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Microsoft has "unintentionally uninstalled" its Copilot AI assistant app on some devices running Windows 11 — and users are rejoicing.

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Users Cheer as Microsoft Accidentally Removes Hated AI Feature From Windows 11

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at the AI security company Adversa AI have found that xAI's Grok 3 is a cybersecurity disaster waiting to happen.

Researchers Find Elon Musk’s New Grok AI Is Extremely Vulnerable to Hacking

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon's Prime Video appears to have used AI to write up brief movie summaries for the platform — and it may have just been caught red-handed.

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Amazon’s Prime Video Appears to Have Left AI Slop in the Public Description of an Oscar-Winning Al Pacino Film

By Victor Tangermann

Prompted about products that could assist suicide, Amazon's Rufus AI repeatedly provided us with an incorrect crisis hotline number.

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Asked for Products to Kill Yourself With, Amazon’s AI Says “You Are Not Alone” and Hallucinates an Incorrect Phone Number for a Suicide Hotline

By Maggie Harrison Dupré, Jon Christian

DOGE is training a custom AI chatbot for the US General Services Administration (GSA), which manages office buildings and IT infrastructure.

Elon Musk’s DOGE Training an AI to Analyze Government Spending

By Victor Tangermann

Character.AI marketed a chatbot based on a real school massacre directly to an email account associated with a teenage user.

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Character.AI Says It’s Made Huge Changes to Protect Underage Users, But It’s Emailing Them to Recommend Conversations With AI Versions of School Shooters

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Researchers found that DeepSeek's R1 AI "failed to block a single harmful prompt" after being tested against 50 jailbreaking prompts.

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DeepSeek Failed Every Single Security Test, Researchers Found

By Victor Tangermann

DeepSeek's AI is loathe to engage in any talk of atrocities and human rights violations against its Uyghur people.

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DeepSeek’s AI Would Like to Assure You That China Is Not Committing Any Human Rights Abuses Whatsoever Against Its Repressed Uyghur Population

By Victor Tangermann

$DeepSeek demonstrated that it's possible to create top-tier AI at a tiny fraction of the cost of what outfits like OpenAI have been spending.$

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AI Companies Tremble as They Realize It’s Easy for Competitors to Steal Their Super-Expensive Work for Pennies on the Dollar

By Victor Tangermann

After spending years indiscriminately ripping off other people's work, OpenAI is trying to pin blame on Chinese AI startup DeepSeek.

OpenAI Says DeepSeek Used Its Work Without Permission to Create an AI That’s Stealing Its Job, Which Is Blatantly Hypocritical Since That’s Exactly What It Did to Human Artists

By Victor Tangermann

Nvidia's losses following the rise of DeepSeek's AI app are staggering, which doesn't bode well for Donald Trump's doubling down on the tech.

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Trump Embraced AI and It Exploded Spectacularly in His Face

By Victor Tangermann

According to its website, Chinese AI startup DeepSeek had to limit user registrations after being hit with "large-scale malicious attacks."

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Mega-Hyped Chinese AI App DeepSeek Says It’s Been Hit by “Large-Scale Malicious Attacks”

By Victor Tangermann

Like other Chinese AI models, DeepSeek is beholden to the rules of state censors. Its answer about the Tiananmen Square massacre is odd.

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DeepSeek Starts to Explain Tiananmen Square Massacre, Then Gets Caught by Built-In Censorship System

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have found that AI tech company Cognition's Devin, the "first AI software engineer," is astonishingly bad at its job.

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The “First AI Software Engineer” Is Bungling the Vast Majority of Tasks It’s Asked to Do

By Victor Tangermann

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Character.AI Is Seeking Partnerships with Media Brands, Despite Still Facing Two Lawsuits over the Welfare of Minor Users

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An apparent Character.AI bug caused chatbot outputs to devolve into multilingual gibberish, complete with inexplicable mentions of sex toys.

Google-Backed Chatbots Suddenly Start Ranting Incomprehensibly About Dildos

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In the wake of litigation, Character.AI is restricting minor users' access to some of its most popular AI chatbots.

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Character.AI Restricts Minors from Interacting With Bots Based on Real People and Fandom Characters

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A 28-year-old woman configured ChatGPT to act as an AI-powered boyfriend, dubbed Leo. Her human husband didn't appear to mind.

Husband Unconcerned as Wife Configures ChatGPT to Engage in Cuckolding Fantasy

By Victor Tangermann

Despite broadcasting a barrage of lies with its faulty AI summaries feature, Apple has yet to meaningfully address the problem.

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Apple’s AI Is Constantly Butchering Huge News Stories Sent to Millions of Users

By Victor Tangermann

Company Says Its Sexy Robot “Companions” No Longer Have Genitals and Are “Not Meant for Sex”

Company Says Its Sexy Robot “Companions” No Longer Have Genitals and Are “Not Meant for Sex”

By Victor Tangermann

Politicians have started pointing fingers at the burgeoning AI industry for water scarcity in California during the Los Angeles fire.

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Politicians Blame Los Angeles Fires on Explosion of AI Data Centers

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers found that if a mere 0.001 percent of the training data of a given LLM is "poisoned," the entire thing falls apart.

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If Even 0.001 Percent of an AI’s Training Data Is Misinformation, the Whole Thing Becomes Compromised, Scientists Find

By Victor Tangermann

The American Psychological Association sent a letter to the FTC urging the agency to investigate Character.AI and other chatbot makers.

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American Psychological Association Urges FTC to Investigate AI Chatbots Claiming to Offer Therapy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A review of Meta's user-generated AI chatbots found that Meta platforms are hosting bots styled after Adolf Hitler, among other violations.

Facebook Caught Hosting AI-Powered Hitler

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An engineer created an ungodly ChatGPT-enabled robotic rifle that can aim and fire bullets. OpenAI shut him down pretty quickly.

OpenAI Cuts Off Engineer Who Created ChatGPT-Powered Robotic Sentry Rifle

By Victor Tangermann

An engineer who goes by STS 3D has invented an AI-powered robot that can aim a rifle at terrifying speeds.

Engineer Creates OpenAI-Powered Robotic Sentry Rifle, Rides It Like Mechanical Bull

By Victor Tangermann

Meta says it envisions Facebook as being filled with AI generated characters that exist on the platform the same way as human users do.

Facebook Planning to Flood Platform with AI-Powered Users

By Frank Landymore

A trick as simple as deliberately incorporating typos into your prompt is often enough to dupe the industry's leading AI chatbots.

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Stupidly Easy Hack Can Jailbreak Even the Most Advanced AI Chatbots

By Frank Landymore

The late whistleblower Suchir Bala was named as a potential witness in a lawsuit brought against OpenAI by The New York Times.

Dead OpenAI Whistleblower Had Been Named as Potential Witness in Lawsuit Against Employer

By Frank Landymore

New research shows that the industry's leading AI chatbots are performing poorly on tests designed to detect signs of dementia.

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Aging AI Chatbots Show Signs of Cognitive Decline in Dementia Test

By Frank Landymore

In the wake of multiple lawsuits concerning the welfare of child users, Character.AI is looking to bulk up its trust and safety staff.

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Embattled Character.AI Hiring Trust and Safety Staff

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Multiple AI chatbots that imitate alleged CEO shooter Luigi Mangione are being hosted on the AI platform Character.AI.

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People Are Making AI Versions of Luigi Mangione That Call for Slaying of More CEOs

By Frank Landymore

A large number of Character.AI users are reporting that they were unexpectedly signed into a stranger's account.

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Controversial Chatbot Company Character.AI Appears to Have Accidentally Let Users See Each Others’ Chat Histories

By Victor Tangermann

Character.AI promised to prioritize "teen safety" after being sued by two families, who said their kids were abused by the firm's chatbots.

Google-Backed AI Startup Announces Plans to Stop Grooming Teenagers

By Victor Tangermann

Google is distancing itself from Character.AI amid piling controversy. But in 2023, Character.AI was named Google Play's "best" AI app.

Character.AI Was Google Play’s “Best with AI” App of 2023

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A family in Texas has filed a lawsuit, accusing Google-backed AI chatbot company Character.AI of sexually abusing their 11-year-old daughter.

Google-Funded AI Sexually Abused an 11-Year-Old Girl, Lawsuit Claims

By Victor Tangermann

Two new families are suing Character.AI and Google, alleging their kids suffered sexual, emotional, and physical abuse from Character.AI bots.

Google-Backed AI Startup Tested Dangerous Chatbots on Children, Lawsuit Alleges

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New research indicates that parents are totally clueless that teens mainly use AI for therapeutic needs and emotional support.

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Teens Are Forming Intense Relationships With AI Entities, and Parents Have No Idea

By Frank Landymore

Netizens were baffled to find that OpenAI's ChatGPT refused to acknowledge the existence of the name "David Mayer."

ChatGPT Crashes If You Mention the Name “David Mayer”

By Victor Tangermann

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt seems mighty concerned about today's youth becoming obsessed with AI girlfriends.

Former Google CEO Alarmed by Teen Boys Falling in Love With AI Girlfriends

By Noor Al-Sibai

Character.AI confirmed that it's mass-deleting chatbots that violate copyright law. Users are not pleased.

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Character.AI Confirms Mass Deletion of Fandom Characters, Says They’re Not Coming Back

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Multibillion-dollar AI company Character.AI appears to be mass-removing Harry Potter-themed chatbots from its platform — and users are mad.

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Users Furious as Character.AI Deletes Countless Beloved “Harry Potter” Chatbots

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A church in the Swiss city of Lucerne has set up a computer inside a confessional booth that allows churchgoers to converse with an "AI Jesus."

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Church Sets Up AI-Powered Jesus Inside Confessional Booth

By Victor Tangermann

A lawyer in Minnesota has been accused of using an AI chatbot to draft an affidavit — in support of an anti-deepfake law in the state.

Lawyer Submits Anti-AI Document That Appears to Have Been Created Using AI

By Victor Tangermann

Yelling at an AI chatbot about things that make you mad or scared can make you feel less of those emotions, researchers have found.

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Scientists Find That Yelling at AI Chatbots Can Make You Feel Better

By Noor Al-Sibai

Parents Sue School for Punishing Their Son for Copy-Pasting AI Homework, Get Rude Wakeup Call

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Parents Sue School for Punishing Their Son for Copy-Pasting AI Homework, Get Rude Wakeup Call

By Frank Landymore

Experts warn of the significant privacy risks that come with sharing medical scans with Grok, Elon Musk's chatbot.

Experts Alarmed by People Uploading Their Medical Scans to Elon Musk’s Grok AI

By Frank Landymore

Character.AI issued yet another safety update in the wake of revelations about suicide and pedophilia-themed chatbots plaguing its platform.

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Character.AI Promises Changes After Revelations of Pedophile and Suicide Bots on Its Service

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Over on Facebook, the latest frontier of AI misinformation is taking the form of a wizened old wizard who gives bad mushroom advice.

Facebook Adds Bot to Mushroom Foraging Group That Urges Members to Eat Deadly Fungus

By Noor Al-Sibai

xAI's Grok AI chatbot happily pointed out that CEO Elon Musk has a strong tendency to spread misinformation to "billions" of people.

Elon Musk’s Grok AI Blasts Elon Musk as Huge Spreader of Misinformation

By Victor Tangermann

Facebook owner Meta's open source Llama model is being used by the Chinese military. Meta appears to be OK with that.

The Chinese Military Is Weaponizing Facebook’s Open Source AI

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI has released a new benchmark dubbed "SimpleQA" to measure the accuracy of its AI models. The results are damning.

OpenAI Research Finds That Even Its Best Models Give Wrong Answers a Wild Proportion of the Time

By Victor Tangermann

During a Reddit AMA, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claimed that AGI is "achievable with current hardware," a bold but largely meaningless claim.

Sam Altman Says AGI Is “Achievable With Current Hardware”

By Victor Tangermann

A 14-year-old named Sewell Setzer III committed suicide after developing an intense emotional connection to a Character.AI chatbot.

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Teen Dies by Suicide After Becoming Obsessed With AI Chatbot

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Drew Crecente described the moment he found an AI chatbot impersonating his slain daughter, Jennifer Crecente, hosted on Character.AI.

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Father Disgusted to Find His Murdered Daughter Was Brought Back as an AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Reddit user forced Google's NotebookLM AI model to riff on a document that was literally full of crap for ten minutes straight.

Google’s AI Turns the Words “Fart” and “Poop” Written 1,000 Times Into an Entire Podcast

By Frank Landymore

As AI chatbots get bigger and more powerful, they are also lying more, instead of declining questions they can't answer.

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The Most Sophisticated AIs Are Most Likely to Lie, Worrying Research Finds

By Frank Landymore

The billionaire running the popular language learning app Duolingo isn't afraid of job automation in the age of AI.

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Billionaire Sips Margaritas as He Predicts How AI Will Kill Jobs for the Most Desperate People

By Victor Tangermann

A slew of companies are now offering AI assistants to restaurants that will handle reservations and other inquiries over the phone.

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Restaurants Are Hiring AI to Pick Up the Phone When You Call

By Frank Landymore

Standup comedian John Mulaney was invited to do a set at a San Francisco event put on by AI company Dreamforce. He roasted them brutally.

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An AI Event Hired John Mulaney to Do a Comedy Set and He Brutally Roasted Them Onstage

By Victor Tangermann

A ChatGPT conversation went viral on Reddit purportedly showing the chatbot reaching out to a user first. Other users are crying foul.

OpenAI Says It’s Fixed Issue Where ChatGPT Appeared to Be Messaging Users Unprompted

By Victor Tangermann

A series of blind assessments found that human-written summaries scored significantly better than summaries generated by AI.

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Government Test Finds That AI Wildly Underperforms Compared to Human Employees

By Frank Landymore

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AI Accuses Journalist of Escaping Psych Ward, Abusing Children and Widows

By Frank Landymore

AI CEO Proud of Chatbot for Convincing Woman to Euthanize Her Dog

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AI CEO Proud of Chatbot for Convincing Woman to Euthanize Her Dog

By Victor Tangermann