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A startup called Probably has raised nine million dollars with a straightforward but ambitious goal: making AI tell the truth. The company is targeting hallucinations and factual errors, aiming to bring AI accuracy in line with traditional deterministic software. It's a bet that reliability, not raw capability, is the next frontier worth funding.
Shifting to the ongoing debate over how governments should handle young people online, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is pushing back hard against the United Kingdom's proposed teen social media ban. Durov drew a pointed comparison to Russian censorship, arguing that restrictions of this kind don't protect anyone — they just drive users to VPNs. It's a familiar tension between safety intentions and the practical limits of digital borders.
And in AI research, there's a quietly fascinating problem getting renewed attention: the reversal curse. Large language models can tell you that Tom Cruise's mother is Mary Lee South, but ask them who Mary Lee South's son is, and they often draw a blank. It reveals something important about how these systems store knowledge — directionally, not symmetrically, more like a one-way street than a web.
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