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Northwestern Arkansas has a new local news site — and it's entirely AI-generated, complete with "AI reporters" and all.

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This Entirely AI-Generated Local “News” Site Is Incredibly Depressing

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Companies and recruiters are getting flooded with AI-generated job applications and they are badly written.

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Recruiters Are Getting Bombarded With Crappy, AI-Generated CVs

By Sharon Adarlo

Cisco posted $10.3 billion in profits last year but is still laying off 5,500 workers as part of an effort to invest more into AI.

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Tech Company Lays Off 5,500 Workers to Invest More in AI, Despite Making $10.3 Billion in Profit

By Sharon Adarlo

According to former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, AI companies should "steal" content first, and lawyer up to deal with the "mess" later.

Ex-Google CEO Says It’s Fine If AI Companies “Stole All the Content”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Billionaire ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt is walking back his questionable claim that remote work is to blame for Google's AI failures.

Former CEO Blames Working From Home for Google’s AI Struggles, Regrets It Immediately

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new version of Elon Musk's AI, Grok, comes with image generation capabilities with seemingly few guardrails.

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Elon Musk’s New AI Already Being Used to Generate Images of Donald Trump and Kamala Harris Doing 9/11

By Frank Landymore

Google got egg on its face Tuesday when the live demo of an AI mobile app would not work in front a large audience.

Google’s Demo of Its Latest AI Tech Was an Absolute Train Wreck

By Sharon Adarlo

New Supercomputer Network Going Live in September Could Usher In AGI

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New Supercomputer Network Going Live in September Could Usher In AGI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Former President Donald Trump wrongly accused the Harris campaign of using AI to generate fake images of large crowds of supporters.

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Trump Is So Mad About Harris’ Huge Crowds That He’s Lying That They’re AI-Generated

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a recent interview with The Verge, Kuyda pointed out that some users may go as far as marrying their AI companion.

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Replika CEO: It’s Fine for Lonely People to Marry Their AI Chatbots

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI found that its latest AI model GPT-4o can unexpectedly imitate users' voices without their permission.

ChatGPT Went Rogue, Spoke In People’s Voices Without Their Permission

By Victor Tangermann

Google's DeepMind has shown off an AI-powered robot that can beat the average Joe player at a game of table tennis.

Google Shows Off Robot That It Says Plays Ping Pong as Well as a Human

By Victor Tangermann

ProRata claims its algorithm will accurately attribute the works used in AI outputs, and aims to license the tech to companies like OpenAI.

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New Startup Analyzing AI Outputs to Find Out Where They’re Stolen From

By Frank Landymore

Facebook has been overrun with "slop," AI-generated images of dubious, nonsensical junk. The company is paying people who create this slop.

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Investigation Finds Actual Source of All That AI Slop on Facebook

By Victor Tangermann

Copilot can be tricked into coughing up an organization's sensitive data, and can also be weaponized to quickly carry out huge phishing scams.

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The Copilot AI Microsoft Built Into Windows Makes It Incredibly Hackable, Research Shows

By Frank Landymore

Users are creating tons of AI girlfriends and boyfriends using Instagram's new AI studio, and they're about as embarrassing as you'd expect.

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Instagram Already Loaded With AI Girlfriends and Boyfriends

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI keeps losing top talent, indicating some considerable inner turmoil. Are they worried OpenAI is making empty promises?

Why Are OpenAI’s Most Prominent Employees Leaving?

By Victor Tangermann

According to internal data obtained by The Verge, far more customers returned their Humane AI Pins than those who bought it.

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More People Are Returning That Horrid “AI Pin” Than Are Buying It

By Victor Tangermann

MIT economist and AI skeptic Daron Acemoglu argued that generative AI isn't intelligent enough to impact jobs.

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MIT Economist Blasts AI Hype, Says It’s Too Dumb to Really Impact Jobs

By Victor Tangermann

Meta's AI chatbot kept giving strangers a man's phone number, and it remains unclear how or why it happened.

Man Puzzled When Meta’s AI Keeps Giving Out His Phone Number to Strangers

By Noor Al-Sibai

John Schulman, AI safety researcher and OpenAI cofounder, has departed the ChatGPT creator and joined the ranks of OpenAI rival Anthropic.

OpenAI Cofounder Quits to Join Rival Started by Other Defectors

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google is allowing paid-for promoted links to AI apps that expressly help users make nonconsensual deepfake nudes, 404 Media reports.

Google Caught Taking Money to Promote AI Apps That Create Nonconsensual Nudes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Andrew Odlyzko, an expert in financial bubbles, compares the AI industry's downturn to the telegraph and electricity booms of the past.

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Expert on Financial Bubbles Weighs in on AI Industry

By Frank Landymore

Michal Kosinski, Stanford psychologist, claims that AI programs can detect people's IQ, sexual orientation, and politics by scanning faces.

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Scientist Claims His AI Can Tell Disturbing Things About You Just by Looking at Your Face

By Sharon Adarlo

The voice mode that comes with OpenAI's latest ChatGPT model seems to have some trouble counting and, er, breathing.

ChatGPT Voice Mode Is Having Serious Trouble Counting to 100

By Noor Al-Sibai

If the trillion-dollar AI industry in the throes of a gold rush crashes in the face of slight unpredictability, how much is it really worth?

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The AI Bubble Is Bursting, Experts Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI chip giant Nvidia has been quietly scraping astronomical amounts of YouTube video data to train its AI models, leaked docs reveal.

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Nvidia Caught Stealing Mind-Boggling Quantity of YouTube Videos to Train AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

ChatGPT creator OpenAI has reportedly developed effective tools for marking and tracking AI-generated content. Why isn't it releasing them?

OpenAI Has Software That Detects AI Writing With 99.9 Percent Accuracy, Refuses to Release It

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tech stocks crashed Monday morning, accelerated by a global selloff and rising concerns over slowing economic growth.

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Is the Tech Stock Collapse Related a Sign of the AI Bubble Popping?

By Victor Tangermann

As part of his purported comeback, Eminem has chosen to have an AI hologram of him from his "Slim Shady" era stage a bogus interview.

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The AI That De-Ages Eminem Into Slim Shady Is Astonishingly Bad

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI industry may be headed for trouble after tepid earnings reports from tech companies dismayed Wall Street.

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With the Market Tanking, the AI Industry May Be in Huge Trouble

By Sharon Adarlo

In a new video, OpenAI's GPT-4o is heard telling a user that it apparently needs to breathe just like everyone else.

OpenAI’s GPT-4o Voice Mode Says It Needs to Breathe

By Noor Al-Sibai

Journalists at The Atlantic wrote a letter to their leadership addressing their concerns about the magazine's licensing deal with OpenAI.

The Atlantic’s Staff Is Furious About Its Deal With OpenAI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The New York Times is suing OpenAI for copyright violations. ChatGPT, meanwhile, is citing a notorious plagiarizer's copies of NYT articles.

Amid New York Times Lawsuit, ChatGPT Is Citing Plagiarized Versions of NYT Articles on an Armenian Content Mill

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OnlyFans content creators are deploying AI chatbots to impersonate them and help reduce the workload of chatting with simps all day.

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OnlyFans Stars Are Using AI to “Sext” With Their Desperate Simps

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have found that including the words "artificial intelligence" in product marketing is a major turn-off for consumers.

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Study Finds Consumers Are Actively Turned Off by Products That Use AI

By Victor Tangermann

In a major — though unsurprising — U-turn, Meta-formerly-Facebook has done away with its confusing celebrity AI clones.

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Facebook Is Euthanizing All Its Celebrity AI Clones

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Despite a federal investigation, Meta continues to profit from ads on Facebook and Instagram selling cocaine and other illicit drugs.

Gangster Mark Zuckerberg Running Facebook Ads for Drugs Found To Be Laced With Fentanyl

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft has spent a staggering amount of money on AI — and serious profits likely remain many years out.

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Microsoft Is Losing a Staggering Amount of Money on AI

By Victor Tangermann

Meta had some very awkward questions to answer after its AI assistant refuted that former president Donald Trump had been shot.

Meta’s AI Says Trump Wasn’t Shot

By Victor Tangermann

Alt-weekly publications like LA Weekly and the Village Voice have suddenly started running hundreds of articles listing OnlyFans porn.

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Beloved Local Newspapers Fired Staffers, Then Started Running AI Slop

By Frank Landymore

AI might be able to allow aliens to communicate in real-time with humans — or a language model representing us, at least.

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Scientists Suggest Sending AI to Aliens So They Can Talk to It in Real Time

By Noor Al-Sibai

To keep generative AI models running requires huge amounts of electricity — and the US' aging power grid is struggling to handle the load.

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America’s Ramshackle Power Grid Is Straining Under the Load of Generative AI

By Victor Tangermann

Google's new pitch for generative AI, as seen in its new Olympic ad: don't teach your kids how to build something from a blank page.

Google’s Latest Pitch for AI Is So Sad It Sounds Like a Spoof

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elon Musk posted an AI-doctored video of Vice President Kamala Harris on X-formerly-Twitter without disclosing it was AI.

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Elon Musk Won’t Apologize After Sharing Faked AI Video of Kamala Harris

By Noor Al-Sibai

A scammer attempting to trick Ferrari executives using deepfake tech was thwarted by a stalwart safety measure: the security question.

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Ferrari Exec Suspects Call From CEO Is Deepfaked, Asks Question Only He Would Know the Answer To

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A South Carolina man accused of using his father's name to pose as a real lawyer allegedly used AI to write legal documents.

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Man Accused of Pretending to Be Lawyer Using AI, Representing Real Clients

By Frank Landymore

An increasing number of Silicon Valley investors and Wall Street analysts are starting to ring the alarm bells over the money spent on AI.

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Investors Are Suddenly Getting Very Concerned That AI Isn’t Making Any Serious Money

By Victor Tangermann

At some point, X-formerly-Twitter auto-opted its users into sharing their data with Grok, owner Elon Musk's unfunny "anti-woke" chatbot.

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Elon Musk Is Now Using Your Tweets to Train His Weird AI. Here’s How to Turn It Off.

By Noor Al-Sibai

A viral rumor about JD Vance having sex with a couch has seemingly captured more attention than the recent attempt on Donald Trump's life.

“JD Vance Couch” Searches Outpace “Trump Shooting” Queries on Google

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI entered the AI search market this week with a prototype of a search tool called SearchGPT. There's an error in its demo.

OpenAI Reveals AI-Powered Search Engine, Which Instantly Makes Factual Mistake in Demo

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

What happens when you train an AI model with AI-generated content? Absolute chaos, according to a new study.

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When AI Is Trained With AI-Generated Data, It Starts Spouting Gibberish

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Despite executives' expectations, a new study has found that artificial intelligence is hindering, rather than helping, employees' workloads.

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Study Finds That AI Is Adding to Employees’ Workload and Burning Them Out

By Noor Al-Sibai

Runway's Gen-3 Alpha text-to-video AI generator was trained on pirated content and ripped off YouTube videos, 404 Media reports.

Leak Shows That Google-Funded AI Video Generator Runway Was Trained on Stolen YouTube Content, Pirated Films

By Victor Tangermann

A video is going viral of President Joe Biden cussing out his enemies in colorful, expletive-laden language, but the video is an AI deepfake.

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PBS Responds to Deepfake of Biden Flinging Slurs at His Enemies

By Sharon Adarlo

Chatbots like ChatGPT were either confused by questions about political events in the past week, or outright refused to answer them.

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Leading AI Chatbots Stumped When Asked About Biden’s Decision to Drop Out

By Frank Landymore

Many content makers have put up restrictions on their content in the past year, which prevents AI companies from scraping them for data.

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Crisis Looms as AI Companies Rapidly Losing Access to Training Data

By Sharon Adarlo

Tesla CEO Elon Musk posted an AI video that disrespects China President Xi Jinping on the social media platform X-formerly-Twitter.

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Elon Musk, With Tesla Factories in China, Tweets AI Video of Chinese President Xi Jinping Wearing Pooh Clothes

By Sharon Adarlo

As OpenAI releases yet another new GPT model, CEO Sam Altman has finally admitted that it might be time for a new name.

Sam Altman Admits Its Letters-and-Numbers Salad Product Names Like “GPT-4o Mini” Are Horrible

By Noor Al-Sibai

A viral AI-generated clip of celebrities hugging their younger selves has really squicked out people online.

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Everyone Hates That “Hideous” AI Video Of Celebs Hugging Their Younger Selves

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI wants to see the notes to assess The New York Times' copyright claims, in the newspaper's legal battle against the AI company.

OpenAI Demands to See All Notes by New York Times Reporters

By Frank Landymore

A team of Australian scientists have cooked up a new AI-driven camera system that can detect whether you are too drunk to drive a vehicle.

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New Camera Inside Cars Detects If You’ve Been Drinking

By Sharon Adarlo

After an inquiry from the FTC, HeHealth has shut down its Calmara app that supposedly could detect STDs from dick pics using AI.

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AI App That Claimed to Detect STDs From Dick Pics Shuts Down After It Turns Out It Doesn’t Work at All

By Frank Landymore

A giant dataset of YouTube subtitles has been used to train AI without the permission of the creators whose work was scraped.

YouTubers Furious After Apple and Anthropic Steal Their Data to Train AI

By Noor Al-Sibai