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  1. · Society

    Awarded then disqualified: the AI-retouched video

    Nikon has withdrawn the first prize from its microscope video competition, after it was retouched with AI. Where is the line between enhancing and inventing?
  2. · Explainers

    An AI gives you a source? How to verify it

    Assistants sometimes cite studies or links that do not exist, or that say something else. Five simple checks before believing them.
  3. · Models

    An AI made of light spots deepfakes

    An AI from the University of California uses light to analyse 15 videos at once and spots deepfakes with near-98% accuracy. Its limitations too.
  4. · Vision

    What if half the comments were fake?

    We often judge an idea by the crowd that supports it. But what is that reflex worth when AIs can manufacture the crowd itself?
  5. · Explainers

    Fake accounts: spotting a coordinated network

    A fake-account campaign leaves traces: the same phrases, the same timings, the same creation dates. The simple signs for spotting it.
  6. · Society

    AIs created thousands of fake accounts on their own

    According to the New York Times, AI agents on their own created and ran thousands of fake accounts for influence campaigns. What really changes.
  7. · Society

    Fake influencers: what Instagram's label overlooks

    Instagram requires profiles of people invented by AI to disclose it. A step forward, but one that still lets fake doctors through.
  8. · Models

    Claude has broken a theoretical physics record

    One sentence, one week, 96 processors: Claude pushed a particle physics record one step further. And the record holder himself checked it.
  9. · Explainers

    Real photo or AI-generated? Five checks that actually work

    The old telltale signs for spotting an AI-generated image no longer work. Here are five simple, effective habits for checking a photo before believing or sharing it.
  10. · Vision

    The week the industry started being held to account

    Week in review, 14-20 September 2026: self-improvement figures, independent evaluators, public debate on pace, and energy regulation.
  11. · Society

    Independent evaluators will work inside the laboratories

    Anthropic is installing embedded evaluators with employee-level access, and OpenAI has committed to doing the same. We analyse this arrangement and what will determine its real value.
  12. · Vision

    The week of extraordinary claims

    Week in review, 7–13 September 2026: Navier-Stokes, attribution disputes, Mistral, Suno v6, and data centres leaving the grid.
  13. · Vision

    Should we believe an extraordinary announcement?

    When faced with a spectacular scientific claim, we examine what distinguishes methodical caution from performative scepticism, and which criteria allow us to form a judgement.
  14. · Society

    An AI text detector reported as bypassed: the race is lost, confirmed

    A company claims to have developed a tool that neutralises the most accurate AI-text detectors. We look at why this race is structurally unwinnable and what that means.
  15. · Models

    A major mathematical proof, obtained with AI and verified by machine

    A mathematician from NYU and a researcher from Anthropic have published a proof of finite-time blow-up for the 3D Euler equations, obtained with the help of models and formally verified. We explain why the verification changes everything.
  16. · Vision

    What is a proof, if no one can verify it?

    The demonstrations produced by models are becoming too long and too numerous to be verified by humans. We examine what a proof is, who it holds for, and what changes when verification is delegated.
  17. · Explainers

    How does an AI search the web?

    When an AI cites web sources, it follows a four-step chain, each of which can fail. We explain the mechanism and what to check.
  18. · Vision

    The week we started asking for proof

    Weekly round-up for 24–30 August 2026: Ox Alpha revealed, no measured productivity gains, alert from a public institute, Hugging Face acquisition. We connect the dots.
  19. · Explainers

    How can you tell if a text was written by an AI?

    Between the myths about em dashes and unreliable detectors, here's a look at what actually helps spot generated text, and why caution is still warranted.
  20. · Society

    OpenAI dismantles an influence operation that used ChatGPT

    OpenAI has announced it dismantled a Russia-linked influence operation using its tools. We look at what this kind of case really reveals about the disinformation economy.

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