The News Bernie Sanders is doing his share, but Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren has thrown herself even more aggressively into Senate Democrats’ debate over their future direction. She’s taking her show on the road this weekend, with an evening stop today for Minnesota Lt. Gov Peggy Flanagan’s Senate campaign, followed ...
AI fuels a social media marketing scamAI fuels a social media marketing scam
As companies like Meta push increasingly realistic AI-generated videos, the worst parts of social media and AI are converging. In what appears to be a new dropshipping scam flooding Instagram and TikTok, accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers are posting AI-generated videos depicting teens getting bullied for trying to ...
OpenAI’s Brockman says distillation is a technical problemOpenAI’s Brockman says distillation is a technical problem
OpenAI and Anthropic have pushed the US government to address the distillation of their top models by Chinese companies, framing the practice as a threat to national security and prompting Trump officials to threaten sanctions on Chinese companies. But there’s also a way to use technology to solve the issue, ...
It’s time to learn to live with open-source AIIt’s time to learn to live with open-source AI
Reed’s view Now that Kimi K3 has been out for a week, we know a lot more about how the Chinese AI model performs in the real world. Compared to other models from the frontier labs, the early technical read is that it’s kind of “meh.” It doesn’t hold a ...
Internal videos show how Polymarket trained creators on fake betsInternal videos show how Polymarket trained creators on fake bets
The Scoop Tobin Tang didn’t mince words. “This is fake money,” the Polymarket marketing employee explains in a one-minute, how-to video obtained by Semafor. “I mean real money, obviously,” quips Tobin, cracking a faint smirk in the corner of the screen, where he appears in a black t-shirt and blue ...
I spent years trying to get smaller. Until I decided to get biggerI spent years trying to get smaller. Until I decided to get bigger
‘Bulking’, or gaining weight on purpose to get stronger, challenged everything I was once taught to do with my body Tell us: what impact have GLP-1s had on your relationships? I had been casually lifting weights for a few years when several things changed in quick succession. First, my boyfriend ...
Should you use AI for a task? Here’s a simple way to decide | Bruce SchneierShould you use AI for a task? Here’s a simple way to decide | Bruce Schneier
Sometimes, what matters isn’t your output but what you put into the process. Think of it like work v the gym I teach public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Munk School at the University of Toronto. And it will come as no surprise to you that my ...
Prince William? David Cameron? JD Vance? Celebrities brace – and Staines celebrates – ahead of new Ali G filmPrince William? David Cameron? JD Vance? Celebrities brace – and Staines celebrates – ahead of new Ali G film
Sacha Baron Cohen’s doofus voice-of-yoof has been making fresh mischief with new film Who Iz I? But who will he catch out this time? And what does his fictional hometown make of his return? The Wimbledon lawn tennis championships are not generally a hotbed of crime. Yet this year, unprecedented ...
US hits dozens of countries with new wave of tariffsUS hits dozens of countries with new wave of tariffs
Imposed citing forced labour concerns, the levies replace a temporary global duty brought in after the US Supreme Court struck down tariffs in February. ...
US and Iran trade more strikes in Gulf as fears of escalation mountUS and Iran trade more strikes in Gulf as fears of escalation mount
It comes as Iran condemned the US plan to use frozen Iranian assets to pay for war damages. ...