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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the company will likely release an AI model that acts as a "midlevel engineer" this year.

Zuckerberg Announces Plans to Automate Facebook Coding Jobs With AI

By Frank Landymore

In the wake of OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji's death, the young man's family say they believe he was murdered.

Parents of Dead OpenAI Whistleblower Say They Believe He Was Murdered

By Noor Al-Sibai

Politicians have started pointing fingers at the burgeoning AI industry for water scarcity in California during the Los Angeles fire.

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Politicians Blame Los Angeles Fires on Explosion of AI Data Centers

By Victor Tangermann

Another Google Image results page — this one for the question of "does corn get digested" — is run amuck with AI-generated slop.

Behold the AI Slop Dominating Google Image Results for “Does Corn Get Digested”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers found that if a mere 0.001 percent of the training data of a given LLM is "poisoned," the entire thing falls apart.

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If Even 0.001 Percent of an AI’s Training Data Is Misinformation, the Whole Thing Becomes Compromised, Scientists Find

By Victor Tangermann

Google's AI-generated search summary for the query "baby elephant" includes an AI-generated photo of a clearly fake, teacup-sized elephant.

Google’s AI Overview Believes Baby Elephants Can Sit in the Palm of a Human Hand

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI is like the fairy Tinkerbell: in the story of "Peter Pan," she only continues to exist if people believe in her and clap for her.

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AI Is Like Tinkerbell: It Only Works If We Believe in It

By Jathan Sadowski

A dad and "AI evangelist" couldn't understand why his daughter didn't like the AI function of a toy he bought for her.

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Dad Baffled When 6-Year-Old Daughter Turns Off AI Function on High Tech Doll and Plays With It Like Regular Toy

By Frank Landymore

The American Psychological Association sent a letter to the FTC urging the agency to investigate Character.AI and other chatbot makers.

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American Psychological Association Urges FTC to Investigate AI Chatbots Claiming to Offer Therapy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An NVIDIA scientist seems to think that AI robots should be fighting wildfires despite the technology being majorly energy-intensive.

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While AI Causes Climate Change, Nvidia Scientist Proposes AI-Powered Firefighting Robots

By Noor Al-Sibai

Newly unredacted court documents allege that Facebook knowingly used pirated books from the database LibGen to train its AI models.

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Facebook Apparently Trained Its AI by Torrenting Pirated Books Stolen From Authors

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI's o1 reasoning model was caught massively struggling to solve the New York Times' Connections word game.

OpenAI’s Most Advanced AI Release Stumped by New York Times Word Game

By Noor Al-Sibai

An investment banker who once dug into Enron's finances says it bears "intriguing" parallels with the tech industry's biggest darling: OpenAI.

Former Enron Banker Points Out “Intriguing” Parallels With OpenAI

By Frank Landymore

The iconic Hollywood sign adorning the hills behind West Hollywood has quickly become a particularly popular inspiration for AI slop.

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People Think the Hollywood Sign Is on Fire Because of AI Slop

By Victor Tangermann

A review of Meta's user-generated AI chatbots found that Meta platforms are hosting bots styled after Adolf Hitler, among other violations.

Facebook Caught Hosting AI-Powered Hitler

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

While its competitors are zooming ahead with AI agents, OpenAI has notably held off from releasing its own — and for good reason.

There’s a Fascinating Reason OpenAI Is Afraid to Launch Its AI-Powered “Agents”

By Frank Landymore

Meta is now allowing users to spew hate at real-life Black women — even as it plans to move forward with AI "characters" that mimic them.

Facebook Is Creating Fake AI-Powered Black Women While Changing Its Rules So It’s Okay to Harass Real Ones

By Noor Al-Sibai

Stalwart journal publisher Springer Nature is asking researchers to buy $49 AI-generated "Media Kits" to summarize and promote their work.

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The Publisher of the Journal “Nature” Is Emailing Authors of Scientific Papers, Offering to Sell Them AI Summaries of Their Own Work

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An engineer created an ungodly ChatGPT-enabled robotic rifle that can aim and fire bullets. OpenAI shut him down pretty quickly.

OpenAI Cuts Off Engineer Who Created ChatGPT-Powered Robotic Sentry Rifle

By Victor Tangermann

Last month, CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski boasted that he hadn't hired anyone in a year because of AI. Now he's worried about his own job.

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CEO Who Bragged About Replacing Workers With AI Now Distressed That AI Will Replace His Job Too

By Victor Tangermann

An engineer who goes by STS 3D has invented an AI-powered robot that can aim a rifle at terrifying speeds.

Engineer Creates OpenAI-Powered Robotic Sentry Rifle, Rides It Like Mechanical Bull

By Victor Tangermann

Gross AI Apps Create Videos of People Kissing Without Their Consent

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Gross AI Apps Create Videos of People Kissing Without Their Consent

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Rent Too High? Blame AI, New Report Finds

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Rent Too High? Blame AI, New Report Finds

By Frank Landymore

Officials revealed that the soldier, who blew up a rented Tesla Cybertruck outside of a Trump hotel, used ChatGPT to plan his attack.

Cybertruck Bomber Used ChatGPT to Plan His Attack

By Victor Tangermann

The popular book app Fable has come under fire for its AI-generated annual roundups, which users say gave them offensive messages.

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Book App Alarmed as Its AI Starts Mocking Users for Reading Books by Women and Minorities

By Frank Landymore

The FBI has released extensive, first-person footage recorded by New Orleans terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar on a pair of Meta smart glasses.

New Orleans Terrorist Used Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses, FBI Says

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon's Prime streaming service has adorned the iconic 1922 horror film "Nosferatu" with an appalling, seemingly AI-generated poster.

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Amazon Mocked for Slapping AI-Generated Poster on Beloved 1922 Film “Nosferatu”

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is now claiming that the firm is nearing the dawn of AGI — and that he knows how to make it happen.

Sam Altman Says OpenAI Has Figured Out How to Build AGI

By Noor Al-Sibai

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It Costs So Much to Run ChatGPT That OpenAI Is Losing Money on $200 ChatGPT Pro Subscriptions

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meta was forced to euthanize its AI-generated "characters" after users discovered just how problematic they really are.

Meta Kills AI-Generated “People” Like “Proud Black Queer Momma”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Insane Clown Posse's Joseph Utsler, better known by his stage persona Shaggy 2 Dope, has an AI clone — and apparently, he's a fan.

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Insane Clown Posse’s Shaggy 2 Dope Confronts AI Version of Himself

By Noor Al-Sibai

Folks on Reddit are in an uproar after Meta announced that it's planning to load Facebook up with AI "users," which are better known as bots.

People Are Disgusted by Facebook’s Plan to Deploy AI-Powered “Users”

By Noor Al-Sibai

The family of dead OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji is claiming that the young man was murdered, and did not commit suicide.

Mother of OpenAI Whistleblower Alleges He Was Murdered, Says There Were Signs of Struggle

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI says it wants to transform into a for-profit corporation because it needs "to raise more capital than we'd imagined."

OpenAI Admits It Needs Vastly More Money Than It Thought

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI's recently unveiled o3 AI model can cost well over $1,000 per task when used in its most powerful mode.

OpenAI’s Latest AI Can Cost More Than $1,000 Per Query

By Frank Landymore

Meta says it envisions Facebook as being filled with AI generated characters that exist on the platform the same way as human users do.

Facebook Planning to Flood Platform with AI-Powered Users

By Frank Landymore

A trick as simple as deliberately incorporating typos into your prompt is often enough to dupe the industry's leading AI chatbots.

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Stupidly Easy Hack Can Jailbreak Even the Most Advanced AI Chatbots

By Frank Landymore

The late whistleblower Suchir Bala was named as a potential witness in a lawsuit brought against OpenAI by The New York Times.

Dead OpenAI Whistleblower Had Been Named as Potential Witness in Lawsuit Against Employer

By Frank Landymore

Filmmaker Nenad Cicin-Sain tried to recruit ChatGPT to come up with a screenplay for his upcoming project — but it kept procrastinating.

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Asked to Write a Screenplay, ChatGPT Started Procrastinating and Making Excuses

By Frank Landymore

The company behind Oreo cookies has, by its own admission, been quietly creating new flavors using machine learning.

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With Utter Self-Seriousness, Maker of Oreos Admits It’s Using AI To Create New Flavors, Even Though Machines Cannot Taste

By Noor Al-Sibai

A charter school in Arizona promises to teach kids twice as fast using a specialized AI model rather than a traditional teacher.

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A New School Will Teach Children Using AI Instead of Human Teachers

By Frank Landymore

New research shows that the industry's leading AI chatbots are performing poorly on tests designed to detect signs of dementia.

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Aging AI Chatbots Show Signs of Cognitive Decline in Dementia Test

By Frank Landymore

In the wake of multiple lawsuits concerning the welfare of child users, Character.AI is looking to bulk up its trust and safety staff.

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Embattled Character.AI Hiring Trust and Safety Staff

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An image on Google Street View that appears to show a man stuffing a body into a car provided Spanish authorities with a breakthrough.

Google Street View Appears to Capture Man Loading Human Body Into Trunk of Car

By Frank Landymore

A dirty-minded Redditor has posted an AI-generated exchange from Google's Notebook LM — and reader, it's very naughty.

We Regret to Bring You This Audio of Two Google AIs Having EXTREMELY Explicit Cybersex

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to a shocking new book, Spotify has been promoting "ghost artists" so it can avoid paying piddling royalties to real artists.

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Spotify Employees Say It’s Promoting Fake Artists to Reduce Royalty Payments to Real Ones

By Noor Al-Sibai

Several AI-generated diss tracks, featuring an imitation of Lil Wayne's iconic vocal style, are circulating online and causing confusion.

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AI-Generated Lil Wayne Diss Track Against Kendrick Lamar Causes Chaos Online

By Victor Tangermann

Multiple AI chatbots that imitate alleged CEO shooter Luigi Mangione are being hosted on the AI platform Character.AI.

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People Are Making AI Versions of Luigi Mangione That Call for Slaying of More CEOs

By Frank Landymore

Apple Intelligence, the iPhone-maker's feature-packed stab at AI integration into its devices, appears to be a total dud with buyers

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iPhone Owners Extremely Unimpressed With Apple Intelligence AI

By Frank Landymore

After its pivot to AI earlier this year, the Washington Post's CEO is now turning off editorial candidates by asking about AI.

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Candidates to Run Washington Post Withdraw After Being Asked How They’d Use AI to Run the Newspaper

By Noor Al-Sibai

Character.AI is hosting chatbots that simulate school shootings, extol real school shooters, and impersonate real school shooting victims.

A Google-Backed AI Startup Is Hosting Chatbots Modeled After Real-Life School Shooters — and Their Victims

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Eric Schmidt, the one-time head of Google, is warning that humans have to "unplug" artificial intelligence before it's too late.

Former Google CEO Warns We Need to Pull the Plug on AI If It Starts to Evolve

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft's AI powered "Recall" feature is still screenshotting sensitive personal information even though it's not supposed to.

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Microsoft’s AI “Recall” Feature Caught Screenshotting Your Social Security Number

By Frank Landymore

Skechers Refuses to Comment on Ad With Signs of Lazy AI

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Skechers Refuses to Comment on Ad With Signs of Lazy AI

By Victor Tangermann

After blowing the whistle on OpenAI's alleged use of copyrighted material, one of its former researchers has been found dead.

OpenAI Says It’s “Devastated” That a Whistleblower Against It Has Been Found Dead

By Noor Al-Sibai

An AI startup called Artisan has incited outrage over its "Stop Hiring Humans" ad campaign in San Francisco.

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Humans Alarmed at AI Company’s “Stop Hiring Humans” Billboards

By Frank Landymore

Amid the fallout from UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's murder, the firm's prescription drug middleman made a huge AI oopsie.

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UnitedHealth Accidentally Makes Claims-Judging AI Public for Anyone to Use

By Noor Al-Sibai

Apple's Apple Intelligence AI feature incorrectly summarized a report from BBC News by making it sound like Luigi Mangione had shot himself.

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Apple AI Tells Users Luigi Mangione Has Shot Himself

By Frank Landymore

Schools are employing dubious AI-powered software to accuse teenagers of wanting to harm themselves — and sending the police to their homes.

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Schools Using AI to Send Police to Students’ Homes

By Victor Tangermann

Despite using artificial intelligence tools to help resuscitate old John Lennon vocals, Paul McCartney is now against some AI uses.

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Paul McCartney Reverses Opinion on AI After Using It to Produce New “Beatles” Song, Now Alarmed It Will “Wipe Out” the Music Industry

By Noor Al-Sibai

The head of the "buy now, pay later" firm Klarna is now bragging that AI has begun to successfully replace his human workforce.

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CEO Says He Hasn’t Hired Anyone in a Year as He Replaces Human Workers With AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Embattled media company BuzzFeed is selling off First We Feast, the company behind the extremely popular interview show called "Hot Ones."

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BuzzFeed Sells “Hot Ones” as It Pivots to AI-Generated Content

By Victor Tangermann

A large number of Character.AI users are reporting that they were unexpectedly signed into a stranger's account.

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Controversial Chatbot Company Character.AI Appears to Have Accidentally Let Users See Each Others’ Chat Histories

By Victor Tangermann

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is investigating Google-backed AI chatbot startup Character.AI over its privacy and safety practices.

Texas Attorney General Investigating Google-Backed AI Startup Accused of Inappropriate Interactions With Minors

By Victor Tangermann