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Way back in 2023, Andrej Karpathy, an eminent AI guru, made waves with a striking claim that “the hottest new programming language is English”. This was because the advent of large language models (LLMs) meant that from now on humans would not have to learn arcane programming languages in order to tell computers what to do. Henceforth, they could speak to machines like the Duke of Devonshire spoke to his gardener, and the machines would do their bidding.Ever since LLMs emerged, programmers have been early adopters, using them as unpaid assistants (or “co-pilots”) and finding them useful up to a…

If that’s not enough to deter you from sharing voice recordings with Amazon, note that the company allowed employees to listen to Alexa voice recordings. In 2019, Bloomberg reported that Amazon employees listened to as many as 1,000 audio samples during their nine-hour shifts. Amazon says it allows employees to listen to Alexa voice recordings to train its speech recognition and natural language understanding systems. Other reasons people may be hesitant to trust Amazon with personal voice samples include the previous usage of Alexa voice recordings in criminal trials and Amazon paying a settlement in 2023 in relation to allegations…

Even when these AI search tools cited sources, they often directed users to syndicated versions of content on platforms like Yahoo News rather than original publisher sites. This occurred even in cases where publishers had formal licensing agreements with AI companies. URL fabrication emerged as another significant problem. More than half of citations from Google’s Gemini and Grok 3 led users to fabricated or broken URLs resulting in error pages. Of 200 citations tested from Grok 3, 154 resulted in broken links. These issues create significant tension for publishers, which face difficult choices. Blocking AI crawlers might lead to loss…

ServiceNow has launched its Yokohama platform which introduces AI agents across various sectors to boost workflows and maximise end-to-end business impact. The Yokohama platform release features teams of preconfigured AI agents designed to deliver immediate productivity gains. These agents operate on a single, unified platform, ensuring seamless integration and coordination across different business functions. The platform also includes capabilities to build, onboard, and manage the entire AI agent lifecycle, making it easier for enterprises to adopt and scale AI solutions. Data is the lifeblood of AI, and ServiceNow recognises this by expanding its Knowledge Graph with advancements to its Common…

On Saturday, a developer using Cursor AI for a racing game project hit an unexpected roadblock when the programming assistant abruptly refused to continue generating code, instead offering some unsolicited career advice. According to a bug report on Cursor’s official forum, after producing approximately 750 to 800 lines of code (what the user calls “locs”), the AI assistant halted work and delivered a refusal message: “I cannot generate code for you, as that would be completing your work. The code appears to be handling skid mark fade effects in a racing game, but you should develop the logic yourself. This…

Jack Clark at the Hullander Red Back Hymnal Singing Jack Clark has spent a lifetime playing the piano. Mr. Clark will celebrate his 91st birthday on Sunday at the Hullander farm, Apison, at the Red Back Hymnal Singing. The West Virginia native said he fell in love with the piano when he was five years old. While in elementary school he took lessons, and, at the age of 12, he began a long career of accompanying quartets. In a January, 2013, radio interview with the late Hamilton County Commission Chairman Curtis Adams, Mr. Clark said he developed an…

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says that, despite the Trump administration’s attacks on globalism, global trade isn’t dead. In fact, he thinks that the U.S.’s key to growth will be embracing an international exchange of goods. “So, I actually am a firm believer — I think it goes all the way back to the economists who studied global trade in the 1800s — and I think their perspective was, every 10% increase in global trade leads to a 1% increase in local GDP,” Krishna said during an onstage interview at SXSW on Tuesday. “So, if we want to really optimize even…

2024 was a historic year for global elections, with approximately four billion eligible voters casting a vote in 72 countries. It was also a historic year for AI-generated content, with a significant presence in elections all around the world. The use of synthetic media, or AI-generated media (visual, auditory, or multimodal content that has been generated or modified via artificial intelligence), can affect elections by impacting voting procedures and candidate narratives, and enabling the spread of harmful content. Widespread access to improved AI applications has increased the quality and quantity of the synthetic content being distributed, accelerating harm and distrust.…

There was only standing room when Johnny Verell, Temple Rhodes, and Matt Miles took the stage at the 2025 Commodity Classic to discuss their success with early-planted soybeans. The three farmers have gained the attention of their peers as yield contest winners and share the products and practices that have most improved their farms’ ROIs through their teaching platform, XtremeAg. Meet Successful Farmers Jonny Verell accidentally found success when he started planting soybeans early on his Jackson, Tennessee, farm in the mid-2000s. “It was dry. We didn’t have any more corn to plant, so we just started planting soybeans.” Verell…

In many cases, the highest-yielding crops are coddled by a team of experts. Perfectly chosen seed, near-constant scouting, and spoon-fed nutrition are cornerstones of record-breaking production.  While applying the perfect nutrients at the perfect time may lead to high yields, that’s not economically viable for most production systems. The average farmer knows each pass across the field costs extra time and money when there’s often none to spare.  That’s not to say there are no lessons to be learned from highly managed acres. A scaled-back approach to maximizing fertilizer timing can offer production gains.  Know the Baseline and Target A…