AI models get convenient amnesia about source material as they grow, MIT boffins find
Attributing diffusion model output to a specific input becomes more difficult with more training data
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UK's tech talent pipeline shrinks as overseas worker visa applications fall 7%
Third consecutive annual decline adds to concerns about shortages of specialist skills
Google buys crashed airline Spirit’s data at auction, because AI
$10 million buys over 100 million emails, 30 million recorded phone calls, reams of stuff from Teams, Oracle, and SAP
Microsoft MVP creates site to remind you of all the brands Redmond replaced
If you’re still talking about ‘DirSync’ or ‘Active Directory’ instead of ‘Entra’, and need to explain why, this is the site for you
Theban tomb reveals how Egyptian burial trends evolved in time
Practices shifted from individuals buried in coffins to reusing sites for later mummy interments.
Xen Project gets serious about safety in push to possibly partition robot brains
Boeing quietly joins FOSS hypervisor crew, as AMD and Renesas lead new effort to comply with formal standards
[AINews] Stripe buys OpenRouter for $7B
No GPUs, no Agents, just really, really, really good infra and distribution.
US vaccination rates fall again as exemptions continue to rise, CDC data shows
Again, the CDC did not publish a full report and instead simply put the data online.
AI Companies Still Haven’t Delivered on Their Biggest Promises
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the strongest criticism of AI companies is that they still haven’t delivered the enormous benefits they’ve promised—and that no amount of marketing can substitute for real results. His rare public response sparks a larger debate over what the industry must actually do to prove its value. In the headlines: ZAI releases GLM 5.3, Anthropic keeps a powerful new model internal, and investors anticipate a $2 trillion Anthropic IPO.AIDB's AI Summer Adventure:
Almost nobody pays attention to web standards anymore
Screen readers suffer as nearly 90% of top websites tested contain HTML spec violations
Former SpaceX engineers are building a robotic factory for making steel parts
“We're not necessarily building in a dogmatic fashion towards full autonomy.”
The Moon's shadow raced across the heart of Spain, and I was there to see it
Here's what it was like watching a total solar eclipse 90 minutes north of Madrid.