The Latest
What It Costs To Retire Around The World: I Fact-Checked The Viral $2 Million Graphic

What It Costs To Retire Around The World: I Fact-Checked The Viral $2 Million Graphic

A viral retirement graphic applies the 4% rule but gives no source for its costs and omits pensions, household details and visa requirements.
What Google’s TV Box Botnet Takedown Means For Device Security

What Google’s TV Box Botnet Takedown Means For Device Security

Google says it and partners disrupted XCPE, a botnet built into more than 1.3 million Android TV boxes. The firmware backdoor may remain after the takedown.
Restaurant Invoice Audits For Better Food-Cost Control

Restaurant Invoice Audits For Better Food-Cost Control

A proposed invoice-audit workflow would compare restaurant supplier bills with orders and agreed prices; a 90-day test is suggested, but results are unverified.
Publishers’ Rights And AI Chatbots: What The EU Opinion Says

Publishers’ Rights And AI Chatbots: What The EU Opinion Says

An EU court adviser says chatbots may infringe publishers’ rights by bypassing access barriers or reproducing recognisable expression. The opinion is not binding.
Tech Selloff: Are AI Spending Concerns Justified?

Tech Selloff: Are AI Spending Concerns Justified?

The Nasdaq 100 fell more than 9% from its Oct. 6 peak to month-end as investors questioned major tech companies’ AI capital spending.
Can Editing Weights Repair An AI Loop? Astra’s Case

Can Editing Weights Repair An AI Loop? Astra’s Case

A November 2 blog reports a weight edit raised Qwen3.5-0.8B’s MATH-500 score to 48.1%, while 33.1% of answers still hit the token limit.
What Makes Z.ai’s Legal AI Rank Near The Top On Benchmark Tasks?

What Makes Z.ai’s Legal AI Rank Near The Top On Benchmark Tasks?

Z.ai’s GLM-5.3-FlashX-Legal scored 19.17% on Harvey’s all-criteria benchmark, ranking seventh of 81 models in Vals AI’s archived results.
The Farming Age And The AI Age: What Connects Them?

The Farming Age And The AI Age: What Connects Them?

A history of farm labor shows how tools, chemistry and better crops reduced agriculture’s workforce over generations—and what that may, and may not, suggest about AI.
Garment Protests Hit 529 Factories As Bangladesh Forms Wage Board

Garment Protests Hit 529 Factories As Bangladesh Forms Wage Board

Bangladesh appointed a six-member garment wage board after workers walked out of 529 factories, according to an owners’ association report.
Why The “Compute Campus” Label Matters For OpenAI’s Data Centers

Why The “Compute Campus” Label Matters For OpenAI’s Data Centers

OpenAI confirmed it is promoting “compute campuses” for its AI infrastructure. The label does not settle who pays for power, grid upgrades or water.