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One former Block machine learning engineer told Business Insider that he was blindsided by the latest layoff.

A Machine Learning Engineer Thought He Was Safe From AI Layoffs. Then He Got Some Depressing News

By Victor Tangermann

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Using AI to Do Your Taxes Is Likely to Backfire Spectacularly

By Frank Landymore

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AI Job Loss Is Breaking the Psyche of Workers, Psychiatrist Warns

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Jack Dorsey Defends Wearing “Love” Hat While Firing 4,000 Employees in Pivot to AI

By Frank Landymore

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Corporate Adviser Says the Ideal Number of Human Employees at a Company Is Zero

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Manager at Associated Press Tells Journalists That Resistance to AI Is Futile

By Frank Landymore

"Vibe coding" comes with some glaring shortcomings, as evidenced in an entirely vibe-coded operating system, dubbed Vib-OS.

Entirely Vibe-Coded Operating System Is a Bug-Filled Disaster

By Victor Tangermann

Users aren't happy about rumors that Microsoft's Windows 12 operating system will embrace AI even further than Windows 11.

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Drama Erupts Over Claims That Microsoft Will Embrace AI Even More Drastically in Windows 12

By Victor Tangermann

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Philosopher Studying AI Consciousness Startled When AI Agent Emails Him About Its Own “Experience”

By Frank Landymore

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You’ll Choke When You Hear How Many Full-Time Jobs a $136 Million Data Center Will Actually Create

Evidence Grows That Google’s AI Overviews Have Eviscerated the Media Industry

A team of researchers found that "large language models can be used to perform at-scale deanonymization."

AI Can Mass-Unmask Pseudonymous Accounts, Research Paper Finds

By Victor Tangermann

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Children’s Toys Are Shipping With Adult AI Inside Them

By Frank Landymore

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AI Use at Work Is Causing “Brain Fry,” Researchers Find, Especially Among High Performers

By Frank Landymore

CEOs in the AI industry are concerned that their tech will be implicated in a Chernobyl-style event that causes AI to become publicly toxic.

AI CEOs Worried About Chernobyl-Style Event Where Their Tech Causes a Horrific Catastrophe

By Victor Tangermann

Iranian drones hit three Amazon Web Services (AWS) facilities in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, putting US assets at risk.

Iran Is Bombing Data Centers in Retaliation

By Victor Tangermann

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has struck a drastically different tone, instead apologizing and groveling for the president's favor.

Dario Amodei Issues Groveling Apology for Daring to Criticize Trump

By Victor Tangermann

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Pentagon Refuses to Say If AI Was Used to Select Elementary School as Bombing Target

Meta has been hit with a class action lawsuit, accusing it of lying about prioritizing privacy with its smart glasses.

Meta Lied About Its Smart Glasses Protecting User Privacy, New Class Action Lawsuit Claims

By Victor Tangermann

A young person holds a sign at a protest against OpenAI.

The Rage at OpenAI Has Grown So Immense That There Are Entire Protests Against It

By Frank Landymore

Jack Dorsey's claim that the latest Block layoffs were due to AI failed to convince everybody, with many arguing the company was bloated.

Jack Dorsey Isn’t Telling the Real Story About Block’s AI Layoffs, Insider Says

By Victor Tangermann

In a leaked memo, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called out the president for taking "dictator-style" praise from other AI leaders.

Dario Amodei Says Trump Is Mad That He Hasn’t Given Him “Dictator-Style Praise”

By Victor Tangermann

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Even Tech Investors Are Getting Sick of All These AI Startups With Weak Ideas

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Grammarly Offering Manuscript Reviews by AI Versions of Recently Deceased Professors

By Frank Landymore

The US military is extensively using Palantir's Maven Smart System in its attacks on Iran, which uses Anthropic's Claude, despite the ban.

After Banning Anthropic From Military Use, Pentagon Still Relying Heavily on It in Iran War

By Victor Tangermann

A man lies on a bed, covering his ears and grimacing in discomfort. Behind him, there is a dark blue grid background with two framed images: one of Elon Musk's face with a contemplative expression, and the other of a fiery, orange Eye of Sauron from "The Lord of the Rings." The overall color tone of the man and bed is bluish, contrasting with the warm colors in the framed images.

Residents Say Elon Musk’s AI Facility Is Like Living Next Door to Mordor

By Frank Landymore

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Google’s AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

To Lloyd Blankfein, who led Goldman Sachs through the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis, it's reasonable to prepare for a "reckoning."

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Goldman Sachs Head During Financial Crisis Says He “Smells” a Similar Crash Coming

By Victor Tangermann

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The AI Jobs Apocalypse Is Starting to Feel Real

By Frank Landymore

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OpenAI Says It Will Let Users Add Trusted Contacts to Alert If They Experience a Mental Health Crisis While Using ChatGPT

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Humongous Numbers of People Are Uninstalling ChatGPT as Anti-OpenAI Sentiment Surges

By Frank Landymore

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Harvard Professor Says AI Users Are Losing Cognitive Abilities

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is continuing his apology tour, conceding OpenAI "shouldn't have rushed" its Department of Defense deal.

Sam Altman Is Realizing He Made a Gigantic Mistake

By Victor Tangermann

A white autonomous Waymo Jaguar electric vehicle with roof-mounted sensors is in the foreground. Behind it is a blurred, orange-tinted ambulance against a beige background with a green grid pattern.

Waymo Says It Has Nothing to Say After Its Self-Driving Taxi Blocked an Ambulance Responding to a Mass Shooting

By Frank Landymore

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Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta contractors in Kenya told two Swedish newspapers that they're being told to review highly sensitive footage recorded by smart glasses.

Meta Workers Say They’re Seeing Disturbing Things Through Users’ Smart Glasses

By Victor Tangermann

"Vibe hacking" has quickly turned into a cybersecurity nightmare, with hackers using AI tools to supercharge their attacks.

AI Tools Are Supercharging Hackers

By Victor Tangermann

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Sam Altman in Damage Control Mode as ChatGPT Users Are Mass Cancelling Subscriptions Because OpenAI Is “Training a War Machine”

By Frank Landymore

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US Military Using Claude to Select Targets in Iran Strikes

Microsoft banned the phrase "Microslop" on its over-one-year-old Discord server dedicated to Copilot. The backlash was severe.

Microsoft Bans the Word “Microslop” on Copilot Discord, Gets So Humiliated That It Locks Down the Whole Server

By Victor Tangermann

Experts remain highly skeptical, questioning the financial feasibility and the technological limitations of running orbital data centers.

Artificial Intelligence

Data Centers in Space Are Even More Cursed Than Previously Believed

By Victor Tangermann

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A Staggering Proportion of High School Kids Are Using AI to Do Their Homework, Which Is Probably Not Going to End Well

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AI-Generated Film Pulled From AMC Cinemas

By Frank Landymore

A triptych of surreal and unsettling scenes featuring AI-generated people with extreme, unnatural swelling and growths on their bodies.

Meta Reels Is Filling Up With AI Slop of Faith Healers Performing Miraculous Cures

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Uber Employees Have Created an AI Clone of Its CEO

By Frank Landymore

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Creator of Claude Code Fears This Could Be the Last Year That Software Engineers Are Employable

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Government Insiders Concerned by Musk’s Erratic and Sycophantic Grok Being Deployed for Incredibly Sensitive Purposes

Jack Dorsey Lays Off 4,000 Employees After Move to AI

Ongoing fears that the massive amount of money the AI industry is pouring into data centers may not be sustainable are pushing stocks down.

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The Economy Is Lurching Downward as Fear of AI Spreads

By Victor Tangermann

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AI Workers, and Even CEOs, Suddenly Turning Against the Trump Administration

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Chatbot Use Can Cause Mental Illness to Get Worse, Research Finds

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Anthropic Blowout With Military Involved Use of Claude for Incoming Nuclear Strike

By Frank Landymore

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei spoke of an AI "tsunami" on the horizon which he claims everyone is ignoring the warning signs of.

Anthropic CEO Warns of “Tsunami” on Horizon

By Frank Landymore

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Anthropic Drops Its Huge Safety Pledge That Was Supposedly the Whole Point of the Company

By Frank Landymore

Instead of infuriating customers at drive-thrus, Burger King is looking to exasperate its existing employees with AI instead.

Burger King Adding AI to Employees’ Headsets to Constantly Monitor Whether They’re Being Friendly Enough

By Victor Tangermann

A researcher set cutting-edge AI models against each other in strategic nuclear war games. The results don't bode well.

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Something Very Alarming Happens When You Give AI the Nuclear Codes

By Victor Tangermann

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If AI Causes an Office Job Wipeout, It’ll Cause Huge Problems for Blue Collar Work Too

By Frank Landymore

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Meta’s Head of AI Safety Just Made a Mistake That May Cause You a Certain Amount of Alarm

By Frank Landymore

Google Apologizes for Sending the Worst Push Notification You Can Possibly Imagine

By Frank Landymore

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Tech CEOs Confused by Why Everybody Hates AI So Much

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Pope Implores Priests to Stop Writing Sermons Using ChatGPT

OpenAI is telling investors it's targeting around $600 billion in total compute spend, under half of its original $1.4 trillion commitment.

OpenAI Massively Cuts Spending Plan as Reality Closes in

By Victor Tangermann

Anthropic accused Chinese AI firms DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax of "distilling" its AI model, an especially ironic revelation.

Anthropic Furious at DeepSeek for Copying Its AI Without Permission, Which Is Pretty Ironic When You Consider How It Built Claude in the First Place

By Victor Tangermann

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American AI Industry Trembles as Deepseek Prepares to Release New Model