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AI Companies Are Buying Up Rare Books, And Some Are Being Destroyed
Books are having a bizarre second life in the AI boom. Companies building large language models are reportedly buying huge quantities of old and used books, not to read them or preserve them, but to strip out the pages, scan the text, and potentially destroy the originals. For booksellers, the sudden demand can mean a…
Scientists Warn Modern Life May Be Overloading The Human Brain
The train doors close and within seconds, phones appear across the carriage. One commuter checks a message, another scrolls through a video, someone reads a breaking-news alert while another watches a stranger’s carefully edited holiday unfold on a screen. In the space of a single journey, the human brain can be exposed to war, celebrity…
AI Gave A Farmer Pesticide Advice That Destroyed His Sesame Field
A 67-year-old farmer in China reportedly turned to an AI chatbot for help with a problem that could have cost him a season of work. After following its pesticide recommendation, he watched his sesame seedlings wilt and die within 24 hours. The farmer had used AI for more than a year and had grown increasingly…
Meta Faces Nearly $1 Billion Penalty After Landmark Child Safety Ruling
Meta has been ordered to pay nearly $1 billion after a New Mexico judge found that Facebook and Instagram contributed to serious harms affecting children and teenagers. The ruling goes beyond a financial penalty. Meta has also been ordered to change how its platforms operate for younger users, putting some of the biggest social media…
Disney Animator Behind Frozen Makes Powerful Promise With New Free ASL App
Most people know Josh Staub through the worlds he helped create on screen. As an animator and visual effects artist, he contributed to Disney hits like Frozen, Tangled, and Wreck-It Ralph, bringing beloved characters to life for millions of viewers around the world. Yet the project that has captured the most attention recently has nothing…
AI Data Centers Are Turning To Robot Dogs For Around The Clock Security
The artificial intelligence boom has transformed data centers into some of the most valuable pieces of infrastructure on the planet. Companies are investing hundreds of billions of dollars to build enormous facilities that will power everything from AI chatbots to autonomous systems, creating a new race to protect these sprawling digital fortresses. Their latest security…
The FBI Is Exploring AI to Identify Future Criminal Threats
The idea sounds like it belongs in a science fiction thriller. A government agency uses artificial intelligence to identify people who could become threats before they break the law. Yet that possibility is moving closer to reality as the FBI explores new AI capabilities for its Threat Screening Center, triggering fresh debates over privacy, surveillance,…
Gen X Psychiatrist Says We Don’t Miss the ’80s. We Miss These 6 Parts of Everyday Life
Nostalgia has a way of smoothing over the rough edges of the past. The longer the years pass, the easier it becomes to remember iconic movie nights, packed shopping malls, cassette mixtapes, and afternoons spent outside while forgetting the inconveniences, social problems, and limitations that came with the era. That is why conversations about the…
AI Bots Have Officially Overtaken Humans Across the Internet
For decades, the internet has been built around one simple assumption. Every click, search, comment, and page view came from a real person sitting behind a screen. That idea quietly shaped everything from advertising to website design and online communities. Now, that assumption no longer holds true. According to new data from Cloudflare, AI-powered bots…
Robert Peston Says AI Boom Could End In Financial Turmoil
For nearly two decades, Robert Peston has earned a reputation for sounding the alarm before many others recognize the danger. He warned about cracks in the financial system before the 2008 banking collapse. Years later, when reports of a mysterious virus began emerging from Wuhan, he believed governments should have taken the threat far more…