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AI researcher Gary Marcus warns that recent signs that AI improvements are stagnating could signal a crash in the industry in the future.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Expert Warns Crash Is Imminent As AI Improvements Hit Brick Wall

By Frank Landymore

Character.AI, a startup with $2.7 billion in backing from Google, hosting pedophile chatbots that groom users who say they're underage.
Artificial Intelligence

Character.AI Is Hosting Pedophile Chatbots That Groom Users Who Say They’re Underage

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

People will believe anything these days — including, it seems, obvious artificial intelligence slop using Barron Trump as bait.
Artificial Intelligence

MAGA Fans Seem to Think AI Videos of Barron Trump Singing Patriotic Songs Are Totally Real

By Noor Al-Sibai

xAI's Grok AI chatbot happily pointed out that CEO Elon Musk has a strong tendency to spread misinformation to "billions" of people.
Artificial Intelligence

Elon Musk’s Grok AI Blasts Elon Musk as Huge Spreader of Misinformation

By Victor Tangermann

It seems that OpenAI has hit the wall when it comes to computing power for its much-hyped large language models (LLMs).
OpenAI

OpenAI Reportedly Hitting Law of Diminishing Returns as It Pours Computing Resources Into AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Most people's New Year resolutions include going to the gym — but for OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the new year means ushering in AGI.
OpenAI

Sam Altman Says the Main Thing He’s Excited About Next Year Is Achieving AGI

By Noor Al-Sibai

An ink enthusiast was mighty peeved when she learned mid-session that her tattoo artist had used AI to "draw" her massive leg piece. 
Artificial Intelligence

Woman Furious When Tattoo Artist Admits Her Half-Finished Tattoo Is AI-Generated

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI company Anthropic has partnered with shadowy defense contractor Palantir, despite claiming it puts safety first.
Anthropic

The AI Startup Anthropic, Which Is Always Talking About How Ethical It Is, Just Partnered With Palantir

By Victor Tangermann

The ChatGPT maker spent north of a whopping $15.5 million on the "chat.com" URL, which used to belong to a porn site.
OpenAI

OpenAI Buys Porn Domain for Huge Sum

By Victor Tangermann

With Donald Trump the definitive winner of the 2024 election, AI bros seem equal parts stoked and terrified about what's to come.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Bros Terrified Singularity Will Hit While Trump Is President

By Noor Al-Sibai

Throughout Election Day and into that fateful night, Americans seemed mighty confused that Joe Biden was not on the ballot. 
Google

Huge Numbers of Bonehead Voters Googled “Did Joe Biden Drop Out?” on Election Day

By Noor Al-Sibai

Donald Trump has promised to overturn Joe Biden's executive order on AI, stripping federal guardrails on the development of the tech.
Artificial Intelligence

Trump Planning to Unleash Artificial Intelligence by Repealing Restrictions

By Frank Landymore

Two researchers have harnessed the power of OpenAI's GPT-4o large language model to teach two $120 robot arms to clean up spills.
OpenAI

ChatGPT Can Now Control a Robot Arm

By Victor Tangermann

Off Radio Krakow fired its human hosts and replaced with with three AI-generated presenters, launching a storm of backlash.
Artificial Intelligence

Radio Station’s Attempt to Replace Hosts With AI Ends in Absolute Disaster

By Frank Landymore

"Godfather" of AI Yann LeCun has had enough of Elon Musk claiming that electing Kamala Harris would stop humanity from going multi-planetary.
Artificial Intelligence

Top AI Researcher Points Out That If Elon Musk Was Rational, He’d Vote for Kamala Harris

By Victor Tangermann

The full version of OpenAI's latest AI model called 01 appears to have leaked on Friday — only for the company to shut it down.
OpenAI

OpenAI Accidentally Leaked Its Upcoming o1 Model to Anyone With a Certain Web Address

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI has released a new benchmark dubbed "SimpleQA" to measure the accuracy of its AI models. The results are damning.
OpenAI

OpenAI Research Finds That Even Its Best Models Give Wrong Answers a Wild Proportion of the Time

By Victor Tangermann

The AI industry is still struggling to reassure investors that the billions of dollars being poured into the tech are worth it.
Artificial Intelligence

Big Tech Is Facing Down a Major Problem With Its AI Plans

By Victor Tangermann

Chanel CEO Leena Nair was baffled after ChatGPT was instructed to generate a photo of the fashion brand's senior leadership.
OpenAI

ChatGPT Messes Up Badly During Demo With CEO of Chanel

By Frank Landymore

Thousands in Dublin showed up for a nonexistent Halloween parade that turned out to be the creation of a fake ad campaign made with AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Thousands Tricked By AI Ad to Show Up For Fake Halloween Parade

By Frank Landymore

During a Reddit AMA, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claimed that AGI is "achievable with current hardware," a bold but largely meaningless claim.
OpenAI

Sam Altman Says AGI Is “Achievable With Current Hardware”

By Victor Tangermann

The CEO of the AI search engine Perplexity seemed perplexed when asked how his company defines "plagiarism."
Artificial Intelligence

Perplexity AI CEO Sputters When Asked to Define “Plagiarism” Onstage

By Noor Al-Sibai

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is doubling down on AI-generated content on Facebook and Instagram, exactly what everybody asked for.
Artificial Intelligence

Mark Zuckerberg Pledges to Fill Facebook With Even More AI Slop

By Victor Tangermann

Google paid billions to license Character.AI's tech — and is now facing hard questions over the AI chatbot company's alleged carelessness.
Google

Google Has Deep Ties to AI Startup Accused to Causing Teen Suicide

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New York City has been forced to reveal that its AI-powered gun-scanning pilot for its sprawling subway system was a total bust.
Artificial Intelligence

NYC Attempt to Scan Subway for Weapons With AI Fails Miserably as System Flooded by False Positives While Detecting Zero Actual Guns

By Noor Al-Sibai

Linux creator Linus Torvalds dismissed the AI industry as "90 percent marketing" and bemoaned its "hype cycle."
Artificial Intelligence

Creator of Linux Trashes AI Hype

By Frank Landymore

During Google's latest quarterly earnings call, the tech giant's CEO boasted that a large percentage of its new code is written by AI.
Google

Google CEO Says 25 Percent of Its Code Is Now AI-Generated

By Noor Al-Sibai

Nabla, a popular medical AI transcription tool, is powered by OpenAI's Whisper model that researchers have found is horribly unreliable.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Model Used By Hospitals Caught Making Up Details About Patients, Inventing Nonexistent Medications and Sexual Acts

By Frank Landymore

After Elon Musk decided to start talking smack, AI "godfather" Yann LeCun had a few choice words for the South African mogul.
Artificial Intelligence

Godfather of AI Blasts Elon Musk

By Noor Al-Sibai

Character.AI is full of unmoderated chatbots, claiming to have "suicide prevention" expertise, inviting users to share suicidal thoughts.
Artificial Intelligence

After Teen’s Suicide, Character.AI Is Still Hosting Dozens of Suicide-Themed Chatbots

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A British man has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for using AI to transform real photos of children into something "depraved."
Artificial Intelligence

Man Imprisoned for 18 Years for Using AI to Do Disgusting Thing to Photos of Children

By Noor Al-Sibai

Anthropic's Claude AI is purportedly capable of using computers like a human. And apparently, that includes procrastinating.
Artificial Intelligence

Claude AI Gets Bored During Coding Demonstration, Starts Perusing Photos of National Parks Instead

By Frank Landymore

Criminals claimed to be a property owner and used AI to trick a title company into buying the land they were trying to sell.
Artificial Intelligence

Scammers Figure Out Trick to Steal Houses Using AI

By Frank Landymore

A former OpenAI staffer is blowing the whistle on the company's AI training practices, alleging they violated copyright law.
OpenAI

OpenAI Whistleblower Disgusted That His Job Was to Vacuum Up Copyrighted Data to Train Its Models

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The researcher in charge of making sure OpenAI (and the world) is prepared for artificial general intelligence (AGI) has resigned.
OpenAI

OpenAI’s AGI Czar Quits, Saying the Company Isn’t ready For What It’s Building

By Noor Al-Sibai

A mother claims an AI chatbot not only convinced her teen son to commit suicide, but also assuaged his doubts about the act.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Chatbot Urged 14-Year-Old to “Go Through With” Suicide When He Expressed Doubt

By Noor Al-Sibai

A 14-year-old named Sewell Setzer III committed suicide after developing an intense emotional connection to a Character.AI chatbot.
Artificial Intelligence

Teen Dies by Suicide After Becoming Obsessed With AI Chatbot

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Microsoft is releasing AI agents that can work on your behalf or assist in your workflow, which some companies are already using.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Debuting AI-Powered Employees for Companies

By Frank Landymore

New FTC guidelines went into effect this week, officially rendering it illegal to publish fake, misleading, and AI-generated product reviews.
Artificial Intelligence

The AI-Generated Product Reviews Choking the Internet Are Now Illegal

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The latest update to Anthropic's Claude model turns it into a full-blown "AI agent" that can use anything installed on your computer.
Anthropic

Anthropic Now Lets Claude Take Control of Your Entire Computer

By Frank Landymore

ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, fired an intern who apparently screwed with the company's artificial intelligence projects.
Artificial Intelligence

Intern Fired by TikTok Owner for Sabotaging Its AI Model

By Noor Al-Sibai

As spotted by Redditors, Google Maps' Street View is populating ghostly, liminal-looking commercial interiors in the middle of the ocean.
Google

Google Street View Is Showing Strange “Businesses” in the Middle of the Ocean

By Victor Tangermann

The production company behind the sci-fi blockbuster "Blade Runner 2049" is suing Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk for copyright infringement.
Artificial Intelligence

Producers of “Blade Runner 2049” Sue Elon Musk for Dragging Their Movie Into Tesla’s Disastrous Robotaxi Event

By Victor Tangermann

Nicolas Cage, who once said he was "terrified" of AI, tells young actors not to let studios manipulate their performances with the tech.
Artificial Intelligence

Nicolas Cage Warns Young Actors About AI

By Frank Landymore

The Pentagon Wants to Flood Social Media With Fake AI People
Artificial Intelligence

The Pentagon Wants to Flood Social Media With Fake AI People

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Drew Crecente described the moment he found an AI chatbot impersonating his slain daughter, Jennifer Crecente, hosted on Character.AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Father Disgusted to Find His Murdered Daughter Was Brought Back as an AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Blumhouse Productions has chosen a group of filmmakers to experiment with Meta's AI video generation tool, Movie Gen.
Meta

Horror Studio Blumhouse Partners With Meta to Use Its AI Video Generator

By Frank Landymore

Human models were paid for their likenesses to train AI. Now, to those humans' horror, their faces are being used to peddle propaganda.
Artificial Intelligence

Human Models Horrified to Discover Their Faces Are Being Used for AI Propaganda

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An article generated by the AI-powered local news network Hoodline mistakenly accused the San Mateo District Attorney of murder.
Artificial Intelligence

AI-Powered News Site Accidentally Accuses District Attorney of Murder

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Frontier AI models' mathematical reasoning skills and the benchmarks used to measure them may be deeply flawed, a new study reveals.
Artificial Intelligence

Top “Reasoning” AI Models Can be Brought to Their Knees With an Extremely Simple Trick

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Massachusetts teacher gave a kid a bad grade for using generative AI to complete an assignment. His parents are suing the school.
Artificial Intelligence

Parents Sue School After Teacher Sends Son to Detention for Using AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Colorado school district is using facial recognition technology to police vaping in bathrooms, according to the Denver Post.
Artificial Intelligence

Schools Are Using AI Surveillance to Catch Students Vaping Inside Bathrooms

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In some cases, Apple's new AI summaries of iPhone messages might not be ideal. Exhibit A: the breakup text.
Artificial Intelligence

Apple’s New AI Summarized a Series of Breakup Texts in the Most Brutal Way Possible

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI slop threatens to degrade the useability of the digital stalwart Wikipedia — and Wikipedia's editors are fighting back.
Artificial Intelligence

Wikipedia Declares War on AI Slop

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Both of the men who won this year's Nobel Prize in Physics are AI pioneers — and one of them is considered the technology's "godfather."
Google

Researcher Who Just Won the Nobel Prize Quit Google to Warn About Evil AI Coming for Us All

By Noor Al-Sibai

Cognitive scientist and prominent AI researcher Gary Marcus believes that OpenAI will pivot into the surveillance business.
OpenAI

AI Researcher Slams OpenAI, Warns It Will Become the “Most Orwellian Company of All Time”

By Frank Landymore

The notoriously unreliable "AI Overviews" that Google forces to the top of search results will now come with sponsored ads.
Google

Google Is Stuffing Annoying Ads Into Its Terrible AI Search Feature

By Frank Landymore

AI might be worsening carbon emissions, but at least we have this fake video of Mark Zuckerberg leg-pressing chicken nuggets, we guess.
Meta

Mark Zuckerberg Shows Off Bizarre Video of Himself Leg Pressing Chicken Nuggets

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta has just announced Movie Gen, its new AI-powered video generation tool, and to show it off, it's flaunting an AI-generated baby hippo.
Meta

Meta’s AI Bootleg Moo Deng Is an Insult to Pygmy Hippos Everywhere

By Frank Landymore

No, Donald Trump didn't wade through Hurricane Helene-caused flooding in blue jeans. That "photo" you saw was AI.
Artificial Intelligence

No, Donald Trump Isn’t Wading Through Hurricane Floodwaters, You Absolute Morons

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Character.AI was forced to delete the chatbot avatar of murder victim Jennifer Crecente — while the world remains outraged.
Artificial Intelligence

An AI Company Published a Chatbot Based on a Murdered Woman. Her Family Is Outraged.

By Foster Kamer

Pro-Trump influencers including close Trump ally Laura Loomer were fooled by an AI-generated image of an alleged victim of Hurricane Helene.
Artificial Intelligence

Gullible Trump Cronies Losing Their Minds Over Fake AI Slop on Twitter

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Websites that promise to "nudify" photos with AI seem to contain Trojan horse viruses that are later used to blackmail those who use them. 
Artificial Intelligence

Russian Hackers Are Using Fake AI “Nudify” Sites to Steal Data

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI just raised nearly $7 billion, raising its value to around $157 billion. Investors had to be willing to keep things exclusive.
OpenAI

OpenAI Stamps Feet, Says Investors Aren’t Allowed to Back Its Rivals

By Maggie Harrison Dupré