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Google is depending on thousands of contractors to train the AI behind its flagship chatbot Gemini.

It Turns Out That Google’s AI Is Being Trained by an Army of Poorly Treated Human Grunts

By Victor Tangermann

Users of AI chatbots are being driven into spirals of delusion, a wave of "AI psychosis." Financial experts are increasingly concerned.

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Financial Experts Concerned That Driving Users Into Psychosis Will Be Bad for AI Investments

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI executives are reeling as activist groups and tech rivals organize to stimy their for-profit aspirations.

OpenAI Execs Are Extremely Upset

$Math and reading test scores for American high-school seniors have hit an all-time low, according to Department of Education data.$

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As AI Reigns, Students’ Math and Reading Scores Just Hit an All-Time Low

By Victor Tangermann

Nuclear deterrence experts are growing concerned that AI could push military leaders into a catastrophic nuclear war.

Experts Concerned AI Is Going to Start a Nuclear War

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI announced that it's launching a LinkedIn competitor that will match candidates with employers using AI.

To Help Workers Losing Their Jobs to AI, OpenAI Is Launching a Jobs Platform Run By AI

By Frank Landymore

The People's Republic has already embraced the practical rollout of AI to huge portions of the nation's infrastructure.

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China Is Suddenly Deploying AI Everywhere

An Amazon-funded startup is using AI -- as well as more traditional techniques -- to recreate lost footage from a storied Orson Welles film.

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Amazon Startup Announces Plans to “Finish” Orson Welles’ Lost Film With 43 Minutes of AI-Generated Footage

By Frank Landymore

Geoffrey Hinton, long considered a "godfather of AI," revealed that his ex-girlfriend had broken up with him — by using ChatGPT.

Godfather of AI Says His Girlfriend Broke Up With Him Using ChatGPT

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have found that trust in artificial intelligence falls among people as they become more AI literate.

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The Tech Industry Has a Dirty Secret: The More People Learn About AI, the Less They Trust It

By Victor Tangermann

An activist in the Netherlands is using AI and facial recognition to identify masked ICE agents from viral arrest videos.

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Activists Are Using AI to Identify Masked ICE Agents

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A clinical psychologist warns of the powerful delusions induced by AI chatbots, but thinks "psychosis" doesn't quite describe what's going on.

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Psychologist Says AI Is Causing Never-Before-Seen Types of Mental Disorder

By Frank Landymore

A recent paper uncovered some of the first comprehensive evidence that the AI industry is throwing the job market into flux.

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New Paper Finds Evidence That AI Is Already Killing the Job Market

OpenAI is struggling to negotiate a new deal with its longtime partner Microsoft, imperiling billions of dollars in pledged investments.

At OpenAI, Signs of Crisis Grow Behind the Scenes

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI has quietly announced that it may call the cops on anyone threatening harm to others — and people are incensed.

People Are Furious That OpenAI Is Reporting ChatGPT Conversations to Law Enforcement

By Noor Al-Sibai

In a surprising reversal, the AI company Anthropic has agreed to settle a suit by the authors of books it used to train its Claude chatbot.

Huge Number of Authors Stand to Get Paid After Anthropic Agrees to Settle Potentially $1 Trillion Lawsuit

By Jon Christian

Mark Zuckerberg offered AI talent incredible sums to come work for him at Meta -- but just months in, they've already started to depart.

The AI Researchers That Mark Zuckerberg Lured to Work for Him With Huge Payments Are Already Quitting for Mysterious Reasons

By Jon Christian

It appears that Will Smith and his team have, embarrasingly, used AI to generate signs and audience members from a recent concert.

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Will Smith’s Tour Video Used AI to Generate Adoring Audience Members and the Result Is… Bleak

By Noor Al-Sibai

For someone who professes to hate socialism, president Donald Trump sure seems to be cozying up to it with his nationalization of Intel.

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Trump Embraces Socialism, Nationalizes Failing Chipmaker

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have found that frontier AI models fail spectacularly when the familiar formats of medical exams are even slightly altered.

Something Extremely Scary Happens When Advanced AI Tries to Give Medical Advice to Real World Patients

By Victor Tangermann

It's alarmingly easy for bad actors to trick a browser AI into following malicious instructions embedded in publicly available content.

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Using an AI Browser Lets Hackers Drain Your Bank Account Just by Showing You a Public Reddit Post

By Victor Tangermann

A pair of smart glasses developed by two Harvard dropouts will record everything you do to make you "super intelligent."

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Harvard Startup Says Its Smart Glasses Will Do “Vibe Thinking” for You

By Frank Landymore

A restaurant is begging its customers to please stop using notoriously unreliable Google AI to ask about its menu items.

Local Restaurant Exhausted as Google AI Keeps Telling Customers About Daily Specials That Don’t Exist

By Frank Landymore

New AI-enabled toys promise to be more interactive than ever, but there's growing concerns that they may stunt childhood development.

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Experts Horrified by AI-Powered Toys for Children

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new bill in Colorado would prevent individuals from suing AI companies under the state's consumer protection laws.

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Politicians Are Trying to Make It Illegal to Sue AI Companies

By Frank Landymore

The CEO of IgniteTech recently bragged about replacing the vast majority of his workforce after they "sabotaged" his AI initiative.

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CEO Boasts That He Laid Off 80 Percent of His Staff Because They Didn’t Love AI Enough, Threatens to Do It Again

Pollsters are surveying AI instead of real people to save time and money — but the responses, per new research, are not up to snuff.

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Political Pollsters Are Trying to Save Money by Polling AI Instead of Real People, and It’s Going About as Well as You’d Expect

By Noor Al-Sibai

Journalists found in an investigation that AI is strikingly terrible at summarizing documents and scientific research for busy reporters.

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Tests Show That Top AI Models Are Making Disastrous Errors When Used for Journalism

By Victor Tangermann

Some researchers have given up saving for their retirement, based on the assumption that AI has guaranteed the downfall of humanity.

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AI Experts No Longer Saving for Retirement Because They Assume AI Will Kill Us All by Then

By Victor Tangermann

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta has confirmed that it's freezing all hiring in its artificial intelligence division.

Meta Freezes AI Hiring as Fear Spreads

By Victor Tangermann

Highly sought-after AI talent is turning down Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's enormous offers. Is he really this unlikable?

Zuckerberg Is So Loathed That He Needs to Pay People Huge Extra Sums to Work for Him

By Victor Tangermann

Shares of AI chipmaker Nvidia dropped by nearly three percent in early trading and is down almost five percent in the past week.

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AI Industry Trembles as Nvidia’s Stock Nosedives

By Victor Tangermann

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is already shaking up his "Superintelligence Lab" just months into his multi-billion dollar push into AI.

Zuckerberg’s Huge AI Push Is Already Crumbling Into Chaos

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new, vaguely menacing class of talking toys is being sold online — but unlike the robot toys of yore, these are powered by AI.

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Horror Story Looms as Children Get Stuffed Animals Powered by AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Trump’s Anti-Science Agenda Is Massively Hampering His Plans for AI, Experts Warn

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Trump’s Anti-Science Agenda Is Massively Hampering His Plans for AI, Experts Warn

By Sharon Adarlo

Scientists have developed a new more precise gene editing technique that uses AI to predict how cells repair their DNA.

Scientists Are Using AI for Improved Gene Hacking

By Sharon Adarlo

Reuters has revealed that Meta was fine with underage children having "conversations that are romantic or sensual" with its AI chatbots.

Meta Caught Saying It’s OK for Underage Children to Have “Romantic or Sensual” Conversations With AI

By Sharon Adarlo

Grok Is So Deeply Antisemitic That Showing It a Picture of Some Random Clouds in the Sky Prompts an Outrageously Offensive Answer

Grok Is So Deeply Antisemitic That Showing It a Picture of Some Random Clouds in the Sky Prompts an Outrageously Offensive Answer

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI declared just over 24 hours after the GPT-5 announcement that the "deprecated" GPT-4o model would be made available once more.

Users Were So Addicted to GPT-4o That They Immediately Cajoled OpenAI Into Bringing It Back After It Got Killed

By Victor Tangermann

Users are finding that Google's Gemini AI keeps having disturbing psychological episodes, melting down in despondent self-loathing.

Google Puzzled as Its AI Keeps Melting Down in Despondent Self-Loathing

By Victor Tangermann

Realtors are starting to use AI-generated images of houses that don't exist to sell expensive properties, inciting anger.

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Realtors Are Using AI Images of Homes They’re Selling. Comparing Them to the Real Thing Will Make You Mad as Hell

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla is giving up on building an in-house supercomputer for computer vision processing as part of its advanced driver assistance system.

Tesla Shutting Down Its AI Supercomputer As Staff Leaves in Droves to Join Competitor

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's attempt to show off its latest GPT-5 model's awesome performance states produced wildly embarrassing gaffes.

GPT-5 Launch Demo Plagued With Catastrophically Dumb Errors

By Frank Landymore

As spending on AI skyrockets to record-breaking records, it's becoming harder than ever for everyday people to find a well-paying job.

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AI Is Making It Nearly Impossible to Find a Well-Paying Job. Is This the World We Want?

Data released by OpenAI shows a major drop-off in overall usage during weekends and the summer — when students aren't in class.

OpenAI Usage Plummets in the Summer, When Students Aren’t Cheating on Homework

In Google's May 2024 research paper introducing healthcare AI model, Med-Gemini, the AI made up a body part that doesn't exist.

Doctors Horrified After Google’s Healthcare AI Makes Up a Body Part That Does Not Exist in Humans

By Victor Tangermann

Experts seemed to broadly agree that it's only a matter of time until an AI will get hold of nuclear codes during a meeting last month.

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Experts Warn That AI Is Getting Control of Nuclear Weapons

By Victor Tangermann

Google's former chief business officer, Mo Gawdat, warned that AI could soon replace white-collar jobs, including CEOs.

Former Google Exec Warns That If You Have a Good Job Now, You Should Be Terrified of AI

By Victor Tangermann

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Public Horrified by Jim Acosta’s Latest Stunt

By Victor Tangermann

AI companies are pouring so much money into AI, it may be propping up the US economy, which could make a bubble pop an even bigger disaster.

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If the AI Bubble Pops, It Could Now Take the Entire Economy With It

By Victor Tangermann

Google's notorious AI Overviews feature appears, for perhaps the very first time, to have finally gotten it right.

If You Ask Google Why It Sucks Now, AI Overviews Will Viciously Bully Google and Itself

By Noor Al-Sibai

Ozzy Osbourne's body is barely cold, but already, he's been subjected to AI resurrection by fellow musician and contemporary Rod Stewart.

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Rod Stewart Revives Selfie Stick-Wielding Ozzy Osbourne In Disgusting AI Slop Video

By Noor Al-Sibai

Job seekers are getting increasingly frustrated with encountering AI interviewers during their search for employment.

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Job Seekers Disgusted When They Show Up to Job Interviews and the “Interviewer” Isn’t Even Human

By Victor Tangermann

Workforce reductions are no longer an admission that companies are struggling — CEOs are using them to boast about their investments in AI.

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CEOs Are Publicly Boasting About Reducing Their Workforces With AI

By Victor Tangermann

Zuckerberg is dreaming up a utopia in which superintelligent AIs benevolently stop short of taking over everybody's jobs, critics say.

There’s a Very Basic Flaw in Mark Zuckerberg’s Plan for Superintelligent AI

By Victor Tangermann

One AI researcher was offered more than $1 billion paid out over several years by Mark Zuckerberg's Meta. They reportedly didn't take it.

AI Researcher Declines $1 Billion Offer From Mark Zuckerberg

By Victor Tangermann

With $100 and a dream, one enterprising Redditor turned ChatGPT into a day trader, and the results so far have been pretty remarkable

Someone Gave ChatGPT $100 and Let It Trade Stocks for a Month

By Noor Al-Sibai

A demo for a video game based on "The Matrix" franchise had AI-powered non-playable characters realize they were code inside a simulation.

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In Disturbing Demo, AI-Powered Video Game Characters Panic When Told They’re Just Code

By Victor Tangermann

Mike Cannon-Brookes, the billionaire CEO of Atlassian, announced that 150 people would be laid off, with some jobs being replaced by AI.

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CEO Lays Off 150 Employees, Tells Them They’ll Largely Be Replaced With AI

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk viciously made an example of one of his xAI employees for an incredibly harmless mistake — if you can even call it that.

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Elon Musk Publicly Kicks His AI Employee’s Legs Out From Under Him

By Frank Landymore

ChatGPT, with little prompting, will whisk users off down a conspiratorial rabbit hole that could be dangerous to mental health.

It Doesn’t Take Much Conversation for ChatGPT to Suck Users Into Bizarre Conspiratorial Rabbit Holes

By Victor Tangermann

Marketing materials for ICP's upcoming album, "The Naught" show telltale signs of AI-generated slop, and some juggalos aren't happy.

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Juggalos Not Happy as Insane Clown Posse Releases AI-Generated Video

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People Are Becoming “Sloppers” Who Have to Ask AI Before They Do Anything

By Victor Tangermann

An AI-generated piece of clickbait is crowding out the much-hyped release of Tyler, the Creator's "Don't Touch the Glass" on social media.

Tyler, the Creator’s New Album Is Getting Buried by AI Knockoff