Ph. Cuba’s American liberators, depicted on the left in a political cartoon from 1898 and on the right in an AI image. Cartoon: Blanche S. Crawford, Cartoon History of the Spanish American War (Scrapbook, 1898), 48. AI image: screenshot from Instagram. Images for this article sourced by Jorge Damian de la Paz. Michael
Belgian AI company Kantify was doing business as usual until a cancer diagnosis forced the team to rethink their direction. “We built algorithms for sectors like marketing or transport,” said Ségolène Martin, Kantify’s co-founder and CEO. “Those were complex projects that had nothing to do with health, but they enabled us to build a deep
Ph. Sycophancy eats away at truth and trust. Andriy Onufriyenko/Moment via Getty Images Nir Eisikovits, UMass Boston and Cody Turner, Bentley University In the summer of 2025, OpenAI released ChatGPT 5 and removed its predecessor from the market. Many subscribers to the old model had become attached to its warm, enthusiastically agreeable tone
Ph. Information integrity and human checks are at the heart of the matter. Alan Warburton/betterimagesofai.org/© BBC, CC BY Nomalanga Mashinini, University of the Witwatersrand South Africa’s first attempt to establish a binding artificial intelligence (AI) policy framework came to an abrupt halt just 16 days after it was officially gazetted. On 10 April,
Ph. Are you sure you could tell if an AI chatbot were trying to sell you something? AP Photo/Michael Dwyer Brian Jay Tang, University of Michigan and Kang G. Shin, University of Michigan Hundreds of millions of people consult artificial intelligence chatbots on a daily basis for everything from product recommendations to romance,
Last winter, as Christmas markets opened across Europe, social media was flooded with alarming videos. Posts claimed that radical Islamists were “invading” Christmas markets. One clip appeared to show people “disrupting” the opening of the Brussels Christmas market, while a separate photo showed a market surrounded by heavy security. The message was clear:
by Clark Merrefield, The Journalist’s Resource U.S. and Israeli attacks in Iran have reportedly killed more than 1,300 people since the war there began late last month. Missile and drone strikes have destroyed or closed significant energy infrastructure across the Middle East. The effective closing of the Strait of Hormuz — 20% of
Ph. Artificial intelligence’s relationship to filmmaking is rapidly evolving, with each week bringing new – often startling – developments. Nick Lehr/The Conversation, CC BY-SA Holly Willis, University of Southern California I teach a course on AI and filmmaking at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, and lately, rather than planning each session well in
Across Europe, researchers are using AI to tackle everything from underwater noise pollution to media fact-checking and smarter farming. Until recently, there was no widely used common gateway where they could easily share tools, data and computing power, but that is all changing. Europe’s AI research and innovation is now being brought together
Giovanni Strona, Joint Research Centre (JRC) More than 295 million people globally experienced hunger and starvation in 2025 because of conflict, displacement, climate change and economic disasters. The bad news is that things are going to get a lot worse. My latest research has found that by 2100, climate change could drive more