The article "Revelations: A Decidable Class of POMDP with Omega-Regular Objectives" won an Outstanding Paper Award at the AAAI 2025 conference, a prestigious international conference about artificial intelligence. This year, only three papers received such an award out of 3,000 accepted and 12,000 submitted! This recognition crowns the results of research initiated in Bordeaux (France) within the Synthèse team at the Bordeaux Computer Science Research Laboratory (LaBRI), where four of the authors work: Marius Belly, Nathanaël Fijalkow, Hugo Gimbert, and Pierre Vandenhove. The work also involved researchers from Paris (Florian Horn) and Antwerp (Guillermo A. Pérez). The article is freely available on arXiv, and this post outlines its main ideas.

A friend of mine recently told me, "I always keep my phone on silent mode… which doesn't matter because I compulsively look at it every three minutes anyway." From becoming a text addict to having full-blown smartphone dependency, the urge to look at and interact with our "flat things" has been deeply ingrained into our collective behavior for some time now. Monitoring your phone to check whenever it lights up seems innocent enough -- a minor habit, utterly devoid of consequence. But is this seemingly harmless gesture actually working against you, subtly undermining your privacy, focus, and even your phone's longevity? Placing your phone face down is a small change that can have surprising ripple effects on your digital well-being and device health.

Caitlin thinks the use of artificial intelligence (AI) by companies as part of their filtering process could be a reason why she did not get very far in some applications. She said initially her CV was not written in a way that could be read by a resume screening programme called ATS (applicant tracking system), where AI reads CVs. "I was just getting straight rejections whereas after adjusting it, sometimes you'd be invited to an assessment after you've applied," said Caitlin. "Had I have known that from the get go, that would've helped me with my other applications." She reached the assessment stages for 221 of the roles she applied for and had five final interviews before getting a job.

Mark Zuckerberg's foray into AI chatbots has sparked a'privacy nightmare' with some users' intimate chats and questions shared on to a public newsfeed. Some users unwittingly activated a sharing function, resulting in their conversations with the AI bot to be shared to a'discover' page available to strangers. This feature sets it apart from more established and well known AI servers, like ChatGPT or Elon Musk's Grok, in that users who opt in are sharing deeply personal information about their sex lives, finances or health status without realizing that their conversations are being made public. The feed shows off prompts, conversations, and image outputs from other users, similar to the way a Facebook feed works, which is also part of the Meta umbrella. Users have shared their startup businesses, seeking advice or business proposals, while others have plugged deeply personal custody details into the server seeking advice ahead of an upcoming court appearance.

On Sunday, Alexis Ohanian posted a picture and short video on X, and less than 36 hours later, the post amassed 20.4 million views. The picture was wholesome -- one of Ohanian's favorite pictures of his late mother. In the photo, his mom embraces a young Ohanian in a warm hug as they sit in a sunny mountain meadow. That smiling boy would grow up to be one of the co-founders of Reddit, the husband to Serena Williams, and a parent himself. The picture is innocent enough on its own.

An internal affairs ministry working group Monday unveiled a draft interim report underlining the need for the government to consider a legal system aimed at regulating social media monetization during natural disasters. The report calls on social medial service providers to introduce voluntary regulations designed to suspend monetization in the event of a disaster, to curb the spread of disinformation. The working group plans to ask industry groups to draw up a code of conduct by the end of the year to prevent the spread of disinformation in such situations. It also urged businesses to take measures such as attaching labels to images created by generative artificial intelligence. Social media posts are rewarded based on the number of viewers.

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Are you using artificial intelligence at work yet? If you're not, you're at serious risk of falling behind your colleagues, as AI chatbots, AI image generators, and machine learning tools are powerful productivity boosters. But with great power comes great responsibility, and it's up to you to understand the security risks of using AI at work. As Mashable's Tech Editor, I've found some great ways to use AI tools in my role. My favorite AI tools for professionals (Otter.ai,

AI firm DeepSeek is aiding China's military and intelligence operations, a senior U.S. official said, adding that the Chinese tech startup sought to use Southeast Asian shell companies to access high-end semiconductors that cannot be shipped to China under U.S. rules. The U.S. conclusions reflect a growing conviction in Washington that the capabilities behind the rapid rise of one of China's flagship AI enterprises may have been exaggerated and relied heavily on U.S. technology. Hangzhou-based DeepSeek sent shockwaves through the technology world in January, saying its artificial intelligence reasoning models were on par with or better than U.S. industry-leading models at a fraction of the cost.

NetChoice Policy Director Patrick Hedger joins'Fox News Live' to explain why the United States must embrace artificial intelligence to stay ahead in national security. Lately, I've had way too many calls on my shows from people who have lost thousands (sometimes hundreds of thousands) to scams. These are so cleverly evil, it's like Ocean's Eleven but starring a dude with three Instagram followers and a ChatGPT subscription. Last chance to enter to win 500 in giveaway. You see, we're way past scam emails from sketchy Nigerian princes.