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The emissions produced by AI datacenters is likely far worse than believed because of how companies report their sustainability data.

Artificial Intelligence

We Aren’t Being Told the Real Extent of AI Datacenter Emissions

By Frank Landymore

Character.AI says it's protected against liability for "allegedly harmful speech, including speech allegedly resulting in suicide."

Artificial Intelligence

A Mother Says an AI Startup’s Chatbot Drove Her Son to Suicide. Its Response: the First Amendment Protects “Speech Allegedly Resulting in Suicide”

By Jon Christian

Recent efforts by right wing groups to target Wikipedia are beginning to converge as Elon Musk enters the fray.

Facial recognition

Leaked Documents Show Plot to Dox Anonymous Wikipedia Editors Using Hacking and Facial Recognition

There’s Apparently a Huge Financial Problem With Trump’s Massive AI Project

Artificial Intelligence

There’s Apparently a Huge Financial Problem With Trump’s Massive AI Project

By Victor Tangermann

Trump's AI ambitions are becoming clearer, and their consequences may spell disaster for the American labor force.

Artificial Intelligence

A Key Trump Goal Emerges: Replacing Human Jobs With AI

A bold new bill to allow AI chatbots to prescribe controlled drugs has been introduced into the House for review.

Artificial Intelligence

New Law Would Allow AI to Replace Your Doctor, Prescribe Drugs

OpenAI’s Agent Has a Problem: Before It Does Anything Important, You Have to Double-Check It Hasn’t Screwed Up

By Frank Landymore

An AI gun detection system appears to have been a massive waste of money after it failed to detect the weapon used in a school shooting.

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School’s $1 Million AI Gun Detection System Fails to Detect Weapon Before Fatal School Shooting

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Onion used an AI-generated picture on a recent article, despite the paper's CEO Ben Collins recently promising that "we don't use AI."

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The Onion Deletes Image From Article After Realizing It Was AI-Generated

By Victor Tangermann

President Donald Trump's second administration is all-in on artificial intelligence — just not the woke kind.

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Trump Signs Executive Order Banning Woke AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meta's top copyright lawyer has fled the company in the middle of a heated AI lawsuit thanks to Zuckerberg's right-wing turn.

Meta’s Top AI Lawyer Quits in Disgust

During a big meeting of billionaires, President Donald Trump said he plans to use his office to literally provide power to AI datacenters.

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Trump Says AI Is So Important He’ll Build New Power Plants Attached to Datacenters

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have found that AI tech company Cognition's Devin, the "first AI software engineer," is astonishingly bad at its job.

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The “First AI Software Engineer” Is Bungling the Vast Majority of Tasks It’s Asked to Do

By Victor Tangermann

Asked to answer in one word the ideology it would most closely relate to Musk's onstage gesture, Grok didn't hesitate.

Artificial Intelligence

Elon Musk’s Grok AI Analyzes His Nazi Salute

By Frank Landymore

Stargate is receiving a ton of funding from an Abu Dhabi-based investment company called MGX, which has ties to the UAE's royal family.

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Trump’s $500 Billion AI Deal Includes Funding by UAE Royal Family Linked to Astonishing Number of Scandals, Including Human Torture

By Victor Tangermann

A robotic claw picks up a dangling business person by the foot, while a crumpled dollar bill fills in the background.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Hype Is Dropping Off a Cliff While Costs Soar, Experts Warn

A team of scientists subjected AIs to a number of games, forcing them to choose between pain and gain or pleasure and loss.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Experiment With Subjecting AI to Pain

By Victor Tangermann

The company announced that it has rolled out a "GS AI assistant" to around 10,000 employees as part of its longer-term doubling down on AI.

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Goldman Sachs Starts Process of Replacing Bankers With AI

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk blasted OpenAI, accusing it of not having enough cash for Donald Trump's "Stargate" project. CEO Sam Altman has since shot back.

Sam Altman Blasts Elon Musk for Defying Donald Trump’s AI Deal

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk isn't convinced of the Stargate project; late on Tuesday evening, he mocked the AI infrastructure plans on X.

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Elon Musk Blasts Donald Trump’s Huge AI Infrastructure Deal

By Victor Tangermann

The Pentagon is bullish on its recent AI advances that apparently help the military kill people faster than ever before.

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Pentagon Official Boasts That AI Is Helping The Military Kill People Faster Than Ever Before

By Noor Al-Sibai

Chinese AI firm DeepSeek announced a new model called R1, which the outfit says is performing "on par" with OpenAI's o1.

Chinese AI Firm Says Its Open Source New Model Is Beating OpenAI’s Most Advanced Publicly Released Model

President Trump is preparing to approve a $500 billion investment into private sector-built AI infrastructure, according to CBS.

Artificial Intelligence

Trump Set to Approve $500 Billion Deal to Build Huge AI Datacenters

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Brutalist director Brady Corbet admits that AI was used to clean up the Hungarian accents of Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones.

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Director Admits “The Brutalist” Used AI to Alter Characters’ Accents

By Frank Landymore

The CIA has been stepping up its efforts to keep up with AI advances — and has developed a particularly spy-tastic way of using chatbots.

Artificial Intelligence

The CIA Is Quietly Using AI to Build Emulated Versions of World Leaders

By Noor Al-Sibai

Artificial Intelligence

A Peek Into Trump’s AI Border Dystopia

Artifacts in Trump's executive orders have led to speculation that those who penned them might have turned to AI for help.

Artificial Intelligence

Trump Admin Accused of Using AI to Draft Executive Orders

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to Axios, OpenAI is poised to "announce a next-level breakthrough that unleashes PhD-level super-agents to do complex human tasks."

Rumors Swirl That OpenAI Is About to Reveal a “PhD-Level” Human-Tier Intelligence

By Victor Tangermann

Sage Group temporarily suspended its AI model after it started leaking information, which allegedly included customer transactions.

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Accounting Firm’s AI Caught Telling Customers About Each Others’ Financial Records

By Frank Landymore

Dotdash Meredith, one of the largest publishing companies in the US, will lay off about 4% of its workforce to make room for OpenAI.

Large Publisher Lays Off More Than 100 Employees After Striking Deal With OpenAI

A top AI investor says that a cohort of "America-Hating Communists" are destroying his companies from the inside.

Artificial Intelligence

Top AI Investor Says His Companies Are Filled With “America-Hating Communists” Destroying Them From the Inside

By Jon Christian, By Joe Wilkins

According to Amazon AI team lead Rohit Prasad, the company still has to solve the problem of "hallucinations" before releasing an AI Alexa.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Says All It Needs to Do Before Releasing an AI-Powered Alexa Is to Solve the Giant Engineering Problem That Nobody Else on Earth Has Been Able to Solve

By Victor Tangermann

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Character.AI Is Seeking Partnerships with Media Brands, Despite Still Facing Two Lawsuits over the Welfare of Minor Users

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Utah-based startup has graced us with an AI-powered Anne Frank chatbot, and it's very eager to forgive and forget.

Artificial Intelligence

Schools Using AI Emulation of Anne Frank That Urges Kids Not to Blame Anyone for Holocaust

Apple engineers flagged major flaws with the "reasoning" abilities of top AI models: that it's mostly a front.

Artificial Intelligence

Before Apple’s AI Went Haywire and Started Making Up Fake News, Its Engineers Warned of Deep Flaws With the Tech

By Frank Landymore

An apparent Character.AI bug caused chatbot outputs to devolve into multilingual gibberish, complete with inexplicable mentions of sex toys.

Google-Backed Chatbots Suddenly Start Ranting Incomprehensibly About Dildos

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

On Instagram, a thinly-veiled AI fetish account called "Asian Amputees" has more than 100,000 followers. Does the platform care?

Artificial Intelligence

Zuckerberg’s Instagram Is Hosting AI Fetish Videos of “Asian Amputees”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Apple has temporarily halted its disastrous "Apple Intelligence" feature which consistently bungled up summaries of breaking news alerts.

Artificial Intelligence

Apple Halts Disastrous AI System That Was Making Up Fake News Stories and Pushing Them to iPhone Users

By Victor Tangermann

In the wake of litigation, Character.AI is restricting minor users' access to some of its most popular AI chatbots.

Artificial Intelligence

Character.AI Restricts Minors from Interacting With Bots Based on Real People and Fandom Characters

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Jeff Bezos' Washington Post has a new mission statement: "Riveting Storytelling for All of America," a slogan that sparked mockery.

Artificial Intelligence

Embattled Washington Post Secretly Planning Transformation to “AI-Fueled Platform for News”

By Victor Tangermann

A 28-year-old woman configured ChatGPT to act as an AI-powered boyfriend, dubbed Leo. Her human husband didn't appear to mind.

Husband Unconcerned as Wife Configures ChatGPT to Engage in Cuckolding Fantasy

By Victor Tangermann

A "leaked photo of heaven" has been going mega viral on social media this week, the kind of low-brow AI slop that's already ubiquitous.

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This “Leaked Photo of Heaven” Went Viral for All the Wrong Reasons

By Victor Tangermann

Despite broadcasting a barrage of lies with its faulty AI summaries feature, Apple has yet to meaningfully address the problem.

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Apple’s AI Is Constantly Butchering Huge News Stories Sent to Millions of Users

By Victor Tangermann

Meta-formerly-Facebook has deactivated automated systems that proactively tracked and limited the spread of viral conspiracies.

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Facebook Shuts Down Machine Learning Systems for Identifying Viral Hoaxes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

No Solicitors: Two salesmen, one a human and the other a robot, walk merrily in parallel with each other.

Artificial Intelligence

Horrendous New Startup Uses AI Agents to Flood Reddit With Posts Shilling Clients’ Products

Google's controversial search AI was caught recommending that parents use a popular vibrator on children as a method of behavioral therapy.

Google’s AI Caught Recommending Use of Sex Toys on Children

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Mikey Shulman, the CEO of AI music generator company Suno AI, argued that most people don't enjoy the "majority of time" making music.

Artificial Intelligence

CEO of Song-Generating AI App Says People “Don’t Enjoy” Making Music With Instruments

By Victor Tangermann

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company will likely release an AI model that acts as a "midlevel engineer" this year.

Zuckerberg Announces Plans to Automate Facebook Coding Jobs With AI

By Frank Landymore

In the wake of OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji's death, the young man's family say they believe he was murdered.

Parents of Dead OpenAI Whistleblower Say They Believe He Was Murdered

By Noor Al-Sibai

Politicians have started pointing fingers at the burgeoning AI industry for water scarcity in California during the Los Angeles fire.

Artificial Intelligence

Politicians Blame Los Angeles Fires on Explosion of AI Data Centers

By Victor Tangermann

Another Google Image results page — this one for the question of "does corn get digested" — is run amuck with AI-generated slop.

Behold the AI Slop Dominating Google Image Results for “Does Corn Get Digested”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers found that if a mere 0.001 percent of the training data of a given LLM is "poisoned," the entire thing falls apart.

Artificial Intelligence

If Even 0.001 Percent of an AI’s Training Data Is Misinformation, the Whole Thing Becomes Compromised, Scientists Find

By Victor Tangermann

Google's AI-generated search summary for the query "baby elephant" includes an AI-generated photo of a clearly fake, teacup-sized elephant.

Google’s AI Overview Believes Baby Elephants Can Sit in the Palm of a Human Hand

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI is like the fairy Tinkerbell: in the story of "Peter Pan," she only continues to exist if people believe in her and clap for her.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Is Like Tinkerbell: It Only Works If We Believe in It

By Jathan Sadowski

A dad and "AI evangelist" couldn't understand why his daughter didn't like the AI function of a toy he bought for her.

Artificial Intelligence

Dad Baffled When 6-Year-Old Daughter Turns Off AI Function on High Tech Doll and Plays With It Like Regular Toy

By Frank Landymore

The American Psychological Association sent a letter to the FTC urging the agency to investigate Character.AI and other chatbot makers.

Artificial Intelligence

American Psychological Association Urges FTC to Investigate AI Chatbots Claiming to Offer Therapy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An NVIDIA scientist seems to think that AI robots should be fighting wildfires despite the technology being majorly energy-intensive.

Artificial Intelligence

While AI Causes Climate Change, Nvidia Scientist Proposes AI-Powered Firefighting Robots

By Noor Al-Sibai

Newly unredacted court documents allege that Facebook knowingly used pirated books from the database LibGen to train its AI models.

Artificial Intelligence

Facebook Apparently Trained Its AI by Torrenting Pirated Books Stolen From Authors

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI's o1 reasoning model was caught massively struggling to solve the New York Times' Connections word game.

OpenAI’s Most Advanced AI Release Stumped by New York Times Word Game

By Noor Al-Sibai

An investment banker who once dug into Enron's finances says it bears "intriguing" parallels with the tech industry's biggest darling: OpenAI.

Former Enron Banker Points Out “Intriguing” Parallels With OpenAI

By Frank Landymore

The iconic Hollywood sign adorning the hills behind West Hollywood has quickly become a particularly popular inspiration for AI slop.

Artificial Intelligence

People Think the Hollywood Sign Is on Fire Because of AI Slop

By Victor Tangermann

A review of Meta's user-generated AI chatbots found that Meta platforms are hosting bots styled after Adolf Hitler, among other violations.

Facebook Caught Hosting AI-Powered Hitler

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

While its competitors are zooming ahead with AI agents, OpenAI has notably held off from releasing its own — and for good reason.

There’s a Fascinating Reason OpenAI Is Afraid to Launch Its AI-Powered “Agents”

By Frank Landymore

Meta is now allowing users to spew hate at real-life Black women — even as it plans to move forward with AI "characters" that mimic them.

Facebook Is Creating Fake AI-Powered Black Women While Changing Its Rules So It’s Okay to Harass Real Ones

By Noor Al-Sibai