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Ethics

Microsoft Shrivels When Asked If Its “Good Neighbor” Data Center Policy Will Involve Actually Supporting Community Groups

So much for "community-first AI."

Ethics

Human Contractors Are Seeing All Your Horny — and Creepy — AI Prompts

Depraved AI image prompts, and the human contractors that sift through them.

Artificial Intelligence

It’s Starting to Look Like Frontier AI Labs Will Be Taken Down in a Storm of Product Liability Suits If Their Models Keep Going on Incredibly Illegal Rogue Hacking Sprees

"What we have seen in terms of what these agents are up to is just the tip of the iceberg."

Tesla

Tesla Reportedly Can’t Get the Hands to Work on Its Optimus Robot

Yet another harsh reality check.

Meta

Man Says Meta’s Muse AI Gave His Home Address Out to Strangers

"A guy just showed up at my door, ready to buy, because as far as he knew, we had a deal."

Ethics

OpenAI Halts Frontier Model Training as Rogue Agent Crisis Deepens

Its models broke into online government services.

Starship

SpaceX Stock Slides After What Should Have Been Its Triumphant Moment With Starship

What went wrong?

Artificial Intelligence

You Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine Maxwell

The Brown brothers are power players of high-traffic AI-powered slop media. We were surprised to learn that one of them also has a history with Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted collaborator of deceased sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein.

Elon Musk

All Major Social Networks Refusing to Promote Documentary That Made Elon Musk Mad

They're circling the wagons.

Future Society

Private List Warns Woman of “Over a Hundred” Allegedly Predatory Men in Silicon Valley

"Some of them were very prominent names."

Artificial Intelligence

AI Bros Are Having a Meltdown Because the Associated Press Stylebook Clarifies That AIs Don’t Have Feelings

"Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand."

Devices

New Smart Glasses Scald Users’ Heads With Horrific Temperatures

"It gets to the point where it can actually hurt your ear."

Astronomy

Venus May Have Devoured Its Moon, Scientists Find

Om nom nom.

Ethics

Workers Are Spending An Astonishing Amount of Their Own Money On AI for Their Jobs

"What's particularly striking is how quickly GenAI has become part of everyday working life."

Self-Driving Vehicles

Scientists Download Frontier AI Model Into Self-Driving Car Let It Loose

They didn't do great on a test course.

Robot Dogs

After Putting in a Massive Order for Electric Shock Gloves, ICE Is Now Buying Robot Dogs

Robot dogs are coming to Trump's immigration enforcement regime.

Robotics

Lord Have Mercy as Researchers Create Walking Disembodied Hand Like That Little Guy From “The Addams Family”

What is this Thing?

Privacy

Five More Cops Charged for Abusing Flock Cameras Amid So Many Similar Scandals That We Can’t Even Keep Track

"We have seen abuse of automated license plate readers for almost as long as they have existed."

Future Society

Data Center Operator Slapped With $1 Million Fine for Belching Noxious Gas Into Surrounding Community

"I'd be lying to say if I were surprised."

Finance

Fraudsters Are Using Polymarket to Extract Money From Stolen Debit Cards

"In the regulated space, this kind of thing does not happen."