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OpenAI is peddling what it calls a "cloud-based software engineering agent," but fails to explain where its getting the data to train it.

Codex, OpenAI’s New Coding Agent, Wants to Be a World-Killer

Following news of former president Joe Biden's prostate cancer diagnosis, a lot of Americans took to Google to find out what a prostate was.

Far Too Many Americans Googled “What Is a Prostate” Following Joe Biden’s Cancer Diagnosis

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Hikers are ending up in need of rescue because they're following the questionable recommendations of an AI chatbot.

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AI Chatbots Are Putting Clueless Hikers in Danger, Search and Rescue Groups Warn

By Frank Landymore

Chicago Newspaper Caught Publishing a “Summer Reads” Guide Full of AI Slop

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Chicago Newspaper Caught Publishing a “Summer Reads” Guide Full of AI Slop

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Epic Games introduced an AI-powered Darth Vader using a clone of the actor's iconic voice, which immediately stirred up a hornet's nest.

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Fortnite’s Foul-Mouthed AI Darth Vader Sparks Major Controversy

By Frank Landymore

The paper on AI and scientific discovery has now become a black eye on MIT's reputation.

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MIT Disavowed a Viral Paper Claiming That AI Leads to More Scientific Discoveries

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk's Grok AI continues to shock the world.

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Elon Musk’s AI Just Went There

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have found that newer AI models can omit key details from text summaries as much as 73 percent of the time.

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AI Chatbots Are Becoming Even Worse At Summarizing Data

World leaders being shown baby versions of themselves at a global summit.

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World Leaders Shown AI Baby Versions of Themselves at European Summit

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Special effects house Industrial Light and Magic shared a new AI demo of Star Wars creatures that look absolutely awful.

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Star Wars’ Showcase of AI Special Effects Was a Complete Disaster

By Frank Landymore

A new AI tool called Track is being used as a workaround to the current laws against facial recognition, not to improve the tech.

Facial recognition

The Hot New AI Tool in Law Enforcement Is a Workaround for Places Where Facial Recognition Is Banned

By Foster Kamer

According to a recent campaign, more than half of recent job applicants said they had used AI tools to write their resumes.

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AI Is Helping Job Seekers Lie, Flood the Market, and Steal Jobs

By Victor Tangermann

Asking Elon Musk's Grok AI about the career of actor Timothée Chalamet results in a rant about biases in "mainstream sources."

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Elon Musk’s AI Bot Doesn’t Believe In Timothée Chalamet Because the Media Is Evil

By Victor Tangermann

The AI company recently confessed to using its own AI chatbot to format its legal briefings, arguing that AI was to blame for the error.

Anthropic Tried to Defend Itself With AI and It Backfired Horribly

xAI, owned by Elon Musk, is blaming its chatbot having a meltdown on an "unauthorized modification" to Grok's code.

Grok AI Went Off the Rails After Someone Tampered With Its Code, xAI Says

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An OnlyFans model was shocked to find that a scammer had stolen her content — and used it to flood Reddit with AI deepfakes.

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OnlyFans Model Shocked After Finding Her Pictures With AI-Swapped Faces on Reddit

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A former software engineer of 20 years is sounding the alarm on the reality of AI taking over the workplace.

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A Software Engineer Who Was Replaced by AI Was Forced to Live in a Trailer After Getting Rejected from 800 Jobs

Elon Musk's chatbot Grok admits that its creators instructed it to start ranting about "white genocide" in unrelated posts.

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Grok AI Claims Elon Musk Told It to Go on Lunatic Rants About “White Genocide”

By Frank Landymore

A judge fined two law firms tens of thousands of dollars after lawyers submitted a brief containing sloppy AI errors.

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Law Firms Caught and Punished for Passing Around “Bogus” AI Slop in Court

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The firing of America's top copyright official was seen as a boon for Big Tech — but the new guys are not so sensitive to industry's needs.

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There’s Apparently Some Serious Drama Brewing Between Elon Musk’s DOGE and Trump’s MAGA

By Noor Al-Sibai

Audible announced new AI narration tools that publishers can use to churn out entire AI-generated audiobooks.

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Even Audiobooks Aren’t Safe From AI Slop

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk's xAI chatbot, Grok, is ranting about white genocide in South Africa in response to completely unrelated queries.

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Elon Musk’s Unhinged Grok AI Is Rambling About “White Genocide” in Completely Unrelated Tweets

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Soundcloud, after backlash from musicians, artists, and the music-listening community, changed their policies on AI.

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SoundCloud Backtracks on AI and Changes Policies After Artist Outrage

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Many students aren't allowed to use artificial intelligence, and when they catch their teachers doing so, they're often peeved.

Student Livid After Catching Her Professor Using ChatGPT, Asks For Her Money Back

By Noor Al-Sibai

Years after outsourcing marketing and customer service gigs to AI, the Swedish company Klarna is looking to hire its humans back.

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Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back

Elon Musk is mad that his AI chatbot, Grok, referred to The Atlantic and The BBC as credible news sources.

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Why Elon Musk Is Furious and Publicly Raging at His Own AI Chatbot, Grok

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New Law Would Ban All AI Regulation for a Decade

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New Law Would Ban All AI Regulation for a Decade

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The US Copyright Office released a report that could be bad for powerful AI companies. The next day, the agency's head was fired.

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The US Copyright Chief Was Fired After Raising Red Flags About AI Abuse

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Pope Leo XIV, the newly-crowned first American pope, is keeping the social costs of rapid AI advancement front and center.

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The New Pope Is Deeply Skeptical of AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

USA Today is publishing automated articles full of links to gambling sportsbooks, which may result in financial kickbacks for the publisher.

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USA TODAY’s Disclaimers on Its Automated Sports Stories Are Longer Than the Actual Articles

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The media giant Gannett is using AI to "automatically generate" content about lottery scores and tickets in local newspapers across the US.

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Gannett Is Using AI to Pump Brainrot Gambling Content Into Newspapers Across the Country

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI's desire to please is becoming a danger to humankind as users turn to it to confirm misinformation, race science, and conspiracy theories.

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AI Brown-Nosing Is Becoming a Huge Problem for Society

Chinese Tech Giant Wants to Translate Your Cat’s Meows Using AI

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Chinese Tech Giant Wants to Translate Your Cat’s Meows Using AI

By Victor Tangermann

The FDA announced that it will start using AI across all of its centers to shorten the drug review process.

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The FDA Will Use AI to Accelerate Approving Drugs

By Frank Landymore

An AI model can purportedly glean a cancer patient's biological age by looking at a photo of their face, predicting their odds of survival.

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Scientists Claim AI Can Tell Cancer Patients Their Odds of Living by Looking At Their Selfies

By Frank Landymore

Elementl Power just announced a signed agreement with Google to erect three project sites for "advanced nuclear energy."

Google is Building Three New Nuclear Plants for Its Extremely Power-Hungry AI

A new study is revealing just how horrible AI is at grading student homework, and the results are worse than you think.

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Teachers Using AI to Grade Their Students’ Work Sends a Clear Message: They Don’t Matter, and Will Soon Be Obsolete

Meta quietly restarted efforts to infuse facial recognition into its smart glasses, according to a report from The Information.

Facial recognition

Years After Promising to Stop Facial Recognition Work, Meta Has a Devious New Plan

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Without a permit, Elon Musk's enormous AI data center in Memphis is spewing hazardous pollutants into the air, enraging residents.

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Community Complains of Choking Fumes From Elon Musk’s AI Fortress

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI has poached the CEO of Instacart for a fancy new job — but there's something weird going on with her job description.

Lazy Sam Altman Hires New OpenAI “CEO” to Do All the Work for Him Without Having to Resign

By Noor Al-Sibai

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SoundCloud Quietly Updated Their Terms to Let AI Feast on Artists’ Music

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Looking for work is already arduous enough — but for one job-seeker, the process was made worse by an insane AI recruiter.

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Deranged Video Shows AI Job Recruiter Absolutely Losing It During an Interview

By Noor Al-Sibai

A slain Arizona man's family used AI to bring him back from the dead for his killer's sentencing — and the judge loved it.

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The Judge’s Reaction to an AI-Generated Victim Impact Statement Was Not What We Expected

By Noor Al-Sibai

To bypass AI writing detection, college students are, apparently, adding typos into their chatbot-generated papers.

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College Students Are Sprinkling Typos Into Their AI Papers on Purpose

By Noor Al-Sibai

In Arizona, the family of a man killed during a road rage incident has used artificial intelligence to revive their dead loved one in court.

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Family Uses AI To Revive Dead Brother For Impact Statement in Killer’s Trial

By Noor Al-Sibai

Pinterest is facing an influx of AI slop designed to attract users to synthetic websites. Here's a glimpse into their tactics — and psyches.

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Slop Farmer Boasts About How He Uses AI to Flood Social Media With Garbage to Trick Older Women

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Thanks in part to erstwhile cofounder Elon Musk's lawsuit, OpenAI won't be going entirely for-profit anytime soon.

OpenAI Forced to Abandon Plans to Become For-Profit

By Noor Al-Sibai

Jim Fagan's iconic voice defined NBA promos throughout the 1990s and early 2000s — and now, NBC is bringing that voice back from the dead.

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NBC Using AI to Bring Beloved NBA Narrator Jim Fagan Back From the Grave

By Noor Al-Sibai

Far-right posters on Elon Musk's X keep getting frustrated by being confronted with a dose of reality after posing Grok questions.

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MAGA Angry as Elon Musk’s Grok AI Keeps Explaining Why Their Beliefs Are Factually Incorrect

By Victor Tangermann

Artificial intelligence models have long struggled with hallucinations. The problem is getting worse as they become bigger and smarter.

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The AI Industry Has a Huge Problem: the Smarter Its AI Gets, the More It’s Hallucinating

By Victor Tangermann

A Google DeepMind executive admitted that the company still trains its AI models on data collected on sites that opted out of AI training.

Google’s AI Is Scraping Even Sites That Ask to Be Ignored

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI's ChatGPT may be driving countless of its users into a dangerous state of "ChatGPT-induced psychosis."

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ChatGPT Users Are Developing Bizarre Delusions

By Victor Tangermann

As local activists repel data center development, their battleplans are being chronicled and shared with organizers across the country.

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Small Towns Are Rising Up Against AI Data Centers

The CEO of Anthropic, one of the world's leading AI labs, just said the quiet part out loud — that nobody really knows how AI works.

Anthropic CEO Admits We Have No Idea How AI Works

By Noor Al-Sibai

Credit card giant Visa is teaming up with AI companies to create its own AI agent that can make purchases on your behalf.

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Visa Announces Plans to Give AI Agents Your Credit Card Information

By Frank Landymore

The world's longest running SciFi literature convention is being panned for using ChatGPT to select its panelists.

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Worldcon Is Getting Eviscerated for Using AI to Select Panelists

Users noticed that the latest version of OpenAI's ChatGPT had made it extremely "sycophantic." The company claims to have found out why.

OpenAI Says It’s Identified Why ChatGPT Became a Groveling Sycophant

By Victor Tangermann

The website for WECB, Emerson College's student radio station, was stolen — and quickly transformed into a parasitic AI zombie site.

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Scammers Stole the Website for Emerson College’s Student Radio Station and Started Running It as a Zombie AI Farm

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Marc Andreessen recently argued that the AI revolution will take over for all jobs, except for his, coincidentally.

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Top Venture Capitalist Says AI Will Replace Pretty Much All Jobs Except His, Which Relies on His Unique Genius

The emergence of generative AI, may have already begun to slowly replace young college graduates with algorithms.

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Signs Grow That AI Is Starting to Seriously Bite Into the Job Market

By Victor Tangermann

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is more concerned about his billions of customers making friends with AI chatbots than creating bonds with real human beings.

Zuckerberg Says in Response to Loneliness Epidemic, He Will Create Most of Your Friends Using Artificial Intelligence

By Victor Tangermann

Using generative AI, a growing trend of live-video fakes fueled by AI is targeting the young and old alike.

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Lonely Boomers Are Doomed Now That Scammers Are Using AI Filters to Make Themselves Look Like Beautiful Women

ChatGPT Is Already Bungling Product Recommendations

ChatGPT Is Already Bungling Product Recommendations

By Frank Landymore

Researchers from Stanford and the tech safety nonprofit Common Sense Media say children shouldn't be talking to AI companion bots.

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Stanford Researchers Say No Kid Under 18 Should Be Using AI Chatbot Companions

By Maggie Harrison Dupré