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Israel's AI targeting system: how data from a phone become a death sentence
A 2026 Los Angeles Times investigation reveals how Israel's AI targeting system transforms raw phone data into lethal military strikes, exposing the algorithmic process that turns digital signals into
Learning and artificial intelligence
A provocative 2026 letter to the editor in the Irish Times challenges the AI industry’s reliance on massive datasets and models, arguing that true machine learning progress may require unlearning rath
Let's build claude code from scratch!
Developers are reverse-engineering Anthropic's Claude Code to build their own open-source versions, driven by a desire to own and customize the AI coding tool they love rather than rely on a single pr
Medicare’s new payment model is built for AI, and most of the tech world has no idea
On May 12, 2026, Medicare quietly released the ACCESS payment model, fundamentally rewriting economic rules for AI in healthcare, yet most of the tech world remains unaware of this $2 trillion opportu
Paper: Predicting Disagreement with Human Raters in LLM-as-a-Judge Difficulty Assessment without Using Generation-Time Probability Signals
A new arXiv paper from May 2026 addresses the hidden crisis of LLM-as-a-judge evaluation by predicting disagreement with human raters in difficulty assessment, without relying on generation-time proba
Paper: Task-Adaptive Embedding Refinement via Test-time LLM Guidance
A May 2026 arXiv preprint introduces Task-Adaptive Embedding Refinement, a method that uses test-time guidance from a large language model to improve embeddings without retraining, challenging convent
Sam Altman says Elon Musk’s mind games were damaging OpenAI
Sam Altman testified in court that Elon Musk’s psychological tactics and mind games were damaging to OpenAI, revealing a bitter corporate drama as Musk’s lawsuit against the AI company unfolds in a Sa
Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model
Cactus-compute released Needle, a 26-million parameter model that distills Google Gemini's tool-calling capabilities into a compact, open-source alternative, potentially reshaping the AI stack by enab
Show HN: Statewright – Visual state machines that make AI agents reliable
Statewright introduces visual state machines for AI agents, replacing unpredictable probabilistic behavior with deterministic, reliable multi-step task execution, helping developers prevent hallucinat
The new AI-powered Google Finance is expanding to Europe.
On May 11, 2026, Google expanded its AI-powered Google Finance overhaul to Europe with full local language support, transforming the once-neglected platform with a significant update that goes beyond
The rise of ‘Stacey face’: How AI enhancements are warping our beauty standards
AI-generated 'Stacey face' is distorting beauty standards across social media and dating apps, creating an unattainable digital ideal with porcelain skin, symmetrical features, and pouty lips that blu
Three things in AI to watch, according to a Nobel-winning economist
Nobel-winning economist Daron Acemoglu, who challenged AI hype with data showing modest productivity gains, identifies three critical developments in artificial intelligence that investors, policymake
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