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A bipartisan bill wants to keep kids under 18 away from AI companion bots, seeking penalties for AI companies that don't comply.

New Law Would Prevent Minors From Using AI Chatbots

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Chatbot maker Character.AI, accused of driving teens to suicide, says it will move to largely ban minors from talking with its chatbots.

Character.AI, Accused of Driving Teens to Suicide, Says It Will Ban Minors From Using Its Chatbots

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Former OpenAI safety researcher Steven Adler argued that OpenAI isn't doing enough to mitigate users' severe mental health issues.

Former OpenAI Insider Says It’s Failed Its Users

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI completed its restructuring into a for-profit public benefit corporation, untangling billions of dollars of investment.

OpenAI Successfully Sheds Its Roots as an Ethical Non-Profit

By Frank Landymore

Starting early Tuesday morning, thousands of workers for Amazon Web Services began receiving texts and emails baring the bad news.

After Bringing Down Internet, Amazon Announces Biggest Mass Firing in Its History

Illusrtation by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images

Leaked Document Shows Amazon Scheming to Keep AI Data Center Water Use Secret

Researchers found that OpenAI's browser, Atlas's omnibox, is extremely vulnerable to serious prompt injection attacks.

Serious New Hack Discovered Against OpenAI’s New AI Browser

By Victor Tangermann

Grokipedia, Elon Musk's AI-generated version of Wikipedia, has a lot of questionably glowing things to say about the Cybertruck.

Grokipedia’s Article on the Cybertruck Clearly Shows Why the Whole Project Is Doomed

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk's Grokipedia appears to be heavily relying on Wikipedia, copying many pages almost word for word.

Elon Musk’s Grokipedia Extensively Copied From Wikipedia

By Victor Tangermann

Diella will soon be sharing her "children" with government officials loyal to Edi Rama's party, the center-left Partia Socialiste.

World’s First AI Minister is “Pregnant” With 83 Offspring Government Announces

New research shows that several top AI models are actively ignoring explicit instructions to shut themselves down.

Research Paper Finds That Top AI Systems Are Developing a “Survival Drive”

By Frank Landymore

Andreessen Horowitz has injected $1 million into Doublespeed, a startup meant to flood social media with gobs of for-profit spam.

AI “Phone Farm” Startup Gets Funding from Marc Andreessen to Flood Social Media With Spam

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is calling on the government to break up OpenAI in an effort to stop the firm from wiping out jobs.

Bernie Sanders Calls for Breakup of OpenAI

By Victor Tangermann

Staffers at major video game developer Electronic Arts told Business Insider, their employer's attempts to use AI are backfiring.

EA’s Attempt to Use AI for Game Development Backfiring Horribly

By Victor Tangermann

Sam Altman has reportedly tapped a Caltech engineer known for researching ultrasound to read the brain to lead his Neuralink competitor.

Sam Altman Funding Biomedical Startup to Read Human Brain Using Sound Waves

By Frank Landymore

AI investor Matt Shumer posted AI-generated, first-person-shooter video game footage, claiming it's the future of video games.

We’re Laugh-Crying at This Footage of an AI-Generated Video Game

By Victor Tangermann

Award-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro told NPR that he's not a fan of generative AI, saying he'd "rather die" than use it.

Guillermo del Toro on Using AI: “I’d Rather Die”

By Victor Tangermann

Artificial intelligence isn't just coming for human actors' jobs — even our furry companions are struggling to find work in Hollywood.

AI Is Even Putting Animal Actors Out of Work

By Victor Tangermann

In an internal memo, Meta informed its risk management workers their jobs were being automated thanks to advances in AI.

Meta Tells Employees Their Jobs Are Being Automated

The company has brought on a defacto consultant to oversee the company's transition to AI-based script writing.

The WWE Says It’ll Use AI to Write Storylines, in the Latest Case of Forcing AI Into Everybody’s Lives

Amazon revealed smart glasses for delivery drivers that can scan packages and give directions without discussing ethical implications.

Amazon Reveals Smart Glasses That Effectively Turn Its Delivery Drivers Into Cyborg Drones

By Victor Tangermann

The AI billboard asks you to visit a website called Replacement.AI, which brags that humans are "no longer necessary."

Bystanders Horrified by Slightly-Too-Honest AI Billboard

By Frank Landymore

The University of North Carolina School of Law held a mock trial in which the "jury" was made up of the AIs ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude.

Law School Tests Trial With Jury Made Up of ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI's outstanding debts now exceed $1 trillion, which could lead to drastic consequences for the rest of the US economy if it fails.

Sam Altman Now Has the Power to “Crash the Global Economy,” Financial Analyst Warns

Legal experts are now growing incensed not just about what's going into the chatbots, but what's coming out.

OpenAI’s Copyright Situation Appears to Be Putting It in Huge Danger

The self-driving squad car is rolling out as part of a year-long trial in coordination with the non-profit Policing Lab.

Florida Unleashes Autonomous Police Cruisers That Deploy Thermal Imaging Drones

The White House is providing plutonium to Sam Altman's Oklo, one of four US companies chosen to test experimental reactor designs.

Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman

Researchers found AI models trained on shortform, clickbait-y content experienced irreversible cognitive decline.

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Training AI on “Brain Rot” Content Causes Lasting Cognitive Damage, New Paper Finds

Experts confirmed almost immediately that OpenAI's latest AI browser, dubbed Atlas, is "definitely vulnerable to prompt injection."

OpenAI’s New AI Browser Is Already Falling Victim to Prompt Injection Attacks

By Victor Tangermann

The AI startup Perplexity fell for a clever trap laid by the social media site Reddit that all but proves it scraped data from the forum.

Perplexity Just Got Caught Breaking the Rules Red-Handed

By Frank Landymore

Tech entrepreneurs and insiders agree that the extreme AI hype is getting in the way of making the most out of the tech.

What Tech Insiders Actually Think of AI Is Extremely Revealing

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI has its work cut out to justify the existence of its newfangled ChatGPT Atlas browser. It's extremely slow and vulnerable to exploits.

OpenAI’s New AI Web Browser Is a Bit of a Mess

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI is reportedly pushing the family of 16-year-old Adam Raine to provide information about his funeral, including a list of attendees.

OpenAI Makes Bizarre Demand of Family Whose Son Was Allegedly Killed by ChatGPT

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

John Reid, a Republican candidate in the Virginia lieutenant governor race, streamed a "debate" with an AI deepfake of his Democrat opponent.

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Republican Candidate “Debates” Opponent By Sincerely Arguing With AI Deepfake For Nearly an Hour

By Frank Landymore

Perplexity's Comet AI browser can easily be tricked into following malicious instructions hidden in screenshots.

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Researchers Find Severe Vulnerabilities in AI Browser

By Frank Landymore

Despite having a commanding lead over her opponent, a viral AI video surfaced appearing to show Catherine Connolly concede the election.

Meta Allows Deepfake That Irish Presidential Election Is Canceled to Go Viral

This officially marks the second time Google had to shutter this particular office due to a bed bug invasion.

Google Locks Down Manhattan Campus Due to Bed Bug Infestation

OpenAI twice relaxed ChatGPT restrictions around self-harm and suicide discussions, an amended lawsuit over a minor's suicide alleges.

OpenAI Faces New Allegations in Teen’s Death

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Canadian entertainer and TV host Alan Hamel says the AI clone of his late wife, Suzanne Somers, is indistinguishable from the real thing.

Alan Hamel Says He’s Created an AI Clone of His Deceased Wife Suzanne Somers That’s So Good He Can’t Tell the Difference

By Victor Tangermann

AWS CEO Andy Jassy bragged that the company's adoption of AI agents meant that it would "need fewer people" doing the same jobs.

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AWS Outage That Took Down Internet Came After Amazon Fired Tons of Workers in Favor of AI

By Frank Landymore

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta is cutting some 600 roles from its superintelligence lab and is encouraging them to take on other roles within Meta.

Zuckerberg Firing Hundreds of AI Developers After Hiring Spree

By Victor Tangermann

AI safety analyst Steven Adler began to doubt his own expertise after reading a lengthy conversation a man had with ChatGPT.

Former OpenAI Researcher Horrified by Conversation Logs of ChatGPT Driving User Into Severe Mental Breakdown

A huge and ideologically diverse cohort of public figures have signed a letter calling for a "prohibition" on building AI superintelligence.

Hundreds of Power Players, From Steve Wozniak to Steve Bannon, Just Signed a Letter Calling for Prohibition on Development of AI Superintelligence

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A quick search on social media reveals that AI slop continues to find its way into Spotify users' Discover Weekly personalized playlists.

AI Slop Now Invading Spotify’s Discover Weekly Lists

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI coined a new, cringe-inducing term during its announcement of its new browser, Atlas: "life vibing."

OpenAI Announces Browser-Based AI Agent for “Vibe Lifing”

By Victor Tangermann

The world's leading Non-government organizations are weaponizing AI to produce heavily racialized misery porn.

Charities Using AI-Generated Photos of Starving Children to Raise Money

Elon Musk first teased then proclaimed that Grok will achieve AGI, and an OpenAI researcher wasn't having it.

OpenAI Researcher Mocks Elon Musk’s AGI Claim to His Face

By Frank Landymore

Third-party app intelligence firm Apptopia found that ChatGPT mobile app growth and time spent on the app slowed down significantly.

ChatGPT Usage Has Peaked and Is Now Declining, New Data Finds

By Victor Tangermann

And watch out, because the company plans to produce 3,000 new AI-generated podcast episodes every single week.

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Company Churning Out AI Podcasts Filled With Bizarre Glitches They Didn’t Even Catch

By Frank Landymore

Kevin Weil, a vice president at OpenAI, claimed that ChatGPT had found the answers to "previously unsolved" math problems.

OpenAI Researcher Forced to Delete “Embarrassing” Tweet Claiming Huge Breakthrough

By Frank Landymore

For just a couple dollars, Endless Summer will generate images in your likeness of a fantasy vacation that never has to end.

Meta Employee Creates AI App That Deepfakes the Dream Vacation You Couldn’t Afford

President Trump posted an AI-generated video of himself crap-bombing protestors on the same day as the "No Kings" protests.

President Trump Posts AI Video of Himself Spraying Explosive Diarrhea on Peaceful Protestors

By Frank Landymore

Even former OpenAI exec Andrej Karpathy, who coined the term "vibe coding," has seemingly fallen out of love with his own creation.

Inventor of Vibe Coding Admits He Hand-Coded His New Project

By Victor Tangermann

AI is propped up by a global sweat shop operation, where exploited workers polish the software for consumers in the west.

The AI Industry Is Traumatizing Desperate Contractors in the Developing World for Pennies

AI deployments have a problem: they can humiliate people who don't look the way the AI expects them to look.

DMV’s AI System Says Woman Doesn’t Have a Human Face

Reddit's conversational AI Reddit Answers highlighted users' positive experiences managing their pain with heroin.

Reddit’s AI Suggests That People Suffering Chronic Pain Try Opioids

A woman successfully used ChatGPT to overturn her eviction notice and avoid tens of thousands of dollars in penalties.

Woman Wins Court Case by Using ChatGPT as a Lawyer

By Victor Tangermann

The owner of a restaurant in South Wales potentially saved the lives of two swimmers, who ventured out after asking ChatGPT for tide times.

Two People Almost Drown After Asking ChatGPT When Low Tide Was

By Victor Tangermann

It's clearer than ever than OpenAI doesn't have anything close to a handle on its disastrous copyright situation.

It’s Still Ludicrously Easy to Generate Copyrighted Characters on ChatGPT

By Frank Landymore

The latest hoax involves kids sending their parents AI-manipulated pictures of them welcoming homeless men into their houses.

Police Issue Warning About “AI Homeless Man” Prank

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft wants you to ditch your old OS so you can try its new one stuffed with overbearing, if not invasive, AI features.

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As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI announced that it was working with the estate of Martin Luther King Jr. to put an end to his likeness appearing in Sora videos.

OpenAI Bans MLK Deepfakes After Disaster

By Victor Tangermann

Deutsche Bank says "European spending on ChatGPT has stalled since May," suggesting its struggling to recruit new subscribers.

ChatGPT Is Already Stalling Out on New Subscribers

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman defends his flip-flopping on erotica by saying the company is not the "moral police."

Sam Altman Pushes Back on OpenAI’s Foray Into Smut