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Book on Truth in the Age of A.I. Contains Quotes Made Up by A.I.:
The author of a nonfiction book about the effects of artificial intelligence on truth acknowledged on Monday that he had included numerous made-up or misattributed quotes concocted by A.I.
The author, Steven Rosenbaum, whose book “The Future of Truth” was released this month to great fanfare, incorporated more than a half-dozen misattributed or fake quotes in sections of the book reviewed by The New York Times.
The Times asked Mr. Rosenbaum about the quotes on Sunday and Monday. On Monday night, Mr. Rosenbaum acknowledged in a statement that the book had “a handful of improperly attributed or synthetic quotes” and said that he had started his own investigation.
Nobel Laureate Olga Tokarczuk Apparently Used AI to Write Her Latest Novel:
In a recent interview (conducted and published in Polish), Nobel Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk admitted to using AI in her creative process.
The writer Maks Sipowicz, who drew attention to the interview on Bluesky, translated a few of salient bits: “When writing my latest novel… I asked this advanced model what kind of songs my protagonists would be listening to at a dance, a few dozen years ago, and AI gave me a few titles,” Tokarczuk told the interviewer. “Often I just ask the machine, ‘darling, how could we develop this beautifully?’ Even though I know about hallucinations and many factual errors in the algorithms in terms of economics and hard data, I have to add that in literary fiction this technology is an advantage of unbelievable proportion.”
Google Search As You Know It Is Over:
At its Google I/O conference on Tuesday, Google unveiled an AI-powered overhaul of Search centered around a reimagined “intelligent search box” — what the company describes as the biggest change to this entry point to the web since the search box debuted more than 25 years ago.
Instead of returning a simple list of links, Google Search will drop users into AI-powered interactive experiences at times. Google is also introducing tools that can dispatch “information agents” to gather information on a user’s behalf, along with tools that let users build personalized mini apps tailored to their needs.
The resulting experience will no longer look much like how people envision Google Search, which has long been defined by ranked links to websites that have the information you need.
Gemini Is in Danger of Going Full Copilot:
Gemini has a creep problem.
A few years ago, that little sparkle icon started showing up in all of our Google apps. Gemini in your inbox! Gemini in your Google Drive! It was slow at first, and easy enough to tune out, but something has changed in the past few months. Gemini is creeping. It’s showing up in all kinds of places at a relentless pace, and personally, it’s starting to really cheese me off.
An actual screenshot from Google just now (a la Charlie Jane Anders):
Commencement speakers at recent graduations get booed for casting AI in a positive light:
And that’s just today. 😰
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The back-of-house AI system that Pizza Hut has mandated its restaurants to adopt has been so poorly received by some franchisees, that one is using the company for $100 million in losses tied to the technology. Put that in your crust and stuff it! Chaac Pizza Northeast, a franchisee with around 111 Pizza Hut locations in New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Washington DC, and Pennsylvania, filed a complaint in the Business Court of Texas earlier this month accusing the Hut of breaching its franchise agreement by mandating Chaac adopt restaurant management AI from Dragontail, a provider of AI-powered food delivery software. What was supposed to be a platform that would unify multiple kitchen systems under one AI-managed umbrella allegedly turned out to be a disaster for Chaac, which claims it was a leader among Pizza Hut franchises on metrics like delivery speed and rack time (i.e., the time between a pizza leaving the oven and leaving the store for delivery) prior to forced Dragontail adoption. Pizza Hut parent company Yum Brands purchased Dragontail in 2021. “With the intention to improve efficiency and service to the customer, Dragontail did the exact opposite; it caused significant delays and pummeled consumer satisfaction,” the lawsuit filing states. Chaac further alleged that Pizza Hut didn’t provide promised Dragontail support, and refused to allow Chaac to step back its use of the product, “causing cascading operational breakdowns and customer dissatisfaction.” Chaac admits it might be a bit of a special case, however, because of its particular business model: The company’s Pizza Hut locations don’t have a dining room, instead exclusively offering carry out and delivery services. Chaac also doesn’t employ its own drivers, instead relying on DoorDash to handle its deliveries. Before Dragontail’s implementation, staff at Chaac Pizza Huts had to input pickup requests into a DoorDash tablet, according to the lawsuit, which would handle getting the delivery order to a driver. Centralizing all of the order-to-delivery pipeline under one product meant that DoorDash gained visibility into the entire pizza making process. On one side that makes things more efficient, as the complaint explains. “This access allowed DoorDash to know when the pizzas went into the oven and were ready for pick-up, and when other pizza orders would be ready for pick-up,” the suit states - not bad if that means drivers aren’t sitting around waiting. In practice, however, that’s not what happened. Drivers were able to see whether additional orders would be up soon, meaning many of them would grab one order and simply wait 15 minutes for another, meaning the first order was invariably late and cold by the time it got to a customer. DoorDash drivers were also able to see any pre-paid tips on the order and whether an order was paid in cash. In many cases, drivers would decline tipless and cash orders. “These issues, arising out of DoorDash’s visibility, caused a disruption in orderly delivery and significantly slower delivery times,” the suit claimed, adding that the changes ultimately benefited DoorDash at Chaac’s expense. “The damage was not abstract,” the suit continued. “Chaac suffered lost revenue, lost profits, loss in enterprise value, business interruption, and erosion of goodwill and customer relationships” as a result of Dragontail adoption. According to the lawsuit, loss of business and enterprise value due to the forced adoption of kitchen management AI caused is in excess of $100 million, which Chaac is demanding as recompense. It’s not difficult to find examples online of Pizza Hut employees complaining about Dragontail. Multiple Reddit threads from inside the 2020-2024 implementation period contain examples of employees describing dissatisfaction with the software. Several commenters note, as Chaac did in its lawsuit, that Dragontail took control out of the hands of its kitchens and put it in the hands of AI. “Dragontail’s integration with kitchen workflow and aggregator dispatch predictably stripped Chaac’s managers of operational control, introduced delays, and invited stacking and other algorithmic behaviors that slowed production and delivery,” the lawsuit argues. Pizza Hut has been struggling in recent years, with Yum closing hundreds of locations so far this year in the midst of a turnaround effort that included initiatives like adding Dragontail to the struggling brand’s locations; the company didn’t respond to questions for this story. Whether this’ll be another nail in Pizza Hut’s coffin or just a bump in the road will be up to a judge to decide. ®
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and doting parent company Alphabet, opened its Google I/O developer conference with a celebration of token and capital expenditures. Tokens are the basic data exchange unit of AI models and Google has vastly increased its token processing to accommodate internal and external demand for AI inference. Two years ago, Pichai said, Google handled 9.7 trillion tokens per month. Last year, it was 480 trillion per month. Currently, the Chocolate Factory handles 3.2 quadrillion tokens per month. "Now some out there might call this tokenmaxxing and there's probably some truth to it," said Pichai. "I still think it tells an important story about our products and how others are building as well, especially our developers." Pichai said over 8.5 million developers are building applications using Google's Gemini model family monthly, using about 19 billion tokens per minute in API calls. And over the past 12 months, more than 375 customers have consumed more than 1 trillion tokens each – an indication there's some demand for AI among businesses. That token processing is possible because of the vast capital expenditures Google has made in datacenters and compute capacity, and TPU hardware. "Supporting all of this at scale for our users while also serving enterprises and developers around the world requires massive investments in infrastructure," said Pichai. "And we've been investing for today and for the future. In 2022, we were spending $31 billion annually in capex. This year, we expect that number to be about six times that, approximately 180 to 190 billion dollars." Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, took a turn on stage to provide an update on Google's progress toward AGI – artificial general intelligence – that ill-defined point when AI models perform some set of tasks as well as a human. Gemini Omni, Hassabis suggested, is a step in that direction. It can, he said, "create anything from any input," meaning digital stuff as opposed to atomic replication. "It combines Gemini's intelligence with the best of our generative media models for a new level of world understanding, multimodality and editing," he explained. Gemini Omni combines video, image, and interactive simulation capabilities of models like Veo, Nano Banana, and Genie with physics modeling, so projects accurately depict object interactions involving kinetic energy and gravity. The first model in that family, Gemini Omni Flash, is now available. Pichai returned to announce an expansion of SynthID, Google's AI watermarking technology. Google, he said, will support C2PA content credentials verification across its products, to help people distinguish between content created by AI and by a camera, and to tell whether it has been edited with Google Photos. "We are expanding both SynthID and content credentials verification to Search and Chrome," said Pichai. "You can simply circle to search or right-click in Chrome and ask, 'was this generated with AI?' and you'll get a clear response along with other helpful context." To help make this technology more broadly useful, Google said OpenAI, Kakao and ElevenLabs have decided to adopt SynthID. Pichai went on to announce the next generation of its Gemini model family, Gemini 3.5 Flash. "When compared to 3.1 Pro, Flash is better across the board, in almost all benchmarks," he said, adding that the model has made "huge progress in coding," one of the more remunerative use cases for AI models presently. One of the major selling points of Gemini 3.5 Flash is that it offers comparable performance to other frontier models, but much faster. The model manages about 289 tokens per second, about 4x more than other frontier models, Google claims. Those using Google's coding harness Antigravity can look forward to even greater speed gains. "We've optimized Flash to be not just four times, but 12 times faster in Antigravity," said DeepMind engineer Varun Mohan, adding that the 2.0 release of Antigravity is out now. The other major selling point is price. "Top companies in Google Cloud are processing about 1 trillion tokens a day," said Pichai. "If they shifted 80% of their workloads from other frontier models to 3.5 Flash, they'd save over $1 billion annually." Gemini 3.5 Flash is also making its presence known in the Google Gemini app and in Search through its integration with Gemini Spark, an agent service. "It's your personal AI agent that helps you navigate your digital life, taking action on your behalf and under your direction," Pichai explained. "It runs on dedicated virtual machines on Google Cloud. And it's 24/7." Based on Gemini 3.5 Flash, with an assist from the Antigravity harness, Spark can perform long-running tasks in the background, presumably without incurring a huge token bill. Spark will be able to connect to other tools – Google apps initially like Gmail and Chat, then third-party tools via MCP. Chrome integration, which will enable agentic browsing, is planned for later this summer. Josh Woodward, VP of Google Labs, Gemini and AI Studio, described how he used Spark to arrange a block party, emailing neighbors, recording their responses in a spreadsheet, and creating a slide deck. This is rolling out now to trusted testers and to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the US next week. Spark's arrival coincides with a new $100/month Ultra plan tier and the deflation of the top Ultra tier from $250/month to $200/month. Pichai offered up one of his timeworn phrases – "It's still the early days when it comes to making agents easy to use, super secure, and truly helpful" – to gloss over the security and privacy implications of AI agents acting on user data and applications without supervision. Then he handed off to Liz Reid, VP of Search, who proceeded to detail further AI incursions into Google's Search service. Gemini 3.5 Flash, she said, has become the default model for AI Mode. And the Search box itself has been redesigned to surface AI-based suggestions and to facilitate inputs from modalities other than text, such as images, files, videos, and Chrome tabs. The biggest change is Search Agents, which like Gemini Spark will be accessible from Search and will run while you're away from the keyboard. "You can set information agents to work for you 24/7 in the background," said Reid. "They can find you exactly what you need, exactly when you need it, and help you take action. You can spin up multiple agents in search simultaneously to get updated and make progress on all those things that matter to you." Google is also taking a page from Anthropic by offering code-based interactive widgets or mini-apps on demand. Search users will be able to create dynamic layouts, charts, graphs, and the like through the integration of Gemini 3.5 Flash and Antigravity in a containerized environment. This generative UI capability is rolling out this summer. Expect Google's token expenditures to continue to grow, along with pressure to purchase subscriptions to pay for the agentic labor. ®
Na twintig jaar wachten wint Arsenal de Engelse competitie. De Londense club heeft later deze maand ook nog kans om voor het eerst in de clubhistorie de Champions League te winnen.
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovCloud accounts and a large number of internal CISA systems. Security experts said the public archive included files detailing how CISA builds, tests and deploys software internally, and that it represents one of the most egregious government data leaks in recent history. On May 15, KrebsOnSecurity heard from Guillaume Valadon, a researcher with the security firm GitGuardian. Valadon's company constantly scans public code repositories at GitHub and elsewhere for exposed secrets, automatically alerting the offending accounts of any apparent sensitive data exposures. Valadon said he reached out because the owner in this case wasn't responding and the information exposed was highly sensitive.
The GitHub repository that Valadon flagged was named "Private-CISA," and it harbored a vast number of internal CISA/DHS credentials and files, including cloud keys, tokens, plaintext passwords, logs and other sensitive CISA assets. Valadon said the exposed CISA credentials represent a textbook example of poor security hygiene, noting that the commit logs in the offending GitHub account show that the CISA administrator disabled the default setting in GitHub that blocks users from publishing SSH keys or other secrets in public code repositories. "Passwords stored in plain text in a csv, backups in git, explicit commands to disable GitHub secrets detection feature," Valadon wrote in an email. "I honestly believed that it was all fake before analyzing the content deeper. This is indeed the worst leak that I've witnessed in my career. It is obviously an individual's mistake, but I believe that it might reveal internal practices." "Currently, there is no indication that any sensitive data was compromised as a result of this incident," a CISA spokesperson wrote. "While we hold our team members to the highest standards of integrity and operational awareness, we are working to ensure additional safeguards are implemented to prevent future occurrences."
The GitHub account in question was taken offline shortly after CISA was notified about the exposure. However, according to Caturegli, the exposed AWS keys remained valid for another 48 hours.
"What I suspect happened is [the CISA contractor] was using this GitHub to synchronize files between a work laptop and a home computer, because he has regularly committed to this repo since November 2025," Caturegli said. "This would be an embarrassing leak for any company, but it's even more so in this case because it's CISA."
The GitHub repository that Valadon flagged was named "Private-CISA," and it harbored a vast number of internal CISA/DHS credentials and files, including cloud keys, tokens, plaintext passwords, logs and other sensitive CISA assets. Valadon said the exposed CISA credentials represent a textbook example of poor security hygiene, noting that the commit logs in the offending GitHub account show that the CISA administrator disabled the default setting in GitHub that blocks users from publishing SSH keys or other secrets in public code repositories. "Passwords stored in plain text in a csv, backups in git, explicit commands to disable GitHub secrets detection feature," Valadon wrote in an email. "I honestly believed that it was all fake before analyzing the content deeper. This is indeed the worst leak that I've witnessed in my career. It is obviously an individual's mistake, but I believe that it might reveal internal practices." "Currently, there is no indication that any sensitive data was compromised as a result of this incident," a CISA spokesperson wrote. "While we hold our team members to the highest standards of integrity and operational awareness, we are working to ensure additional safeguards are implemented to prevent future occurrences."
The GitHub account in question was taken offline shortly after CISA was notified about the exposure. However, according to Caturegli, the exposed AWS keys remained valid for another 48 hours.
"What I suspect happened is [the CISA contractor] was using this GitHub to synchronize files between a work laptop and a home computer, because he has regularly committed to this repo since November 2025," Caturegli said. "This would be an embarrassing leak for any company, but it's even more so in this case because it's CISA."
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Here’s where the story ends. Congratulations, Arsenal, champions of England after 22 years. Farewell then, Pep Guardiola, 10 years of dominance ending in anticlimax. Two domestic cups counts as a disappointment in Pep terms. Eli Junior Kroupi wrote his name in north London legend for ever, as the title race reached its conclusion on the south coast. Erling Haaland’s late equaliser was nowhere near enough.
Andoni Iraola has been able to keep his future movements far more secret, and he received a post-match send-off from a club grateful for three seasons of progressive, exciting football, capped off by qualifying for Europe for the first time. “What a night,” he said. “We played so well.”
Continue reading...MARTORELL (ANP/AFP) - De oudste zoon van de oprichter van de Spaanse modeketen Mango is dinsdag vrijgelaten na het betalen van een borgsom van 1 miljoen euro. Dat meldt persbureau AFP. Jonathan Andic was gearresteerd in het kader van een moordonderzoek naar de dood van zijn vader Isak Andic.
Dinsdagochtend werd bekend dat Jonathan in zijn woning in Barcelona was gearresteerd en naar de rechtbank was gebracht voor verhoor. Jonathan heeft het gerechtsgebouw in Martorell, niet ver van Barcelona, verlaten in gezelschap van zijn advocaten, meldt het Franse persbureau. De 45-jarige moet zijn paspoort inleveren, zich wekelijks bij de rechtbank melden en mag het land niet verlaten, meldt de rechtbank.
Jonathan wordt verdacht van mogelijke betrokkenheid bij de dood van zijn vader, die tijdens een wandeling met zijn zoon in december 2024 om het leven kwam na een val van een klif. Jonathan en zijn twee zussen zijn de belangrijkste eigenaren van Mango na het overlijden van hun vader.
NEW YORK (ANP) - Google-moeder Alphabet hoorde dinsdag bij de verliezers op de aandelenbeurzen in New York. Het Amerikaanse techconcern presenteerde tijdens zijn jaarlijkse ontwikkelaarsconferentie I/O een reeks nieuwe mogelijkheden. Zo werd de grootste verandering aan de Google-zoekbalk in ruim 25 jaar aangekondigd. De bekende zoekfunctie wordt uitgebreid met nieuwe AI-opties.
Ook kondigde Google innovaties aan in de Gemini-app, de AI-assistent van Google. Daarnaast kwam het bedrijf met een nieuwe versie van zijn AI-model. Alphabet eindigde 2,3 procent lager.
Verder was de stemming op de Amerikaanse beursvloeren overwegend negatief. De Dow-Jonesindex eindigde de handelsdag 0,7 procent lager op 49.363,88 punten. De brede S&P 500-index verloor 0,7 procent tot 7353,61 punten en techbeurs Nasdaq zakte 0,8 procent tot 25.870,71 punten.
Beleggers bleven voorzichtig door aanhoudende zorgen over de inflatie. Hoge brandstofkosten stuwen de inflatie en beleggers vrezen dat centrale banken de rente moeten verhogen om de stijging van de consumentenprijzen tegen te gaan.
De olieprijzen gingen dinsdag omlaag doordat een Amerikaanse militaire aanval op Iran werd uitgesteld. De olieprijzen schommelen echter nog steeds rond de 110 dollar per vat, doordat er nog geen duidelijk zicht is op een akkoord tussen de VS en Iran om de oorlog te beëindigen.
Daarnaast wordt uitgekeken naar de resultaten van Nvidia. De grootste verkoper van AI-chips ter wereld presenteert woensdag de kwartaalcijfers. Nvidia en andere chipbedrijven zijn de afgelopen weken nog flink in waarde gestegen door de aanhoudende grote vraag naar chips voor kunstmatige intelligentie (AI). Beleggers wachten nu of de resultaten van het bedrijf de hoge koerswaarderingen in de sector kunnen rechtvaardigen. Nvidia sloot 0,8 procent lager.
hiroya.uga has added a photo to the pool:
On the flight home from Beppu. Two rivers caught the last light below, and Mt. Fuji stood quietly on the right.