai experiment, I asked three AI Bots -- Claude.ai and Gemini and ChatGPT -- to create a language and then I asked them if the language was actually created by them or not. Because of the length of the responses, I created three separate articles demonstrating the language invention capabilities of each Bot. You can decide which language Bot was most effective and inventive.
Just to underscore the point, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo leaving MIT for UZH is probably one of the biggest academic news stories of the year.
(Think: Bad-Bunny-level-for-normal-people big.)
Nobel-winning Economists To Leave US For Zurich: University
https://www.
Character.AI says it's generating revenue at a run rate of $30M and has 20M MAUs who spend, on average, 75 minutes a day chatting with a bot (Kylie Robison/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/character-ai-ceo-chatbots-entertainment/
Appfigures: AI companion apps are on track to generate $120M in revenue in 2025, and in H1 there were 60M downloads of this kind of app, up 88% YoY (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/12/ai-companion-apps-on-track-to-pull-in-120m-in-…
How culture and regulations are shaping AI companion platforms worldwide, with US platforms primarily targeting men and Chinese platforms mainly targeting women (Zilan Qian/ChinaTalk)
https://www.chinatalk.media/p/why-america-builds-ai-girlfriends
Indonesia's film industry is embracing AI tools to produce Hollywood-style movies at a significantly lower cost; the average local film budget is about $602,500 (Linda Yulisman/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/indonesia-ai-movies/
Wat een onzin….
“ . "Als het zwart op wit in de voorwaarden staat, mag je er als gebruiker van uitgaan dat het is zoals ze zeggen", zegt hij. "Anders hebben ze een groot aansprakelijkheidsprobleem."
Alsof dat Bigtech tegen houdt of voldoende waarborgen biedt.
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Young people in China are turning to AI chatbots like DeepSeek and Doubao for therapy to save time and money, while avoiding stigma around mental health (Yi-Ling Liu/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/young-people-in-china-are-embracing-ai-therapy/
The contrast between Google AI search results, which are terrible and totally unreliable, and NotebookLM is amazing.
I think it is irresponsible from Google to integrate AI search results in Google Search...
#ai #googlesearch
Google adds Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, aka Nano Banana, to Search's AI Mode and Google Lens, on Android in the US for those with an account opted into Search Lab (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/10/11/google-lens-ai-mode-nano-banana/
NYC-based Profound, which helps brands optimize visibility in AI search responses, raised a $35M Series B led by Sequoia, bringing its total funding to $58.5M (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/08/12/ai-search-startup-profound-rais…
Study: endoscopists used to AI-assisted colonoscopies detected fewer precancerous growths after AI assistance was removed, compared to before AI was introduced (Joedy McCreary/MedPage Today)
https://www.medpagetoday.com/gastroenterology/coloncancer/116968
Studies suggest AI chatbots' sycophantic design may increase narcissism among young and vulnerable users, potentially altering personality traits at scale (Derek Thompson)
https://www.derekthompson.org/p/ai-will-create-a-social-crisis-long
Sources: Microsoft is trying to poach Meta's AI talent, is making multimillion-dollar offers, with a mandate to match Meta's compensation for top talent (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-trying-poa…
NYC-based Vellum, which develops enterprise development tools for building, testing, and deploying AI-powered apps, raised a $20M Series A led by Leaders Fund (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/07/11/en
Q&A with Notion CEO Ivan Zhao on Notion's evolution into an "AI workspace", being profitable, B2B vs. B2C, usage-based pricing for AI, and more (Casey Newton/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-w
Tahoe Therapeutics, which is building AI models of living cells, raised $30M led by Amplify Partners at a $120M valuation, taking its total funding to $42M (Alex Knapp/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/202
With Trump set to speak at an energy and AI summit at Carnegie Mellon, a look at plans to turn some shuttered mill sites in Pittsburgh into AI data centers (Kris Maher/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/can-pittsburgh…
A look at potential issues as US judges join lawyers in testing generative AI to speed up legal research, summarize cases, draft routine orders, and more (James O'Donnell/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/11/112146…
Beijing-based AIsphere, the startup behind the AI video generator PixVerse, raised a $60M Series B led by Alibaba, and says PixVerse has 100M users globally (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/arti
Penguin Ai, which offers AI-powered tools for administrative tasks to healthcare payers and providers, raised $29.7M, including a $25M Series A led by Greycroft (Jessica Hagen/Mobi Health News)
https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/penguin-ai-secure…
Thoughts on The Curve conference, where prominent figures debated about AI progress, and why automating research engineers is plausible within years (Nathan Lambert/Interconnects)
https://www.interconnects.ai/p/thoughts-on-the-curve
Anthropic updates Claude Sonnet 4 to support a 1M token context window, letting it process prompts up to 750K words or 75K lines of code, up 5x on its old limit (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/12/anthropics-claude-ai-model-…
Chinese open-source AI models from DeepSeek, Alibaba's Qwen, and others gaining global traction spurs US policymakers and companies to respond (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chinas-l…
Sora videos depicting dead celebs spark backlash from families; OpenAI says reps of "recently deceased" public figures can request their likeness be blocked (Washington Post)
CB Insights: the number of AI unicorns reached 498 with a combined value of $2.7T, 100 founded since 2023, and over 1,300 AI startups valued above $100M (Robert Frank/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/10/ai-artificial-intelligence-billionaires-wealth.html…
Western pharma giants have struck multibillion-dollar deals with Chinese biotech firms using AI, signaling confidence in China's AI drug discovery research (Leslie Liang/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-drug-discovery-startups-big-pharma-china/
Leaked audio: Apple nears a deal to acquihire computer vision startup Prompt AI; it was approached by other potential suitors, including xAI and Neuralink (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/10/apple-nears-deal-to-acquire-ta…
Campus, which is building an online alternative to community colleges, hires Meta's ex-VP of AI Jerome Pesenti as its CTO, and acquires his company Sizzle AI (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/10/sam-altman-college-startup-campus-meta-ai.htm…
AMD's SVP of AI Vamsi Boppana says the company's AI software, designed with input from OpenAI, helped secure the multi-billion dollar deal with OpenAI (Richard Nieva/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2025/10/09/amd-openai-chip-software/
Interviews with security researchers about AI's potential for large-scale destruction, as experts remain divided and global regulatory frameworks lag (Stephen Witt/New York Times)
https://www.
Databricks' head of AI, Naveen Rao, is transitioning to an advisory role; source: his next venture will focus on a next-gen computer to address rising AI costs (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-12/data…
OpenAI and Microsoft say they have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding for the next phase of their partnership, and are working to finalize terms (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/11/open-ai-microsoft-agreement-deal
China's vision for its autonomous vehicle industry, backed by state support and infrastructure investment, is driving its lead in ADAS and robotaxi deployment (Yi-Ling Liu/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/china-ai-powered-self-driving-cars/
Albania appoints an AI bot named Diella as the minister responsible for managing and awarding all public procurement tenders to combat corruption (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/albania-appoints-ai-bot-minister-tackle-corruption-…