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Artificial Intelligence

Even Tech Investors Are Getting Sick of All These AI Startups With Weak Ideas

"The barrier to entry has dropped, which makes building a real moat much harder."

Developments

America Does Not Run on Dunkin, RFK Jr. Rages

"Come and take it."

Ethics

Grammarly Offering Manuscript Reviews by AI Versions of Recently Deceased Professors

"I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the most cursed."

Energy

Polymarket Quietly Takes Down Bet On Nuclear Detonation

How was this even allowed?

Anthropic

After Banning Anthropic From Military Use, Pentagon Still Relying Heavily on It in Iran War

So much for banning it "effective immediately."

xAI

Residents Say Elon Musk’s AI Facility Is Like Living Next Door to Mordor

"I just haven't really internalized that this is here and this is what's happening."

Ethics

Google’s AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges

Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect."

Artificial Intelligence

Goldman Sachs Head During Financial Crisis Says He “Smells” a Similar Crash Coming

"I don’t feel the storm, but the horses are starting to whinny in the corral."

Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos Gathering Money to Buy Companies Gutted by AI

"Figuring out how to reinvent the physical world is a big challenge."

Ethics

The AI Jobs Apocalypse Is Starting to Feel Real

Hunker down.

Ethics

OpenAI Says It Will Let Users Add Trusted Contacts to Alert If They Experience a Mental Health Crisis While Using ChatGPT

Interesting.

OpenAI

Humongous Numbers of People Are Uninstalling ChatGPT as Anti-OpenAI Sentiment Surges

Yikes.

RX and Medicine

Government Handing Out Cash Bonuses to Drug Researchers Who Rush Through Regulatory Approvals

"If you don't like it, we can get rid of it, but usually everybody loves money."

Future Society

Lead Investor in Music Generation App Suno Deletes Tweet That Contradicts Its Argument in High Stakes Court Cases

"This tweet, from Suno’s lead investor, will surely be used in court one day."

Machine Learning

Harvard Professor Says AI Users Are Losing Cognitive Abilities

"Regarding AI as similar to the beauty of the human mind is just like putting lipstick on a pig."

Moon

After Nixing Its Artemis 3 Moon Landing, NASA Is Starting to Seriously Lose the Moon Race to China

China is providing "credible competition," said NASA head Jared Isaacman in an incredible understatement.

Anthropic

Sam Altman Is Realizing He Made a Gigantic Mistake

"Opportunistic and sloppy."

Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo Says It Has Nothing to Say After Its Self-Driving Taxi Blocked an Ambulance Responding to a Mass Shooting

"Come on! Go!"

Ethics

Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes

Benj Edwards is no longer working at Ars Technica following an AI controversy that angered readers.

Ethics

Meta Workers Say They’re Seeing Disturbing Things Through Users’ Smart Glasses

"In some videos you can see someone going to the toilet, or getting undressed."