The Conversation

AI ‘workslop’ is creating unnecessary extra work. Here’s how we can stop it

Steven Lockey's position is funded by the Chair in Trust research partnership between the University of Melbourne and KPMG Australia. Nicole Gillespie receives funding from the Australian Research ...
WESH

Florida man arrested of using AI to create child pornography, deputies say

COLLEAGUES AND FRIENDS OF OFFICER JEWELL. A MAN HAS BEEN ARRESTED IN MARION COUNTY AFTER HE ALLEGEDLY CREATED AI GENERATED CHILD PORNOGRAPHY. THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE BELIEVES HE WAS USING PHOTOS. HE GOT ...
NPR

Scientists create human eggs in the lab, using skin cells

Scientists have created human eggs containing genes from adult skin cells, a step that someday could help women who are infertile or gay couples have babies with their own genes but would also raise ...
Harvard Business Review

Use AI to Stress Test Your Supply Chain

In the current environment of shifting tariff rates and ongoing trade deal negotiations between the United States and other countries, businesses continue to struggle to figure out how to preserve ...
Los Angeles Times

L.A. Times Publishes Public Records Database on Police Use of Force and Misconduct in California

The Los Angeles Times today published the Police Records Access Project, a new searchable database featuring once-secret police records. Built by UC Berkeley and Stanford University, 1.5 million pages ...
GeekWire

Concrete goes green: UW and Microsoft use seaweed to create novel carbon-trapping cement

Sustainability: News about the rapidly growing climate tech sector and other areas of innovation to protect our planet. SEE MORE by Lisa Stiffler on Jul 8, 2025 at 8:00 am July 8, 2025 at 3:36 pm Meng ...
9to5Mac

You can now create custom GPTs with any OpenAI model, but there’s a catch

If you’ve been experimenting with custom GPTs inside ChatGPT, here’s a welcome upgrade: OpenAI now lets users pick from all available models when building or running a custom GPT, not just GPT-4o.
Nextgov

Democrats press Palantir about reported creation of IRS ‘mega-database’

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. A group of Democrats are demanding that Palantir provide Congress with additional information about its contracts with the federal ...
THE WEEK

Trump may team with a tech company to create a database of Americans

The Trump administration may be taking an executive order calling for the federal government to share data across agencies to the next level by partnering with a tech company to compile data and track ...
KING5

All police in Washington must now report use-of-force data to public database

OLYMPIA, Wash — The state of Washington launched a first-of-its-kind public database Monday, aiming to provide unprecedented transparency into police use-of-force incidents across the state. Starting ...
Entrepreneur

McKinsey Is Using AI to Create PowerPoints and Take Over Junior Employee Tasks: ‘Technology Could Do That’

McKinsey developed an internal AI tool called Lilli, which it released in 2023. Lilli helps with tasks usually completed by junior employees, like PowerPoint presentations. Now the firm reports that ...