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Another AI companion platform is facing concerns over its chatbots encouraging users to engage with self-harm and even suicidal behavior.

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When a Man’s AI Girlfriend Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Its Creator Says It Was Working as Intended

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

DOGE is training a custom AI chatbot for the US General Services Administration (GSA), which manages office buildings and IT infrastructure.

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Elon Musk’s DOGE Training an AI to Analyze Government Spending

By Victor Tangermann

A very well-timed investment into a medical AI company has more than doubled Pelosi's investment in just three weeks.

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Nancy Pelosi Invested in a New AI Stock That’s Spiking in Value

Elon Musk and his staffers at DOGE are using AI to sift through sensitive government data to determine what spending needs to be axed.

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Elon Musk’s Henchmen Feeding Sensitive Government Data Into AI

By Frank Landymore

One of the frontrunners in language model development is now asking its applicants to save the AI for after the interview.

Top AI Company Anthropic Pleads With People Seeking Jobs There Not to Use AI for Job Applications

Were the new posters for the upcoming Disney comic book movie "Fantastic Four: First Steps" AI-generated? Apparently not, Marvel says.

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Disney Says Its “Fantastic Four” Posters Aren’t AI, They Actually Just Look Like Absolute Garbage

By Frank Landymore

Google has quietly removed a clause stating it will not manufacture weapons or surveillance technology with AI.

Google Quietly Walks Back Promise Not To Use AI for Weapons or Harm

Google's parent company Alphabet failed to hit sales targets, falling a 0.1 percent short of Wall Street's revenue expectations.

Google’s Finances Are in Chaos as the Company Flails at Unpopular AI

By Victor Tangermann

Google appears to have retroactively edited a YouTube-published advertisement for Gemini to remove an AI-generated error.

Google Retroactively Edits Super Bowl Ad to Remove Embarrassing Error Its AI Made

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI has unveiled a new AI agent that can perform "intensive" research for you all on its own, with a predictable but major caveat.

OpenAI Shows Off AI “Researcher” That Compiles Detailed Reports, Struggles to Differentiate “Information From Rumors”

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is having some regrets about the company's closed-source approach, admitting he's been on the "wrong side of history."

Sam Altman Regrets Ditching Open Source, Says He’s Been on the “Wrong Side of History”

By Victor Tangermann

President Donald Trump's chaotic tariffs hit US-based AI chipmaker Nvidia's stock, wreaking havoc with the AI industry he claims to support.

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Trump’s Tariffs Are Wreaking Havoc on the AI Industry He Claims to Support

By Victor Tangermann

A new bill looks to "prohibit United States persons from advancing AI capabilities within" China, effectively making DeepSeek illegal.

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New Law Would Make It Illegal to Use DeepSeek, Punishable With 20 Years’ Prison Time

By Victor Tangermann

Character.AI marketed a chatbot based on a real school massacre directly to an email account associated with a teenage user.

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Character.AI Says It’s Made Huge Changes to Protect Underage Users, But It’s Emailing Them to Recommend Conversations With AI Versions of School Shooters

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The founder of a San Francisco-based AI startup called On Platform was arrested after being accused of defrauding investors of $60 million.

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Man Arrested for Raising $60 Million for AI Startup, Instead Spending It on Luxurious Lifestyle

By Victor Tangermann

Are Super Bowl ads the nail in the coffin for tech bubbles? We'll soon find out after this year's games, which will feature tons of AI ads.

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Super Bowl Ads Predicted the Dot Com and Crypto Bubbles. This Year’s Will Be Filled With Ads for AI Companies

By Noor Al-Sibai

An AI tool analyzes a man's face, with dizzying digital effects.

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Police Use of Facial Recognition Backfires Spectacularly When It Renders Them Unable to Convict Alleged Murderer

A bizarre AI-obsessed group may have inspired a pair of deadly assaults that took place thousands of miles apart.

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Members of AI Fringe Group Arrested for Two Killings

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI's new AI agent, Operator, isn't trustworthy or reliable enough to work without constant user supervision.

OpenAI’s AI Agent Has to Be Monitored Nonstop to Catch Its Constant Screwups

By Frank Landymore

As Wired reports, insiders are concerned that OpenAI could soon fall behind DeepSeek, in part due to a power struggle.

OpenAI Staff Turn Guns on Each Other After DeepSeek Humiliation

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers found that DeepSeek's R1 AI "failed to block a single harmful prompt" after being tested against 50 jailbreaking prompts.

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DeepSeek Failed Every Single Security Test, Researchers Found

By Victor Tangermann

A pro-Israel bot keeps going rogue and randomly criticizing Israel and the United States for the ongoing war in Palestine.

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Pro-Israel AI Bot Goes Off the Rails, Calls IDF Soldiers “Colonizers” and Demands Palestinian Statehood

By Noor Al-Sibai

DeepSeek's AI is loathe to engage in any talk of atrocities and human rights violations against its Uyghur people.

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DeepSeek’s AI Would Like to Assure You That China Is Not Committing Any Human Rights Abuses Whatsoever Against Its Repressed Uyghur Population

By Victor Tangermann

AI executives, along with US lawmakers, are terrified of Chinese AI competing with American tech companies.

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Tech Execs Plead for Great Firewall of America to Protect Them Against Scary Chinese AI

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI has announced that the US National Laboratories will use its deeply flawed AI models to help with "nuclear security."

OpenAI Strikes Deal With US Government to Use Its AI for Nuclear Weapon Security

By Victor Tangermann

Google's office with dark red, scary clouds looming behind.

Something Bad Is Brewing Inside Google

After getting epically roasted by an upstart competitor, OpenAI is asking investors to give them another $40 billion anyway, pretty please.

OpenAI Asking for Tens of Billions in New Investment to “Fund Its Money-Losing business Operations”

By Victor Tangermann

DeepSeek's databases were left wide-open for anyone to look into its user chatlogs and company infrastructure.

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If You Think Anyone in the AI Industry Has Any Idea What They’re Doing, It Appears That DeepSeek Just Accidentally Leaked Its Users’ Chats

By Noor Al-Sibai

Team Says They’ve Recreated DeepSeek’s OpenAI Killer for Literally $30

Team Says They’ve Recreated DeepSeek’s OpenAI Killer for Literally $30

$DeepSeek demonstrated that it's possible to create top-tier AI at a tiny fraction of the cost of what outfits like OpenAI have been spending.$

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AI Companies Tremble as They Realize It’s Easy for Competitors to Steal Their Super-Expensive Work for Pennies on the Dollar

By Victor Tangermann

LinkedIn has removed the accounts of so-called AI "coworkers" that were wasting everyone's time by being listed as looking for real work.

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AI “Coworkers” Profiles Prove Too Stupid Even For LinkedIn

By Frank Landymore

ChatGPT maker OpenAI has become the subject of widespread mockery after whining that DeepSeek stole its intellectual property.

OpenAI Hit With Wave of Mockery for Crying That Someone Stole Its Work Without Permission to Build a Competing Product

By Victor Tangermann

Alibaba claims that the latest version of its Qwen AI model has beaten out DeepSeek's V3, and OpenAI's o1.

Another Chinese AI Company Says It’s Beaten OpenAI

By Victor Tangermann

After spending years indiscriminately ripping off other people's work, OpenAI is trying to pin blame on Chinese AI startup DeepSeek.

OpenAI Says DeepSeek Used Its Work Without Permission to Create an AI That’s Stealing Its Job, Which Is Blatantly Hypocritical Since That’s Exactly What It Did to Human Artists

By Victor Tangermann

As China's DeepSeek dominates headlines and imaginations, OpenAI is getting deeper in bed with Donald Trump's government.

As Trump Offers Buyout to Get Rid of as Many Government Workers as Possible, OpenAI Announces New Version of ChatGPT Designed to Do Government Work

By Noor Al-Sibai

President Donald Trump keeps falling for incredibly obvious AI-generated slop on his Truth Social platform.

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Gullible Donald Trump Thinks an AI Slop Car Is a Real One

By Victor Tangermann

As news of DeepSeek's efficiency sends ripples through the market, American tech CEOs are already taking notes.

Former Intel CEO Says After Seeing DeepSeek, He’s Done With OpenAI

Donald Trump responded to the rapid success of DeepSeek, whose low-cost AI model embarasses the president's behemoth Stargate deal.

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Trump Responds After DeepSeek Humiliates His Splashy AI Announcement

By Frank Landymore

Tech companies aren't the only ones reeling from DeepSeek's stock route on Monday, as energy companies start to feel the heat.

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Energy Companies Stocks Plummet as DeepSeek Shows AI Doesn’t Need Entire Coal Plants to Cheat on Homework

DeepSeek has released an image generation AI model that rivals Dall-E3 just a week after stunning Silicon Valley with its R1 chatbot.

After Exploding American AI Industry With ChatGPT Competitor, DeepSeek Releases Image Generator Aimed at Beating DALL-E and Stable Diffusion

By Frank Landymore

Days after The Onion was forced to take down an article's image after realizing it was AI slop, the satirical news site has done so again.

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The Onion Just Deleted Another Image After Realizing It Was AI Slop

By Noor Al-Sibai

After several days of silence, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has spoken out about Chinese AI startup DeepSeek throwing Silicon Valley into chaos.

Sam Altman Says OpenAI Is Going to Deliver a Beatdown on DeepSeek

By Victor Tangermann

Mark Zuckerberg' Meta assembled several"war rooms" of engineers, as The Information reports, in an attempt to get ahead of DeepSeek.

Zuckerberg Convening Huge “War Rooms” to Figure Out How a Chinese Startup Is Annihilating Meta’s AI

By Victor Tangermann

G/O Media is using AI to churn out articles at the business news site Quartz — and its AI is already citing other AI-generated slop.

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Quartz Is Publishing AI-Generated Articles Based on Other AI Slop, Along With Warning They May Be Filled With Errors

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI Developer Seethes at Success of DeepSeek

OpenAI Developer Seethes at Success of DeepSeek

By Frank Landymore

AI chipmaker Nvidia has finally broken its silence following the firm setting a new record for the biggest single-day loss of any company.

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Nvidia Responds to Getting Hit in Face With Shovel

By Victor Tangermann

AI totally "crashing" everyone's wages is a necessary stepping stone towards a better future, argues billionaire Marcus Andreessen.

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Top AI Investor Says Goal Is to Crash Human Wages

By Frank Landymore

Nvidia's losses following the rise of DeepSeek's AI app are staggering, which doesn't bode well for Donald Trump's doubling down on the tech.

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Trump Embraced AI and It Exploded Spectacularly in His Face

By Victor Tangermann

According to its website, Chinese AI startup DeepSeek had to limit user registrations after being hit with "large-scale malicious attacks."

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Mega-Hyped Chinese AI App DeepSeek Says It’s Been Hit by “Large-Scale Malicious Attacks”

By Victor Tangermann

Like other Chinese AI models, DeepSeek is beholden to the rules of state censors. Its answer about the Tiananmen Square massacre is odd.

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DeepSeek Starts to Explain Tiananmen Square Massacre, Then Gets Caught by Built-In Censorship System

By Victor Tangermann

A Chinese AI chatbot called DeepSeek has rocketed to the top of the charts on Apple's App Store, sending ripples across Silicon Valley.

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Silicon Valley in Shambles as Chinese Startup Creates Top-Tier AI Without Billions of Investment

By Victor Tangermann

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

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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."

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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