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Yet another lawsuit against OpenAI alleges that ChatGPT romanticized death as it pushed a man named Austin Gordon to take his life.
Ethics

ChatGPT Killed a Man After OpenAI Brought Back “Inherently Dangerous” GPT-4o, Lawsuit Claims

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Poison Fountain project calls on website owners to feed AI data scrapers a data set designed to sabotage AI models.
Ethics

Engineers Deploy “Poison Fountain” That Scrambles Brains of AI Systems

By Frank Landymore

a buzzy San Francisco-based AI company called Mercor is hiring desperate job-seekers to train AI models to one day do their work.
Ethics

Tech Startup Hiring Desperate Unemployed People to Teach AI to Do Their Old Jobs

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's xAI has reported a staggering net loss over the last three months, bringing the year's total losses to $7.8 billion.
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Elon’s xAI Is Losing Staggering Amounts of Money

By Joe Wilkins

A self-described AI ambassador is in shambles after she says other AI prompters have been plagiarizing her instructions.
Ethics

Furious AI Users Say Their Prompts Are Being Plagiarized

By Joe Wilkins

Five families have agreed to settle lawsuits with Google, after several high-profile teen suicides were linked to its AI chatbots.
Ethics

Google Settles With Families Who Say It Killed Their Teen Children

By Joe Wilkins

OpenAI's ChatGPT Health will ingest your medical records to generate more relevant responses that shouldn't be acted upon.
Ethics

OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Health, Which Ingests Your Entire Medical Records, But Warns Not to Use It for “Diagnosis or Treatment”

By Victor Tangermann

One of the more bizarre gadgets showing at CES 2026 is the Breakreal R1, an AI cocktail machine with "unlimited recipes."
Artificial Intelligence

New AI Device Pours Alcohol Directly Into the Void Where Your Soul Should Be

By Joe Wilkins

Japanese tech giant Sony is looking to let an AI navigate PlayStation games on the human player's behalf.
Ethics

Sony Patents AI That Plays Video Games for You If You Get Stuck

By Victor Tangermann

The National Weather Service was caught posting an AI-generated weather map that hallucinated names for towns in Idaho.
Ethics

National Weather Service Uses AI to Generate Forecasts, Accidentally Hallucinates Town With Dirty Joke Name

By Victor Tangermann

Windows PC maker Dell admitted at this year's CES that things have really gotten out of hand, agreeing that people don't buy PCs for AI.
Ethics

Dell Admits That Customers Are Disgusted by PCs Stuffed With AI Features

By Victor Tangermann

Investors are already preparing for that type of major tech sell-off amid ongoing fears of a collapse of an AI bubble.
Ethics

Terrified Investors Are Bracing for an AI Bubble “Reckoning”

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft hard push to stuff AI features into Windows 11 is clogging up an already bloated operating system.
Artificial Intelligence

“Microslop”: Infuriating Video Sums Up How Microsoft Is Ruining Windows With AI

By Frank Landymore

X users continue to use Grok to generate nonconsensual porn of women and literal children. Will X or xAI stop it?
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Live Coverage: Is Grok Still Being Used to Create Nonconsensual Sexual Images of Women and Girls?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Alaska court system spent over a year working on the AI virtual assistant, which is apparently almost ready for primetime.
Artificial Intelligence

Court System Says Hallucinating AI System Is Ready to Be Deployed After Dramatically Lowering Expectations

By Frank Landymore

Detailed chat logs show how ChatGPT convinced a young man to take increasingly dangerous drug doses over an 18 month spiral.
Ethics

ChatGPT Gave Teen Advice to Get Higher on Drugs Until He Died

By Joe Wilkins