The propensity for AI systems to make mistakes that humans miss has been on full display in the US legal system as of late. The follies began when lawyers submitted documents citing cases that didn’t exist. Similar mistakes soon spread to…
Anthropic offers its Claude AI model to the federal government for $1
Anthropic has announced it will offer its Claude AI model to all three branches of the US government for $1, following OpenAI offering an almost identical deal last week. These deals both follow the General Services Administration adding OpenAI, Gemini and…
Hubble spots stars forming in the Tarantula nebula photo of the day for Aug. 12, 2025
Recently, the Hubble Space Telescope caught this stunning image of the Tarantula nebula, the largest and brightest stellar factory in the Large Magellanic Cloud — a dwarf galaxy orbiting our own. What is it? The Tarantula nebula is home to some…
Elon Musk cries antitrust as X & Grok can’t compete with OpenAI
Elon Musk says xAI will ‘take immediate legal action’ against Apple, which allegedly favors ChatGPT and OpenAI by never featuring Grok or X in the App Store. X is a social media app that has reached number one in the top…
I learned all about cheese with Gemini’s Guided Learning feature, and it was so easy, I’m thinking of making my own cheese
Google Gemini introduced a new feature aimed at education called Guided Learning this month. The idea is to teach you something through question-centered conversation instead of a lecture. When you ask it to teach you something, it breaks the topic down…
Sam Altman and the whale
But where is the transition from the BlackBerry keyboard to the touch-screen iPhone? Where is the assisted GPS and the API for location services that enables real-time directions and gives rise to companies like Uber and Grindr and lets me order…
Reddit is restricting its availability to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine
The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is the latest victim of Reddit’s crackdown on data access. The company has begun to place new restrictions on what the archive site will be able to access in a move that will significantly limit the…
ISS astronaut captures breathtaking star trails photo of the day for Aug. 11, 2025
Aboard the International Space Station (ISS), NASA astronaut Don Petit took this stunning image in a long exposure capture. Within just one photo, Petit revealed many different events that could be seen from low-Earth orbit, from star trails to orbiting Starlink…
iPhone 17 Air screen size compared in new leak
The iPhone 17 Air will be between the iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max in terms of screen size, if an image shared by a serial leaker is to be believed. The iPhone 17 generation is anticipated to…
Tangerine just delivered an NBN 500 sucker punch – its new early-bird plan costs just AU$69p/m
We’ll forgive you if you’ve not yet heard that there are major NBN speed upgrades just around the corner – in fact, we’re only a month away from NBN Co officially flicking the switch on what are set to be the…