More than six years after Ilya Khrzhanovsky premiered “DAU. Natasha” and “DAU. Degeneration” at the Berlin Film Festival — right before the global COVID lockdown — to a politely muted reception and limited distributor interest, you might think the moment has passed for another missive from the DAU Cinematic Universe. Turns out, however, that you
Companies in 2026 are expected to spend over $2.5 trillion on AI, a 47% increase on 2025. This is a spending spree never seen before in the history of organizational investments, and it’s driven in part by companies giving all employees access to GenAI tools such as Co-Pilot, Gemini, or Claude. Wondering what drove this
Twenty-five leading mathematicians signed an open letter arguing that AI labs are threatening their intellectual work as they seek to one-up each other with solutions to famous math problems. Each signatory has been awarded the Fields Medal, considered the most prestigious prize in mathematics. This week, NYU professor Tristan Buckmaster accused OpenAI of pressuring him
Yet observers and those affected argue that it did not have to be this way. Academic Hesbon Owilla told the BBC the president’s comments were bound to be misinterpreted, especially by people who did not have the right documentation. He says that while the proposed policy is good for Kenya and in line with global
Lil Durk is going free. The “All My Life” rapper was found not guilty of all charges in a murder-for-hire trial on Sept. 11, with a Los Angeles jury determining that the 33-year-old was not responsible for the fatal shooting of Saviay’a Robinson in 2022. Durk (real name Durk Banks) had pled not guilty to
Developers are worried about AI. The creator of Claude Code has a response. On Thursday, Anthropic’s Boris Cherny posted an email a developer wrote to him on X. The email was titled: “What to do about slop?” Cherny wrote that he receives emails like this every day and that he tries to respond to as
