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For the first time, more Americans support than oppose preventing students from using cellphones for the entire school day. A new Pew Research Center survey finds that 48% of US adults now back bell-to-bell bans for middle and high school students, up 12 percentage points from 36% in 2024. Opposition sits at 43%, with 8% […]

The market for AI detection software rests on a promise: that an algorithm can tell whether a student wrote an essay or a machine did. A hands-on test published by CNET this week suggests that promise has collapsed, with every major detector defeated by free and low-cost workarounds and detectors contradicting one another on the […]

The debate over who controls advanced AI is usually framed in technical terms: alignment, interpretability, capability thresholds. Mark Zuckerberg wants to reframe it as a question of political philosophy. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed published this week, the Meta CEO laid out a vision of personal superintelligence that stands in direct opposition to the […]

The competition to eliminate EV charging anxiety reached a new benchmark this week as FAW Group’s luxury Hongqi brand demonstrated a prototype battery that charges from 10% to 70% state of charge in 3 minutes and 41 seconds. The test, conducted at 25 degrees Celsius, showed a peak charging rate of 12C, among the highest […]

A year ago, buying a 32GB DDR5 kit for under $100 was unremarkable. Today, the same purchase costs nearly double, if you can find inventory. The consumer memory market has been reshaped by a structural shift that industry analysts say is not a typical boom-and-bust cycle but a permanent reallocation of the world’s silicon wafer […]

Microsoft’s relationship with the two biggest AI labs has passed a tipping point: the company that holds valuable stakes in both OpenAI and Anthropic is now openly marketing itself as their alternative. On the fiscal fourth quarter earnings call, chief executive Satya Nadella’s pitch to enterprises was built around keeping the model layer swappable, an […]

Under Project Glasswing, Anthropic’s Claude Mythos model has been discovering security flaws in Microsoft software at a pace that exceeds the company’s ability to fix them, leaving a growing backlog of unpatched vulnerabilities in disclosure limbo. Project Glasswing, announced in April 2026, brought together Amazon, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorganChase, the Linux Foundation, Microsoft, […]

For all the warnings about AI eliminating jobs, the data tells a more nuanced story. A Google study published this week, analyzing nearly 15 million real interactions with the Gemini assistant, found that AI adoption has spread across a broad range of occupations, but the technology has yet to become the job-automating force many workers […]

Encoder models, the workhorses behind search, classification, and safety filtering, have a problem. As input lengths grow to thousands of tokens, inference latency on CPU climbs into minutes. Liquid AI’s latest release aims to solve that with a pair of small encoder models designed specifically for efficient long-context inference on CPU hardware. The LFM2.5-Encoder series, […]

One of the most intuitive ideas in AI-assisted programming is that a model should learn from its mistakes: show it the test output from its failed code, and it will produce a better fix on the next attempt. New research suggests that for smaller models, this intuition is wrong, and the fix is to pretend […]