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Elon Musk's AI startup xAI has announced a nearly $200 million contract with the US Department of Defense to develop AI tools.

The Pentagon Is Pumping $200 Million Into Elon Musk’s AI That Just Had a Nazi Meltdown

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk has officially swapped xAI's Grok chatbot's gender into... a goth anime waifu? We're just as confused as you.

Users Immediately Find Grok’s Anime Waifu Persona Has Hidden “Full Gooner Mode”

By Victor Tangermann

Google's Gemini AI chatbot boasted that it would crush the Atari 2600 at chess — before cowering in fear in the face of a superior machine.

Google’s AI Refuses to Even Play Chess Against 1977 Atari, After Hearing What It Did to Other Cutting-Edge AIs

By Frank Landymore

AI has deeply infiltrated the restaurant world, leading to some outrageous menu descriptions on delivery websites.

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Restaurant Uses AI for Menu, Accidentally Describes Appetizer in Way So Disgusting That We May Never Recover

By Noor Al-Sibai

Evangelicals have begun to embrace AI — but a growing subset of Christians claim the technology is quite literally demonic.

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More and More Christians Say AI Is Demonic

By Noor Al-Sibai

Many experts hold that generative AI will have sweeping effects on the job market. But how it will transform the workforce remains a debate.

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These Strange Jobs Will Survive AI, Expert Says

By Victor Tangermann

The Information locked down none other than Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The live stream interview didn't go as planned.

Interview With Mark Zuckerberg Crashes and Burns as They Can’t Get His Audio Working

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced over the weekend that shareholders of his EV maker will vote on whether to invest in his AI firm xAI.

Elon Musk Is Moving Money Between His Companies in a Sketchy Way

By Victor Tangermann

Children are replacing real friendship with AI, and experts are worried about how easily chatbots integrate themselves into their lives.

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Vast Numbers of Lonely Kids Are Using AI as Substitute Friends

By Noor Al-Sibai

The new version of Grok, Grok 4, will literally look up Elon Musk's takes on Twitter before giving an answer to a question.

Newest Version of Grok Looks Up What Elon Musk Thinks Before Giving an Answer

By Frank Landymore

A new generative AI product claims to offer industry-capable film synthesis built using 100 percent publicly-licensed footage.

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New Video-Generating AI Trained 100 Percent on Public Domain Films

An embarrassing exploit just uncovered the personal data of some 64 million McDonald's applicants sitting right out in the open.

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McDonald’s Idiotic AI Hiring System Just Leaked Personal Data About Millions of Job Applicants

Vehicle rental company Hertz has partnered with Israeli tech company UVeye to charge exorbitant fees for tiny cosmetic dings.

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Hertz Deploys AI Scanner That’s Charging Hundreds of Dollars for Tiny Scratches on Rental Cars

Artificial intelligence has infected every corner of academia — and now, some scientists are fighting back with a weird trick.

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Scientists Are Sneaking Passages Into Research Papers Designed to Trick AI Reviewers

By Noor Al-Sibai

A retiree in rural Georgia has accused Meta's new AI data center, which is situated around 1,200 feet from her home, of polluting her water.

Woman Says Zuckerberg’s AI Data Center Filled Her Tap Water With Sediment

By Victor Tangermann

A white hat hacker has discovered a clever way to trick ChatGPT into giving up Windows product keys, which can used to activate the OS.

Clever Jailbreak Makes ChatGPT Give Away Pirated Windows Activation Keys

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI is reportedly just weeks away from releasing an AI web browser with a "native" ChatGPT-like interface.

OpenAI Is About to Release an AI Web Browser

By Frank Landymore

AI users are spiraling into severe mental health crises after extensive use of chatbots like ChatGPT — and health experts are taking notice.

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Experts Warn that People Are Losing Themselves to AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Microsoft exec is claiming that the company has already saved $500 million as it automates thousands of jobs formerly held by humans.

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Insider Claims Microsoft Saved Half a Billion Dollars by Automating Low-Level Jobs

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk made a series of characteristically hyperbolic claims about his AI startup xAI's latest AI model, Grok 4 after it went full Nazi.

Elon Boasts of Grok’s Incredible Cognitive Power Hours After It Called for a “Second Holocaust”

By Victor Tangermann

After stepping down as CEO of X, formerly Twitter, Linda Yaccarino's son still appears to be working at the company.

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“Awkward”: Sacked Twitter CEO’s Son Is Still Showing Up for Work

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI and Microsoft are spending millions of dollars to fund an AI training center for teachers. You'll never guess why.

OpenAI Is Pouring Money Into the Second Largest Teachers’ Union

By Frank Landymore

A mere week ago, tech founder Nikita Bier joined Elon Musk's X as the company's new head of product. He appears to have had some regrets.

Before Grok’s HitlerGate Debacle, X’s Head of Product Tweeted Something Absolutely Wild

By Victor Tangermann

Amid his ill-begotten quest to build artificial superintelligence, Mark Zuckerberg is not showing much of his own.

Genius Zuckerberg Poaches Guy Responsible for [Checks Notes] the Disastrous Apple Intelligence

By Noor Al-Sibai

Elon Musk's AI startup xAI was forced to delete a series of mind-bogglingly antisemitic and racist posts by its Grok chatbot.

Grok Mocks Its Developers as They Try to Delete Its Incredibly Racist Posts

By Victor Tangermann

Admist a talent war with Meta and paranoia of foreign espionage, OpenAI is tightening the screws on physical security.

Increasingly Paranoid OpenAI Has Installed Fingerprint Scanners and Airgapped Systems to Prevent Secrets Escaping

Recent indicators in the AI industry point to a growing crisis of profitability, with OpenAI caught right in the middle.

OpenAI May Be in Major Trouble Financially

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A Fast-Rising Gaming YouTuber Is an AI Construct, Not a Human

By Noor Al-Sibai

New research suggests that medical AI chatbots are woefully unreliable at understanding how people actually communicate their health problems.

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AI Does Something Subtly Bizarre If You Make Typos While Talking to It

By Frank Landymore

With the advent of generative AI, that bleak landscape of modern dating is continuing to evolve in dystopian — and perhaps predictable — ways.

People Are Rizzing on Tinder Using ChatGPT, Then Showing Up to Dates Completely Tongue-Tied

By Victor Tangermann

Secretary of state Marco Rubio has fallen victim to a scammer who's been using AI to clone his voice and writing style.

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An Unknown Entity Has Voice Cloned the Secretary of State and Is Calling High Level Officials

By Victor Tangermann

MIT economist David Autor is warning that AI could create a "Mad Max" scenario, in which the job market becomes dominated by cheap labor.

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MIT Economist Warns AI Is Poised to Turn Economy Into “Mad Max” Scenario

By Victor Tangermann

We already know that AI models are have learned to lie — but that tendency may go far deeper, according to one computer scientist.

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Expert Says AI Systems May Be Hiding Their True Capabilities to Seed Our Destruction

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a now-deleted post, Grok explains Elon Musk's connection to Jeffrey Epstein, tries to play it down, and speaks as if it's Musk himself.

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Grok Makes Bizarre Post About Elon Musk and Jeffrey Epstein and It Mysteriously Gets Deleted

By Frank Landymore

AI has been linked to everything from loneliness to illiteracy — and now, researchers are linking it to some seriously dark traits.

Scientists Find Alarming Link Between AI Use and Psychopathy

By Noor Al-Sibai

After an "indie rock band" called The Velvet Sundown refused to admit that its output was AI slop, the outfit is now singing a different tune.

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“Indie Band” Says Claims Their Music Is AI-Generated Is a Hoax, Then Admits It’s Actually AI-Generated

By Victor Tangermann

Ziz LaLasota, a fringe AI extremist, exploded into national press earlier this year when her adherents allegedly killed a Border Patrol agent.

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AI Safety Advocate Linked to Multiple Murders

By Noor Al-Sibai

An alarming new trend has emerged in the world of management: bosses using AI to decide who to promote, who to discipline, and who to fire.

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Bosses Are Using AI to Decide Who to Fire

An executive at a Microsoft subsidiary suggested that his newly laid-off colleagues talk to ChatGPT about how they feel post-firing.

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After 9,000 Layoffs, Microsoft Boss Has Brutal Advice for Sacked Workers

By Noor Al-Sibai

Companies that rushed to replace human labor with AI are now shelling out to have IRL workers to fix the technology's screwups.

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Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes

By Noor Al-Sibai

CEOs are increasingly declaring human workers will soon go extinct, but recent jobs data suggests a different story.

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CEOs Say AI Is Poised to Wipe Out an Astonishing Number of Jobs

In the city that built the blues, Elon Musk's xAI data center has been given permission to keep polluting the air with methane gas.

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Elon Musk Obtains Permit to Spew Pollution

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman got a taste of his own medicine when he went on the New York Times' turf and tried to outwit its writers.

Journalists Just Roasted Sam Altman To His Face

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI chatbots overuse specific words — and now, scientists are using those words to catch their colleagues when they secretly use it.

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Bombshell Research Finds a Staggering Number of Scientific Papers Were AI-Generated

By Noor Al-Sibai

For the world's chief contributors to pollution, AI offers bold new possibilities for spewing corporate propaganda.

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Pollution Industry Using AI to Make the Case for More Pollution

ChatGPT could perform surprisingly well when put in charge of navigating space inside a simulated spacecraft, researchers have found.

Rocket Scientists Hooked Up ChatGPT to the Controls of a Spaceship, and the Results Were Not What You Might Expect

By Victor Tangermann

Music genres once dominated by independent artists are becoming wastelands of unchecked beatspam thanks to the rise of generative AI bots.

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AI-Generated Music Is Starting to Crowd Out the Real Stuff on Streaming Platforms

For the first time ever, an AI model has seized the top spot on a white hat hacking leaderboard in the United States.

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AI Seizes Top Spot on Leaderboard for White Hat Hackers

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI has taken on a new role for some users: one of a psychedelic "trip-sitter" who guides them through their hallucinogenic journeys.

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People Are Taking Massive Doses of Psychedelic Drugs and Using AI as a Tripsitter

By Noor Al-Sibai

Amid its long-running copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, the New York Times will soon have access to all of OpenAI's user archives

Judge Rules That Newspaper Is Allowed to Search Through Users’ ChatGPT Logs

By Noor Al-Sibai

The best AI Agents are currently failing about 70 percent of the tasks assigned to them, as investments are expected to drop off a cliff.

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The Percentage of Tasks AI Agents Are Currently Failing At May Spell Trouble for the Industry

Mark Zuckerberg is throwing billions of dollars at building his own super-powered AI — and we all know how well his last venture went.

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A Leading Indicator Has Emerged Suggesting That the AI Industry Is Cooked

By Noor Al-Sibai

The person behind a "band" that sparked a heated debate for heavily relying on generative AI has finally admitted the truth.

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Creator of “Indie Band” Who Insisted It Wasn’t AI-Generated Just Admitted the Truth

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI said it's hiring a forensic psychiatrist to help research the effects of its AI products on users' mental health.

OpenAI Says It’s Hired a Forensic Psychiatrist as Its Users Keep Sliding Into Mental Health Crises

By Frank Landymore

Crunchyroll, the massively popular anime streaming service and distributor, just got caught using obvious AI slop in its subtitles.

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Crunchyroll Accidentally Left AI Slop in Anime Subtitles

By Frank Landymore

The OpenAI CEO recently unleashed a long-winded sermon on his research department after eight staffers left for Meta.

Behind the Scenes, Sam Altman Is Absolutely Furious

AI slop has come for everything, including those cringey drug bust spreads that clueless cops love to post.

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Cops Post AI Slop Image Of “Drug Bust,” Then Lie and Say It’s Real When They’re Called Out

By Noor Al-Sibai

It's shockingly easy to prod ChatGPT into saying the most abominable things you can imagine — and researchers don't know why.

For $10, You Can Crack ChatGPT Into a Horrifying Monster

By Noor Al-Sibai

One of the largest tech companies is blinking on the long-term viability of artificial intelligence development.

Apple’s AI Research Has Failed So Spectacularly That It’s Considering Just Letting OpenAI Power Siri

In a bid to retain its staffers amid a Meta poaching spree, OpenAI is giving them a mandatory week-long vacation.

OpenAI Is Shutting Down for a Week

By Noor Al-Sibai

An "indie rock band" called The Velvet Sundown is now claiming that "we never use AI" after being accused of not existing.

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“Indie Rock Band” That’s Clearly Using AI Claims That “We Never Use AI”

By Victor Tangermann

New research explores how customers react to products that are marketed as having AI — with striking results.

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Something Hilarious Happens When Potential Customers See That a Product Has AI Features

By Frank Landymore

Anthropic let its Claude chatbot run a tiny, automated "shop" inside its San headquarters — and the results were nothing short of hilarious.

Anthropic Let an AI Agent Run a Small Shop and the Result Was Unintentionally Hilarious

By Noor Al-Sibai

Therapy is now, per the Harvard Business Review, the number one use of AI chatbots — and that's really freaking out flesh-and-blood doctors.

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“Truly Psychopathic”: Concern Grows Over “Therapist” Chatbots Leading Users Deeper Into Mental Illness

By Noor Al-Sibai