RawFeed
Today's Hardest Hitting Stories - Raw and Unedited
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...
Nov 13, 2025How 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...
Nov 13, 2025“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"
Nov 13, 2025A 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 […]
Nov 13, 2025AlphaProof 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 ...
Nov 13, 2025Where 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.
Nov 13, 2025OpenAI 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.
Nov 13, 2025Anthropic announces $50bn plan for datacenter construction in US
AI startup behind Claude chatbot working with London-based Fluidstack on building vast new computing facilities
Nov 13, 2025ChatGPT 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
Nov 13, 2025Perrone 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...
Nov 13, 2025Steps toward AI governance in the military domain
As the leading developers and deployers of AI military systems, U.S. and China interactions will set precedents for the rest of the world.
Nov 13, 2025Billboard’s Top Country Song Is Currently AI Slop
An AI-generated country song has topped Billboard's "Country Digital Song Sales" chart in the United States.
Nov 13, 2025Cisco beats on earnings and revenue, lifting stock
Cisco has returned to growth this year after revenue dropped in 2024, but Wall Street is waiting to see if the company can be a major player in AI.
Nov 13, 2025Future of Work Predictions 2026: What’s Coming for Work and the Workforce
AI mayhem and business instability combine to make entering 2026 complicated to say the least. We predict obstacles so you can avoid them!
Nov 13, 2025What Technical Debt Means To IT Professionals
Technical debt continues to rise in the priorities of IT leaders. While AI may be grabbing the front page headlines, tech debt is lurking below the surface in more and more industry conversations. Ironically, for such a hot topic, there’s little consensus on how to even define it. It’s No Longer Just Code Quality When […]
Nov 13, 2025The macroeconomic effects of artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to transform economies, but history suggests its effects will be neither immediate nor uniform.
Nov 13, 2025Anthropic invests $50 billion in American AI infrastructure
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Nov 13, 2025Google’s Private AI Compute promises good-as-local privacy in the Gemini cloud
The aim: Move AI functionality back to the cloud, while maintaining the privacy of on-device processing. Can Google have it both ways?
Nov 13, 2025I Found These Sensitive Corporate Docs Online in Seconds Using This Search Prompt
Cybersecurity analysts are sounding the alarm that companies using AI without oversight are exposing themselves and their sensitive data on the web. My testing proves they're right.
Nov 13, 2025Michael Caine and Matthew McConaughey partner with ElevenLabs for AI voice cloning
NEW YORK (AP) — Oscar-winning actors Michael Caine and Matthew McConaughey have made deals with voice-cloning company ElevenLabs that will allow its artificial intelligence technology to replicate their voices.
Nov 13, 2025Is your electric bill going up? AI is partly to blame
Across the country, demand for electricity is on the rise — and so is the price of electric power.
Nov 13, 2025What Anthropic’s $50 billion AI infrastructure investment means for these 3 portfolio stocks
Every weekday, the Investing Club releases the Homestretch; an actionable afternoon update just in time for the last hour of trading.
Nov 13, 2025Anthropic’s Claude Takes Control of a Robot Dog
Anthropic believes AI models will increasingly reach into the physical world. To understand where things are headed, it asked Claude to program a quadruped.
Nov 13, 2025FilmAgent: A Multi-Agent Framework for End-to-End Film Automation…
Virtual film production requires intricate decision-making processes, including scriptwriting, virtual cinematography, and precise actor positioning and actions. Motivated by recent advances in...