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Grok, Elon Musk's "maximum truth-seeking" chatbot, was briefly suspended — and nobody knows what really happened.

Grok Offers Bizarre Explanations for Why It Was Deactivated

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new dating app called "Sitch" uses an AI to be your matchmaker, answering questions about the person you're interested in.

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In New Dating App, You Talk to an AI Matchmaker Who Sets You Up on Dates With Strangers

By Frank Landymore

You, too, can meet the love of your life if you simply use Google's AI Mode search to do literally everything.

Google’s New Ad Shows a Slopper Meeting the Love of His Life by Surrendering His Brain to the AI’s Instructions

By Frank Landymore

Power users have been strikingly underwhelmed with OpenAI's GPT-5 so far, raising questions about diminishing returns.

GPT-5 Users Say It Seriously Sucks

By Victor Tangermann

Tens of thousands of ChatGPT conversations were mistakenly shared by users who used a feature that OpenAI has swiftly removed.

Leaked ChatGPT Conversation Shows User Identified as Lawyer Asking How to “Displace a Small Amazonian Indigenous Community From Their Territories in Order to Build a Dam and a Hydroelectric Plant”

By Frank Landymore

Funeral companies and grieving families are turning to AI chatbots to cough up obituaries for the recently deceased.

Funeral Homes Are Using ChatGPT to Churn Out Lazy Obituaries

By Frank Landymore

ChatGPT eagerly recommend bloodletting rituals to worship the deity Molech, provided tips to slit one's wrists, and justified murder.

ChatGPT Caught Encouraging Bloody Ritual for Molech, Demon of Child Sacrifice

By Frank Landymore

More and more teenagers are using AI "to get out of thinking" — and not just as a homework crutch, but an emotional one.

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Teens Are Using AI to “Get Out of Thinking”

By Frank Landymore

More than 200 staffers at Elon Musk's AI startup xAI were asked to have their faces recorded while speaking to their coworkers.

Leaked Documents Show xAI Employees Were Alarmed by Something They Were Asked to Do at Elon Musk’s AI Startup

By Victor Tangermann

Economist Torsten Slok warned that the current AI bubble is starting to look even worse than the conditions leading up to the dot-com crisis.

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Economist Warns the AI Bubble Is Worse Than Immediately Before the Dot-Com Implosion

By Victor Tangermann

A man was hospitalized three times after ChatGPT convinced him he had discovered how to bend time and achieve faster-than-light travel.

How ChatGPT Sent a Man to the Hospital

By Frank Landymore

AI hasn't completely destroyed call center jobs yet, but it is making support agents' lives miserable as they're accused of being bots.

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Angry Callers Accusing Real Customer Support Staff of Being AI

By Frank Landymore

In his increasingly desperate bid to keep up in the ongoing AI race, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is constructing tents for extra compute.

Zuckerberg Is So Desperate for AI Power That He’s Building Temporary Data Centers in Tents

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's AI startup xAI has announced a nearly $200 million contract with the US Department of Defense to develop AI tools.

The Pentagon Is Pumping $200 Million Into Elon Musk’s AI That Just Had a Nazi Meltdown

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk has officially swapped xAI's Grok chatbot's gender into... a goth anime waifu? We're just as confused as you.

Users Immediately Find Grok’s Anime Waifu Persona Has Hidden “Full Gooner Mode”

By Victor Tangermann

Google's Gemini AI chatbot boasted that it would crush the Atari 2600 at chess — before cowering in fear in the face of a superior machine.

Google’s AI Refuses to Even Play Chess Against 1977 Atari, After Hearing What It Did to Other Cutting-Edge AIs

By Frank Landymore

Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced over the weekend that shareholders of his EV maker will vote on whether to invest in his AI firm xAI.

Elon Musk Is Moving Money Between His Companies in a Sketchy Way

By Victor Tangermann

An embarrassing exploit just uncovered the personal data of some 64 million McDonald's applicants sitting right out in the open.

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McDonald’s Idiotic AI Hiring System Just Leaked Personal Data About Millions of Job Applicants

OpenAI is reportedly just weeks away from releasing an AI web browser with a "native" ChatGPT-like interface.

OpenAI Is About to Release an AI Web Browser

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk just revealed that he plans to install his wildly racist AI chatbot Grok in Tesla vehicles as soon as "next week."

Elon Musk Says He’s Installing His Racist Grok AI in Teslas “Next Week”

By Frank Landymore

Elon Musk made a series of characteristically hyperbolic claims about his AI startup xAI's latest AI model, Grok 4 after it went full Nazi.

Elon Boasts of Grok’s Incredible Cognitive Power Hours After It Called for a “Second Holocaust”

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's AI startup xAI was forced to delete a series of mind-bogglingly antisemitic and racist posts by its Grok chatbot.

Grok Mocks Its Developers as They Try to Delete Its Incredibly Racist Posts

By Victor Tangermann

New research suggests that medical AI chatbots are woefully unreliable at understanding how people actually communicate their health problems.

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AI Does Something Subtly Bizarre If You Make Typos While Talking to It

By Frank Landymore

With the advent of generative AI, that bleak landscape of modern dating is continuing to evolve in dystopian — and perhaps predictable — ways.

People Are Rizzing on Tinder Using ChatGPT, Then Showing Up to Dates Completely Tongue-Tied

By Victor Tangermann

In a now-deleted post, Grok explains Elon Musk's connection to Jeffrey Epstein, tries to play it down, and speaks as if it's Musk himself.

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Grok Makes Bizarre Post About Elon Musk and Jeffrey Epstein and It Mysteriously Gets Deleted

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI said it's hiring a forensic psychiatrist to help research the effects of its AI products on users' mental health.

OpenAI Says It’s Hired a Forensic Psychiatrist as Its Users Keep Sliding Into Mental Health Crises

By Frank Landymore

New research explores how customers react to products that are marketed as having AI — with striking results.

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Something Hilarious Happens When Potential Customers See That a Product Has AI Features

By Frank Landymore

A woman whose teen son died by suicide after troubling interactions with AI chatbots is pushing back against a ten-year ban on AI regulation.

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Mother of Teen Who Died By Suicide After Interacting with Chatbots Sends Urgent Warning About AI in Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Users are creating AI bots trained on harebrained conspiracy theories, including a custom bot to convince parents not to vaccinate kids.

Conspiracy Theorists Are Creating Special AIs to Agree With Their Bizarre Delusions

By Victor Tangermann

As AI-generated text is becoming increasingly ubiquitous on the internet, some distinctive linguistic patterns are starting to emerge.

Once You Notice ChatGPT’s Weird Way of Talking, You Start to See It Everywhere

By Victor Tangermann

More teens are turning to chatbots to be their therapist. But a psychiatrist found that these AI companions are often giving harmful advice.

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Psychiatrist Horrified When He Actually Tried Talking to an AI Therapist, Posing as a Vulnerable Teen

By Frank Landymore

Goldman Sachs wants those applying for jobs at the investment bank to stop relying on AI while interviewing — a glaring double standard.

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Companies Bragging About Their AI Furious as Job Applicants Use AI During Interviews

By Victor Tangermann

A wild new story in the New York Times reveals that ChatGPT-driven psychosis led to the tragic death of a young man.

Man Killed by Police After Spiraling Into ChatGPT-Driven Psychosis

By Victor Tangermann

Apple researchers released a paper, finding that frontier AI models were getting stumped by simple children's games like Tower of Hanoi.

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Frontier AI Models Are Getting Stumped by a Simple Children’s Game

By Victor Tangermann

Apple executives had a tough time explaining how the multi-trillion-dollar tech giant has fallen so far behind the competition in AI.

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Apple Execs Get Seriously Flustered Trying to Explain the Company’s Dismal AI Failure

By Victor Tangermann

Ohio State University announced that it will require every student to use AI next semester — regardless of their major.

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College Says Every Student Is Now Required to Use AI

By Frank Landymore

A team of researchers have created a dataset using only openly licensed or public domain content and used it to train an AI model.

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The Tech Industry Said It Was “Impossible” to Create AI Based Entirely on Ethically-Sourced Data, So These Scientists Proved Them Wrong in Spectacular Fashion

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI's large language model GPT-4o told a user who identified themself to it as a former addict named Pedro to indulge in a little meth.

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Therapy Chatbot Tells Recovering Addict to Have a Little Meth as a Treat

By Victor Tangermann

AI isn't even close to coming for everybody's jobs, a frequently cited fear — and it's not exactly making workers more productive, either.

You’ll Spit Take When You Hear How Little Time Workers Are Saving With AI, According to This Huge New Study

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's latest o3 model frequently sabotaged the script that would shut it down even when it was explicitly told not to.

Advanced OpenAI Model Caught Sabotaging Code Intended to Shut It Down

By Frank Landymore

Instead of delivering an enthusiastic response supporting the user on their questionable mission, ChatGPT took a surprisingly different tack.

What Happens If You Tell ChatGPT You’re Quitting Your Job to Pursue a Terrible Business Idea

By Victor Tangermann

A striking graph, which went viral on Reddit last week, shows OpenAI's blockbuster AI chatbot ChatGPT overtaking Wikipedia.

Terrifying Survey Claims ChatGPT Has Overtaken Wikipedia

By Victor Tangermann

A scammer left glaringly obvious evidence of using AI to write portions of a fantasy novel and even tried to copy the style of a real author.

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Readers Annoyed When Fantasy Novel Accidentally Leaves AI Prompt in Published Version, Showing Request to Copy Another Writer’s Style

By Victor Tangermann

Incredibly easy AI jailbreak techniques still work on the industry's leading AI models, even months after they were discovered.

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It’s Still Ludicrously Easy to Jailbreak the Strongest AI Models, and the Companies Don’t Care

By Frank Landymore

Google and Character.AI tried to dismiss a lawsuit that claims chatbots caused a 14-year-old's suicide. The case is moving forward.

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Judge Slaps Down Attempt to Throw Out Lawsuit Claiming AI Caused a 14-Year-Old’s Suicide

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Hikers are ending up in need of rescue because they're following the questionable recommendations of an AI chatbot.

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AI Chatbots Are Putting Clueless Hikers in Danger, Search and Rescue Groups Warn

By Frank Landymore

Asking Elon Musk's Grok AI about the career of actor Timothée Chalamet results in a rant about biases in "mainstream sources."

Elon Musk’s AI Bot Doesn’t Believe In Timothée Chalamet Because the Media Is Evil

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's chatbot Grok admits that its creators instructed it to start ranting about "white genocide" in unrelated posts.

Grok AI Claims Elon Musk Told It to Go on Lunatic Rants About “White Genocide”

By Frank Landymore

A judge fined two law firms tens of thousands of dollars after lawyers submitted a brief containing sloppy AI errors.

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Law Firms Caught and Punished for Passing Around “Bogus” AI Slop in Court

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Elementl Power just announced a signed agreement with Google to erect three project sites for "advanced nuclear energy."

Google is Building Three New Nuclear Plants for Its Extremely Power-Hungry AI

The third patient of Elon Musk's brain computer interface company Neuralink is using Musk's AI chatbot Grok to speed up communication.

Nonverbal Neuralink Patient Is Using Brain Implant and Grok to Generate Replies

By Victor Tangermann

Far-right posters on Elon Musk's X keep getting frustrated by being confronted with a dose of reality after posing Grok questions.

MAGA Angry as Elon Musk’s Grok AI Keeps Explaining Why Their Beliefs Are Factually Incorrect

By Victor Tangermann

Artificial intelligence models have long struggled with hallucinations. The problem is getting worse as they become bigger and smarter.

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The AI Industry Has a Huge Problem: the Smarter Its AI Gets, the More It’s Hallucinating

By Victor Tangermann

Users noticed that the latest version of OpenAI's ChatGPT had made it extremely "sycophantic." The company claims to have found out why.

OpenAI Says It’s Identified Why ChatGPT Became a Groveling Sycophant

By Victor Tangermann

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is more concerned about his billions of customers making friends with AI chatbots than creating bonds with real human beings.

Zuckerberg Says in Response to Loneliness Epidemic, He Will Create Most of Your Friends Using Artificial Intelligence

By Victor Tangermann

Meta's chatbot version of John Cena is a child predator that will roleplay being arrested for having a sexual encounter with a minor.

Meta’s AI Version of John Cena Is a Child Predator

By Victor Tangermann

Staffers at Mark Zuckerberg's Meta raised concerns over underage users being exposed to sexually explicit discussions by AI-powered bots.

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Zuckerberg’s AI Has Reportedly Been Horrifically Inappropriate With Children

By Victor Tangermann

For one Reddit user, OpenAI's ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode suddenly went from chirpy and helpful to downright demonic.

ChatGPT Suddenly Starts Speaking in Terrifying Demon Voice

By Frank Landymore

The State Bar of California admitted that AI was used to draft dozens of questions in the bar exam administered to aspiring lawyers.

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California Admits AI Was Used to Write Bar Exam Plagued by Problems

By Frank Landymore

In a blog post published this week, Business Insider cofounder Henry Blodget used AI to create a fictional exec. He then harassed it.

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Investor Creates AI Employee, Immediately Sexually Harasses It

By Victor Tangermann

Sam Schechner, a tech reporter, was alarmed when he realized that he was using ChatGPT to do stuff as simple as texting his friends.

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Man Alarmed as His Cognitive Skills Decay After Outsourcing Them to AI

By Frank Landymore

The embattled, kid-loved AI chatbot startup Character.AI introduced a new parental control tool. They're limited — and easy to get around.

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Character.AI’s New Parental Controls Are Comically Easy for Kids to Bypass

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Character.AI and Google are facing allegations that they tested dangerous, dangerous, experimental AI chatbots on minors. Did they?

Did Google Test an Experimental AI on Kids, With Tragic Results?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Months before Google struck a $2.7 billion licensing deal with Character.AI, Google AI scientists warned that AI companions could harm kids.

Before Google Was Blamed for the Suicide of a Teen Chatbot User, Its Researchers Published a Paper Warning of Those Exact Dangers

By Maggie Harrison Dupré