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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

A senior OpenAI employee claimed that using the latest version of ChatGPT is akin to talking with a human therapist.

OpenAI Employee Says She’s Never Tried Therapy But ChatGPT Is Pretty Much a Replacement For It

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Writers Guild of America has officially reached an agreement with Hollywood studios, determining that an AI isn't a "writer."

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Strike Ends With Writers Guild Forcing Concessions on AI

By Victor Tangermann

Google's search AI thinks you can melt eggs. Its source? ChatGPT. Cheers to the end of the internet's usability!

Google’s Search AI Says You Can Melt Eggs. Its Source Will Make You Facepalm

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Government officials in Iran are looking to modernize by using artificial intelligence to help clerics issue fatwas.

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Iranian Authorities Say AI Could Help Issue Fatwas Faster Than Ever Before

By Noor Al-Sibai

According to Gizmodo, Coca-Cola's new AI-inspired flavor called Y3000 is uninspired and downright terrible.

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People Disgusted With Flavor of Coke’s AI-Generated Soda

By Victor Tangermann

BuzzFeed's stock has been tumbling for months, and it appears that Buzzy the Robot may not be enough to save it from Nasdaq doom.

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What Happened After BuzzFeed’s Pivot to AI: Catastrophic Stock Collapse

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Some people in Iowa are mad that Microsoft used a ton of water to train AI while Iowa has been in a drought caused by climate change.

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Critics Furious Microsoft Is Training AI by Sucking Up Water During Drought

By Sharon Adarlo

Meta is marching forward with its solution for reviving declining user numbers: introducing an array of AI-powered chatbots to its services.

Losing Human Users, Facebook Releasing Chatbots for Lonely to Talk To

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Authors, including John Grisham, announced they are suing ChatGPT maker OpenAI, claiming its large language models are violating copyright.

OpenAI Trembles as John Grisham Joins Lawsuit Targeting ChatGPT

By Victor Tangermann

Google just plugged Bard into a variety of its products — but the AI chatbot might not be the helpful assistant that Google wants it to be.

Google’s New Gmail Tool Is Hallucinating Emails That Don’t Exist

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The new model, AlphaMissense, has identified 71 million missense mutations and classified 89 percent of them as likely benign or malignant.

Google DeepMind Claims Its AI Can Pinpoint Genetic Mutations That Cause Disease

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The family of a North Carolina man is suing Google, claiming Google Maps directions made the father drive his car off a bridge last year.

Family Sues Google for Fatally Telling Father to Drive Off Collapsed Bridge

By Victor Tangermann

Parents in Spain are mad after naked deepfake pictures of their daughters were circulated in local schools.

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Parents Furious After Deepfaked Nudes of Daughters Circulate at Schools

By Sharon Adarlo