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Trust, but Verify: Proving Which AI Model AnsweredÂ
Quick Take Researchers at Anthropic and several universities just open-sourced FlashProve, a system that cryptographically proves which AI model generated a response, without ever exposing the model’s weights. On a…
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When References Cite Nothing
A peer-reviewed PNAS study found references that could not be located in about 1 in 435 physics, chemistry, materials science, engineering and computing papers from early 2026, up from 1…
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Rethinking Peer Review in the Age of AI
Peer review is essential to research, but it is also under growing pressure. Researchers face increasing publication volumes, more complex methods and data, and significant demands on the time of…
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When Four AI Models Agree, They Can Still Be Wrong
New research shows why agreement among AI models is a useful signal for human review, but not a substitute for judgment. More AI models, fewer mistakes? Imagine asking an AI…
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Three ways to make Zotero talk back
Zotero‘s search is exact: it matches the words you typed against the words in your library. It has no way to answer “did I already save something that argues X…
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Why AI Scaling Hits a Wall: The Hidden Ceiling Behind Large Language Models
Editorial Note: The visual figures embedded in this article are conceptual diagrams created to intuitively illustrate the geometric and mathematical principles established in the cited MIT research [3], rather than…
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AI-Assisted CV Screening, Part 2: Sharper Requirements, a Council of Models
Follow-up to AI-Assisted CV Screening: A Research Prototype (February 2026). In February, we asked how AI could assist with CV screening while keeping human judgment firmly in the decision-making seat. Since then, the…
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What HR Dashboards Can’t Answer And What to Do About It
Most HR dashboards are good at answering the questions they were built to answer. The challenge arrives when someone asks the next one. Which of my staff are projected to…
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The AI That Ratted Itself Out: How One Click Could Empty Your Gmail Through Copilot
This is about Microsoft Copilot Personal, the free consumer chat assistant at copilot.microsoft.com, not GitHub Copilot (the coding autocomplete tool) or Microsoft 365 Copilot for work and school accounts. The…
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Provenance, Not Proof: What Claude’s Watermark Actually Tells You
Anthropic’s decision to embed machine-readable marks in Claude’s output, announced this week to comply with the EU AI Act’s Article 50(2) Code of Practice, is being covered as a broad…
