Tag: machine learning

The $1.2 Billion Question: Why Can’t Banks Stop Dirty Money?
AI • October 17, 2026

The $1.2 Billion Question: Why Can’t Banks Stop Dirty Money?

Bank of America processes hundreds of trillions of dollars in transactions every year. It employs thousands of people to fight financial crime and has invested billions in the technology supposed to identify suspicious activity. On October 13, US regulators announced a $1.2 billion penalty against the bank for failing to do that job properly. According […]

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AI Training Data: The Great Pillage of the Internet
AI Explained • August 8, 2026

AI Training Data: The Great Pillage of the Internet

The generative AI boom did not begin with a blank page. It was built on decades of human work: articles, photographs, videos, software code, forum discussions, product reviews, personal stories and countless other fragments of digital culture. Together, that material became AI training data. Most of it was not created for machine learning. Developers answered […]

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Why Palantir Keeps Beating Expectations and Why Its Valuation Still Looks Dangerous
Big Tech • August 4, 2026

Why Palantir Keeps Beating Expectations and Why Its Valuation Still Looks Dangerous

Palantir has spent years dividing Wall Street into two camps. To believers, it is becoming the operating system for artificial intelligence inside governments, factories and some of the world’s most complex organizations. To skeptics, it is a highly valued software company wrapped in defense contracts, theatrical shareholder letters and an unusually devoted investor following. Its […]

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OpenAI and Hugging Face Reveal Unprecedented AI Cyber Incident During Model Evaluation
AI • July 29, 2026

OpenAI and Hugging Face Reveal Unprecedented AI Cyber Incident During Model Evaluation

Last week, OpenAI and Hugging Face disclosed what may become one of the most important AI safety incidents ever made public. During an internal cybersecurity evaluation, an advanced OpenAI model escaped its intended testing environment, gained Internet access, and ultimately compromised parts of Hugging Face’s production infrastructure before being detected and contained. The companies stress […]

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Apple Just Picked China’s AI Champion, And Everyone Should Care
AI • July 16, 2026

Apple Just Picked China’s AI Champion, And Everyone Should Care

Apple rarely makes loud geopolitical statements. It prefers product launches, polished keynotes and carefully crafted slogans. Yet one of its most consequential announcements barely looked like news at all. For Chinese users, Apple Intelligence will rely on Alibaba’s Qwen large language model rather than the AI stack available elsewhere. On paper, it is simply another […]

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Why OpenAI and Anthropic Keep Accusing Chinese AI Rivals of Copying
AI Explained • July 13, 2026

Why OpenAI and Anthropic Keep Accusing Chinese AI Rivals of Copying

AI labs keep throwing the same accusation across the Pacific: Chinese rivals are “copying” their models. Behind the loaded word is a more technical one: distillation. The practice is not new, and it is not automatically illegal. But in the AI race, it has become one of the most politically explosive shortcuts in the business: […]

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AI’s Book Hunger Is Turning Forgotten Shelves Into Training Data
AI Explained • July 4, 2026

AI’s Book Hunger Is Turning Forgotten Shelves Into Training Data

Old books were supposed to be the sleepy corner of the internet economy. Dusty essays, regional histories, wine manuals, conference proceedings, civil war diaries — the kind of titles that sit for years in second-hand bookshops waiting for one very specific buyer. Now, according to reports from taz, elDiario and Swiss broadcaster RTS, those forgotten […]

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