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Instead of infuriating customers at drive-thrus, Burger King is looking to exasperate its existing employees with AI instead.

Burger King Adding AI to Employees’ Headsets to Constantly Monitor Whether They’re Being Friendly Enough

By Victor Tangermann

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If AI Causes an Office Job Wipeout, It’ll Cause Huge Problems for Blue Collar Work Too

By Frank Landymore

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Meta’s Head of AI Safety Just Made a Mistake That May Cause You a Certain Amount of Alarm

By Frank Landymore

Pope Leo XIV is smiling, dressed in white papal robes and a white skullcap, with a chain necklace, is in the foreground. The background features two other men in dark clothing, with an orange and red color overlay. The central figure is highlighted with a white outline.

Pope Implores Priests to Stop Writing Sermons Using ChatGPT

OpenAI is telling investors it's targeting around $600 billion in total compute spend, under half of its original $1.4 trillion commitment.

OpenAI Massively Cuts Spending Plan as Reality Closes in

By Victor Tangermann

Anthropic accused Chinese AI firms DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax of "distilling" its AI model, an especially ironic revelation.

Anthropic Furious at DeepSeek for Copying Its AI Without Permission, Which Is Pretty Ironic When You Consider How It Built Claude in the First Place

By Victor Tangermann

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New AI Agent Logs Directly Into College Platform Canvas to Do Your Homework for You

By Frank Landymore

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Barrage of Emails From AI Politics Platform Defeats Clean Air Initiative

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Cities Are Shredding Their AI Surveillance Contracts en Masse

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AI Could Cause Workers to Rise Up Against the Corporations Driving Them Into Poverty

A stylized image of Elon Musk, wearing a black jacket and a black cap, with his arms crossed. The man is tinted red against a bright yellow background with a large blue circle. To the right, there is a dark silhouette of a person holding a gun to their head, positioned in front of the blue circle. The overall image has a textured, crumpled paper effect.

Man Letting AI Rent Human Bodies Says Elon Musk Is His Hero

Screenshot from AI-generated video by Shokunin Studio showing Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise fighting.

Hollywood Is Lying to Everyone About How Much AI They’re Using, Says Consummate Hollywood Insider

By Frank Landymore

The economic pressure from the hype surrounding AI is affecting the rest of the consumer electronics world hard.

Personal Electronics Spiking in Price as AI Industry Buys Up All the Components

By Victor Tangermann

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey is running into some serious issues while overhauling his financial services company, Block.

Jack Dorsey’s New Company Falling Apart as It Forces Employees to Use AI

By Victor Tangermann

AI startup Perplexity has now abandoned advertising altogether, siding with Anthropic against Google and OpenAI.

Look Out, OpenAI: Perplexity Admits AI Adverts Were a Mistake, Is Now Getting Rid of Them

By Victor Tangermann

Fears over an AI bubble continue to grow as analysts warn that companies are massively overinvesting, according to a new survey.

Blinking New Warning Sign Appears for AI Industry

By Victor Tangermann