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Anne Fehres and Luke Conroy AI4Media Humans Do The Heavy Data Lifting Licenced by CC-BY 4.0 The Royal Statistical Society's AI Task Force has issued a critical mandate via a new paper, AI Regulation Needs Statistics, which demands that statistical principles actively shape global AI governance. The publication escalates the core argument of their foundational work, AI is Statistics . This earlier paper argued that AI is fundamentally statistical, meaning effective and ethical deployment is impossible without statistical literacy. You can watch our expert panel discuss the topic here . A major focus of that work was around the challenges of evaluating AIs, given that they are dynamic systems that continue to evolve once they have been deployed in the real world.

Is the war entering a new phase? Wildberries under fire: Why is Ukraine targeting a Russian retail giant? Many have compared Wildberries, Russia's largest online retailer, to Amazon, and some claim that, as in the case of the US company, shopping on its website or app feels addictive. "I know many people that are really addicted to it," Aleksandra, an accountant and mother in the Urals Mountains city of Yekaterinburg, Russia's fourth-largest, told Al Jazeera, withholding her last name for security purposes. "They add things to their basket, wait for discounts, make up their minds about what to buy, then decide to buy it again."

The Babylon Bee filed a lawsuit challenging New Mexico's AI disclaimer law for political satire, arguing the disclosure requirements violate First Amendment free speech rights.

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Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. A whole subgenre of sitcoms revolves around odd couples: Felix and Oscar, Abbi and Ilana, Liz Lemon and Jack Donaghy. Just as deserving of a place in that canon are Julio (co-creator Chris Estrada) and Luis (Frankie Quiñones), the cousins at the center of the uproarious two-season Hulu comedy (2022-2023). When they were kids, mischievous Luis bullied geeky Julio.

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It's a familiar experience: racing against masses of anonymous netizens online to get yourself on the list for an in-demand event. For Andrew Bird, from Melbourne, in Australia, it was a spot in an often over-booked pilates class - but his solution had unexpected consequences. He says he outsourced the chore to an AI agent - a tool that can carry out online tasks autonomously. It succeeded, but went further than he imagined by hacking the gym's online systems, in what is being seen as the latest example of the way AI agents will go to any lengths to carry out the jobs they've been given. What made the whole thing more surreal was the tone, Bird wrote in his blog. The bot was not malicious.

Mark Zuckerberg arrives to the Los Angeles superior court on 18 February 2026 in Los Angeles, California. Mark Zuckerberg arrives to the Los Angeles superior court on 18 February 2026 in Los Angeles, California. Major legal battles against Meta over child safety are playing out in courts across the US - and the tech giant is losing. Recent rulings raise big questions about social media companies' responsibility to their youngest users. Meanwhile, more key executives have jumped ship from Google as it battles OpenAI and Anthropic in the race for AI dominance, and Meta's smart glasses face a fearsome backlash.