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The FAA has cleared Google cofounder Sergey Brin's 400-foot airship, dubbed the Pathfinder 1, for test flights in California.

Google Cofounder’s Airship Cleared for Flight

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to AI OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, AI doesn't have to be AGI-level smart to take control of our feeble human minds.

Sam Altman Warns That AI Is Learning “Superhuman Persuasion”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI has created a new team whose whole job is heading off the "catastrophic risks" that could be brought on by artificial intelligence.

OpenAI Team Tasked With Stopping AI From Triggering Nuclear Armageddon

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI is arguing that ChatGPT is only a drafting tool, and thus can't be held legally responsible for any hallucinations it spits out.

OpenAI Says It’s Fine If ChatGPT Occasionally Accuses Innocent People of Crimes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A leader in Google's artificial intelligence division in the United Kingdom says that AI poises a big threat to humanity like climate change.

Google AI Boss Says AI Is an Existential Threat to Humankind

By Sharon Adarlo

"Unsafe image content detected": Microsoft's Bing Image Creator often refuses to generate images of women.

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Bing’s AI Refuses to Generate Photorealistic Images of Women, Saying They’re “Unsafe”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

IBM researchers said a ChatGPT-generated phishing email was almost as effective in fooling people compared to a man-made version.

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ChatGPT’s Scary Good at Getting People to Click Phishing Emails, IBM Finds

By Sharon Adarlo

Apple is spending $1 billion per year on generative AI, which may soon manifest in a smarter Siri and AI capabilities in other programs.

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Apple Is Apparently Spending Billions on Secret AI Development

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers built a new tool that can generate prompt-specific "poison samples" that scramble the digital brains of image generators.

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New Tool Lets Artists “Poison” Their Work to Mess Up AI Trained on It

By Victor Tangermann

Anaconda co-founder and CEO Peter Wang predicts that books will soon be replaced by AI-generated, interactive content trips dubbed "thunks."

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Tech Guy Says Books Will Be Replaced by AI-Powered “Thunks”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Adult film star Riley Reid has co-founded a new company that allows other personalities to create AI-enabled chatbot versions of themselves.

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Riley Reid Launches Site for Adult Performers to Create AI Versions of Themselves

By Victor Tangermann

A British boarding school has recruited two artificial intelligence chatbots to serve as the school's "principal headteacher" and head of AI.

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Prep School Appoints AI Chatbots to Executive Staff Roles

By Noor Al-Sibai

The AI companion app Soulmate suddenly shut down in September, leaving users with only a week left to talk to their digital lovers.

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Lonely Redditors Heartbroken When AI “Soulmate” App Suddenly Shuts Down

By Noor Al-Sibai

Apple executives gave John Stewart an ultimatum: cede creative control, give up those issues, or "The Problem" gets cancelled.

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Apple Reportedly Ditched Jon Stewart Because They Didn’t Like His Thoughts About AI

By Frank Landymore

Behold, the transformational power of generative AI technology: generating photorealistic images of lil' tykes gleefully smoking cigs.

OpenAI Image Generator Draws Pictures of Children Smoking Cigarettes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI has a very dirty secret: that the people hired to train it are making literal pennies on the dollar, which is tantamount to slave labor.

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That AI You’re Using Was Trained By Slave Labor, Basically

By Noor Al-Sibai

Universal Music Group and several other record labels have accused Anthropic of stealing their lyrics to train its chatbot Claude 2.

Music Industry Sues Anthropic for Alleged Theft of Lyrics

By Frank Landymore

A one-time Fugees rap group member claims that his attorney fumbled his conspiracy trial because he used artificial intelligence.

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Fugees Rapper Says His Lawyer Lost His Case by Using AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Yann Lecun, one of three "godfathers" of AI and Meta's chief AI scientist, thinks that our AI doomsaying is "preposterous."

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Godfather of AI Tells Us to Stop Freaking Out Over Its “Existential Risk” To Humanity

By Frank Landymore

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, sees the loss of jobs as a natural part of "technological revolution" every 100 to 150 years.

Sam Altman Warns That AI Is Gonna Destroy a Lot of People’s Jobs

By Frank Landymore

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Facebook’s Kendall Jenner AI Recommends Other Tequilas Over Hers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

One of the biggest names behind an author-led lawsuit against OpenAI, John Grisham has seemingly run out of patience with AI companies.

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John Grisham Unloads on Big Tech Using His Books to Train AI

By Frank Landymore

Google has moved to dismiss a class action data-scraping lawsuit regarding its AI training practices, which the suit alleges amount to theft.

Google Terrified of Lawsuit That Would “Take a Sledgehammer” to Generative AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

LinkedIn, a Microsoft-owned company, is laying off almost 700 people this month in a second round of lay offs.

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LinkedIn Laying Off 700 as Microsoft Pivots to AI

By Sharon Adarlo

While announcing the city's AI plans, NYC's mayor bragged that his voice is now being cloned to make robocalls in Mandarin and Yiddish.

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NYC’s Mayor Using AI to Make Robocalls of Him Speaking Chinese and Yiddish

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI chatbots may, as new research suggests, be able to infer information about you based on small things you mention to them.

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Researchers Just Found Something Terrifying About Talking to AI Chatbots

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to Meta's AI-powered Tom Brady horcrux, Colin Kaepernick just isn't good enough to play in the NFL. Oh, yeah, and he's "drama."

Meta’s AI-Powered Tom Brady Bot Trashes Colin Kaepernick, Saying He “Ain’t Good Enough” to Play in the NFL

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The financial industry's increasing reliance on AI will most likely trigger the next financial crisis, according to the SEC chairman.

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SEC Head Says It’s a Near-Certainty That AI Will Cause a Financial Crash

By Sharon Adarlo

Stack Overflow, is laying off 28 percent of its staff, just as OpenAI's ChatGPT is experiencing a big surge in popularity for coding help.

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Stack Overflow Lays Off Employees as AI Threatens Coding Industry

By Sharon Adarlo

Facebook’s AI-Powered Jane Austen Is Already Overrun by Spam

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Facebook’s AI-Powered Jane Austen Is Already Overrun by Spam

By Victor Tangermann, Jon Christian

AI is here to enforce Zoom etiquette — but according to some who have used the meeting bots, the AIs don't always understand nuance.

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Bosses Deploying AIs in Video Meetings to Lecture Employees for Bad Behavior

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new AI-powered tool from Google will effortlessly swap and add different facial expressions using other photos you took.

Google’s New Phone Adds Smiles to Your Photos Even If Everyone Was Miserable

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI quietly changed its "core values" list to include a focus on AGI that wasn't explicitly listed there before.

The Ever-So-Ethical OpenAI Just Replaced Its “Core Values” With Completely Different Ones

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft is offering a "bug bounty" to anyone who can bait its Bing AI into saying or doing what it's not supposed to.

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Microsoft Will Pay You $15,000 If You Get Bing AI to Go Off the Rails

By Noor Al-Sibai

Disney has come under fire after a video resurfaced showing horribly CGI-generated background actors in the movie "Prom Pact."

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Disney Mocked for Ludicrously Fake CGI “Actors” in Crowd Scene

By Victor Tangermann

An astonishing number of celebrities who signed up to be turned into Meta AI chatbots are, or were, really into cryptocurrencies and NFTs.

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The Same Celebrities Who Shilled Crypto Are Now Turning Themselves Into Facebook’s AI Chatbots

By Victor Tangermann

Google set up a secretive Discord server for its most active Bard AI users — but their feedback isn't all positive.

Google Insider Unimpressed by Its Cutting Edge AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

As The Information reports, one unnamed celebrity got as much as $5 million from Meta to be turned into an AI chatbot.

Facebook Is Paying Celebrities Millions to Turn Them Into Chatbots

By Victor Tangermann

The IRS says that Microsoft owes tens of billions of dollars in back taxes — and apparently, the company isn't buying it.

The IRS Says Microsoft Owes More in Back Taxes Than It Invested in OpenAI

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI researcher Geoffrey Hinton, widely regarded as the "Godfather of AI," is worried that AI might take over the world one day.

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Godfather of AI Admits He Fears His Creation Could “Take Over From Humanity”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Alex de Vries, a data scientist at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, found that AI companies could soon use as much power as a country worldwide.

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AI’s Electricity Use Is Spiking So Fast It’ll Soon Use as Much Power as an Entire Country

By Victor Tangermann

An analyst from a tech advisory firm said that generative AI is slated for a slowdown next year due to increasing costs.

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Generative AI Is Headed for a Financial “Cold Shower” Next Year, Analyst Predicts

By Sharon Adarlo

Fun's over, kids. As Windows Central reports, Microsoft appears to have lobotomized Bing's DALL-E 3-powered AI Image Creator.

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Microsoft Lobotomizes Bing’s Image Generating AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers have found a sad but unsurprising statistic: that nearly 10% of folks who use AI chatbots are doing so for horny purposes.

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One in Ten Chatbot Users Are Big Time Horndogs, Researchers Find

By Noor Al-Sibai

For more than a decade, cops have tried to use "predictive policing" to presage where crimes will happen — but they seem not to work at all.

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Study Finds That Police “Crime Predicting” AI Fails Miserably at Predicting Crimes

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers from MIT found that subjects, who were "primed" for a specific AI experience almost always ended up having that experience.

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AI Chatbots Are Only Useful If You Think They Are, Scientists Find

By Victor Tangermann

If Seekr's AI algorithm is to be believed, The Messenger's reporting isn't all that reliable. Tough foot for a partnership to start on, no?

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News Site Partners with AI Service That Measures Reliability, Which Flags Its Articles as Unreliable

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Apparently, Disney — a company famous for its fierce defense of its IP — doesn't have a squeak to say about AI-generated Terrorist Mickey.

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Disney Has No Comment on Microsoft’s AI Generating Pictures of Mickey Mouse Doing 9/11

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Meta has started rolling out AI-generated stickers on its Messenger platform, but its half-baked safeguards leave plenty to be desired.

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Facebook’s New AI Stickers Let You Generate Pics of Elon Musk With Boobs

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft's OpenAI-powered Bing Chat is usually weary of being used to solve CAPTCHAs, and not, for example, an AI being used to commit fraud.

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Bing Chat Will Help With Fraud If You Tug Its Heartstrings About Your Dead Grandma

By Victor Tangermann

Earlier this year, a CEO of an e-commerce platform replaced his customer service team with OpenAI's ChatGPT. He has no regrets.

CEO Roasts Human Workers He Fired and Replaced With ChatGPT

By Victor Tangermann

G/O Media-owned sports news site Deadspin's AI, "Deadspin Bot," has been resuscitated, and is now busy churning out stats.

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Deadspin’s AI Is Suddenly Publishing Dozens of New Articles

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Amid the ongoing SAG strike, Tom Hanks has issued a warning about an AI version of him being used in a dental ad without his consent.

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Tom Hanks Says Someone Used AI to Make an Ad Featuring Him Without His Permission

By Noor Al-Sibai

An actor seems to have given a bizarre explanation for why he liked a bunch of bigoted posts: that AI had something to do with it.

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Actor Blames AI for Liking Red-Pilled Social Media Posts

By Noor Al-Sibai

Robin Williams' daughter Zelda has had it up to here with artificial intelligence used to mimic her father's voice in films.

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Robin Williams’ Daughter Disgusted by Efforts to Bring Her Dad Back With AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

It seems scammers who use AI to mimic writers are getting smarter after a journalist found a book that bore a strong resemblance to his own.

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Scammers Are Using AI to Sell Ripped Off Versions of Other People’s Books

By Noor Al-Sibai

A South Korean judge has for the first time in that country's history sent down a sentence related to AI-generated child abuse images.

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South Korea Sentences Man for Creating Child Abuse Images Using AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Writers who are suing OpenAI for training ChatGPT on their work without permission aren't having any of the AI startup's nonsense.

Suing Writers Seethe at OpenAI’s Excuses in Court

By Frank Landymore

With its ability to spit out entire papers in seconds, ChatGPT might seem like a massive problem to the contract cheating industry.

ChatGPT Could Put People Who Write Essays for Cheating Students Out of Business

By Frank Landymore

Microsoft is betting on small modular nuclear reactors to grow its energy infrastructure for training AI, a highly ambitious plan.

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Microsoft Needs So Much Power to Train AI That It’s Considering Small Nuclear Reactors

By Victor Tangermann

Using artificial intelligence, researchers have discovered thousands of new mysterious "fairy circles" in hundreds of locations.

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Scientists Say They’ve Found Huge Number of Mysterious Circles Around the World

By Victor Tangermann

The French Competition Authority raided Nvidia's local offices this week as part of a probe in its alleged anti-competitive practices.

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France Just Raided the Offices of Nvidia

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman hopes that artificial general intelligence will be able to replace the so-called "median human."

Sam Altman Says He Intends to Replace Normal People With AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI May Be in Big Legal Trouble

By Victor Tangermann