gptzero.me
This investigation analyzes a KPMG report from October 2025 on customer experience and agentic AI. The report, titled Total Experience: Redefining Excellence in the Age of Agentic AI, summarizes the results of an annual study on consumer experience around the world. Of the 45 citations in the report, only five accurately point to real sources. Another 28 citations provide paraphrased titles and/or fake components for a real source. The final 12 are too vague or flawed to accurately determine if a source exists. Additionally, around half of the claims evidenced by the 45 citations appear to be fake or misattributed — likely the result of an AI research tool over-complying with a request to find examples of “agentic AI” in the wild.
yalereview.org
In his closing chapter, Marx writes, “Culture has been central to the narrative of the last twenty-five years—but merely as entertainment, commerce, and politics. In reliving the first quarter of the century in these pages, we can feel what’s missing—there is a conspicuous blank space where art and creativity used to be.” It is, by its own admission, history presented as negative-space drawing: if you write down all the “entertainment, commerce, and politics,” the absent shape of “art” might become visible. Art evades definition—you’ll know it when you (don’t) see it.
github.com
Core AI Models Model export recipes, Python primitives, and Swift runtime utilities for building on-device AI with Core AI.
The main components include:
Model export — Recipes to export popular open source models from Hugging Face and other sources to Core AI format. Reusable primitives — Python building blocks for authoring custom Core AI models in PyTorch. Runtime utilities — Swift package built on top of Core AI framework to run models on macOS and iOS. Skills — Plugins to help coding agents leverage Core AI effectively.
snscratchpad.com
What is at stake is not some digital tool or system and its use, but how organizations continue to learn, build IP, differentiate, and thrive in a world where AI models can continuously absorb the expertise of humans and organizations and commoditize it.
Every company is going to have to build what I think of as human capital and token capital. Human capital comprises the knowledge, judgment, relationships, ingenuity, and pattern recognition of its people, while token capital is the firm’s AI capability it builds and owns.
arxiv.org
After characterizing ASI, the report discusses four potential pathways from AGI to ASI: scaling AGI, AI paradigm shifts, recursive improvement, and ASI emerging from large-scale multi-agent collectives. The report then discusses possible frictions and bottlenecks along these pathways. Determining whether the impact of these frictions will be negligible or substantial raises a number of concrete open research questions. Due to large uncertainties for predicting ASI progress, it cannot be ruled out that AI progress might continue to accelerate over the next years. This could imply that the image of a single transformative step change, caused by the introduction of human-level AGI into our society, could be inaccurate. More apt might be the prospect of a series of transformative societal changes caused by AI-enabled progress and breakthroughs across many areas of science and technology. Preparing for this prospect requires a massively interdisciplinary endeavour of global scope and interest.
nytimes.com
For the first time in his career, he’d become not just an analyst but also a victim, when someone spoofed his cellphone number and used A.I. to clone his voice. The hacker made calls to one of Farid’s colleagues on a sensitive case, impersonating Farid and pressing for confidential information. Now Farid and Cooper had decided never to take their identity for granted. They invented a safe word to confirm they were real at the start of any sensitive phone call.
frontiersin.org
Conclusion: This case documents transient multidomain functional improvement in advanced Alzheimer’s disease following psilocybin administration. The findings do not imply disease reversal but suggest that residual functional capacity may persist in late-stage neurodegeneration and may become transiently accessible under specific neuromodulatory conditions.
richardosgood.com
A long while back I had an idea to hack a WiFi smart light bulb to do something more useful to me. Actually, I had a few different ideas of things to do with them. One of these ideas was to modify the device to have an open WiFi access point and a web server hosting banned books. The idea was that if you lived somewhere that banned books you thought were important, you could theoretically stick a digital copy of the book on one of these light bulbs. Then you could go install it somewhere in your community. As long as the light bulb is switched on, then anyone in the vicinity can still access the banned material assuming they have an electronic device with WiFi. Since the device is a light bulb, it would be difficult to detect and likely to go unnoticed. A cyberpunk digital dead drop. These devices are also fairly inexpensive, so leaving them around town as is hopefully not very cost prohibitive.
wired.com
The Department of Justice intervened in a lawsuit over xAI’s gas turbines on Monday. In a filing, the agency sided with Elon Musk’s company, saying attempts to stop xAI from running the natural gas turbines “threatens American national, economic, and energy security by seeking to shut off the power supply for artificial-intelligence innovation that supports the Department of War’s military operations.”
The DOJ, along with xAI and the state of Mississippi, asked the court to dismiss the suit, filed by the NAACP in April.
The NAACP alleges xAI isn’t following the Clean Air Act and is endangering public health by running unpermitted natural gas turbines at the site of its second data center in Southaven, Mississippi, dubbed Colossus 2. In May, the NAACP filed a request for a preliminary injunction to stop xAI from running the turbines, alleging that their continued use without a permit “increases risks of asthma attacks and heart disease” in communities with an already heavy pollution burden.
space.com
GNSS jamming (the overpowering of GNSS signals with noise) and spoofing (which involves overriding the original signals with false ones carrying incorrect coordinates), have become almost a global emergency over the past five years.
For example, Russian jammers have been disrupting GNSS signals along Russia's western borders, officially to protect the country from Ukrainian drone attacks. Every month, this interference affects tens of thousands of flights that cruise over the region. The warring parties in the Middle East, too, use jamming and spoofing to deflect drone attacks and hide the positions of illegal ships at sea.
spikeartmagazine.com
Now, here we are: that world is being flooded with a new strain of external images that look very much like it but bear no direct relationship to it. For two centuries, photographs offered that same quality of uncanny likeness but paired it with indexicality and a relative truth claim that – though flawed and deceptive from the start – made them, whether still or moving, immensely useful. Photographs are, after all, our ontological relatives. Very distant relatives, yes, but still born in the same world we are, the realm of light. (Broken down to its Greek roots, “photograph” means “drawing with light.”) But AI images are aliens in disguise. They’re born of another realm entirely: the black-boxed black hole of data-center darkness.
It seems the ever-growing distance between images and the referent known as reality has finally reached a width that renders the tether effectively severed. That bifurcation renders an Image World that is free to develop, grow, and function unconstrained by the material world. That absence of constraint renders images, no matter how “realistic,” less informationally congruent to everyday life. And that incongruence renders the entire medium more suited for its historically non-photographic roles: art, entertainment, ritual, etc.
ft.com
I think it is true that once something has entered your field of awareness it becomes more likely you will encounter it. Certainly, in the weeks that followed, I began meeting people who also began dropping into conversation references to their regular sessions with chatbots about a range of personal problems. I don’t think I had much space to pass judgment because I was still trying to wrap my mind around how it could work to receive advice about one’s unique personal experiences from artificial intelligence. But I did wonder how it could possibly be a good idea.
congress.gov
Will the Senate finally move on this: A bill to protect intellectual property rights in the voice and visual likeness of individuals, and for other purposes.
smpte.org
Opening Standards Library to the Global Media Technology Community