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"Intelligence dashboards and the ecosystem surrounding them reflect a new role that AI is playing in wartime: mediating information, often for the worse. "There’s a confluence of factors at play. AI coding tools mean people don’t need much technical skill to assemble open-source intelligence anymore, and chatbots can offer fast, if dubious, analysis of it.  "The rise in fake content leaves observers of the war wanting the sort of raw, accurate analysis normally accessible only to intelligence agencies.  "Demand for these dashboards is also driven by real-time prediction markets that promise financial rewards to anyone sufficiently informed. And the fact that the US military is using Anthropic’s Claude in the conflict (despite its designation as a supply chain risk) has signaled to observers that AI is the intelligence tool the pros use.  "Together, these trends are creating a new kind of AI-enabled wartime circus that can distort the flow of information as muc...

"Although several papers examine animals' responses to music, these typically do so from a purely animal behavioural perspective, sometimes missing relevant details about salient features of the music being played. "An interdisciplinary approach that places musical and scientific knowledge on equal footing can improve our understanding of how animals respond to music and music-like sounds, in new and exciting ways.  "Here, we show with a systematic review that crucial factors (intrinsic music properties, listener properties, playback context and producer properties and contexts; ILPP) are not being adequately considered or reported in recently published scientific articles on the effects of music on animals, which hinders scientific reproducibility within this area of study.  "These problems are caused by  Improper referencing of music sources,  Misunderstanding of music and  Unexamined assumptions about individual variation and preferences between individuals o...

"'It’s possible there’s some genetic variation within ancient breeds, making some more predisposed to howling,' Patel hypothesises —though he admits he might have found more musicality in a larger sample. "The findings might offer some insights into the origins of human music.  "Some theorists have argued that singing evolved from the fine motor control that comes with speech, which allows us to mimic complex sounds, but the fact that dogs can also control pitch without any other forms of vocal learning suggests that language would not have been a necessary precursor.  "'It’s possible that our ability and desire to coordinate pitch with others when we sing has very ancient evolutionary roots, and may not just be a byproduct of our ability to imitate complex sounds,' says Patel. "Exactly why dogs feel the need to join in is another question.  "'From the videos that we watched, it seems like the dogs are really quite engaged with the musi...

"In this episode, musician, technologist and fellow YouTuber Benn Jordan stopped by the studio to discuss recent trends in audio technology. We cover the shelf life of AI music, alternatives to streaming platforms, and the ways in which audio technology is being used both as a weapon and as a way to protect privacy."

"[When] Twitter co-founder and Block (formerly Square) CEO Jack Dorsey…announced he was firing 4,000 employees at Block, he was wearing a hat that said LOVE  on it in prominent lettering. "Was the LOVE  hat was (sic) tone-deaf? That may seem a silly consideration compared to the broader concern of Dorsey eliminating around 40 percent of his company’s workforce, especially given his explanation that AI motivated the cuts.  "But his sartorial choices evidently angered at least one employee at a company meeting after Dorsey announced the layoffs, leading Wired to ask in an interview if a compassionate layoff  was indeed possible."

"Two former Harvard students are launching a pair of always-on  AI-powered smart glasses that listen to, record, and transcribe every conversation and then display relevant information to the wearer in real time. "'Our goal is to make glasses that make you super intelligent the moment you put them on,' said AnhPhu Nguyen, co-founder of Halo, a startup that’s developing the technology.  "Or, as his co-founder Caine Ardayfio put it, the glasses 'give you infinite memory.'  "'The AI listens to every conversation you have and uses that knowledge to tell you what to say … kinda like IRL Cluely,' Ardayfio told TechCrunch , referring to the startup that claims to help users cheat  on everything from job interviews to school exams."

"The claim that the US military is using Claude to conduct a war that has claimed over 1,000 lives in under a week may seem too galling to believe. Unfortunately, it’s a tune we’ve heard before. "Back in April of 2024, an investigation by +972 Magazine revealed that the Israeli army had leveraged an AI system called 'Lavender' to select targets in its war on Gaza, similarly to how the Pentagon is reportedly using Claude in Iran.  "According to six Israeli intelligence officers, Lavender played a central role  in the destruction of Gaza and its population, identifying at least 37,000 Palestinians as targets for aerial assassination. "As one intelligence operative told +972 , Lavender’s decisions —which often involved suggestions to attack targets in their homes —were treated 'as if it were a human decision' by military operatives."

"Caitlin Kalinowski, head of robotics and consumer hardware at OpenAI, announced her resignation on Saturday, citing ​concerns about the company's agreement with the Department ‌of Defense. "In a social media post on X, Kalinowski wrote that OpenAI did not take enough time before agreeing to deploy its AI models ​on the Pentagon's classified cloud networks. "'AI has an ​important role in national security,' Kalinowski posted. 'But surveillance of ⁠Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human ​authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got'."

"Nippon claimed OpenAI encouraged the woman, an employee of a logistics company that had insurance coverage through Nippon, to press ahead in her already-settled disability case .  "Nippon said it spent significant time and resources and racked up substantial fees responding to the woman's ChatGPT-powered filings. "The lawsuit appears to be one of the first cases to accuse a major AI developer of engaging in the unauthorized practice of law through a consumer‑facing chatbot. "It comes as the technology's rapid adoption for legal filings has led to mounting AI  hallucinations  in court filings, leading judges to sanction litigants and lawyers for submitting filings ‌with fabricated ⁠case citations or other unverified material produced with generative AI tools."

 

"The first real hint of an AI agent worm just happened, even though it isn't actually one quite itself (yet): the package cline was compromised to install openclaw with full access, and managed to do so on 4k users' machines before it was detected. "No doubt, openclaw is still running on many of those users' machines without them knowing.  "The attacker used a similar title injection attack like one of the ones used by hackerbot-claw, where the attacker performed an injection attack against a PR review agent. "It seems that openclaw was installed without specific instructions to do anything in this case. But that won't be the case shortly."

"We develop a neural network based emulator that predicts daily surface melt from atmospheric variables, trained on output from the polar regional climate model HIRHAM5 and its firn model DMIHH forced by ERA-Interim reanalysis. "The emulator uses a physics-informed design combining short-term weather patterns with long-term climate memory, capturing both immediate atmospheric forcing and accumulated firn characteristics.  "The emulator achieves mean absolute error below 0.23 mm w.e. per day across all six Greenland drainage basins, with the errors primarily attributable to spatial over-smoothing.  "Our work demonstrates that machine learning can successfully emulate firn model behavior from climate forcing alone with computational costs orders of magnitude lower than traditional simulations.  "Once retrained for specific climate forcings, the emulator thus enables extensive ensemble projections. Furthermore, the modular architecture can be readily adapted to em...

"In this study, we conducted an 18-month ethnographic collaboration with mental health practitioners (three clinically licensed psychologists and seven trained peer counselors) to map LLM counselors' behavior during a session to professional codes of conduct established by organizations like the American Psychological Association (APA). "Through qualitative analysis and expert evaluation of N=137 sessions (110 self-counseling; 27 simulated), we outline a framework of 15 ethical violations mapped to 5 major themes.  "These include:  Lack of Contextual Understanding, where the counselor fails to account for users' lived experiences, leading to oversimplified, contextually irrelevant, and one-size-fits-all intervention;  Poor Therapeutic Collaboration, where the counselor's low turn-taking behavior and invalidating outputs limit users' agency over their therapeutic experience;  Deceptive Empathy, where the counselor's simulated anthropomorphic responses ...

"With features like voice AI chat, text-to-speech, and voice typing, Speechify aims to be a full-time AI assistant —one that doesn’t require a keyboard at all. "By taking advantage of an array of machine learning tools and features, the 2025 Apple Design Award winner in the Inclusivity category serves as an AI-powered voice assistant for work, education, and entertainment. "'Our mission is to build the voice AI assistant that helps you achieve your full potential across every part of your work or education,' says founder Cliff Weitzman. "With Speechify, people can interact with a variety of file formats —including PDFs, epub files, and web pages —and convert the text to audio that can easily be sped up, slowed down, and played across different devices."

"The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up the ​issue of whether art generated by artificial intelligence can be copyrighted under U.S. law, turning ‌away a case involving a computer scientist from Missouri who was denied a copyright for a piece of visual art made by his AI system. "Plaintiff Stephen Thaler had appealed to the justices after lower courts upheld a U.S. Copyright Office ​decision that the AI-crafted visual art at issue in the case was ineligible for copyright protection ​because it did not have a human creator. "Thaler, of St. Charles, Missouri, applied for ⁠a federal copyright registration in 2018 covering A Recent Entrance to Paradise , visual art he said his AI ​technology DABUS created. The image shows train tracks entering a portal, surrounded by what appears to be green and ​purple plant imagery. "The Copyright Office rejected his application in 2022, finding that creative works must have human authors to be eligible to receive a cop...

"Gauss has autoformalized Viazovska’s 24-dimensional sphere packing proof —all 200,000+ lines of code of it —in just two weeks. "There are commonalities between the 8- and 24-dimensional cases in terms of the foundational theory and overall architecture of the proof, meaning some of the code from the 8-dimensional case could be refactored and reused.  "However, Gauss had no pre-existing blueprint to work from this time. 'And it was actually significantly more involved than the 8-dimensional case, because there was a lot of missing background material that had to be brought online surrounding many of the properties of the Leech lattice, in particular its uniqueness,' explains Han. "Though the 24-dimensional case was an automated effort, both Han and Hariharan acknowledge the many contributions from humans that laid the foundations for this achievement , regarding it as a collaborative endeavor overall between humans and AI. "But for Han, it represents ev...

"OpenAI, meanwhile, has trumpeted a deepening bond with the Pentagon thanks to a new agreement involving military applications of OpenAI products in classified use cases. Anthropic, 'may have wanted more operational control than we did,' OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has since stated. "In any case, Anthropic and OpenAI are both dealing in hypotheticals about the future.  "There aren’t ChatGPT-powered killbots suddenly operating in Iran because of OpenAI’s new agreement with the government.  "But there have, apparently, been operations informed in some way or another by Claude-based modeling and research. "And all indications are that such uses meet with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s approval. 'We are still interested in working with them as long as it is in line with our red lines,' Amodei said yesterday of the Pentagon."