Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: Large language models are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” ...
Month: September 2026
‘Flock City PD:’ The Fake Flock-Owned ‘Police Department’ That Searched Real Cameras for Real People‘Flock City PD:’ The Fake Flock-Owned ‘Police Department’ That Searched Real Cameras for Real People
Flock created a fake police department called “Flock City PD” that it used to search a series of live automated license plate readers in several U.S. cities during demonstrations of its surveillance system’s capabilities, public records show. The records show that Flock City PD searched real cameras for people holding ...
Video AI company Pika offers new tool to speed up AI video creationVideo AI company Pika offers new tool to speed up AI video creation
The News Video AI company Pika launched a program to help AI creators make videos faster by using fewer prompts. The product automates which AI model is used to create a given element in the video and speeds up the prompting process. Instead of crafting paragraph descriptions from scratch as ...
Senate Republicans weigh whether to keep investing in North Carolina and Georgia racesSenate Republicans weigh whether to keep investing in North Carolina and Georgia races
The News Republicans may have to make hard choices this fall as they shape their strategy for keeping the Senate — and some think it might not include North Carolina or Georgia. Just 10 years ago, those two southern states formed the bedrock of Republicans’ Senate majorities. But as President ...
UAE’s super stallions will compete in Japan’s Asian GamesUAE’s super stallions will compete in Japan’s Asian Games
I’ve been through the desert on a horse with no name, but it wasn’t one of the UAE’s super stallions going to the Asian Games. Zen Liquidity and stablemate Tesla DXB will carry the UAE’s colors in Japan, alongside Lotus-S and Le Grand Ayden HB. The UAE fielded its first-ever ...
Saudi Arabia’s well-timed uranium find near MedinaSaudi Arabia’s well-timed uranium find near Medina
On July 22, the US and Saudi Arabia finalized a nuclear deal that gave the kingdom a pathway to enrich uranium. Fifty-four days later, Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman announced an estimated 110 million tonnes of ore with “promising concentrations of uranium” were discovered near Medina. He didn’t say ...
A Norman Conquest retelling “steeped in Viking lore and gore”A Norman Conquest retelling “steeped in Viking lore and gore”
by Erin Goeres. With the UK in the throes of “Bayeux fever” — the 200-foot tapestry depicting the buildup to the Norman invasion of England in 1066 and the Battle of Hastings, now on display in Britain — a scholar of Scandinavian studies “exposes the slyly partisan narrative of the Bayeux ...
Trump administration denies entry visas to Palestinian officials ahead of UN general assemblyTrump administration denies entry visas to Palestinian officials ahead of UN general assembly
It is the second year this administration has barred the Palestinian delegation from US travel ahead of the forum The US state department said on Wednesday that it had again denied entry visas to Palestinian officials ahead next week’s United Nations general assembly gathering in New York. The state department ...
Robert Kraft, once the NFL’s good guy, is just another billionaire silencing Macklemore | Howard BryantRobert Kraft, once the NFL’s good guy, is just another billionaire silencing Macklemore | Howard Bryant
The Patriots owner’s decision to ban the rapper from performing at the team’s stadium brings back memories of the blackballing of Colin Kaepernick Six years ago, in the middle of a “racial reckoning” that never was, a White House that had begun out of control reached its chaotic apex. Federal ...
Beck: ‘What does a devil’s haircut look like? Anything with a lot of architecture and wild flights of fancy’Beck: ‘What does a devil’s haircut look like? Anything with a lot of architecture and wild flights of fancy’
The genre-fluid singer answers your questions on being funky v lonesome, his infamous MTV interview with Thurston Moore and why he said yes to performing with a chain-smoking alcoholic robot • Read Alexis Petridis’s 5* review of new album Ride Lonesome You’ve been performing since the late 80s. What keeps ...