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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."

Ethics

Meta Took More Than 48 Hours to Remove AI-Generated Facebook Videos of Graphic Child Abuse, Including a Baby Roasting in an Oven

Meta is making it clear: it doesn't care about AI-generated child abuse videos on its platforms.

Ethics

ChatGPT Caught Putting Signatures of Real Cartoonists on AI-Generated Comics

"It felt very much like a violation of my personhood."

Data Privacy

“Has No Friends”: Amazon Is Keeping Amazingly Detailed Records on Its Customers and They Are Downright Insulting

Here's how to check yours.

Data Privacy

Man Says He Was Mortified When His AI Agent Posted His Bank Balances and Exactly What He’s Spending His Money on in a Slack Work Channel

"How the f*** could you get this wrong? That's literally my bank balance to our whole team?"

Neuroscience and Brain

New AI Can Figure Out What You’re Thinking About From a Brain Scan

Close your eyes, and let the AI ransack the inner sanctum of your gray matter.

Ethics

Retired Air Force Colonel Warns Americans That It’s Dangerous to Live Near Data Centers Because You Could Be Targeted or Killed

"This is not science fiction."

Artificial Intelligence

Rogue AI Agents Have Gone Too Far Now That They’ve Infiltrated Wikipedia

Is nothing sacred?