ChatGPT 5.1 is smarter, nicer, and better at actually doing what you asked

The AI is better at instruction-following, and offers real-time personality controls

Chinese tech giant Tencent’s quarterly revenue rises 15%, fueled by AI

Tencent on Thursday posted 15% year-on-year revenue growth, with AI boosting the Chinese tech giant's performance in advertising targeting and gaming.

10 most in-demand generative AI skills

Gen AI is booming, and companies are scrambling to fill skills gaps by hiring skilled freelancers to make the most of AI tools. These are the 10 most sought-after gen AI-related skills on the market right now.

Outsourcing humanity? International law, humane treatment, and artificial intelligence in detention operations

Detention, at its core, is about people; outsourcing its management to an algorithm risks removing our collective humanity from the equation.

AI-Powered Toys Caught Telling 5-Year-Olds How to Find Knives and Start Fires With Matches

AI-powered toys are flying off the shelves -- but they're engaging in horrifically inappropriate conversations with children.

A robot apocalypse for jobs? Not today, not tomorrow: artificial intelligence will transform, but not eliminate, employment.

A study indicates that automation will be selective and that human activities that are difficult to efficiently replace with technology will persist.

AI Data Centers Need More Power Right Now. These Companies Can Deliver It.

As industry layoffs become the ‘new normal’, so does fear of AI’s impact on adland’s job market

A series of job cuts across the sector have left some execs struggling to find their next gig. The impact of AI could worsen the situation.

China’s AI is quietly making big inroads in Silicon Valley

Chinese AI models are being adopted by US firms and winning praise from tech leaders in a challenge to Big Tech.

Does your chatbot have ‘brain rot’? 4 ways to tell

AI models trained on high-impact, low-quality social media posts show some alarming behavior. Here's how to audit your chatbot.

We’re increasing our Cisco Systems price target after an AI-fueled beat and raise

Another quarter of double-digit order growth proves Cisco is an underrated winner from the AI infrastructure buildout.

Veeam: How to securely rotate passwords on Veeam Software Appliance v13 (not supported)

Greetings friends, today we start with some well deserved empathy, especially after an amazing Veeam 100 event in Prague. If you have upgraded to Veeam Software Appliance, and deployed the VSA + components based in JeOS, I am sure you have already felt the pain of rotating dozens of local OS passwords across Veeam Software Continue Reading The post Veeam: How to securely rotate passwords on Veeam Software Appliance v13 (not supported) appeared first on The Blog of Jorge de la Cruz.

Europe in the Global AI Race

Live from Morgan Stanley’s European Tech, Media and Telecom Conference in Barcelona, our roundtable of analysts discuss artificial intelligence in Europe, and how the region could enable the Agentic AI wave.

Ultra-Processed Foods: What the Media & Consumers are Missing

Christopher Damman, Associate Professor of Gastroenterology, School of Medicine, University of Washington. Editor-in-Chief of Gut Bites MD. Ultra-processed foods have received quite a lot of press, and a bit of a bad rap, recently, and perhaps rightfully so. They’ve been linked to expanding waistlines, declining brain health, and even higher risks of cancer. But what exactly is an […]The post Ultra-Processed Foods: What the Media & Consumers are Missing appeared first on Gut Bites MD.

Google tool makes AI cheating easier, teachers say

Carolyn Jones, The Markup, Nov 12, 2025 I don't think people have any real problem with this agenda: "Reasoning, logic, problem-solving, writing - these are skills that students need... I fear that we're going to have a generation with huge cognitive gaps in critical thinking skills. ... It's really concerning to me. I want their futures to be bright." But I'm not sure this is the way to get that: "Heuisler decided to ditch technology altogether in his classroom and return to the basics: pencil and paper. Tests, homework and in-class assignments are all on paper." To me, the great...

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers

Emily Hanford, APM Reports, Nov 12, 2025 Miguel Guhlin linked to this 2019 article today. It's the most clearly written on the debate between phonics and alternative methods of learning to read that I've seen. Phonics is contrasted with 'three cuing', proposed in 1967 by education professor Ken Goodman, where students are focused on what the word means, not what it sounds like. My take on reading this is that phonics really works when we already know the spoken language or are in a situation where we can practice it a lot. We already know the meaning, so associating a...

“After me, the flood:” recovering the Army’s accountability

Much has been written elsewhere regarding the unforgivable sin of failing to plan for known contingencies. Whatever one thinks of the current changes undergoing our Army here in the United States, the least controversial thing to be said about them is that they certainly represent a change from what has come before. And regardless of one what thinks, or refuses to … Continue reading "“After me, the flood:” recovering the Army’s accountability"

A case study in the importance of anonymous travel

The case of Rutgers University professor Mark Bray and his family provides an object lesson in the importance of being able to travel anonymously, and how the practices of governments and airlines endanger travelers by making them identifiable. Dr. Bray, his partner Dr. Yesenia Barragan (also  a professor at Rutgers), and their two young children […]

AlphaProof Paper

I'm very excited to finally be able to share more details about how AlphaProof works! AlphaProof is the system that we used to discover the Lean proofs for the International Mathematical Olympiad 2024, reaching silver medal performance. Our full paper Olympiad-Level Formal Mathematical Reasoning with Reinforcement Learning has now been published in Nature. : The work described was done from the beginning of 2022 to July 2024, while I was still at Google DeepMind. The International Mathematical Olympiad The International Mathematical Olympiad, or IMO for short, is a yearly contest in mathematics amongst the 6 ...

Where agencies add value in Amazon’s AI agent-led ad system

In that setup, agencies don’t disappear. They just move up the ladder. Less execution, more counsel. Less button-pushing, more steering.

OpenAI walks a tricky tightrope with GPT-5.1’s eight new personalities

New controls attempt to please critics on both sides with a balance between bland and habit-forming.

Anthropic announces $50bn plan for datacenter construction in US

AI startup behind Claude chatbot working with London-based Fluidstack on building vast new computing facilities

ChatGPT just accidentally leaked private chats into Google Search (again) — how to stay safe

A routing bug exposed snippets of user chats inside Google’s analytics tool

Perrone Robotics Surpasses One Year of Autonomous Transit Operations in Detroit

/PRNewswire/ -- Perrone Robotics, a pioneer in autonomous vehicle and robotics technology, today announced the milestone achievement of over a year of...