Investigation uncovers $800K in payments to King County employee’s family members

Weak ethics safeguards and poor oversight allowed the employee to oversee contracts linked to five family members since 2020, ...

Federal judge allows TEA to continue investigating teachers’ Charlie Kirk posts

U.S. District Court Judge Alan D. Albright allowed the Texas Education Agency (TEA) to continue investigations into teachers ...

Anthropic says Claude Code did get worse — but shoots down speculation it 'nerfed' the model

Anthropic said it found three issues with Claude Code after users complained the AI tool deteriorated.

Anthropic tested removing Claude Code from the Pro plan

Anthropic caused a stir among developers with what appeared to be a surprise change to its pricing plan: The company signaled ...
NPR

Code Switch

What's CODE SWITCH? It's the fearless conversations about race that you've been waiting for. Hosted by journalists of color, our podcast tackles the subject of race with empathy and humor. We explore ...

AI's a suck up. Research shows how it flatters and suggests we're not to blame

The AI models and chatbots that we interact with tend to affirm our feelings and viewpoints — more so than people do, with ...
Nature

Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs): Transgenic Crops and Recombinant DNA Technology

If you could save lives by producing vaccines in transgenic bananas, would you? In the debate over large-scale commercialization and use of GMOs, where should we draw the line? Vaccines Tobacco ...