Here’s how we find out how strong tornadoes were

Around 1,200 tornadoes occur on average in the United States each year and every one of them gets its own rating on the Enhanced Fujita Scale.
Wall Street Journal

More Companies Use ‘Backdoor’ Job References to Counter AI

There are the references you list on your job application. Then there are the people whose opinions of you really matter. Almost everyone can cherry-pick a few former colleagues willing to say nice ...
Business Insider

A consulting firm is now using AI to give free advice that once cost millions

Consultants like to say AI won't replace them. One firm's latest move suggests that may not be completely true. West Monroe, a midsize global advisory firm, has launched six AI agents that produce ...
Seattle Times

Seahawks’ Jaxon Smith-Njigba using his platform to give back in Seattle

“Go on, throw the ball to him,” encouraged a father who was crouched beside his son. The child tightened his grip around the plastic ball with a skeptical look. Then he obliged, haphazardly tossing ...
The New York Times

U.S. Seeks to Give Weapons-Grade Plutonium to Start-Ups for Fuel

Companies say it’s a better way to dispose of the Cold War-era material — and fix a shortage of nuclear fuel. But the plan has also faced criticism from nonproliferation experts. By Brad Plumer ...
Nature

Researchers who use hallucinated references to face arXiv ban

The physical-sciences repository arXiv is banning researchers from posting their manuscripts on the platform for one year if a submission is found to contain references that have been hallucinated by ...
Forbes

What To Do When You Can’t Use Your Boss As A Reference

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Reuters

North Korea revises constitution to drop references to unification of Korean Peninsula

SEOUL, May 6 (Reuters) - North Korea has revised its constitution to define its territory ‌as bordering South Korea and remove references to reunification, according to a draft of the text reviewed by ...
The Conversation

Why some countries give away free electricity and even pay consumers to use it

In parts of Germany and Australia, a surprising thing is happening more and more often: households are being offered free electricity. This is happening at times of day when there are high levels of ...
The Washington Post

Thinking of using a chatbot for medical advice? Read this first.

When researcher Nicholas Tiller began to feed health questions into chatbots as a test, he expected some imperfections — but not this level of failure. Five AIs, 250 questions and a total score of ...
Bloomberg L.P.

White House Works to Give US Agencies Anthropic Mythos AI

The US government is preparing to make a version of Anthropic PBC’s powerful new artificial intelligence model available to major federal agencies amid concerns that the tool could sharply increase ...