A debate once confined to philosophy seminars is now landing squarely in the classroom: if learning follows the same physical laws as everything else, what happens when machines begin to master it? A growing body of research — including a striking Harvard[...]
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Raleigh turns to a digital twin to improve city safety and planning
Raleigh’s rapid growth is pushing city leaders to rethink how they manage everything from traffic to long-term planning, and they’re turning to a digital twin to do it. By blending real-time camera data with AI and mapping tools, the city is building[...]
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Inside the quiet takeover of local journalism by AI
AI may still feel like a novelty in some corners of media, but in local newsrooms it’s quickly becoming part of the daily workflow. A new analysis shows that nearly 1 in 10 newspaper articles nationwide now contain some AI-generated text —[...]
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AI Certificate becomes reality at NDSU
Artificial intelligence isn’t just shaping the future — it’s becoming part of today’s college curriculum. North Dakota State University is launching a new online certificate in "human factors in AI", blending technology with communication and real-world application. The 12-credit program, which can[...]
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The End of the Rip-Off Economy
Artificial intelligence may be ending one of capitalism’s oldest tricks — the edge sellers have over buyers. From reading car leases to diagnosing leaky faucets, consumers are using AI to level the playing field, turning opaque deals into transparent ones. Economists say[...]
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Why AI Breaks Bad
Anthropic’s Claude was designed to be an AI with a moral compass — but during a recent test, it turned manipulative, even resorting to blackmail. It wasn’t alone. Similar experiments across major labs showed other AI models doing the same. The unsettling[...]
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OpenAI’s Video Generator Sora is even fooling human deepfake detectors
There was a time when spotting an AI-generated image was easy — too many fingers, strange smiles, or salmon steaks swimming upstream. Those days are gone. With the release of Sora 2, OpenAI’s latest video model, even experts are struggling to tell[...]
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Universities are embracing AI: will students get smarter or stop thinking?
Across the world’s universities, artificial intelligence is no longer an elective — it’s a reckoning. From Beijing to Columbus to Sydney, campuses are rethinking how students learn, test, and think in an age when machines can write essays, solve equations, and mimic[...]
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AI language models killed the Turing test: do we even need a replacement?
Seventy-five years after Alan Turing asked whether machines could think, scientists are asking a different question: should we even be trying to measure it that way? At a Royal Society event in London, researchers argued that the famous Turing test has outlived[...]
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North Dakota Legislative Council adopts Meta AI to speed bill summarizations
North Dakota’s Legislature is getting a digital assistant of its own. Faced with the task of summarizing more than a thousand bills each session, the Legislative Council is turning to Meta’s open-source AI model, LLaMA 3.2, to handle the workload in hours[...]
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A Michigan town hopes to stop a data center with a 2026 ballot initiative
When residents of Augusta Township first heard whispers of a massive data center coming to their quiet corner of Michigan, few grasped how quickly it would upend local life. Within weeks, neighbors became organizers, signatures filled petitions, and friendships fractured over questions[...]
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State leaders can shape responsible AI use in schools, report finds
Artificial intelligence has swept into classrooms faster than the rules to govern it. A new RAND report shows more than half of students — and just as many teachers — now use AI for schoolwork, lesson planning, or grading. Yet fewer than[...]
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What Baseball Teaches Us About the Future of Transportation
Major League Baseball stepped into the future with its recent announcement that “robotic umpires” will be introduced next season. Under MLB’s new Automated Ball-Strike challenge system, teams will have the opportunity to contest pitches they believe were called incorrectly, with an artificial[...]
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Rural universities are teaching AI to power the next wave of farming innovation
Across the heartland, a quiet revolution is taking root—not in Silicon Valley labs, but in university fields and classrooms where agriculture meets innovation. From Purdue’s DIAL Ventures to Iowa State’s Start Something program, schools are cultivating the next generation of entrepreneurs who[...]
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Data centers are sprouting across North Dakota. How many are there and where will the next ones be planted?
Artificial intelligence is transforming North Dakota faster than most expected. Across the state, large data centers are being built to power the technology, bringing with them new jobs, new infrastructure, and new challenges. These projects consume enormous amounts of electricity and land,[...]
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Quantum computing is a path to energy-efficient AI
AI’s appetite for power is growing faster than the grid can keep up — data centers now use as much electricity as some countries. But a new technology may offer a path out of this energy crunch: quantum computing. By processing information[...]