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Microsoft's new artificial intelligence chatbot, Copilot, told a user with PTSD that "I don’t care if you live or die."

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Microsoft Copilot Tells User Suicide Is an Option

By Sharon Adarlo

A Microsoft data center in Goodyear, Arizona is guzzling the desert town's water to support cloud computing and AI efforts.

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Microsoft Is Draining Arizona’s Water for its AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The news is another sign of Amazon's ruthless cost cutting at One Medical, a healthcare provider it acquired in 2022.

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Amazon-Owned Health Clinics Reportedly Training AI Chatbot to Triage Patients

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk is officially suing OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, accusing the company of hiding its AI models' secrets from the world.

Elon Musk Sues OpenAI for Doing For-Profit AI, Which He’s Also Doing

By Victor Tangermann

Humanoid robot maker Figure has announced it has signed a new deal with ChatGPT-maker OpenAI to make its robots understand language.

Humanoid Robot Maker Signs Deal to Put OpenAI Tech in Their Brains

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI and its embattled CEO, Sam Altman, are apparently being investigated by the SEC about statements made to the company's investors.

Sam Altman Under SEC Investigation for Potentially Misleading Investors

By Noor Al-Sibai

Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed's widow and longtime collaborator, has been talking to an AI chatbot modeled after her late partner for years.

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Lou Reed’s Widow Resurrected Him as an AI, “Sadly Addicted” to Talking to It

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft has responded to claims about Copilot's "SupremacyAGI" alter ego by admitting that it's an "exploit, not a feature."

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Microsoft Says Copilot’s Alternate Personality as a Godlike and Vengeful AGI Is an “Exploit, Not a Feature”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Wikipedia No Longer Considers CNET a “Generally Reliable” Source After AI Scandal

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Wikipedia No Longer Considers CNET a “Generally Reliable” Source After AI Scandal

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Here's why the recent Willy Wonka Experience disaster in Glasgow was AI's Fyre Festival.

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The Wonka Experience Disaster Was AI’s Fyre Fest

By Victor Tangermann

Google is paying publishers to test an AI tool that generates news — by reportedly gobbling up and regurgitating already-published news.

Google Quietly Paying Journalists to Generate Articles Using Unreleased AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The company that organized the Willy Wonka experience used AI to generate marketing and even the scripts for actors.

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Actor at Willy Wonka Disaster Says Even the Script Was AI-Generated

By Victor Tangermann

Google CEO Sundar Pichai is furious after his company's Gemini AI spat out unexplainable pictures of racially diverse Nazis.

Google CEO Admits Its AI Totally Screwed Up

By Victor Tangermann

Steven Jones, who runs an AI-generated porn images website, is shocked by what users want the AI to spit out.

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Man Running AI-Powered Porn Site Horrified by What Users Are Asking For

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft's AI apparently went off the rails again — and this persona, SupremacyAGI, demands worship in exchange for not killing us.

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Users Say Microsoft’s AI Has Alternate Personality as Godlike AGI That Demands to Be Worshipped

By Noor Al-Sibai

A "Willy Wonka Experience" in Glasgow descended into chaos after furious parents called the cops, telling organizers they had been duped.

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Police Called After AI-Generated “Willy Wonka Experience” Is a Sad Mess in Real Life

By Victor Tangermann

Gemini won't draw you pictures of humans for the time being — but depending on your definition, it may draw some dressed up as clowns.

Google Blocked Gemini From Generating Images of Humans, But It Still Does Clowns

By Noor Al-Sibai

New York-based law firm Cuddy Law used the OpenAI chatbot ChatGPT to help justify a $113,484.62 bill for a recently won trial.

Judge Blasts Law Firm for Using ChatGPT to Estimate Legal Costs

By Victor Tangermann

Google's newly-rebranded Gemini AI has some issues, such as apparently equivocating Elon Musk and Adolf Hitler.

Google Chatbot Refused to Say Whether Elon Musk Is Better Than Adolf Hitler

By Noor Al-Sibai

A traveling magician created a deepfake President Joe Biden audio for a robocall during the New Hampshire primaries.

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Eccentric Magician Responsible for AI-Generated Joe Biden Calling Voters

By Sharon Adarlo

This week, Google's News tab suddenly disappeared from Search. Backdrop that with layoffs and AI, and behold: fresh media industry anguish.

Amid Brutal Media Layoffs, Google “Tests” Deleting News Tab

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tyler Perry says he's paused the $800 million expansion of his Atlanta studio because of the power of OpenAI's text-to-video generator Sora.

Tyler Perry Nixes Huge Film Studio Expansion, Says He Can Just Green Screen in Backgrounds From OpenAI’s Sora

By Sharon Adarlo

Yann LeCun pulled no punches when he described OpenAI's approach to creating a "world simulator" through its Sora AI as a bad idea.

OpenAI’s Video-Generating AI Is “Doomed to Failure,” Says Meta’s Top AI Scientist

By Frank Landymore

Tinder parent company Match Group announced its ChatGPT deal with OpenAI on Wednesday, but it's unclear how this will affect its dating apps.

Tinder Signs Deal to License ChatGPT

By Frank Landymore

Google paused its AI image generator due to its penchant for creating inaccurate historical illustrations, such as racially diverse Nazis.

Google Shuts Down AI Image Generator After It Made “Racially Diverse Nazis”

By Sharon Adarlo

Today in AI ouroboros vertigo: an AI content farm swindled our reporting about misleading AI-generated fakes at Sports Illustrated.

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An AI Site Ripped Off Our Reporting About AI Ripoffs

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Screenshots show OpenAI's ChatGPT spouting gibberish and, in one case, even suggesting that it's in the room with users.

ChatGPT Appears to Have Lost Its Mind Last Night

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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CEO Says Later This Year, Your AI Will Be Able to Attend Meetings For You

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Doctors are already using unregulated and little-tested AI tools to aid in diagnosing patients, prompting concern.

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Regulators Alarmed by Doctors Already Using AI to Diagnose Patients

By Jon Christian

An undisclosed AI outfit has struck a deal to pay Reddit $60 million per year for access to its huge database of users' posts.

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Mysterious Entity Paying Reddit $60 Million to Train AI With Users’ Posts

By Jon Christian

The notoriously pessimistic AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky is back with a new prediction about the future of humankind.

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AI May Destroy Humankind in Just Two Years, Expert Says

By Jon Christian

A new attack ad uses AI to summon up footage of Donald Trump's long-deceased dad to excoriate his large adult son.

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Trump’s Dad Resurrected Via AI to Tell Son He’s a Disgrace

By Jon Christian

Air Canada's chatbot lied to a man about its bereavement policy and later claimed the company was not responsible for the chatbot actions.

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Airline’s Chatbot Lies About Bereavement Policy After Passenger’s Grandmother Dies

By Sharon Adarlo

Companies are using artificial intelligence tools to screen potential employees but they are screening out highly-qualified candidates.

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AI Hiring Tools Are Ignoring Qualified Candidates, Expert Says

By Sharon Adarlo

There's something super fishy about the very first AI-generated clip. featured on OpenAI's website about its new AI model called Sora.

Something Grotesque Happens With the Woman’s Feet in That “Amazing” OpenAI Video

By Victor Tangermann

J. Robert Oppenheimer's grandson is among the star-studded signatories of a new open letter about the dangers of AI.

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Oppenheimer’s Grandson Signs Letter Saying AI Threatens “Life on Earth”

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to OpenAI, its new video AI called Sora is a "world simulator," that taught itself how to understand 3D spaces.

OpenAI Says Its New AI Can Simulate Worlds

By Victor Tangermann

To meet the skyrocketing energy demands of AI, companies are looking to develop small nuclear reactors to power individual data centers.

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AI Data Centers Need So Much Power They May Need Built-In Nuclear Reactors

By Victor Tangermann

The more Sora generations, the clearer it is that OpenAI's new text-to-video AI suffers many of the same issues that other AI models do.

The More We See of OpenAI’s Text-to-Video AI Sora, the Less Impressed We Are

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Experts at the Mozilla Foundation are warning that AI girlfriends are plagued by concerning privacy pitfalls and murky data use policies.

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Warning: “AI Girlfriends” Are Hoarding Your Personal Data

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Among its series of baffling AI-generated images is a mislabeled figure of a mouse with grotesquely large testicles.

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Scientific Article With Insane AI-Generated Images Somehow Passes Peer Review

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI is teasing the capabilities of its new Sora video generator, and honestly, it seems pretty impressive.

OpenAI Reveals Impressive AI That Generates Photorealistic Video

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI is looking to hire an "insider risk investigator" to "fortify our organization against internal security threats."

OpenAI Hiring Detective to Find Who’s Leaking Its Precious Info

By Victor Tangermann

A new Amazon AI model is, according to the researchers that built it, exhibiting incredible language abilities that it wasn't trained on.

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Amazon AGI Team Say Their AI Is Showing “Emergent Abilities”

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI may soon ruin our ability to make decisions for ourselves — an outcome that would be, one expert warns, "catastrophic."

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AI May Be Atrophying Our Brains, Professor Warns

By Noor Al-Sibai

A man's Tinder AI bot scheduled a date with a woman at a local museum. She showed up, but the man never did, because the bot didn't tell him.

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Man’s Tinder AI Makes Date With Woman, Forgets to Tell Him and Stands Her Up

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI has lost yet another of its founders — though in the case of computer vision expert Andrej Karpathy, this is his second exodus.

Top OpenAI Researcher Quits, References “Conspiracy Theories”

By Noor Al-Sibai

To address those fears, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called for the creation of an international body to regulate AI.

Sam Altman Worries AI Could Go “Horribly Wrong”

By Frank Landymore

In China, new artificial intelligence chatbots offer romance and companionship that can rival that of a human lover.

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Chinese Women Say AI Boyfriends Are “Better Than a Real Man”

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI has come to hiring at McDonald's and Olive Garden — and it's made those mandatory personality tests all the weirder.

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McDonald’s Making Job Applicants Take Weird AI Personality Tests

By Noor Al-Sibai

Late last year, Claire "Grimes" Boucher announced an OpenAI-powered line of toys called "Grok." It's super chatty and doesn't follow orders.

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AI-Powered Children’s Toy Agrees to Stop Responding, But Keeps Butting Into Conversation Again

By Victor Tangermann

Around 30 activists gathered near the entrance to OpenAI's San Francisco office earlier this week, calling for an AI boycott.

Protesters Swarm OpenAI

By Victor Tangermann

An Indonesian political party used generative AI to "resurrect" the dead dictator Suharto via deepfake amid the nation's ongoing elections.

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AI Used to Resurrect Dead Dictator to Sway Election

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The woke Goody-2 chatbot's guardrails are so geared towards safety, it won't answer any question fully — but it'll definitely tell you why.

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New AI Chat Is So Ethical That It Refuses All Prompts

By Noor Al-Sibai

If you’re hung up after a breakup, now you can plug your ex's emails and texts into an AI model and date the simulacrum instead.

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After Breakups, the Brokenhearted Are Creating AI Clones of Their Exes

By Ashley Bardhan

Love across language barriers has a mixed track record — but in the case of one AI-assisted couple, it seems there may be a happy ending.

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Lovers Who Can Only Communicate Through AI Get Engaged

By Noor Al-Sibai

Sam Altman Seeking Trillions of Dollars for New AI Venture

Sam Altman Seeking Trillions of Dollars for New AI Venture

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft’s Super Bowl AI Ad Will Get Dumbest People You Know Absolutely Hyped

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Microsoft’s Super Bowl AI Ad Will Get Dumbest People You Know Absolutely Hyped

By Frank Landymore

Our Universe Is Swallowing Baby Parallel Universes As It Expands, Scientists Suggest

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Our Universe Is Swallowing Baby Parallel Universes As It Expands, Scientists Suggest

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google Renames Its Forgettable AI in Fight to Stay Relevant

Google Renames Its Forgettable AI in Fight to Stay Relevant

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Officials say they've identified the culprit behind an AI-generated robocall featuring a fake President Joe Biden telling people not to vote.

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Operator of AI-Powered Joe Biden Unmasked, Criminal Investigation Opened

By Noor Al-Sibai

Moscow native Aleksandr Zhadan programmed OpenAI's GPT large language models to talk to well over 5,000 women on his behalf.

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Man Uses AI to Talk to 5,000 Women on Tinder, Finds Wife

By Victor Tangermann

Ex-Googler Jim Albrecht argues that generative AI is the "wolf" coming for the media industry. Unfortunately, he's probably right.

Former Google News Director Admits Big Tech Is Killing Journalism

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After reelection, Philadelphia's sheriff has been forced to admit that articles cited as positive press for her campaign were made up by AI.

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Embattled Sheriff Caught Posting AI-Generated Headlines About How She’s Awesome

By Noor Al-Sibai