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The CEO of AI startup Flock Safety, Garrett Langley, believes his billion-dollar startup is the key to solving crime in the US forever.

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AI Startup Says It Will End Crime by Blanketing the Entire United States in Ever-Watching Spy Cameras

Going to a real-life therapist is supposed to be an experience devoid of AI — which makes some mental health pros' AI use all the worse.

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Patients Furious at Therapists Secretly Using AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Months after reversing course on its AI automation scheme, personal finance company Klarna is struggling to re-fill its ranks.

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Company Replaces Customer Support With AI, Then Panics and Forces Engineers to Work the Phones as the AI Fails

After Elon Musk's Grok AI was dropped from a massive government contract, the White House has swooped in to reverse the decision.

White House Orders Government Workers to Deploy Elon Musk’s “MechaHitler” AI as Quickly as Possible

By Frank Landymore

As it fends off legal attacks, OpenAI has chosen a unique line of defense: the belief that every opponent, big or small, is working in tandem.

A Strange Conspiracy Theory Is Reportedly Spreading Inside OpenAI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have found that trust in artificial intelligence falls among people as they become more AI literate.

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The Tech Industry Has a Dirty Secret: The More People Learn About AI, the Less They Trust It

By Victor Tangermann

An activist in the Netherlands is using AI and facial recognition to identify masked ICE agents from viral arrest videos.

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Activists Are Using AI to Identify Masked ICE Agents

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Medicare patients in half a dozen states will have some of their health claims automatically reviewed by AI models.

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Medicare Will Start Paying AI Companies a Share of Any Claims They Automatically Reject

By Frank Landymore

AI companions are on the rise — but new research has found that they may do more harm than good to the humans using them.

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Scientists Just Found Something Dark About People With AI Girlfriends and Boyfriends

By Noor Al-Sibai

A clinical psychologist warns of the powerful delusions induced by AI chatbots, but thinks "psychosis" doesn't quite describe what's going on.

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Psychologist Says AI Is Causing Never-Before-Seen Types of Mental Disorder

By Frank Landymore

There's publicity stunts, and then there's... whatever Will Smith is doing, now that he has twice posted AI concert footage in as many weeks.

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Will Smith Posts Bizarre New AI-Generated Concert Video

By Noor Al-Sibai

Clothesmaker J. Crew used AI to guzzle up its own aesthetic and create ads with seemingly fake models, without issuing any AI disclosures.

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J. Crew Is in Hot Water After Its “Vintage” Ad Turned Out to Be Faked Using AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An influencer was getting a perfunctory wax when she realized in horror that her esthetician was wearing Meta's Ray-Ban smart glasses.

Woman Goes to Get Brazilian Wax, Alarmed to Notice Waxer Is Wearing Meta’s Video Recording Glasses

By Noor Al-Sibai

New research found that everything ranging from a typo to emotional language made it more likely for a medical AI to give you bad advice.

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A Single Typo in Your Medical Records Can Make Your AI Doctor Go Dangerously Haywire

By Frank Landymore

On a close read, GPT-5's writing is strange and nonsensical — at least to a human. Other chatbots have a very different take.

There’s Something Bizarre About When GPT-5 Writes in a Literary Style

By Noor Al-Sibai

A recent paper uncovered some of the first comprehensive evidence that the AI industry is throwing the job market into flux.

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New Paper Finds Evidence That AI Is Already Killing the Job Market

A father was wrongly arrested after the NYPD's facial recognition software identified him based on grainy CCTV video.

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Police Arrest Man With Almost Zero Resemblance to Actual Perpetrator Because AI Told Them To

A Connecticut man named Stein-Erik Soelberg killed his mother and then himself after entering into psychosis linked to ChatGPT use.

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Man Falls Into AI Psychosis, Kills His Mother and Himself

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A top Taco Bell executive is having second thoughts about the tech as its AI-powered drive-thrus fail to endear customers.

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Taco Bell’s Attempt to Replace Drive-Thru Employees With AI Is Not Going Well

By Frank Landymore

Postgraduate students in New Zealand were in for a rude surprise after their teacher suspected some of them used AI on an exam.

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Students Shocked by Instructor’s Ruthless Response to Suspected AI Use on Exam

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI is struggling to negotiate a new deal with its longtime partner Microsoft, imperiling billions of dollars in pledged investments.

At OpenAI, Signs of Crisis Grow Behind the Scenes

By Frank Landymore

Google's dumpster fire AI Overviews are spitting out tips for internet games that are not rooted in reality.

Google’s AI Is Committing a Unique Evil: Giving Gamers Tips That Are Actually False

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI has quietly announced that it may call the cops on anyone threatening harm to others — and people are incensed.

People Are Furious That OpenAI Is Reporting ChatGPT Conversations to Law Enforcement

By Noor Al-Sibai

Given the rate at which tech companies are spending on data centers, current revenues would have to increase ten-fold just to break even.

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There’s a Stunning Financial Problem With AI Data Centers

China's State Council says that AI will become a "key growth engine for the country's economic development" by 2035.

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China Unveils Plans to Establish a Fully AI-Powered Economy by 2035

Googling the word "clanker," a joke insult for AI and robots, might cause the search giant's AI Overviews to go off on a political rant.

Google’s AI Flies Into Rage at the Word “Clanker”

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a surprising reversal, the AI company Anthropic has agreed to settle a suit by the authors of books it used to train its Claude chatbot.

Huge Number of Authors Stand to Get Paid After Anthropic Agrees to Settle Potentially $1 Trillion Lawsuit

By Jon Christian

OpenAI has authorized itself to call law enforcement if users say threatening enough things when talking to ChatGPT.

OpenAI Says It’s Scanning Users’ ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police

By Noor Al-Sibai

Are cases of "AI psychosis" caused by manipulative "dark patterns" employed in chatbots like ChatGPT? Some experts say yes.

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AI Chatbots Are Trapping Users in Bizarre Mental Spirals for a Dark Reason, Experts Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Mark Zuckerberg offered AI talent incredible sums to come work for him at Meta -- but just months in, they've already started to depart.

The AI Researchers That Mark Zuckerberg Lured to Work for Him With Huge Payments Are Already Quitting for Mysterious Reasons

By Jon Christian

It appears that Will Smith and his team have, embarrasingly, used AI to generate signs and audience members from a recent concert.

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Will Smith’s Tour Video Used AI to Generate Adoring Audience Members and the Result Is… Bleak

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new group is fighting for artificial intelligence personhood rights just in case the technology is conscious and suffering.

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New Group Claims AI May Be Aware and Suffering

By Noor Al-Sibai

A California family is suing OpenAI over the death by suicide of their teenage son, who'd confided in ChatGPT about his suicidality.

After Their Son’s Suicide, His Parents Were Horrified to Find His Conversations With ChatGPT

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A pair of AI-powered smart glasses that will "literally record everything" has some observers outraged at the tech's clear privacy concerns.

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People Are REALLY Mad at These AI Glasses That Record Everything Constantly

By Frank Landymore

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong gave software engineers just one week to get on board with the program, or join the breadline.

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CEO Demands Employees Start Using AI, Fires Anyone Who Doesn’t

A new study that examined over a dozen cases of "AI psychosis" unearthed some disturbing patterns behind the mental health spirals.

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New Paper Finds Cases of “AI Psychosis” Manifesting Differently From Schizophrenia

By Frank Landymore

Grifters have been cold-pitching investors offering them chances to buy into OpenAI — and now, OpenAI is hitting back.

OpenAI Warns Against Investing in Its Stock

By Noor Al-Sibai

For someone who professes to hate socialism, president Donald Trump sure seems to be cozying up to it with his nationalization of Intel.

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Trump Embraces Socialism, Nationalizes Failing Chipmaker

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have found that frontier AI models fail spectacularly when the familiar formats of medical exams are even slightly altered.

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Something Extremely Scary Happens When Advanced AI Tries to Give Medical Advice to Real World Patients

By Victor Tangermann

The AI industry is putting the massive tab for all its AI infrastructure on the figurative credit card, giving experts an ominous feeling.

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The AI Industry Has a Huge “Credit Card Debt” Issue

By Victor Tangermann

It's alarmingly easy for bad actors to trick a browser AI into following malicious instructions embedded in publicly available content.

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Using an AI Browser Lets Hackers Drain Your Bank Account Just by Showing You a Public Reddit Post

By Victor Tangermann

Sam Altman insists that GPT-5 is brilliant — but if you ask it to play an altered version of tic-tac-toe, it glitches out.

This Incredibly Simple Question Causes GPT-5 to Melt Into a Puddle of Pure Confusion

By Noor Al-Sibai

Grammarly's new AI is for students "who want to predict how their work will land with their instructor and take control of their grades."

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Creepy AI Will Look Up a Teacher’s Info to Predict What Grade They’ll Give a Paper

By Frank Landymore

A pair of smart glasses developed by two Harvard dropouts will record everything you do to make you "super intelligent."

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Harvard Startup Says Its Smart Glasses Will Do “Vibe Thinking” for You

By Frank Landymore

A restaurant is begging its customers to please stop using notoriously unreliable Google AI to ask about its menu items.

Local Restaurant Exhausted as Google AI Keeps Telling Customers About Daily Specials That Don’t Exist

By Frank Landymore

New AI-enabled toys promise to be more interactive than ever, but there's growing concerns that they may stunt childhood development.

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Experts Horrified by AI-Powered Toys for Children

By Noor Al-Sibai

At the core of Mustafa Suleyman's argument isn't the threat of AI gaining consciousness, but the belief that it already is.

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Top Microsoft AI Boss Concerned AI Will Start to Demand Rights

A new bill in Colorado would prevent individuals from suing AI companies under the state's consumer protection laws.

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Politicians Are Trying to Make It Illegal to Sue AI Companies

By Frank Landymore

If you use generative AI software to spit out graphics, press releases, logos or videos, you and your company could be in deep legal trouble.

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Using AI for Work Could Land You on the Receiving End of a Nasty Lawsuit

New surveys reflect how most people are concerned about AI compared even amid the incredible hype being blasted out by the tech industry.

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The Average Person Is Far More Scared of AI Than Excited by It, Studies Find

By Frank Landymore

The CEO of IgniteTech recently bragged about replacing the vast majority of his workforce after they "sabotaged" his AI initiative.

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CEO Boasts That He Laid Off 80 Percent of His Staff Because They Didn’t Love AI Enough, Threatens to Do It Again

Pollsters are surveying AI instead of real people to save time and money — but the responses, per new research, are not up to snuff.

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Political Pollsters Are Trying to Save Money by Polling AI Instead of Real People, and It’s Going About as Well as You’d Expect

By Noor Al-Sibai

Journalists found in an investigation that AI is strikingly terrible at summarizing documents and scientific research for busy reporters.

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Tests Show That Top AI Models Are Making Disastrous Errors When Used for Journalism

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's obsession with anime waifus is repulsive even to his most fervent supporters on his social media platform X-formerly-Twitter.

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Elon Musk Fans Are Brutally Mocking Him for Incessantly “Gooning to AI Anime”

By Victor Tangermann

Some researchers have given up saving for their retirement, based on the assumption that AI has guaranteed the downfall of humanity.

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AI Experts No Longer Saving for Retirement Because They Assume AI Will Kill Us All by Then

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI Chairman and Sierra AI co-founder Bret Taylor has some fears about AI, which are best taken with a grain of salt.

OpenAI Chairman Says AI Is Destroying His Sense of Who He Is

The billionaire's latest theory is a contradictory prediction of AI's effects on mental health on one hand, and fertility on the other.

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Elon Musk Warns That AI Is “Obviously Gonna One-Shot the Human Limbic System”

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Wired and Business Insider Accidentally Published AI-Generated Slop Articles by Seemingly Fake Journalist

By Victor Tangermann

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta has confirmed that it's freezing all hiring in its artificial intelligence division.

Meta Freezes AI Hiring as Fear Spreads

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft's head of artificial intelligence has acknowledged that AI chatbots are fueling a massive wave of "AI psychosis."

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Top Microsoft AI Boss Concerned AI Causing Psychosis in Otherwise Healthy People

By Victor Tangermann

The US stock market continued its slump into Wednesday, leading some to speculate that the AI bubble may be close to bursting.

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Wall Street Appears to Be Having Serious Doubts About AI

Hundreds of thousands of Grok chats are visible on Google — and many show the chatbot clearly breaking its own guardrails.

A Huge Number of Grok AI Chats Just Leaked, and Their Contents Are So Disturbing That We’re Sweating Profusely

By Frank Landymore

The man behind Google's first generative AI program has some stark advice for advanced degree-seekers: don't do it, because AI will beat you.

Founder of Google’s Generative AI Team Says Don’t Even Bother Getting a Law or Medical Degree, Because AI’s Going to Destroy Both Those Careers Before You Can Even Graduate

By Noor Al-Sibai

Recent figures by MIT found that 95 percent of generative AI pilots are failing, with some drastic implications for the spending bubble.

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AI Is Failing at an Overwhelming Majority of Companies Using It, MIT Study Finds