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Scientists used AI to dream up new chip designs — and while the chips seem to work, the researchers say they're not entirely sure how.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Designed an Alien Chip That Works, But Experts Can’t Explain Why

An AI startup has secured a massive valuation, and its business model rests on smashing full-time jobs into low wage temp work.

Startup Investors Foaming at the Mouth To Carve Up Your Job With AI

Silicon Valleys software engineers are finding their previously ironclad careers crumbling under the growing cost of AI development.

Silicon Valley Software Engineers Horrified as They Can’t Easily Find Jobs Anymore

The seven largest tech companies may be headed into a slump as rampant AI spending delivers less-than-stellar results.

Artificial Intelligence

As Tech Companies Keep Pouring Money Into AI, Signs May Be Pointing to Disaster

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, By Jon Christian

Google either faked its new cheese-centric Super Bowl ad for its AI, or prompted it to plagiarize existing web copy. Either way: bad!

Google’s Super Bowl Ad Accidentally Shows Its AI Simply Plagiarizing Existing Web Copy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A very well-timed investment into a medical AI company has more than doubled Pelosi's investment in just three weeks.

Nancy Pelosi Invested in a New AI Stock That’s Spiking in Value

Google appears to have retroactively edited a YouTube-published advertisement for Gemini to remove an AI-generated error.

Google Retroactively Edits Super Bowl Ad to Remove Embarrassing Error Its AI Made

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An AI tool analyzes a man's face, with dizzying digital effects.

Police Use of Facial Recognition Backfires Spectacularly When It Renders Them Unable to Convict Alleged Murderer

Quartz's news-generating AI tool, "Quartz Intelligence Newsroom," is already publishing error-ridden articles.

Quartz Just Published an AI-Generated Article That Absolutely Butchers the Situation With Boeing’s Stranded Astronauts

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tech companies aren't the only ones reeling from DeepSeek's stock route on Monday, as energy companies start to feel the heat.

Energy Companies Stocks Plummet as DeepSeek Shows AI Doesn’t Need Entire Coal Plants to Cheat on Homework

Nancy Pelosi stands next to Paul Pelosi

Nancy Pelosi’s Husband Sold a Boatload of Nvidia Stock Right Before It Was Eviscerated by Chinese Startup

G/O Media is using AI to churn out articles at the business news site Quartz — and its AI is already citing other AI-generated slop.

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Quartz Is Publishing AI-Generated Articles Based on Other AI Slop, Along With Warning They May Be Filled With Errors

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Trump's AI ambitions are becoming clearer, and their consequences may spell disaster for the American labor force.

Artificial Intelligence

A Key Trump Goal Emerges: Replacing Human Jobs With AI

A bold new bill to allow AI chatbots to prescribe controlled drugs has been introduced into the House for review.

Artificial Intelligence

New Law Would Allow AI to Replace Your Doctor, Prescribe Drugs

If for some reason adding a pinch of anything to your meal was too intimidating, there's now an AI gizmo to address that.

Check Out This Giant AI-Powered “Spice Dispenser” for Dorks Too Timid to Properly Season Their Food

By Frank Landymore

Meta's top copyright lawyer has fled the company in the middle of a heated AI lawsuit thanks to Zuckerberg's right-wing turn.

Meta’s Top AI Lawyer Quits in Disgust

A robotic claw picks up a dangling business person by the foot, while a crumpled dollar bill fills in the background.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Hype Is Dropping Off a Cliff While Costs Soar, Experts Warn

The Pentagon is bullish on its recent AI advances that apparently help the military kill people faster than ever before.

Pentagon Official Boasts That AI Is Helping The Military Kill People Faster Than Ever Before

By Noor Al-Sibai

Chinese AI firm DeepSeek announced a new model called R1, which the outfit says is performing "on par" with OpenAI's o1.

Chinese AI Firm Says Its Open Source New Model Is Beating OpenAI’s Most Advanced Publicly Released Model

President Trump is preparing to approve a $500 billion investment into private sector-built AI infrastructure, according to CBS.

Artificial Intelligence

Trump Set to Approve $500 Billion Deal to Build Huge AI Datacenters

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Peek Into Trump’s AI Border Dystopia

Artifacts in Trump's executive orders have led to speculation that those who penned them might have turned to AI for help.

Artificial Intelligence

Trump Admin Accused of Using AI to Draft Executive Orders

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Artificial Intelligence

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

Another Google Image results page — this one for the question of "does corn get digested" — is run amuck with AI-generated slop.

Behold the AI Slop Dominating Google Image Results for “Does Corn Get Digested”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google's AI-generated search summary for the query "baby elephant" includes an AI-generated photo of a clearly fake, teacup-sized elephant.

Google’s AI Overview Believes Baby Elephants Can Sit in the Palm of a Human Hand

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

Artificial Intelligence

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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Stalwart journal publisher Springer Nature is asking researchers to buy $49 AI-generated "Media Kits" to summarize and promote their work.

Artificial Intelligence

The Publisher of the Journal “Nature” Is Emailing Authors of Scientific Papers, Offering to Sell Them AI Summaries of Their Own Work

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Rent Too High? Blame AI, New Report Finds

Artificial Intelligence

Rent Too High? Blame AI, New Report Finds

By Frank Landymore

Folks on Reddit are in an uproar after Meta announced that it's planning to load Facebook up with AI "users," which are better known as bots.

People Are Disgusted by Facebook’s Plan to Deploy AI-Powered “Users”

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

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

Startup company Spines wants to publish 8,000 books in 2025 by using AI. Before that can happen, Spines should stop embarrassing itself.

Startup Mocked for Charging $5,000 to “Edit” Book Manuscripts Using AI

By Ashley Bardhan

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

Artificial Intelligence

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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

London School of Economics professor Jonathan Birch told The Guardian that he is "worried about major societal splits" over AI consciousness.

Whether AI Is Already Conscious Could Tear Society Apart

By Ashley Bardhan

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

Artificial Intelligence

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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google paid billions to license Character.AI's tech — and is now facing hard questions over the AI chatbot company's alleged carelessness.

Google Has Deep Ties to AI Startup Accused to Causing Teen Suicide

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Character.AI is full of unmoderated chatbots, claiming to have "suicide prevention" expertise, inviting users to share suicidal thoughts.

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After Teen’s Suicide, Character.AI Is Still Hosting Dozens of Suicide-Themed Chatbots

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A former OpenAI staffer is blowing the whistle on the company's AI training practices, alleging they violated copyright law.

OpenAI Whistleblower Disgusted That His Job Was to Vacuum Up Copyrighted Data to Train Its Models

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

Artificial Intelligence

Teen Dies by Suicide After Becoming Obsessed With AI Chatbot

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New FTC guidelines went into effect this week, officially rendering it illegal to publish fake, misleading, and AI-generated product reviews.

Artificial Intelligence

The AI-Generated Product Reviews Choking the Internet Are Now Illegal

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Pentagon Wants to Flood Social Media With Fake AI People

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The Pentagon Wants to Flood Social Media With Fake AI People

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

Artificial Intelligence

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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Human models were paid for their likenesses to train AI. Now, to those humans' horror, their faces are being used to peddle propaganda.

Artificial Intelligence

Human Models Horrified to Discover Their Faces Are Being Used for AI Propaganda

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

An article generated by the AI-powered local news network Hoodline mistakenly accused the San Mateo District Attorney of murder.

Artificial Intelligence

AI-Powered News Site Accidentally Accuses District Attorney of Murder

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Frontier AI models' mathematical reasoning skills and the benchmarks used to measure them may be deeply flawed, a new study reveals.

Artificial Intelligence

Top “Reasoning” AI Models Can be Brought to Their Knees With an Extremely Simple Trick

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Massachusetts teacher gave a kid a bad grade for using generative AI to complete an assignment. His parents are suing the school.

Artificial Intelligence

Parents Sue School After Teacher Sends Son to Detention for Using AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Google is going all-in on nuclear to power its AI efforts, which have resulted in the tech giant missing important climate targets.

Yet Another Tech Giant Throws Its Weight Behind Nuclear As AI’s Monstrous Power Demands Spike

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A Colorado school district is using facial recognition technology to police vaping in bathrooms, according to the Denver Post.

Artificial Intelligence

Schools Are Using AI Surveillance to Catch Students Vaping Inside Bathrooms

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In some cases, Apple's new AI summaries of iPhone messages might not be ideal. Exhibit A: the breakup text.

Artificial Intelligence

Apple’s New AI Summarized a Series of Breakup Texts in the Most Brutal Way Possible

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI slop threatens to degrade the useability of the digital stalwart Wikipedia — and Wikipedia's editors are fighting back.

Artificial Intelligence

Wikipedia Declares War on AI Slop

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI might be worsening carbon emissions, but at least we have this fake video of Mark Zuckerberg leg-pressing chicken nuggets, we guess.

Mark Zuckerberg Shows Off Bizarre Video of Himself Leg Pressing Chicken Nuggets

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

No, Donald Trump didn't wade through Hurricane Helene-caused flooding in blue jeans. That "photo" you saw was AI.

Artificial Intelligence

No, Donald Trump Isn’t Wading Through Hurricane Floodwaters, You Absolute Morons

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Pro-Trump influencers including close Trump ally Laura Loomer were fooled by an AI-generated image of an alleged victim of Hurricane Helene.

Artificial Intelligence

Gullible Trump Cronies Losing Their Minds Over Fake AI Slop on Twitter

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

OpenAI just raised nearly $7 billion, raising its value to around $157 billion. Investors had to be willing to keep things exclusive.

OpenAI Stamps Feet, Says Investors Aren’t Allowed to Back Its Rivals

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A pair of Harvard students successfully rigged Meta-formerly-Facebook and Ray Ban's smart glasses with facial recognition software.

Terrifying Smart Glasses Hack Can Pull Up Personal Info of Nearby Strangers in Seconds

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A study says that engineers who use the popular AI programming assistant GitHub Copilot don't experience any significant gains in efficiency.

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There’s a Problem WIth AI Programming Assistants: They’re Inserting Far More Errors Into Code

By Sharon Adarlo

ChatGPT creator OpenAI is hemorrhaging massive amounts of cash that it's failing to make up for in revenue, according to investor documents.

OpenAI Is Putting Profits First, Yet It’s Bleeding an Astronomical Amount of Money

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI slop posters are already using fake images of alleged Hurricane Helene devastation to capitalize on the still-unfolding natural disaster.

Facebook Is Being Flooded With Gross AI-Generated Images of Hurricane Helene Devastation

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A tattoo parlor put bizarre AI-generated advertisements all over Brooklyn. We decided to get to the bottom of them.

Artificial Intelligence

What’s Up With Those Sloppy AI-Generated Tattoo Posters in New York City?

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A police department in the United Kingdom is testing an AI-powered program that can potentially help them solve cold cases.

Artificial Intelligence

Police Department Testing AI-Powered Detective on Real Crimes

By Sharon Adarlo

Right wing extremists are using artificial intelligence to bring Adolf Hitler back to life for social media consumption.

Artificial Intelligence

AI-Powered Hitler Running Rampant Online

By Sharon Adarlo