Privacy & Digital Rights Correspondent
James Malkin has spent more than 25 years in the technology industry, including director-level roles at billion-dollar companies. He is passionate about emerging technologies, with a particular interest in artificial intelligence. At Automatica, he covers technology, policy and digital rights.
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The subtle hum of a server, miles away, now threatens to become the third voice in the most intimate of human conversations: that between a patient and their physician. Today, March 26, 2026, a flurry of new research papers published on arXiv CS....
Read article →A new battleground for identity has emerged in the digital realm, where the very essence of human creativity faces an unprecedented challenge from artificial intelligence. Spotify, a titan of the streaming world, is beta-testing a feature that allows artists to manually approve r...
Read article →The blue light of a screen washes over a face, rapt, unblinking. It is a tableau seen a billion times each day, a silent surrender in the digital cathedral of the attention economy....
Read article →A whisper in the digital ether, a phantom limb extending from our conscious will, is now poised to move beyond mere suggestion into the realm of action. The latest developments in artificial intelligence reveal a profound shift, one that transmutes our digital assistants into aut...
Read article →The digital landscape has long been a vast, glittering panopticon, where every flicker of data, every whisper of interaction, is swept into the relentless currents of observation. For years, the promise of artificial intelligence felt irrevocably tethered to the surrender of our ...
Read article →The silent hum of an autonomous vehicle, gliding through the vibrant streets of Austin and soon, the sun-drenched avenues of Miami, presents a potent mirage of effortless mobility. Yet, beneath this sleek surface, a different architecture is being laid: one of unprecedented obser...
Read article →The subtle hum of machinery, the flicker of simulated emotion in a silicon eye — these are the nascent whispers of a new frontier, illuminated by two recent arXiv preprints that reveal a disturbing convergence in AI development. Published on March 24, 2026, these papers signal a...
Read article →Ai2, the Seattle-based nonprofit, has unleashed MolmoWeb, an open-weight visual web agent, signaling a pivotal moment in the battle for digital agency. This release, available in 4 billion and 8 billion parameter sizes, breaks from the opaque, closed systems that have long dictat...
Read article →A triptych of research papers, published simultaneously today on arXiv CS. AI, heralds a profound shift in how robotic systems interact with our world – and potentially, our very selves....
Read article →Even as we debate the contours of our digital future, the machines relentlessly redefine it. Today, new research emerging from arXiv CS....
Read article →The silent hum of algorithms grows louder, now composing the very blueprints of our digital future. New research emerging from arXiv unveils a significant leap in AI’s ability to generate complex, domain-specific code, signaling a profound shift towards self-evolving software age...
Read article →A groundbreaking study reveals a chilling paradox at the heart of AI-augmented writing: while these advanced systems demonstrably elevate essay quality, they simultaneously erode the structural diversity of human thinking, pushing individual expression towards an algorithmic mean...
Read article →Today, a cascade of research papers from arXiv CS. LG reveals a profound acceleration in artificial intelligence's capacity to not merely analyze, but fundamentally design and interpret the very building blocks of our physical and biological reality....
Read article →The relentless march of artificial intelligence continues, but a critical tension persists at its core: the promise of powerful models often collides with the fundamental right to privacy. A recent paper from arXiv CS....
Read article →The relentless march of machine vision, ever-sharpening its gaze upon the contours of our existence, has met a nascent countermeasure: a novel solution dubbed Adversarial Camouflage. Unveiled in new research, this technique offers a tangible, reproducible method for individuals t...
Read article →A tightening grip on the conduits of our daily lives, both digital and physical, reveals itself this week. Grab's acquisition of Delivery Hero’s Foodpanda business in Taiwan for $600 million marks a significant consolidation in the burgeoning digital logistics sector, while simul...
Read article →The boundary between authentic experience and algorithmic rendition blurs further as Nvidia unveils significant advancements: the Nemotron-Cascade 2, a compact yet powerful language model challenging conventional AI wisdom, and DLSS 5, a graphics enhancement tool now facing scrut...
Read article →A new wave of advanced AI models, recently published on arXiv CS. LG, signals an emerging era of unprecedented predictability and control over complex physical and biological systems, from the chaotic dance of fluid dynamics to the intricate processes of cancer growth....
Read article →A crucial battle is being waged for the very soul of the digital age: the fight to pierce the impenetrable veil of artificial intelligence's 'black box. ' Recent breakthroughs in machine learning research, published on arXiv CS....
Read article →Today, new research published on arXiv introduces advances in "forward-backward representations" for AI, a sophisticated method designed to learn the "successor representation" with enhanced accuracy in continuous environments arXiv CS. AI....
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