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A former OpenAI safety researcher makes sense of ChatGPT’s sycophancy and Grok’s South Africa obsession

It has been an odd few weeks for generative AI systems, with ChatGPT suddenly turning sycophantic, and Grok, xAI’s chatbot, becoming obsessed with South Africa. 

Fast Company spoke to Steven Adler, a former research scientist for OpenAI who until November 2024 led safe

For this CVS Health developer, making tech more accessible is personal

Cory Joseph has been blind since birth. So he’s among the people Apple aims to serve with an addition to its App Store called “Accessibility Nutrition Labels,” one of a raft of features the company announced earlier this week to mark Global Accessibility Awareness Day.

Once the labels go live later this year, each app’s listing will detail the accessibility features it

Why tech billionaires’ plans for space colonies and AI gods are delusional

Adam Becker is a science journalist and astrophysicist. He has written for The New York Times, BBC, NPR, Scientific American, New Scientist, Quanta, Undark, Aeon, and others. He also recorded a video series with the BBC, and has appeared on numerous radio shows and podcasts, including Ologies, The Story Collider, and KQED Forum.

What’s the big idea?

How AI could sabotage the next generation of journalists

A question I often get when I train editorial teams on the use of AI is, “Is using AI cheating?”

Although it’s a yes or no question, it’s obviously not a yes or no answer. The short answer is sometimes, but the key to figuring out the long answer is using the tools with an open mind. If you’re a professional in a field like journalism, you’ll generally be able to tell when it’s speeding up drudgery and when your judgment and expertise are m

Nuclear waste could power Europe for decades. This startup plans to prove it


Europe has been turning uranium into energy for over half a century. In the process, the continent has amassed vast stockpiles of nuclear waste. This radioactive material can take millions of years to become safe, and no one really knows what to do with it. Tho

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Bunq CEO warns closed minds are pushing Dutch entrepreneurs away


Ali Niknam has built Dutch fintech Bunq into one of Europe’s biggest neobanks. But he fears the Netherlands is now driving entrepreneurs away. The Bunq founder and CEO is alarmed by the country’s business mindset. He bel

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Gaming billionaire named UK’s richest person under 40 in tech-heavy wealth list


A Russian-born gaming mogul has been named the UK’s richest person under 40 — in a ranking dominated by tech entrepreneurs. Dmitry Bukhman, 39, built his fortune after founding mobile gaming giant Playrix. His estimated wealth of £12.54bn tops The Sunday Times

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Exclusive: Swiss startup picks Rotterdam for green aviation fuel plant


Swiss tech startup Metafuels has unveiled plans to open its first commercial-scale sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plant in the Port of Rotterdam.  Metafuels’ CEO Saurabh Kapoor told TNW that Turbe represents a “major step forward” toward ramp

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Salesforce wants to do for agentic AI what they did for SaaS

Christophe Coenraets, SVP of Developer Relations at Salesforce, tells Eira and Ben about building the new Salesforce Developer Edition, which includes access to the company’s agentic AI platform, Agentforce. Christophe explains how they solicited and incorporated feedback from the developer community in building the developer edition, what types of AI agents people are building, and the critical importance of guardrails and prompt engineering. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/05/16/salesforce-wa

The PHP Podcast: 2025.05.15

This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about FrankenPHP, NativePHP, PHP still relevant in 2025, The Patch for Laravel Container, PHP Tek 2025, PHPxSan Diego Meetup, and more… Links from the show: From theory to practice: Building SDKs with generative AI – Build with AI: Building Better SDKs with Generative AI […]

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Letterboxd is launching a curated streaming service for indie films

Exciting news for anyone who’s already burned through the entirety of Netflix: There’s a new online movie rental platform coming to town.

Letterboxd, the movie-tracking app and the preferred social media of your most insufferable film-loving friend, announced this week that the Letterboxd Video Store is on the way.

The announcement was made

Gaming is the key to reaching Gen Alpha consumers

If brands want to reach the shoppers of the future, they’ll need to meet them where they already are: playing video games.

For this youngest generation, the coolest places to hang out aren’t the local mall or park but inside virtual worlds. While millennials had Sega Mega Drive and Mario Kart, and Gen Z grew up on The Sims and Angry Birds, Gen Alpha—born between 2010 and 2024 and still younger than 17—is coming of age in a world even more seamlessly integ

HTTP Status Codes Google Cares About (And Those It Ignores) via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google's Search Relations team shares which HTTP status codes matter most for SEO. Learn how redirects, 1xx codes, and network errors impact your site's performance.

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Solární energie: Reakce na vaše komentáře a pohled do blízké budoucnosti (Část 3)

Třetí díl seriálu o solární energetice reaguje na živou diskusi čtenářů k předchozím textům. Autoři se zaměřují na praktické aspekty inteligentního řízení FVE, náklady na údržbu, životnost komponent a roli dotací. Článek rovněž otevírá téma budoucnosti fotovoltaiky, zejména v kontextu povinných instalací dle směrnice EPBD a estetického potenciálu stavebně integrované fotovoltaiky (BIPV), která slibuje elegantnější a efektivnější začlenění solárních technologií do našich domovů. http://www.osel.c

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Trump just handed data brokers a gift in the form of our data

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), under acting director Russell Vought, canceled proposed new rules this week that would have protected Americans’ sensitive private data—including financial data, credit history, and Social Security numbers—from being collected by data brokers without consent and sold to advertisers and other third parties. 

The

Alpha Evolve: Google vyvinul superpokročilou inteligenci pro tvorbu algoritmů

Převratná inteligence AlphaEvolve je tak dobrá, že si ji Google zatím nechává pro sebe. Je to univerzální programovací inteligence založená na generativních inteligencích rodiny Gemini, která pomůže s jakýmkoliv programováním či algoritmy. Googlu už její rady údajně ušetřily závratné částky. Očekávání jsou obrovská! http://www.osel.cz/14069-alpha-evolve-google-vyvinul-superpokrocilou-inteligenci-pro-tvorbu-algoritmu.html

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Trump’s Middle East tour is all about AI diplomacy

Welcome to AI DecodedFast Company’s weekly newsletter that breaks down the most important news in the world of AI. You can sign up to receive this newsletter every week here.

Trump’s Middle East tour is all about AI diplomacy

The U.S. enjoys its superpower status mainly because of two things:

A Yellowstone fan account is using NSFW TikToks to draw attention to U.S. national parks

National parks posting thirst traps on TikTok was not on anyone’s 2025 bingo card.

Recently, a Yellowstone National Park fan account has gone viral for pairing clips of adult entertainers and shirtless celebrities with sweeping shots of the park’s natural beauty.

Ask A PPC: How Will The Tariffs Impact My PPC Campaigns? via @sejournal, @navahf

Tariffs affect product costs and ad performance. This month's Ask A PPC outlines their direct impact on PPC metrics, conversion rates, and bidding strategies.

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Jeskyně na Antiparu, v níž prý kuli pikle Alexandrovi generálové

Velká a hluboká krápníková jeskyně na kykladském ostrově Antiparu bývala kultovním místem Artemidy. Nespolehlivé legendy o antických spiklencích blednou proti tomu, co zde roku 1673 prováděl markýz de Nointel, provázený hordou kléru, pirátů a tureckou posádkou. A byl tam i pan král. http://www.osel.cz/14068-jeskyne-na-antiparu-v-niz-pry-kuli-pikle-alexandrovi-generalove_1.html

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5 impressive feats of DeepMind’s new self-evolving AI coding agent


Google DeepMind’s AI systems have taken big scientific strides in recent years — from predicting the 3D structures of almost every known protein in the universe to forecasting weather more accurately than ever before.  The UK-based lab today unveiled its

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Europe must ‘get real’ on tech sovereignty and stay open, warns industry group


As Europe pushes for tech sovereignty, one open-source advocate has a warning: don’t forget global cooperation. Amanda Brock, CEO of industry group OpenUK, told TNW that the EU must “get real” about the trade-offs of going it alone. Brock said tech policymake

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Teens are still setting fire to Chromebooks for TikTok clout

Students are still setting fire to their Chromebooks for TikTok—and now they’re facing the consequences.

Fast Company first reported on the #ChromebookChallenge trend last week, following a series of school evacuations caused by students igniting laptop fires. The fires are started by inserting items such as pencils, paper clips, and pushpins in

Google is returning to virtual reality with Android XR—and a new strategy

At its annual Google I/O developer conference in Mountain View next week, Google will try to rally developers around one of its next big bets: Android XR. Later this year, Samsung is set to release the first VR headset powered by the spatial computing operating system, and Google is aiming to attract as many developers as possible to build apps for the devic

Všechny živé bytosti září. Ale z přísně přízemních důvodů

Těla živočichů i rostlin nesmírně slabě září v oblasti viditelného záření. Lidské oko by muselo být tisíckrát citlivější, a abychom tohle záření mohli vidět. Není to ale žádná čarodějná aura nýbrž rutinní chemie a fyzika. Shodou okolností by se toto záření mohlo stát základem nových diagnostických metod. http://www.osel.cz/14066-vsechny-zive-bytosti-zari-ale-z-prisne-prizemnich-duvodu.html

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Trump’s Middle East trip comes amid growing conflict of interest concerns in the region

It’s not just the “gesture” of a $400 million luxury plane that President Donald Trump says he’s smart to accept from Qatar. Or that he effectively auctioned off the first destination on his first major foreign trip,

Elon Musk’s Grok AI is replying to tweets with claims about ‘white genocide’ in South Africa

X users who interacted with the chatbot Grok on Wednesday were confronted with replies about the legitimacy of white genocide in South Africa—often regardless of context.

In one post, a user in a thread on a congressional hearing asked Grok if Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spreads misinformation. Grok wrote an equivocal paragraph about RFK and then abruptly shifted its focus to South Africa. “On the South Africa topic, I’m i

Without a long-term high-performance computing plan, the U.S. could lose its innovation lead

High-performance computing, or HPC for short, might sound like something only scientists use in secret labs, but it’s actually one of the most important technologies in the world today. From predicting the weather to finding new medicines and even

Google Launches Generative AI Certification With Free Training via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Google launches a generative AI certification with free training, focusing on Google's tools. Is this credential worth adding to your resume?

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How Headspace and Ozlo help people drift off with sound

Ever wonder why the sound of rain makes you instantly drowsy, but a ticking clock drives you up the wall? That’s because not all noise soothes the brain in the same way. Sleep sounds might seem like just background buzz, but they’re carefully engineered to allow your brain to let go. Behind every babbling brook or rainforest storm track is an intricate design meant to quiet the mind, block out distractions, and nudge you toward sleep.

As more people rely on sleep sounds to wi

Uber launches affordable Route Share service and new savings features at GO-GET 2025

Uber is on Wednesday launching its own version of a bus system along busy routes, calling it its most affordable ride option yet.

The rideshare company has introduced Route Share, a new service offering pickups every 20 minutes along busy corridors during weekday commute hours. Available from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. local time, the service will launch in New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, Boston, and Baltimore

Riders can select the

Elon Musk’s DOGE is launching a new AI retirement system. It was built mostly under Biden

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has spent its first 100 days slashing government programs and firing employees. Yet Musk views DOGE not just as a downsizing force, but also as a team of technologically elite shock troops tasked with rapidly modernizing outdated government systems.

One of DOGE’s primary targets on that front is the Office of Personnel Man

Sony announces record surge in profits for Q1. Here’s how they did it

Japanese technology and entertainment company Sony logged an 18% rise in profit for the fiscal year through March on healthy results at its music and

‘The music is better than at the clubs in Ohio’: Virtual reality is the hottest new nightlife destination

The hottest parties right now are happening in the metaverse.

VRChat, a video-game-like social platform hosted in virtual reality, saw more than 130,000 people in attendance on New Year’s Day 2025, according to a VR culture blog. Before 2020, VRChat had hardly seen more than 20,000 concurrent users,

The Rise Of Privacy-First Search Engines via @sejournal, @TaylorDanRW

Users are rethinking their search habits in response to rising privacy concerns and the growing influence of AI in mainstream search engines.

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https://www.searchenginejournal.com/the-rise-of-privacy-first-search-engines/546072/

Helsing’s AI submarine joins Europe’s growing ocean drone fleet


Helsing, Europe’s best-funded defence tech startup, has unveiled its latest product — an autonomous mini-submarine for underwater reconnaissance.  Dubbed SG-1 Fathom, the sub is the latest addition to Europe’s growing fleet of ocean drones,

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TNW Backstage goes Double Dutch on tech humour


TNW Backstage is going Double Dutch this week — in more ways than one. In the second episode of our new podcast, which goes behind the scenes of TNW Conference and the tech shaping our world, we’re joined by two special guests. Both of them are based in — you

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NATO backs Welsh startup building space factory for ‘supermaterials’


Welsh startup Space Forge has raised $30mn to advance its first commercial in-orbit manufacturing satellite, ForgeStar-2. The NATO Innovation Fund led the funding round, the largest Series A financing in UK space tech history. Space Forge’s demonstrator — the ForgeS

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Polling giant Morning Consult is using AI to help dig through survey data

Consumer intelligence company Morning Consult has publicly launched a new AI platform that can almost instantly provide detailed insights into its survey data in response to questions posed in plain language.

Morning Consult conducts roughly 30,000 interviews daily across dozens of countries, enabling clients to access in-depth information about consumer sentiment toward brands, public figures, political trends, spending behaviors, and othe

Donald Trump says he’s our ‘crypto president,’ but he’s tanking its best shot at adoption

Donald Trump said on the campaign trail ahead of his election that he intended to be the “crypto president.” But his vision and reality have collided in a way that could ultimately do more harm than good to crypto’s broader adoption in the years ahead.

Last week, the U.S. Senate dealt the cryptocurrency industry a significant setback, voting to

Stanley McChrystal says character is the most vital leadership trait in the age of AI and polarization

Amid polarization, AI disruption, and eroding trust in institutions, retired four-star General Stanley McChrystal argues that what leaders need now more than ever is character. Head of the business consulting firm McChrystal Group, he has written a new book on character, drawing from his decades of experience. From AI ethics and modern warfare to hot-button issues like Signalgate and transgender service in the military, McChrystal explains why character is the foundation of lasting leadershi

Genetický majstrštyk: Pavouci, kteří vyrábějí světélkující pavučinu

Výzkumný tým Universität Bayreuth vyrobil první geneticky editované pavouky na světě. Nejsou informace o tom, že by někoho pokousali, ale pro jistotu nebude od věci sledovat zaměstnance příslušné laboratoře, jestli se u nich neprojevují superschopnosti. V tomto případě by to bylo esteticky světélkující pavoučí hedvábí! http://www.osel.cz/14064-geneticky-majstrstyk-pavouci-kteri-vyrabeji-svetelkujici-pavucinu.html

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Anatomie jaderné bomby

Dva dny po publikaci článku, zda mohou z vyhořelého paliva Ukrajinci vyvinout atomovou bombu (zde na Oslovi), zveřejnily britské The Times závěry ze zprávy pro ukrajinské ministerstvo obrany zabývající se obdobnou problematikou. Ve zprávě se tvrdí, že Ukrajina je schopna vyvinout plutoniovou bombu typu Fat Man v rámci měsíců. http://www.osel.cz/14063-anatomie-jaderne-bomby.html

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Next-level observability: live breakpoint debugging

On this episode, Ryan chats with Hendrik Rexed, Cloud Native Advocate at Dynatrace, about debugging cloud-based applications like you would a local app. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/05/13/next-level-observability-live-breakpoint-debugging/

Apple partners with a brain-computer startup to turn thoughts into device control

Apple is partnering with brain-computer interface company Synchron to develop technology that lets users control devices using neural signals.

Still in the early stages, the technology could significantly expand accessibility for users who are unable to operate devices with their hands, Synchron said in a pres

Couples are saying ‘I do’ in ‘Minecraft’ as virtual weddings become more popular

Destination weddings are out, and virtual weddings are in.

Rather than traveling to the Amalfi Coast or Provence, Wired recently interviewed a couple who chose to host their nuptials in the place they first met and fell in love: Minecraft.

Sarah Nguyen, 24

Sal Khan’s new Dialogues program teaches students how to have civil, thoughtful discussions

In recent years, Khan Academy founder Sal Khan has been most visible promoting the organization’s AI learning assistant, Khanmigo. But a second nonprofit he founded, called Schoolhouse, focuses on connecting students with their peers for human-centered educational interactions. Since the height of the COVID-1

Spotify’s AI-powered DJ now takes song requests

Since it launched two years ago, Spotify’s AI DJ has been a one-way experience. It curates old favorites and helps listeners discover new tracks based on past listening experience and what similar users like. But now it’s getting interactive. 

Spotify unveiled the ability to request songs from the DJ based on mood, genre, and vibe. The feature, which launched across 60 markets, is exclusive to Spotify Premium users, who can access the DJ by searching for the tool in the app.&n

Apple’s App Store is getting ‘nutrition labels’ for accessibility

You can learn a lot about an app before you download it from Apple’s App Store, such as what other users think of it, the access it has to your personal data, and how much storage it occupies. Starting soon, listings will also include a section on something critically important to millions of people: the accessibility features an app supports. Designed to

California’s location data privacy bill aims to reshape digital consent

Amid the ongoing evolution of digital privacy laws, one California proposal is drawing heightened attention from legal scholars, technologists, and privacy advocates. Assembly Bill 1355, while narrower in scope than landmark legislation like 2018’s California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)—which est

Anaconda launches an AI platform to become the GitHub of enterprise open-source development

AI integration remains a top priority across enterprises worldwide, yet success remains elusive despite widespread enthusiasm and significant investment. An October 2024 study by Boston Consulting Group found that only 26% of companies have derived measurable business value from their AI initiatives. As a result, CEOs face mounting pressure to deliver tangible ROI, sh

Soláry na střeše podruhé: Inteligentní řízení a jeho vliv na efektivitu a perspektivy

Navazující článek na téma ekonomiky střešních fotovoltaických elektráren se tentokrát zaměřuje na klíčovou roli inteligentního řízení. Z pohledu softwarového architekta z praxe zkoumá, jak optimalizace vlastní spotřeby pomocí prediktivních algoritmů a dynamického řízení spotřebičů ovlivňuje nejen návratnost investice, ale i celkový uživatelský komfort. http://www.osel.cz/14062-solary-na-strese-podruhe-inteligentni-rizeni-a-jeho-vliv-na-efektivitu-a-perspektivy.html

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Neuralink rival Inbrain will ‘never’ take brain implants beyond healthcare


Elon Musk has outlandish plans for Neuralink’s brain-computer interfaces, from giving people “superpowers” to downloading their memories. Spanish rival Inbrain Neuroelectronics has a simpler goal: improving our health — and nothing more. “I know Elon Mu

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Cracking the SEO Code: Regain Control of Search Visibility in the Age of AI [Webinar] via @sejournal, @hethr_campbell

Join us for this webinar as we introduce the TotalSERP strategy, a unified approach designed to help you reclaim visibility across the entire search landscape.

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Nová taxonomie paměti v umělé inteligenci: Pokus o řád v digitálním chaosu

Nová taxonomie paměti v umělé inteligenci konečně vnáší řád do chaosu fungování velkých jazykových modelů. Šest základních operací odhaluje, jak si AI skutečně "pamatuje" a proč je to důležitější, než si myslíme. http://www.osel.cz/14061-nova-taxonomie-pameti-v-umele-inteligenci-pokus-o-rad-v-digitalnim-chaosu.html

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Is the enterprise (actually) ready for AI?

Maryam Ashoori, Head of Product for watsonx.ai at IBM, joins Ryan and Eira to talk about the complexity of enterprise AI, the role of governance, the AI skill gap among developers, how AI coding tools impact developer productivity, what chain-of-thought reasoning entails, and what observability and monitoring look like for AI. https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/05/13/is-the-enterprise-actually-ready-for-ai/