While social media is rife with AI celebrity deepfakes, videos featuring late night TV hosts like Jimmy Kimmel and Jon Stewart are are easier to create than other kinds of deepfakes and potentially more disruptive.
AI coding assistants like Claude Code and Codex have no sense of time, according to a new study. Both systematically overestimate how long tasks will take. Codex is off by as much as ten times the actual duration. They also rate their own work about 20 percentage points too high. For long, autonomous tasks, that creates a real problem with oversight. The article AI agents have no sense of time and are not aware of it appeared first on The Decoder .
GPT-4o boosted grades on a marketing assignment by nearly a full point on a five-point scale in an experiment with 1,053 Bocconi University students. Whether they actually learned anything wasn't tested. Other studies suggest that AI-assisted performance without independent thinking does long-term harm. The article The skills that earn top grades are the ones AI can fake best appeared first on The Decoder .
Khamenei urges Gulf rulers to confront their 'real enemy' as Iran keeps Hormuz restricted amid stalled diplomacy.
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A nationwide referendum failed to win enough support to restart negotiations on European Union membership, despite geopolitical tensions in the North Atlantic.
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Nepal warns of more flooding as the death toll rises to 750, with more than 3,000 people still missing in the region.
Right-wing activist and podcaster Yair Netanyahu lived in the US for several years before his hasty departure.
Six months into the US-Israel war on Iran, the governments in the three countries are fighting political wars at home.
Venezuela’s interim President has given a televised address to defend a deal of Venezuelan oil for the United States.
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Turkey has announced the creation of two protected zones in a disputed area of the Aegean Sea, sparking an angry reaction from Greece. Does this mark a new chapter in a long-running dispute between the two countries?
The student-led "Cockroach" movement is taking its campaign for accountability to government schools, but the activists' methods are encountering growing resistance from authorities.
Anthropic is effectively cutting Claude Code's weekly usage limits by 17 percent. A temporary 50 percent boost expires on September 14 and will be replaced by a permanent 25 percent increase. Anthropic promises more control and transparency over usage in return. The article Anthropic's Claude Code limit change is a raise on paper but a cut in practice appeared first on The Decoder .
The first day of classes, some students slouch in the back row, unprepared and uninterested. Some are up front, eager and ready. But it’s only the morning of the first day–these attitudes aren’t related to the teacher. It’s a pattern, one that is the result of culture, systems and personality. Many of these students have […]
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Sony Music, Warner Music, and other publishers are suing Anthropic and CEO Dario Amodei personally for allegedly using tens of thousands of copyrighted musical compositions to train Claude without permission. The plaintiffs call it "one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history." Just months after paying $1.5 billion to settle with book authors, Anthropic faces another major copyright fight. The article Sony and Warner sue Anthropic over "one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history" appeared first on The Decoder .
Canada unveils huge new Lake Ontario sign in snub to Trump
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Police said a manhunt is under way following the incident at the annual techno party.