23+ hour, 53+ min ago   (232+ words) Published Sep 13, 2026 1:02 PM EDT Amazon is catapulting us into the final boss of sub vs dub debates. On Thursday, its Prime Video streaming service announced the launch of a new AI-powered feature that matches actors’ mouth movements to dubbed audio…...

1+ day, 54+ min ago   (539+ words) Published Sep 13, 2026 12:01 PM EDT Earlier this week, Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon drew major media attention after announcing he was quitting his job, claiming that neither Anthropic nor his former employer OpenAI is “acting responsibly” and that there’s a real chance…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (299+ words) Published Sep 13, 2026 8:02 AM EDT As far as completely pointless ways to kill time on your phone, this is certainly one of the weirdest on record. Behold the all-new invention of so-called “dopamine sites” — digital domains where you can browse and…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (259+ words) Published Sep 13, 2026 7:02 AM EDT Armed with sordid tales of rogue AI agents escaping containment, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has found plenty of success using scare tactics to call for friendly regulation in the name of AI safety. Now, it seems…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (319+ words) Published Sep 13, 2026 6:01 AM EDT In case you thought the extreme backlash against automatic license plate readers (ALPRs) was excessive, a veteran police investigator was just arrested after conducting over 4,000 unauthorized searches using the software provided by Flock Safety. According to…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (375+ words) Published Sep 12, 2026 2:01 PM EDT Surely our creaking gerontocracy is well-equipped to respond to a technology as novel, disruptive, and rapidly evolving as AI, right? “There is a percentage of my colleagues who are still trying to spell AI,” representative Sam…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (473+ words) Published Sep 12, 2026 11:02 AM EDT You wouldn’t be remiss to accuse college students using AI to cheat of being lazy. But some of the wilier ones are putting in the hard work to make sure their LLM-generated answers avoid detection from…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (295+ words) Published Sep 12, 2026 10:01 AM EDT The surveillance state is trying out a new tactic: pocket watching. 404 Media reports on how secretive “predictive policing” units in the US Border Patrol are analyzing Americans’ financial activity and using it as a pretext to…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (412+ words) Published Sep 12, 2026 9:02 AM EDT The number of space launches has skyrocketed over the last few years, rapidly turning the Earth’s atmosphere into a “crematorium” for satellites and other space junk. Even now, it’s a considerable danger for any spacecraft that…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (351+ words) Published Sep 12, 2026 8:01 AM EDT The legendary German director Werner Herzog had a few choice words about other so-called “filmmakers” who use AI to imitate their inspirations — one of those inspirations being himself. The flesh and blood director didn’t sound impressed....