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Google's crappy "AI Overviews" regularly spits out dangerous and incorrect answers — and now it's being entrusted with health advice.

Google Says Its Error-Ridden “AI Overviews” Will Now Give Health Advice

By Noor Al-Sibai

The chatbot startup Character.AI is accused of causing the death of a 14-year-old user. Now, it's hosting AI impersonations of the dead teen.

Google-Backed Chatbot Platform Caught Hosting AI Impersonations of 14-Year-Old User Who Died by Suicide

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Attempting to punish reasoning AI models for cheating only made them better at lying about their intent, OpenAI researchers found.

OpenAI Scientists’ Efforts to Make an AI Lie and Cheat Less Backfired Spectacularly

By Frank Landymore

Character.AI and Google are facing allegations that they tested dangerous, dangerous, experimental AI chatbots on minors. Did they?

Did Google Test an Experimental AI on Kids, With Tragic Results?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Most human children learn how to tell time around ages six and seven — but artificial intelligence still can't parse a clock face.

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You’ll Laugh at This Simple Task AI Still Can’t Do

By Noor Al-Sibai

A survey of nearly 500 AI researchers indicated that the vast majority of them think that pursuing "scaling" won't achieve AGI.

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Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End

By Frank Landymore

Months before Google struck a $2.7 billion licensing deal with Character.AI, Google AI scientists warned that AI companions could harm kids.

Before Google Was Blamed for the Suicide of a Teen Chatbot User, Its Researchers Published a Paper Warning of Those Exact Dangers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microsoft has "unintentionally uninstalled" its Copilot AI assistant app on some devices running Windows 11 — and users are rejoicing.

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Users Cheer as Microsoft Accidentally Removes Hated AI Feature From Windows 11

By Victor Tangermann

Sam Altman, OpenAI's billionaire founder, gestures toward himself in front of an illustrated geometric background.

Flailing OpenAI Calls for Ban on Chinese AI

Chinese regulators have announced that all AI-generated content on the internet will have to be labeled as such.

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All AI-Generated Material Must Be Labeled Online, China Announces

By Victor Tangermann

Ashly Burch, the voice actor behind Aloy from the "Horizon" video games, says she's "worried" about her profession's future.

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Voice Actor for Aloy in “Horizon” Games Creeped Out by AI Version of Her Character

By Frank Landymore

A new AI gadget records everything that's said and done around you — and serves you back weird, incorrect "memories" of it all.

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New AI Gadget Records Your Entire Life and Then Lies to You About What Happened

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI is raising the specter of China and predicting the US will lose the AI race if it's unable to scrape copyrighted materials.

OpenAI Says It’s “Over” If It Can’t Steal All Your Copyrighted Work

By Noor Al-Sibai

New research found that AI models gave the wrong answer in search results more than 60 percent of the time.

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Study Finds That AI Search Engines Are Wrong an Astounding Proportion of the Time

By Frank Landymore

Recently uncovered documents have revealed a NASA purchasing order for a license to use Clearview AI, a contentious surveillance startup.

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NASA Caught Purchasing Controversial AI Surveillance Software

Yale Law Scholar Suspended After AI Calls Her a Terrorist

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Yale Law Scholar Suspended After AI Calls Her a Terrorist

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposed to give AI models of the future the ability to hit an "I quit this job" button.

Anthropic CEO Suggests That AI Deserves Workers’ Rights

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's "anti-woke" AI chatbot Grok is now, apparently a Democratic operative that shills for the opposition party.

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Elon Musk’s Grok AI Determines Which Political Party Has Performed Better for the Economy

By Noor Al-Sibai

Wu-Tang Clan ain't nothin' to eff with — unless, of course, you're an AI-loving director creating the visuals for their new single.

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Wu-Tang Clan’s New Music Video Is Extremely AI-Generated

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI Shares Image of Mysterious Black Orb

OpenAI Shares Image of Mysterious Black Orb

By Noor Al-Sibai

From press releases to job postings: an alarming percentage of them are AI slop written by a large language model, according to new research.

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The Entire Internet Is Being Polluted by AI Slop

By Frank Landymore

Australian startup Cortical Labs has launched what it's calling the "world’s first code deployable biological computer."

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Weird New Computer Runs AI on Captive Human Brain Cells

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's "anti-woke" AI chatbot, Grok, seems to think there's a very high likelihood that Donald Trump is a Russian asset.

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Elon’s Grok Chatbot Calculates Probability That Trump Is a Russian Asset

By Noor Al-Sibai

The leader of the Zizians, an alleged cult that hoped to usher in a murderous AI, once faked her own death.

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The Woman Accused of Running a Murderous Cult Linked to Roko’s Basilisk Faked Her Own Death Before “Coming Back to Life”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Pinterest is the latest tech company to update its privacy policies to allow it to scrape user data for AI training.

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Pinterest Changes User Terms So It Can Train AI on User Data and Photos, Regardless of When They Were Posted

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Amazon is testing a new "AI-aided" dubbing feature on a selection of movies in English and Latin American Spanish.

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In Further Assault on Cinema, Amazon Is Deploying AI-Aided Dubs on Streaming Movies

By Frank Landymore

High-skilled freelancers are finding their wages suppressed as job opportunities drop, all thanks to the introduction of AI.

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Freelancers Are Getting Ruined by AI

One of the richest men on the planet has decided to grab the golden calf and milk AI hype for all it's worth.

The Cofounder of Google Has a Secret New AI Startup

Google, has announced that it's going to expand its infamously terrible and ad-inundated AI Overviews feature.

Google Announces “AI Mode” For Search Results That Only Shows You AI Slop

By Frank Landymore

The Pentagon has signed a deal with AI company Scale AI, dubbed "Thunderforge," to use AI agents for military planning and operations.

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Pentagon Signs Deal to “Deploy AI Agents for Military Use”

By Victor Tangermann

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An AI Slop “Science” Site Has Been Beating Real Publications in Google Results by Publishing Fake Images of SpaceX Rockets

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google's so called "AI co-scientist" has been met with skepticism by actual scientists, who've shot down some of the company's claims.

Scientists Say Google’s “AI Scientist” Is Dead on Arrival

By Frank Landymore

Google's AI Overviews confidently insist that MJ Lenderman has won 14 Grammys — even though he's never been nominated for one on his own.

Google’s AI Insists That MJ Lenderman Has Won 14 Grammys

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Los Angeles Times is now shoving artificial intelligence into its opinion articles — and it already seems to be backfiring.

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LA Times Uses AI to Provide “Different Views” on the KKK

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI and Google appear to be sucking up much-needed traffic to websites and massively screwing publishers over in the process.

ChatGPT and Other Chatbots Are Hurting Publishers Even Worse Than We Thought

By Noor Al-Sibai

High school shop classes are back as students prepare for a future in which artificial intelligence has taken over white-collar jobs.

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High Schools Training Students for Manual Labor as AI Looms Over College and Jobs

By Noor Al-Sibai

Personal AI assistants are slated to take over this year — and if they do, the internet as we know it may not exist any longer.

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Analysts Warn That If AI Agents Succeed, the “Internet Will Go Dark”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Netflix Is Using AI to Upscale a 1980s Sitcom and the Results Are Borderline Horrific

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Netflix Is Using AI to Upscale a 1980s Sitcom and the Results Are Borderline Horrific

By Victor Tangermann

New research suggests the average American doesn't typically use artificial intelligence at work — but those who do are usually educated.

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People With This Level of Education Use AI the Most at Work

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft modified a lawsuit to name four people who allegedly jailbroke its AI tools to for abuses like deepfaked celebrity porn.

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Microsoft Is Suing People Who Did Bad Things With Its AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers turned one of OpenAI's most advanced models into a Nazi-praising dictator by introducing bad code into its training data.

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Researchers Trained an AI on Flawed Code and It Became a Psychopath

By Noor Al-Sibai

A top boss at Google has made it clear that employees should make enormous sacrifices to develop AGI, as long as it makes him money.

Google Cofounder Exhorts Employees to Work 60-Hour Weeks to Create AI Designed to Replace Them

If a partner made stuff up a third of the time, it would be a problem — but apparently, it's perfectly fine for OpenAI's new model.

OpenAI Admits That Its New Model Still Hallucinates More Than a Third of the Time

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI insists that GPT-4.5 is its most impressive large language model (LLM) yet — but all indications suggest it's kind of a dud.

OpenAI May Have Really Screwed Up With GPT-4.5

By Noor Al-Sibai

The French company that owns the largest call center is using similar technology to "soften" its India-based agents' accents.

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World’s Largest Call Center Deploys AI to “Neutralize the Accent” of Indian Employees

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has unveiled the company's latest large language model, dubbed GPT-4.5. But the company has run "out of GPUs."

Sam Altman Says OpenAI Has Run Out of GPUs

By Victor Tangermann

The United Arab Emirates' so-called "spy sheikh" controls a whopping $1.5 trillion in wealth, and he's funneling a good hunk of it into AI.

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This Emirati Prince Controls Four Times Elon Musk’s Wealth and He’s Going All-In on AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Claude 3.7 Sonnet AI is exploring the world of Pokémon Red, doing its best to beat Nintendo's classic RPG for the Game Boy.

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Watching One of the World’s Most Advanced AIs Try to Beat Pokémon Red Is Strangely Fascinating

By Frank Landymore

Pinterest is drowning in a torrent of slick-looking AI slop. Users are frustrated — while SEO spammers fueling the problem are celebrating.

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Pinterest Is Being Strangled by AI Slop

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

President Trump posted a baffling AI-generated video promoting his vision for "Trump Gaza" — bearded belly dancers and all?

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Trump Posts AI-Generated Video of Genderqueer Bellydancers Frolicking

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A shocking startup pitch backed by Y Combinator is causing a firestorm for its depiction of human workers as anonymous drones.

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Y Combinator Pulls Support for AI Startup After Video of Boss Barking at Human Worker, Calling Him “Number 17”

After downloading an AI tool, a hacker used a virus embedded into the software to upend a Disney employee's life.

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Man’s Entire Life Destroyed After Downloading AI Software

By Frank Landymore

Chegg has sued Google over its shoddy AI Overviews, accusing the tech giant of diverting traffic from its website.

Google Hit With Lawsuit Over Its Loathsome AI Overviews

By Frank Landymore

A new analysis predicts that AI hype might drastically disrupt the economy well before the tech is ready to transform our lives.

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AI Hype Will Plunge America Into Financial Ruin, Economist Warns

Elon Musk's new chatbot seems to have provided a web developer with detailed and explicit instructions on how to create chemical weapons

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Elon’s Grok 3 AI Provides “Hundreds of Pages of Detailed Instructions” on Creating Chemical Weapons

By Noor Al-Sibai

After Elon Musk's "anti-woke" AI company tried to poach him, an OpenAI engineer not-so-kindly rebuffed the offer.

Elon Musk’s AI Company Tried to Recruit an OpenAI Engineer and His Reply Was Brutal

By Noor Al-Sibai

One of OpenAI's cofounders claimed three years ago that AI may be "slightly conscious" — and now, investors seem to be banking on that claim.

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There’s Something Very Weird About This $30 Billion AI Startup by a Man Who Said Neural Networks May Already Be Conscious

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft Backing Out of Expensive New Data Centers After Its CEO Expressed Doubt About AI Value

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Microsoft Backing Out of Expensive New Data Centers After Its CEO Expressed Doubt About AI Value

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's "anti-woke" Grok AI appeared to be censoring information about its maker and his alleged boss, Donald Trump.

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Elon Musk’s Grok 3 Was Told to Ignore Sources Saying He Spread Misinformation

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI researchers have admitted that even the most advanced AI models can't really solve the coding problems put in front of them.

OpenAI Researchers Find That Even the Best AI Is “Unable To Solve the Majority” of Coding Problems

By Noor Al-Sibai

xAI founder Elon Musk refuses to open source most of the latest Grok AI models while criticizing OpenAI of failing to do so as well.

Hypocrite Elon Musk Is Criticizing OpenAI for Not Open Sourcing ChatGPT While Refusing to Do the Same With Grok

By Victor Tangermann

Young programmers "can't actually program" because they're too reliant on AI models, writers developer Namanyay Goel.

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Young Coders Are Using AI for Everything, Giving “Blank Stares” When Asked How Programs Actually Work

By Frank Landymore

New research has shown that some AI models will do just about anything to accomplish their task, including hacking your computer.

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The Smarter AI Gets, the More It Start Cheating When It’s Losing

Microsoft has released a new generative model, dubbed Magma, that can autonomously control robots. What could go wrong?

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Microsoft Shows Off AI That Can Control an Entire Robot

By Victor Tangermann