Month: October 2025

283 posts
AI scientists

Duke engineers build AI ‘virtual scientists’ to solve complex design problems

Engineers at Duke University have built a group of AI bots, or…
Russian AI

Major AI chatbots serve sanctioned Russian propaganda to users

ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, DeepSeek and Grok are delivering content from sanctioned Russian…
Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia targets six per cent of world’s AI computing with oil wealth

Saudi Arabia plans to transform from oil exporter to artificial intelligence computing…
Tilly Norwood and Bryan Cranston.

Mistaken crisps and deepfakes mark AI’s collision with reality

TL;DR: An AI gun detection system mistakes a student’s bag of crisps…
Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow: tech giants deliberately ‘enshittify’ services for profit

Digital rights activist Cory Doctorow claims Google executives pitched a strategy in…
Real estate castle

AI-generated ‘slop’ in real estate misleads buyers with fake videos

The real estate industry is facing a surge of AI-generated “slop,” from…
Jacob Benestad

Quantum computers get real-time tuning to keep unstable qubits in check

Researchers develop a method that continuously adjusts quantum bits like tuning a…
Pregnant woman.

AI proves safe for life-and-death pregnancy addiction advice with 97% accuracy

Researchers successfully train ChatGPT to provide trustworthy medical guidance for one of…
Pain

Mind over matter: Pain resilience trumps pain intensity for staying active

New research from the University of Portsmouth reveals that how well people…
Vibe coding

SIGNALS: ‘Vibecoding’ creator admits AI tools failed to build his new app

theFreesheet reads the tea leaves because today’s anomaly is tomorrow’s trend. THE…