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Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas is using the troubling rise in AI companionship apps to hawk his company's AI web browser.

Perplexity CEO Warns That AI Girlfriends Can Melt Your Brain

Researchers “Embodied” an LLM Into a Robot Vacuum and It Suffered an Existential Crisis Thinking About Its Role in the World

By Victor Tangermann

A new benchmark shows that AI agents are embarrassingly terrible at doing remote work tasks -- which is bad news for the AI economy.

A New Paper Tested AI’s Ability to Do Actual Online Freelance Work, and the Results Are Damning

By Frank Landymore

The AI startup Perplexity fell for a clever trap laid by the social media site Reddit that all but proves it scraped data from the forum.

Perplexity Just Got Caught Breaking the Rules Red-Handed

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI has its work cut out to justify the existence of its newfangled ChatGPT Atlas browser. It's extremely slow and vulnerable to exploits.

OpenAI’s New AI Web Browser Is a Bit of a Mess

By Victor Tangermann

This officially marks the second time Google had to shutter this particular office due to a bed bug invasion.

Google Locks Down Manhattan Campus Due to Bed Bug Infestation

For just a couple dollars, Endless Summer will generate images in your likeness of a fantasy vacation that never has to end.

Meta Employee Creates AI App That Deepfakes the Dream Vacation You Couldn’t Afford

Even the biggest players in AI are losing billions — "brutal" economics that highlight growing concerns of an enormous AI bubble.

The Economics of Running an AI Company Are Disastrous

By Victor Tangermann

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA - DECEMBER 06: EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NO STANDALONE PUBLICATION USE (NO SPECIAL INTEREST OR SINGLE ARTIST PUBLICATION USE; NO BOOK USE). Taylor Swift performs onstage during "Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour" at BC Place on December 06, 2024 in Vancouver, British Columbia. (Photo by Kevin Winter/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management)

Even Longtime Swifties Disgusted by Taylor’s Use of AI

A 13-year-old Florida teen was arrested for asking OpenAI's ChatGPT how to kill a friend during class in what he claimed to be a prank.

13-Year-Old Arrested for Asking ChatGPT How to Kill His Friend

By Sharon Adarlo

OpenAI is said to be launching a TikTok-like app that recommends an endless stream of swipeable — and purely AI-generated — videos.

OpenAI Launching TikTok Competitor for Short-Form AI Slop Videos

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's planned AI data center projects would consume as much as the entire city of New York City and San Diego combined.

OpenAI’s New Data Centers Will Draw More Power Than the Entirety of New York City, Sam Altman Says

By Victor Tangermann

A planned data center in Indianapolis by Google was shut down after residents protested its possible environmental impacts.

Residents Shut Down Google Data Center Before It Can Be Built

By Sharon Adarlo

Deutsche Bank is warning that AI spending won't "remain parabolic," or continue to increase exponentially, a dire warning for the future.

Deutsche Bank Issues Grim Warning for AI Industry

By Victor Tangermann

Google is depending on thousands of contractors to train the AI behind its flagship chatbot Gemini.

It Turns Out That Google’s AI Is Being Trained by an Army of Poorly Treated Human Grunts

By Victor Tangermann

In a major change in tune, Google has admitted that the "open web is already in rapid decline" — despite arguing that the "web is thriving."

Google Says the Open Web Is Now in “Rapid Decline”

By Victor Tangermann

Google's dumpster fire AI Overviews are spitting out tips for internet games that are not rooted in reality.

Google’s AI Is Committing a Unique Evil: Giving Gamers Tips That Are Actually False

By Noor Al-Sibai

Googling the word "clanker," a joke insult for AI and robots, might cause the search giant's AI Overviews to go off on a political rant.

Google’s AI Flies Into Rage at the Word “Clanker”

By Noor Al-Sibai

A restaurant is begging its customers to please stop using notoriously unreliable Google AI to ask about its menu items.

Local Restaurant Exhausted as Google AI Keeps Telling Customers About Daily Specials That Don’t Exist

By Frank Landymore

The man behind Google's first generative AI program has some stark advice for advanced degree-seekers: don't do it, because AI will beat you.

Founder of Google’s Generative AI Team Says Don’t Even Bother Getting a Law or Medical Degree, Because AI’s Going to Destroy Both Those Careers Before You Can Even Graduate

By Noor Al-Sibai

Users are finding that Google's Gemini AI keeps having disturbing psychological episodes, melting down in despondent self-loathing.

Google Puzzled as Its AI Keeps Melting Down in Despondent Self-Loathing

By Victor Tangermann

You, too, can meet the love of your life if you simply use Google's AI Mode search to do literally everything.

Google’s New Ad Shows a Slopper Meeting the Love of His Life by Surrendering His Brain to the AI’s Instructions

By Frank Landymore

In Google's May 2024 research paper introducing healthcare AI model, Med-Gemini, the AI made up a body part that doesn't exist.

Doctors Horrified After Google’s Healthcare AI Makes Up a Body Part That Does Not Exist in Humans

By Victor Tangermann

Google's former chief business officer, Mo Gawdat, warned that AI could soon replace white-collar jobs, including CEOs.

Former Google Exec Warns That If You Have a Good Job Now, You Should Be Terrified of AI

By Victor Tangermann

Google's notorious AI Overviews feature appears, for perhaps the very first time, to have finally gotten it right.

If You Ask Google Why It Sucks Now, AI Overviews Will Viciously Bully Google and Itself

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google's Gemini AI chatbot boasted that it would crush the Atari 2600 at chess — before cowering in fear in the face of a superior machine.

Google’s AI Refuses to Even Play Chess Against 1977 Atari, After Hearing What It Did to Other Cutting-Edge AIs

By Frank Landymore

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Google Sends Out Bizarre Email Saying AI Will Now Control Your Phone’s Apps

Google's shoddy AI Overviews allegedly spread damaging lies about a solar company, which is now suing the tech giant for defamation.

Solar Company Sues Google for Giving Damaging Information in AI Overviews

By Frank Landymore

Google has released a baffling new AI feature that turns your web search into a podcast. Is literacy dead?

Google Adds Button to Generate Error-Laden AI Podcast About Your Search Results Instead of Just Reading Them Like a Functioning Member of Society

By Victor Tangermann

Google's pivot to AI-powered search is proving disastrous for the digital news media landscape.

Google’s AI Is Actively Destroying the News Media

By Victor Tangermann

Google's Demis Hassabis recently made the extraordinary claim that AGI will allow us to colonize the galaxy "beginning in 2030."

Google DeepMind CEO Says AI Will Let Us “Colonize the Galaxy” Starting in Five Years

Google has been caught using powered off Android phones to send and receive personal data to serve users targeted ads.

Google Going to Trial After Doing Something Super Sketchy to Android Users

Talk about cutting-edge tech. Google's more-than-frequently-wrong AI Overviews search feature still thinks it's 2024.

Google Humiliated as Its Idiot AI Overviews Caught Telling Users It’s Still 2024

By Victor Tangermann

Google’s New Video-Generating AI May Be the End of Reality as We Know It

By Noor Al-Sibai

Following news of former president Joe Biden's prostate cancer diagnosis, a lot of Americans took to Google to find out what a prostate was.

Far Too Many Americans Googled “What Is a Prostate” Following Joe Biden’s Cancer Diagnosis

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elementl Power just announced a signed agreement with Google to erect three project sites for "advanced nuclear energy."

Google is Building Three New Nuclear Plants for Its Extremely Power-Hungry AI

A Google DeepMind executive admitted that the company still trains its AI models on data collected on sites that opted out of AI training.

Google’s AI Is Scraping Even Sites That Ask to Be Ignored

By Frank Landymore

Adding the word "meaning" to nonexistent folksy sayings is causing Google's AI Overviews to cook up invented explanations for them.

“You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice”: Google’s AI Is Making Up Explanations for Nonexistent Folksy Sayings

By Victor Tangermann

Artificial intelligence keeps getting smarter — and soon, warns former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, it won't take orders from us anymore.

Former Google CEO Warns That AI Is About to Escape Human Control

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google has one weird trick to hoard its artificial intelligence talent from poachers — paying them to not work at all.

Google Is Allegedly Paying Top AI Researchers to Just Sit Around and Not Work for the Competition

By Noor Al-Sibai

New investigative reporting has uncovered a tech giant in the middle of a cruel AI-powered border dystopia.

Google Is Helping Government Build an AI-Powered Border Surveillance System

Billionaire tech tycoon Eric Schmidt told Congress that 99 percent of electricity will soon be used to power AI.

Former Google CEO Tells Congress That 99 Percent of All Electricity Will Be Used to Power Superintelligent AI

Google's crappy "AI Overviews" regularly spits out dangerous and incorrect answers — and now it's being entrusted with health advice.

Google Says Its Error-Ridden “AI Overviews” Will Now Give Health Advice

By Noor Al-Sibai

The chatbot startup Character.AI is accused of causing the death of a 14-year-old user. Now, it's hosting AI impersonations of the dead teen.

Google-Backed Chatbot Platform Caught Hosting AI Impersonations of 14-Year-Old User Who Died by Suicide

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Character.AI and Google are facing allegations that they tested dangerous, dangerous, experimental AI chatbots on minors. Did they?

Did Google Test an Experimental AI on Kids, With Tragic Results?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Months before Google struck a $2.7 billion licensing deal with Character.AI, Google AI scientists warned that AI companions could harm kids.

Before Google Was Blamed for the Suicide of a Teen Chatbot User, Its Researchers Published a Paper Warning of Those Exact Dangers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

One of the richest men on the planet has decided to grab the golden calf and milk AI hype for all it's worth.

The Cofounder of Google Has a Secret New AI Startup

Google, has announced that it's going to expand its infamously terrible and ad-inundated AI Overviews feature.

Google Announces “AI Mode” For Search Results That Only Shows You AI Slop

By Frank Landymore

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An AI Slop “Science” Site Has Been Beating Real Publications in Google Results by Publishing Fake Images of SpaceX Rockets

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google's so called "AI co-scientist" has been met with skepticism by actual scientists, who've shot down some of the company's claims.

Scientists Say Google’s “AI Scientist” Is Dead on Arrival

By Frank Landymore

Google's AI Overviews confidently insist that MJ Lenderman has won 14 Grammys — even though he's never been nominated for one on his own.

Google’s AI Insists That MJ Lenderman Has Won 14 Grammys

By Noor Al-Sibai

A top boss at Google has made it clear that employees should make enormous sacrifices to develop AGI, as long as it makes him money.

Google Cofounder Exhorts Employees to Work 60-Hour Weeks to Create AI Designed to Replace Them

Chegg has sued Google over its shoddy AI Overviews, accusing the tech giant of diverting traffic from its website.

Google Hit With Lawsuit Over Its Loathsome AI Overviews

By Frank Landymore

Google either faked its new cheese-centric Super Bowl ad for its AI, or prompted it to plagiarize existing web copy. Either way: bad!

Google’s Super Bowl Ad Accidentally Shows Its AI Simply Plagiarizing Existing Web Copy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google has quietly removed a clause stating it will not manufacture weapons or surveillance technology with AI.

Google Quietly Walks Back Promise Not To Use AI for Weapons or Harm

Google's parent company Alphabet failed to hit sales targets, falling a 0.1 percent short of Wall Street's revenue expectations.

Google’s Finances Are in Chaos as the Company Flails at Unpopular AI

By Victor Tangermann

Google appears to have retroactively edited a YouTube-published advertisement for Gemini to remove an AI-generated error.

Google Retroactively Edits Super Bowl Ad to Remove Embarrassing Error Its AI Made

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google's office with dark red, scary clouds looming behind.

Something Bad Is Brewing Inside Google

An apparent Character.AI bug caused chatbot outputs to devolve into multilingual gibberish, complete with inexplicable mentions of sex toys.

Google-Backed Chatbots Suddenly Start Ranting Incomprehensibly About Dildos

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google's controversial search AI was caught recommending that parents use a popular vibrator on children as a method of behavioral therapy.

Google’s AI Caught Recommending Use of Sex Toys on Children

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Another Google Image results page — this one for the question of "does corn get digested" — is run amuck with AI-generated slop.

Behold the AI Slop Dominating Google Image Results for “Does Corn Get Digested”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google's AI-generated search summary for the query "baby elephant" includes an AI-generated photo of a clearly fake, teacup-sized elephant.

Google’s AI Overview Believes Baby Elephants Can Sit in the Palm of a Human Hand

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An image on Google Street View that appears to show a man stuffing a body into a car provided Spanish authorities with a breakthrough.

Google Street View Appears to Capture Man Loading Human Body Into Trunk of Car

By Frank Landymore

A dirty-minded Redditor has posted an AI-generated exchange from Google's Notebook LM — and reader, it's very naughty.

We Regret to Bring You This Audio of Two Google AIs Having EXTREMELY Explicit Cybersex

By Noor Al-Sibai