Diana Kwon / Nature:
Research integrity specialists and scientific publishers raise concerns about the ease with which scientific data can be fabricated using generative AI tools — From scientists manipulating figures to the mass production of fake papers by paper mills, problematic manuscripts have long plagued the scholarly literature.
An interview with Mozilla interim CEO Laura Chambers about Firefox’s 20th birthday, growth due to EU’s DMA, focus on privacy, Google search deal, AI, and more (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
An interview with Mozilla interim CEO Laura Chambers about Firefox’s 20th birthday, growth due to EU’s DMA, focus on privacy, Google search deal, AI, and more — Exactly 20 years ago, Mozilla started shipping version 1.0 of its Firefox browser. At the time, you could download it or buy …
Threads becoming inundated with liberal election fraud conspiracies highlights a shift towards a “post-truth” online landscape across the political spectrum (Taylor Lorenz/User Mag)
Taylor Lorenz / User Mag:
Threads becoming inundated with liberal election fraud conspiracies highlights a shift towards a “post-truth” online landscape across the political spectrum — Thousands of users have amplified baseless claims of hacked voting machines as Democrats become more comfortable embracing denialism
Gurman: the second generation Apple Vision Pro may arrive between the fall of 2025 and spring of 2026 and could feature a chip from the M5 generation (Michael Burkhardt/9to5Mac)
Michael Burkhardt / 9to5Mac:
Gurman: the second generation Apple Vision Pro may arrive between the fall of 2025 and spring of 2026 and could feature a chip from the M5 generation — In the latest Power On newsletter, Mark Gurman from Bloomberg reported that the 2nd generation of Apple Vision Pro is expected to hit …
Apple’s future growth may come from several new Watch- or iPad-sized bets; visionOS 2.2 ultrawide Mac display option may be the Vision Pro’s first killer app (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple’s future growth may come from several new Watch- or iPad-sized bets; visionOS 2.2 ultrawide Mac display option may be the Vision Pro’s first killer app — Apple may never find another product with as much revenue potential as the iPhone, but it can still thrive with several new Apple Watch- or iPad-level businesses.
Intel’s Robert Hallock admits “our wounds with Arrow Lake not hitting the performance we projected were self-inflicted” and promises fixes for performance gains (Zak Killian/HotHardware)
Zak Killian / HotHardware:
Intel’s Robert Hallock admits “our wounds with Arrow Lake not hitting the performance we projected were self-inflicted” and promises fixes for performance gains — Speaking plainly, Intel’s recently-launched Core Ultra 200 desktop CPUs, code-named “Arrow Lake” …
A painting depicting Alan Turing as the god of AI, which was created by an AI-powered humanoid robot called Ai-Da, sold at a Sotheby’s auction for nearly $1.1M (Zachary Small/New York Times)
Zachary Small / New York Times:
A painting depicting Alan Turing as the god of AI, which was created by an AI-powered humanoid robot called Ai-Da, sold at a Sotheby’s auction for nearly $1.1M — The portrait depicts the British mathematician Alan Turing as the god of artificial intelligence.
A study of 50K peer reviews for CS articles published in AI conference proceedings in 2023 and 2024: 7%-17% of the sentences in the reviews were written by LLMs (James Zou/Nature)
James Zou / Nature:
A study of 50K peer reviews for CS articles published in AI conference proceedings in 2023 and 2024: 7%-17% of the sentences in the reviews were written by LLMs — By – James Zou 0 — James Zou is an associate professor of biomedical data science at Stanford University in Stanford, California.
Research finds AI disinformation amplified satire, false political narratives, and hate speech during the US elections, but did not change the minds of voters (Washington Post)
Washington Post:
Research finds AI disinformation amplified satire, false political narratives, and hate speech during the US elections, but did not change the minds of voters — Artificial intelligence was predicted to disrupt the 2024 election. It ended up shaking people’s faith in truth rather than changing minds.
Meta, OpenAI, Microsoft, and other AI companies create their own internal benchmarks as new models approach or exceed 90% accuracy on existing public tests (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
Meta, OpenAI, Microsoft, and other AI companies create their own internal benchmarks as new models approach or exceed 90% accuracy on existing public tests — Rapidly advancing technology is surpassing current methods of evaluating and comparing large language models
