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Pangram Labs: ~21% of the 75,800 peer reviews submitted for ICLR 2026, a major ML conference, were fully AI-generated, and 50%+ contained signs of AI use (Miryam Naddaf/Nature)

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Pangram Labs: ~21% of the 75,800 peer reviews submitted for ICLR 2026, a major ML conference, were fully AI-generated, and 50%+ contained signs of AI use  —  By - Miryam Naddaf 0  —  Miryam Naddaf is a science writer based in London.  —  Search author on:  —  PubMed Google Scholar

The Sims 4's vampires and werewolves duke it out in a supernatural showdown

In honor of Fangsgiving, I set out to definitively prove which Sims 4 supernatural is stronger using a series of rigorous, totally scientific methods.

One of the world’s fastest power banks got a Black Friday discount

Ecoflow’s Rapid Pro power bank is one of the most powerful portable batteries we’ve tested, and it’s selling at an all-time low price of $149.99 ($70 off) at Amazon and from Ecoflow’s store during Black Friday. The 27,650mAh battery pack has three USB-C ports (one 140W port, plus two 65W ports), a two-foot-long retractable 140W […]

97 percent of people struggle to identify AI music, but it’s not as bad as it seems

Streaming service Deezer ran an experiment recently, with the help of research firm Ipsos. The finding - that 97 percent of people can't tell the difference between fully AI-generated and human-made music - was alarming. But it's also not the whole story. In the survey, 9,000 participants listened to three tracks and were asked to […]

Vivienne Medrano analyzes Hazbin Hotel's big season 2 fight scenes

The fights between Alastor and the Vees, and Alastor and Vox's rematch, served different purposes in the show.