All Quiet on the Right Wing as Russia’s Data Centres Go Dark
For four days in October, some of the loudest voices online went quiet. Between October 8 and 11, Ukrainian drones…
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Flagged in 2018, Michael Smith’s AI-Song Bots Got Paid for Six Years
Michael Smith collected $8,091,843.64 in royalties from Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music and YouTube Music for plays that no person…
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Russia Put 906 Fake Reports Under the Names of 163 Real News Outlets
Russian influence operations have published at least 906 fake news reports under the names of 163 real news outlets in…
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Texas Rejected Alpha’s Charter, Then Helped It Into Public Schools
Texas’s education board rejected Alpha School’s proposed charter on June 27, 2025. Afterward, Education Commissioner Mike Morath and his agency…
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A Potential Solution to AI Slop: Expert-Aligned Rubrics
Meta AI found that language-model judges preferred AI-written paper sections to the expert originals in 63.5% to 84.6% of comparisons….
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Parole Board Backed Neill-Fraser’s Speech Ban With AI-Invented Cases
Tasmania’s Parole Board barred Susan Neill-Fraser from publicly claiming she was wrongly convicted, then supported the restriction with a document…
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AI’s Battery Backup Still Leaves Your Air With 69 Gas Turbines
Satellite imagery from July 11 showed 720 Tesla Megapack containers at SpaceXAI’s Colossus 2 campus in Memphis, an AI data-center…
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China’s Professionals Are Moonlighting for Their Replacements
Chinese AI platforms are paying teachers, engineers, architects, writers and other professionals to turn their real work into model-training examples,…
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Your Free AI Tokens Come With a Mystery Tab
Chinese banks, telecoms, cafés and restaurants are attaching AI-model credits to ordinary purchases, turning card swipes, phone plans and meals…
