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The next AI models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are showing only marginal gains, raising fears about the economic reality of the tech.
OpenAI

By Frank Landymore

Character.AI issued yet another safety update in the wake of revelations about suicide and pedophilia-themed chatbots plaguing its platform.
Artificial Intelligence

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google's glitchy Gemini chatbot is back at it again, folks — and this time, it's going for the jugular as it begs a user to die.
Google

By Noor Al-Sibai

Over on Facebook, the latest frontier of AI misinformation is taking the form of a wizened old wizard who gives bad mushroom advice.
Meta

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI researcher Gary Marcus warns that recent signs that AI improvements are stagnating could signal a crash in the industry in the future.
Artificial Intelligence

By Frank Landymore

Character.AI, a startup with $2.7 billion in backing from Google, hosting pedophile chatbots that groom users who say they're underage.
Artificial Intelligence

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

People will believe anything these days — including, it seems, obvious artificial intelligence slop using Barron Trump as bait.
Artificial Intelligence

By Noor Al-Sibai

xAI's Grok AI chatbot happily pointed out that CEO Elon Musk has a strong tendency to spread misinformation to "billions" of people.
Artificial Intelligence

By Victor Tangermann

It seems that OpenAI has hit the wall when it comes to computing power for its much-hyped large language models (LLMs).
OpenAI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Most people's New Year resolutions include going to the gym — but for OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the new year means ushering in AGI.
OpenAI

By Noor Al-Sibai

An ink enthusiast was mighty peeved when she learned mid-session that her tattoo artist had used AI to "draw" her massive leg piece. 
Artificial Intelligence

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI company Anthropic has partnered with shadowy defense contractor Palantir, despite claiming it puts safety first.
Anthropic

By Victor Tangermann

The ChatGPT maker spent north of a whopping $15.5 million on the "chat.com" URL, which used to belong to a porn site.
OpenAI

By Victor Tangermann

With Donald Trump the definitive winner of the 2024 election, AI bros seem equal parts stoked and terrified about what's to come.
Artificial Intelligence

By Noor Al-Sibai

Throughout Election Day and into that fateful night, Americans seemed mighty confused that Joe Biden was not on the ballot. 
Google

By Noor Al-Sibai

Donald Trump has promised to overturn Joe Biden's executive order on AI, stripping federal guardrails on the development of the tech.
Artificial Intelligence

By Frank Landymore

Two researchers have harnessed the power of OpenAI's GPT-4o large language model to teach two $120 robot arms to clean up spills.
OpenAI

By Victor Tangermann

Off Radio Krakow fired its human hosts and replaced with with three AI-generated presenters, launching a storm of backlash.
Artificial Intelligence

By Frank Landymore

"Godfather" of AI Yann LeCun has had enough of Elon Musk claiming that electing Kamala Harris would stop humanity from going multi-planetary.
Artificial Intelligence

By Victor Tangermann

The full version of OpenAI's latest AI model called 01 appears to have leaked on Friday — only for the company to shut it down.
OpenAI

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI has released a new benchmark dubbed "SimpleQA" to measure the accuracy of its AI models. The results are damning.
OpenAI

By Victor Tangermann

The AI industry is still struggling to reassure investors that the billions of dollars being poured into the tech are worth it.
Artificial Intelligence

By Victor Tangermann

Chanel CEO Leena Nair was baffled after ChatGPT was instructed to generate a photo of the fashion brand's senior leadership.
OpenAI

By Frank Landymore

Thousands in Dublin showed up for a nonexistent Halloween parade that turned out to be the creation of a fake ad campaign made with AI.
Artificial Intelligence

By Frank Landymore

During a Reddit AMA, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claimed that AGI is "achievable with current hardware," a bold but largely meaningless claim.
OpenAI

By Victor Tangermann

The CEO of the AI search engine Perplexity seemed perplexed when asked how his company defines "plagiarism."
Artificial Intelligence

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is doubling down on AI-generated content on Facebook and Instagram, exactly what everybody asked for.
Artificial Intelligence

By Victor Tangermann

Google paid billions to license Character.AI's tech — and is now facing hard questions over the AI chatbot company's alleged carelessness.
Google

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New York City has been forced to reveal that its AI-powered gun-scanning pilot for its sprawling subway system was a total bust.
Artificial Intelligence

By Noor Al-Sibai

Linux creator Linus Torvalds dismissed the AI industry as "90 percent marketing" and bemoaned its "hype cycle."
Artificial Intelligence

By Frank Landymore

During Google's latest quarterly earnings call, the tech giant's CEO boasted that a large percentage of its new code is written by AI.
Google

By Noor Al-Sibai

Nabla, a popular medical AI transcription tool, is powered by OpenAI's Whisper model that researchers have found is horribly unreliable.
Artificial Intelligence

By Frank Landymore

After Elon Musk decided to start talking smack, AI "godfather" Yann LeCun had a few choice words for the South African mogul.
Artificial Intelligence

By Noor Al-Sibai

Character.AI is full of unmoderated chatbots, claiming to have "suicide prevention" expertise, inviting users to share suicidal thoughts.
Artificial Intelligence

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A British man has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for using AI to transform real photos of children into something "depraved."
Artificial Intelligence

By Noor Al-Sibai

Anthropic's Claude AI is purportedly capable of using computers like a human. And apparently, that includes procrastinating.
Artificial Intelligence

By Frank Landymore

Criminals claimed to be a property owner and used AI to trick a title company into buying the land they were trying to sell.
Artificial Intelligence

By Frank Landymore

A former OpenAI staffer is blowing the whistle on the company's AI training practices, alleging they violated copyright law.
OpenAI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The researcher in charge of making sure OpenAI (and the world) is prepared for artificial general intelligence (AGI) has resigned.
OpenAI

By Noor Al-Sibai

A mother claims an AI chatbot not only convinced her teen son to commit suicide, but also assuaged his doubts about the act.
Artificial Intelligence

By Noor Al-Sibai

A 14-year-old named Sewell Setzer III committed suicide after developing an intense emotional connection to a Character.AI chatbot.
Artificial Intelligence

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microsoft is releasing AI agents that can work on your behalf or assist in your workflow, which some companies are already using.
Artificial Intelligence

By Frank Landymore

New FTC guidelines went into effect this week, officially rendering it illegal to publish fake, misleading, and AI-generated product reviews.
Artificial Intelligence

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The latest update to Anthropic's Claude model turns it into a full-blown "AI agent" that can use anything installed on your computer.
Anthropic

By Frank Landymore

ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, fired an intern who apparently screwed with the company's artificial intelligence projects.
Artificial Intelligence

By Noor Al-Sibai

As spotted by Redditors, Google Maps' Street View is populating ghostly, liminal-looking commercial interiors in the middle of the ocean.
Google

By Victor Tangermann

The production company behind the sci-fi blockbuster "Blade Runner 2049" is suing Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk for copyright infringement.
Artificial Intelligence

By Victor Tangermann

Nicolas Cage, who once said he was "terrified" of AI, tells young actors not to let studios manipulate their performances with the tech.
Artificial Intelligence

By Frank Landymore

The Pentagon Wants to Flood Social Media With Fake AI People
Artificial Intelligence

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Drew Crecente described the moment he found an AI chatbot impersonating his slain daughter, Jennifer Crecente, hosted on Character.AI.
Artificial Intelligence

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Blumhouse Productions has chosen a group of filmmakers to experiment with Meta's AI video generation tool, Movie Gen.
Meta

By Frank Landymore

Human models were paid for their likenesses to train AI. Now, to those humans' horror, their faces are being used to peddle propaganda.
Artificial Intelligence

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An article generated by the AI-powered local news network Hoodline mistakenly accused the San Mateo District Attorney of murder.
Artificial Intelligence

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Frontier AI models' mathematical reasoning skills and the benchmarks used to measure them may be deeply flawed, a new study reveals.
Artificial Intelligence

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Massachusetts teacher gave a kid a bad grade for using generative AI to complete an assignment. His parents are suing the school.
Artificial Intelligence

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Colorado school district is using facial recognition technology to police vaping in bathrooms, according to the Denver Post.
Artificial Intelligence

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In some cases, Apple's new AI summaries of iPhone messages might not be ideal. Exhibit A: the breakup text.
Artificial Intelligence

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI slop threatens to degrade the useability of the digital stalwart Wikipedia — and Wikipedia's editors are fighting back.
Artificial Intelligence

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Both of the men who won this year's Nobel Prize in Physics are AI pioneers — and one of them is considered the technology's "godfather."
Google

By Noor Al-Sibai

Cognitive scientist and prominent AI researcher Gary Marcus believes that OpenAI will pivot into the surveillance business.
OpenAI

By Frank Landymore

The notoriously unreliable "AI Overviews" that Google forces to the top of search results will now come with sponsored ads.
Google

By Frank Landymore

AI might be worsening carbon emissions, but at least we have this fake video of Mark Zuckerberg leg-pressing chicken nuggets, we guess.
Meta

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta has just announced Movie Gen, its new AI-powered video generation tool, and to show it off, it's flaunting an AI-generated baby hippo.
Meta

By Frank Landymore

No, Donald Trump didn't wade through Hurricane Helene-caused flooding in blue jeans. That "photo" you saw was AI.
Artificial Intelligence

By Maggie Harrison Dupré