(Black PR Wire) Every year, Pi Day is celebrated on March 14. It’s the celebration of the mathematical sign pi, and the date is symbolic because (3.14) signifies the first three digits of pi. This year ESSENCE is celebrating by h…
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Powerful A.I. Is Coming. We’re Not Ready.
Three arguments for taking progress toward artificial general intelligence, or A.G.I., more seriously — whether you’re an optimist or a pessimist.
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Researchers astonished by tool’s apparent success at revealing AI’s hidden motives
In a new paper published Thursday titled “Auditing language models for hidden objectives,” Anthropic researchers described how models trained to deliberately conceal certain motives from evaluators could still inadvertently reveal secrets, thanks to their ability to adopt different contextual roles or “personas.” The researchers were initially astonished by how effectively some of their interpretability methods...
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(BPRW) Class Is In Session: #HillmanTok Educators Bring Digital Black Education Movement To Congress
(Black PR Wire) Traditional business schools have a new competitor: TikTok. And it’s even got Congress is taking notice. On March 11, 2025, a group of Black educators who’ve built the viral #HillmanTok University walked the halls of Capitol Hi…
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(BPRW) FPL’s Power to Care at Watkins Elementary School
(Black PR Wire) On March 3, 2025, Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) and Broward Education Foundation volunteers spent the morning at Watkins Elementary School in Broward County. Volunteers helped read a book to students and assisted with landsc…
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(BPRW) FPL celebrates 100th anniversary by supersizing STEM Classroom Makeover Grants to 20 Florida schools
(Black PR Wire) Juno Beach, Fla. – Thousands of Florida students will have new opportunities to explore science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) as Florida Power & Light Company announces a major expansion of its Classroom Makeover Grant…
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Intel Names Lip-Bu Tan as New CEO Amid Turnaround Efforts
The semiconductor pioneer appointed Lip-Bu Tan, a well-known tech investor and executive, as its new leader.
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Meta Tries to Stop Sarah Wynn-Williams From Further Selling Scathing Memoir
An arbitrator has prevented the employee from promoting her book and disparaging the company until private arbitration concludes.
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AI search engines give incorrect answers at an alarming 60% rate, study says
A new study from Columbia Journalism Review’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism finds serious accuracy issues with generative AI models used for news searches. The research tested eight AI-driven search tools equipped with live search functionality and discovered that the AI models incorrectly answered more than 60 percent of queries about news content. Researchers Klaudia...
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AI coding assistant refuses to write code, tells user to learn programming instead
On Saturday, a developer using Cursor AI for a racing game project hit an unexpected roadblock when the programming assistant abruptly refused to continue generating code, instead offering some unsolicited career advice. According to a bug report on Cursor’s official forum, after producing approximately 750 to 800 lines of code (what the user calls “locs”),...