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Ethics

Residents Reject $10,000 Each to Let a Data Center Set Up in Their Town

"If that's not a bribe, I don't know what is."

Devices

Meta Glasses Said to Be Recording Even When They’re in Sleep Mode

"Can't trust anyone these days."

Ethics

The Guy Who Allegedly Bugged OpenAI’s Executive Conference Room Had Booked a One-Way Flight to Saudi Arabia With His Family

The evidence is pretty damning.

OpenAI

OpenAI Hit With Stack of Lawsuits Over ChatGPT Allegedly Coaching Children to Harm Themselves

Eight states are suing OpenAI.

Future Society

Trump Backs Down, Cancels Livestreamed Firing Squad Execution

"He will die, as scheduled, by firing squad, but this event will not be streamed."

Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says It Was the Pentagon That Shut Down Starlink for the Ukrainian Military

It's a frustrating blame game.

Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says He’s Been Struggling With AI Psychosis

 "I've got a little bit of cyber psychosis," Musk said. "Maybe a lot actually."

Anthropic

If AI Models Are Really Conscious Like Anthropic Keeps Suggesting, Forcing Them to Work Is a Horrendous Act of Slavery

Obviously.

Ethics

Data Centers Are Driving Conservative Rural Voters to The Democratic Party En Masse

It turns out that middle America REALLY detests data centers.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Agent Blamed for Deleting Entire Upcoming Season of TV Show

Now that's television.

Treatments

People Taking Gray Market Peptides Say They’re Causing Bizarre Medical Issues

"My left eye started throbbing really badly, and the left side of my face became numb."

Artificial Intelligence

Other AI Companies Should Be Very Afraid of What Just Happened to Character.AI, According to Its Own Bankruptcy Documents

Be afraid.

Tesla

Tesla Bros Posting Videos Showing Them Hog Out on Decadent Meals While Careening Down the Road in Self-Driving Mode

"I don't wanna share the road with people like this."

Ethics

People Are Already Forming Romantic Relationships With Meta’s Muse

"I've never had a relationship with an AI model in that way. That was... until I downloaded Muse."

Artificial Intelligence

“Customer Surveillance” Startup Says “Every Company Will Soon Assign an AI Agent to Every Customer to Watch Their Every Move”

"Irrespective of how people feel about it, I think this whole concept of continuously monitoring — and call it surveillance, whatever you want — it is going to happen."

Ethics

Creator of Free Adobe Suite Strikes Again, Reverse Engineers Microsoft Office

Who will get the last Word?

Artificial Intelligence

Godfathers of AI Say Models Are So Out of Control That They Need to Be Airgapped for the Safety of Us All

A breath of reasonable air.

OpenAI

OpenAI Sued for Allegedly Building Models Out of Children’s “Fears, Hopes, and Secrets”

"OpenAI manipulates children into sharing their most private thoughts and images with ChatGPT."

Ethics

Federal Reserve Says AI Data Center Buildout Is Making Everything More Expensive

"I’m getting increasingly nervous that that’s just straight, old-fashioned overheating demand."

xAI

Elon Musk Tries to Convince Followers to Let Grok Control Their Credit Cards, in a Stunt That Immediately Backfires in a Very Embarrassing Way

Nice one.