In brief By mid-2025, 35% of newly published websites were AI-generated or AI-assisted, up from zero before ChatGPT’s November 2022 launch. The confirmed effects are semantic contraction and artificial positivity—not misinformation or stylistic homogeneity, despite what most people believe. At 35% AI prevalence, model collapse risk shifts from a theoretical concern to an empirical one…
Iran’s embassy in London posted a message on social media inviting Iranians living in Britain to register for a ‘Sacrifice for the Homeland’ campaign. Source link
Jimmy Kimmel is drawing fresh ire from President Trump and the White House, which called for his firing over a joke he told before a man tried to assassinate the president at the White House Correspondents Association dinner on Saturday. Kimmel’s quip that Melania Trump had the “glow” of “an expectant widow,” made during a……
China’s Zhao Xintong pulls off a shot emmulating the late John Virgo, potting three reds at the same time in his quarter-final match-up against Shaun Murphy at the World Snooker Championship. FOLLOW LIVE: World Snooker Championship – day 11 Available to UK users only. Source link
We’d been reluctant to return for years—the last time we were there, in 2021, we were in town to clean out our old house after my husband’s death. I hadn’t considered going back until I noticed a new Hampton Bays hotel while working on the last Readers’ Choice Awards. It was nice to see the…
Robinhood reported its smallest quarterly profit in a year on Tuesday, highlighting the retail brokerage’s lingering exposure to retail traders whose engagement has shown signs of cooling alongside a sharp downturn in cryptocurrency prices. The company disclosed a first-quarter profit of $346 million, or $0.38 per share, compared to $336 million a year ago. Representing…
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) and FBI Director Kash Patel each rushed to claim credit for a sweeping law enforcement operation across the Minneapolis area on Tuesday after federal officers conducted raids at multiple businesses as part of an ongoing fraud investigation. Agents executed criminal search warrants “relating to rampant fraud of U.S. taxpayers dollars”……
In brief DeepMind veteran David Silver raised $1.1 billion for his new startup Ineffable Intelligence at a $5.1 billion valuation. Silver says reinforcement learning, not large language models, is the best path to superintelligence. The startup aims to build AI “superlearners” that learn through simulations and self-play. David Silver, the DeepMind scientist behind AlphaGo’s historic…
The measures aim to crack down on Iran’s shadow banking system and Chinese purchases of Iranian oil. Source link
Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Del.) on Tuesday railed against a push to fund President Trump’s White House ballroom, citing affordability concerns in her state and nationwide. “My constituents can’t afford f—ing groceries or utility bills, and he now wants to spend taxpayer money on a ballroom?” McBride told MeidasTouch in an interview. “They shouldn’t use a……