DAILYCALLER (Dylan Kresak) - This Flock AI Tool Finds You Without A Name Or Plate
This New Tool Finds You Without A Name Or Plate
AXIOS (Ina Fried) - OpenAI launches free AI access program for academic researchers
OpenAI is launching a new program Wednesday that will provide 100,000 academic researchers with free access to its advanced AI models through 2027, the company told Axios ahead of the announcement. Why it matters: The program could help scientists, mathematicians and engineers pursue the kind of breakthroughs that OpenAI and other AI companies say the technology could enable. Driving the news: Those selected will have access to OpenAI's most advanced models — including GPT-5.6 Sol Pro — and can invite four collaborators from their academic institution. - The program is aimed at researchers across scientific and mathematical fields, including biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering, mathematics and physics. By the numbers:…
NYTIMES (Kate Conger) - Google Releases Three New Gemini A.I. Models
The models include one that is the company’s most powerful and another that is fine-tuned for cybersecurity, as Google competes with rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic.
AXIOS (Ina Fried) - Anthropic says Claude has carved out its own space to ponder
Anthropic said Monday that it has identified a small internal workspace Claude uses to hold and manipulate ideas without putting them into words—a structure the company says bears intriguing similarities to how humans consciously access thoughts. Why it matters: Anthropic hasn't shown that Claude feels or experiences anything. But it has found a surprisingly human-like division between information used for deliberate reasoning and the far larger volume of automatic computation occurring beneath it—giving fresh ammunition to the debate over what would count as machine consciousness. Driving the news: In a video, the company says Claude uses a separate area to plan strategies that can be unrelated to its immediate task and are separate…
AMERICANTHINKER - Alan Turing: The Truth
Public Domain Given the facts, it’s impossible to hold up Alan Turing as a historical figure to be admired and imitated.
NYTIMES (Cal Newport) - Dear A.I. Companies: The Doom Trolling Needs to Stop
The major A.I. companies keep telling us how dangerous their new models can be, yet they must keep on building them.
NYTIMES (Kate Conger) - One Job That Is Growing in the A.I. Era? Cybersecurity Experts.
Demand for security engineers has surged as artificial intelligence generates a glut of new code and models like Anthropic’s Mythos create new concerns.
NYTIMES (Tripp Mickle, Kate Conger and Brian X. Chen) - Powered by A.I., Google Changes Its Search Box for the First Time in 25 Years
Powered by a new Gemini A.I. model, the tech giant is overhauling its search box to answer longer queries, introducing a video-generation and video-editing tool and simplifying online shopping.
NYTIMES (Kate Andrias) - Tech Workers Have Fears About A.I., Too. They Can Do Something About It.
Even the developers of A.I. want regulation. They’re starting to take action.
JUSTTHENEWS (The Center Square Staff) - Hurricane season month away; forecast modest
At N.C. State University, the Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences teamed with the Department of Computer Science