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Anthropic

Police Furious After an Anthropic AI Model Submitted a Bogus Tip About an Unsolved Murder, Posing as a Person Who Might Have Information About the Case

"Unacceptable."

Self-Driving Vehicles

Tesla Basically Just Admitted It Was Misleading Customers, Renames Full Self-Driving to “Tesla Assisted Driving” In Europe

Not so adamant now.

Ethics

OpenAI Is Wargaming Its Response in Case of Public Revolt After Catastrophic AI Disaster

Everything's on the table.

Future Society

Sacked OpenAI Insiders Say the Company Is Firing Anyone Who Warns What’s Really Going On

If there ever was a culture of safety, it's being replaced by a culture of fear.

Mass Transit

Chinese High-Speed Rail Station Breaks World Record, Serving One Million Riders in a Single Day

Jaw-dropping.

Ethics

Meta Won’t Say If It Violates Its Policies to Upload AI-Generated Videos of Sobbing Little Children Begging for Likes and Follows So They Don’t Get Arrested by Police

"You don't have enough followers and shares on your videos," the officer explains. "If the person watching this video follows and shares, then you will be free."

Future Society

Well, This Is the First Time America Has Livestreamed an Execution by Firing Squad

"It will be livestreamed."

Artificial Intelligence

Mathematicians React With Fury as OpenAI Releases Hundreds of New AI-Generated Proofs

"We reject OpenAI's assertion that this release advances our subject."

Finance

Starbucks Considers Taking Over Chipotle as America Edges Closer to All Food Chains Being Owned by Like Three Companies

Nothing whets the appetite like Big Food Chain consolidation.

Finance

AI Bubble Teetering on the Brink as OpenAI Admits to Massive Financial Failure in Leaked Documents

A $20 billion setback.

Ethics

Don’t Want to Spend Time With Your Kids? Train an AI Voice Model of Yourself to Read Them Bedtime Stories

Parent-child bonding time isn't so sacred that it can't be optimized with AI.

Future Society

Patriots Quarterback Drake Maye Is a Moon Landing Truther, Prompting Response From NASA

"I just know I’m a little bit skeptical."

Art

Adobe in Trouble After Someone Reverse Engineered Adobe Creative Suite and Released It as Open Source

"About time we leave adobe for good."

Artificial Intelligence

The First Fully AI-Generated Movie to Receive an MPA Rating Is Making a Push for an Academy Award, But We Wouldn’t Hold Our Breath

Coming to a theater near you.

Future Society

Sony in Trouble as It Turns Out It’s Pretty Easy to Get PlayStation 5 Games to Run on PC

"Sony just needs to start getting used to not owning its console."

Ethics

Taylor Swift Applies for Top Level Domains That End in .Taylorswift

The fight against copycats keeps escalating.

Ethics

Influencers Are Promoting Cheap Dupes of Meta AI Glasses that Don’t Have the “Annoying Blinking Light” When They Record

"I'm recording you right now and you probably can't even tell, because these don't have that annoying blinking light."

Artificial Intelligence

Kevin Roose’s Buzzy New Book About the AI Industry Immediately Duplicated by Amazon Scammers Selling AI Lookalikes

Somehow this is still happening.

OpenAI

OpenAI Says Teens Can Talk About Suicide for Hours Before ChatGPT Will Notify Parents

New safety features, same alarming conversations.

Google

Finland Orders Google to Suspend New Data Centers After Contractors Pave Over Protected Forests

A company spokesperson admitted they have "fallen short of our own high standards."