Five years ago, few people outside the defence industry had heard of Kraken Technology Group. Today, the British startup has joined Europe’s growing list of billion-dollar defence companies after raising $175 million in Series B funding, reaching a valuation of $1 billion. But the funding itself isn’t the biggest story. The real story is what … Read more
For years, experts have warned that artificial intelligence would make it nearly impossible to distinguish real images from fake ones. That future may already be here. This week, a widely shared image claiming to show Senator Mitch McConnell seriously ill in a hospital spread rapidly across social media before fact-checkers revealed it wasn’t real. The … Read more
Artificial intelligence has a memory problem. Once a large language model learns something during training, removing that knowledge is incredibly difficult. Developers have traditionally relied on safety guardrails, content filters, and reinforcement learning to stop models from producing dangerous information. But those approaches don’t actually erase what the AI has learned—they simply try to prevent … Read more