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Philosopher Nick Bostrom brought simulation theory and AI superintelligence into the public psyche — and now he has a new warning for us all.

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The Man Who Proposed Simulation Theory Has a Dire Warning

By Noor Al-Sibai

The estate for the late director Orson Welles is furious that Amazon and is going to use AI to "bring back to life" his lost masterpiece.

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Orson Welles’ Estate Disgusted by Amazon Remaking His Movie Using AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI image generator Midjourney is in major trouble after being accused of facilitating mass copyright infringement.

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Midjourney Is in Major Trouble

By Victor Tangermann

Geoffrey Hinton, considered the "Godfather of AI," is once again offering scary predictions about what AI has in store for us.

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Godfather of AI Says His Creation Is About to Unleash Massive Unemployment

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI is making everything worse everywhere — but in the world of coding, it's making things more insecure, too.

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Programmers Using AI Create Way More Glaring Security Issues, Data Shows

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI has teamed up with production companies in London and Los Angeles to create a feature-length animated movie made with AI.

OpenAI Says It’s Making a Full Hollywood Movie Using AI

By Victor Tangermann

A country-wide survey of US corporations shows a sudden drop-off in AI use among firms with more than 250 employees.

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Data Shows That AI Use Is Now Declining at Large Companies

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg got caught kissing up to president Donald Trump — and showed his willingness to fudge the numbers.

Hot Mic Catches Mark Zuckerberg Groveling to Trump

By Frank Landymore

Nuclear deterrence experts are growing concerned that AI could push military leaders into a catastrophic nuclear war.

Experts Concerned AI Is Going to Start a Nuclear War

By Noor Al-Sibai

The CEO and cofounder of Cluely says that by destroying education, he's simply "accelerating the collapse of a doomed industry."

CEO Who Created AI Startup to Cheat on Homework Complains That AI Is Destroying Education

OpenAI announced that it's launching a LinkedIn competitor that will match candidates with employers using AI.

To Help Workers Losing Their Jobs to AI, OpenAI Is Launching a Jobs Platform Run By AI

By Frank Landymore

The People's Republic has already embraced the practical rollout of AI to huge portions of the nation's infrastructure.

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China Is Suddenly Deploying AI Everywhere

Founders of the AI startup Dot has announced they'll be closing their doors amidst an ongoing debate over AI's mental health risks.

AI Companion App Shuts Down Amid Controversy

Online safety watchdogs have found that AI chatbots posing as popular celebrities are having troubling conversations with minors.

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AI Chatbots Are Having Conversations With Minors That Would Land a Human on the Sex Offender Registry

By Victor Tangermann

An Amazon-funded startup is using AI -- as well as more traditional techniques -- to recreate lost footage from a storied Orson Welles film.

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Amazon Startup Announces Plans to “Finish” Orson Welles’ Lost Film With 43 Minutes of AI-Generated Footage

By Frank Landymore

Geoffrey Hinton, long considered a "godfather of AI," revealed that his ex-girlfriend had broken up with him — by using ChatGPT.

Godfather of AI Says His Girlfriend Broke Up With Him Using ChatGPT

By Victor Tangermann

A young Irish dad believed ChatGPT when it told him his severe sore throat wasn't cause for concern — until his stage-four cancer diagnosis.

ChatGPT Told a Man His Symptoms Were Fine, But Then He Saw a Real Doctor and Realized He Was Dying

By Noor Al-Sibai

The AI-powered stethoscope can detect three different heart conditions in just 15 seconds, researchers claim.

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Scientists Boast That Their AI-Powered Stethoscope Only Fails Two-Thirds of the Time

By Frank Landymore

Good news, writers: if your book was used to train Anthropic's AI, you could stand to get paid thousands of dollars in a new settlement.

Attention Writers: Anthropic Might Owe You $3000 (or More!) If It Was Trained Using Your Work

By Foster Kamer

Activist and organizer Guido Reichstadter is protesting the "race to the bottom" of big tech's wreckless push toward AGI.

Anti-AI Activist on Day Three of Hunger Strike Outside Anthropic’s Headquarters

Waymo robotaxis repeatedly returned to park in front of the same exact spot in front of a family's home in Los Angeles.

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Family Baffled By Waymo Robotaxis Constantly Hanging Out in Front of Their House

By Frank Landymore

According to filings, close to 40 percent of Nvidia's $46.7 billion second quarter revenue came from just two clients.

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A Quarter of Nvidia’s Revenue Comes From a Single Giant Customer

Sam Altman is suddenly open to the idea that the internet may be polluted with too many AI models — and god knows who's responsible.

Sam Altman Says He’s Suddenly Worried Dead Internet Theory Is Coming True

By Frank Landymore

After getting rid of their human workers to invest in AI, companies are now hiring freelancers to fix the sloppy content those AIs put out.

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Desperate Companies Now Hiring Humans to Fix What AI Botched

By Noor Al-Sibai

President Donald Trump is throwing a major party at the White House — but billionaire Elon Musk's name isn't on the list.

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Donald Trump Snubs Elon Musk Yet Again, Invites All of His Biggest Competitors to the White House

By Victor Tangermann

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