Companies claiming their AI-detection tools could separate human from machine writing with near-perfect accuracy are now in the FTC’s crosshairs. The commission recently finalized an order against Workado, LLC (which marketed its detector via the website formerly known as Content at Scale, now rebranded as Brandwell), citing claims that these tools were trained broadly when

Thirteen years after Whitney Houston’s passing, something uncanny is happening—her voice is stepping back into the spotlight, powered not by memory but by machine. A new collaboration between Houston’s estate and an AI music platform has made it possible to reconstruct her iconic vocals and pair them with live orchestral performances, a project chronicled in

Three big cloud vendors announced earnings recently, with each accelerating their growth thanks to AI. Nvidia, for its part, became the first company to top $5 trillion in market cap, also thanks to AI. While there’s almost certainly some “irrational exuberance” baked into AI adoption, spurred by FOMO across global enterprises, the reality is that

Telecom networks are becoming more than just infrastructure, with network API exposure turning them into smart, programmable platforms. Developers from many fields, not just telecom, are now beginning to use these network capabilities, such as locating devices, detecting SIM swaps, running KYC (know your customer) matches, and requesting high-priority network speed through the Quality on

When tech giants like Netflix and Intuit adopted the data mesh architecture, it looked like the next big thing. A few short years later, disillusionment has set in, with companies turning their backs on data mesh and industry experts writing it off as a fad or declaring it dead. Amidst all of these conversations, if

When AWS suffered a series of cascading failures that crashed its systems for hours in late October, the industry was once again reminded of its extreme dependence on major hyperscalers. (As if to prove the point, Microsoft suffered a similar collapse a few days later.) The incident also shed an uncomfortable light on how fragile these massive environments have become.

You’ll often hear plastic pollution referred to as a problem. But the reality is that it’s multiple problems. Depending on the properties we need, we form plastics out of different polymers, each of which is held together by a distinct type of chemical bond. So the method we use to break down one type of

This week, tech content creators began to suspect that AI was making it harder to share some of the most highly sought-after tech tutorials on YouTube, but now YouTube is denying that odd removals were due to automation. Creators grew alarmed when educational videos that YouTube had allowed for years were suddenly being bizarrely flagged

Maybe a client hears about them in the comment section of the Facebook group “Medical Exemption Accepted,” or on the r/unvaccinated forum on Reddit. Maybe it’s through an interview posted on the video-sharing platform Rumble. Or maybe it’s the targeted advertisements on Google: “We do medical exemptions.” Cassandra Clerkin, a mother in upstate New York,

It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across each month. In the past, we’ve featured year-end roundups of cool science stories we (almost) missed. This year, we’re experimenting with a monthly collection. October’s list includes the microstructural differences between regular and gluten-free spaghetti,