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Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn is having major regrets after widely bragging about replacing his human staffers with AI.
Artificial Intelligence

Duolingo CEO Expresses Astonishment That People Were Mad When He Bragged About Replacing Workers With AI

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at Apple have released a damning paper that throws cold water on the "reasoning" capabilities of modern AIs.
Artificial Intelligence

Apple Researchers Just Released a Damning Paper That Pours Cold Water on the Entire AI Industry

By Victor Tangermann

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.
Artificial Intelligence

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

By Victor Tangermann

Lovable, a "vibe coding" app that allows anybody to build websites with AI, has a huge cybersecurity problem.
Coding

Companies Are Discovering a Grim Problem With “Vibe Coding”

By Victor Tangermann

College graduates were left speechless after officials at New York City's Pace University deployed an AI model to read out their names.
Artificial Intelligence

College Grads Furious After an AI Butchers Their Names During Commencement

By Victor Tangermann

RFJ Jr.'s "Make America Healthy Again" report was relying on some extremely questionable sources to back up its claims.
Artificial Intelligence

RFK Jr’s “Make America Healthy Again” Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist, in Clear Sign of AI Generated Slop

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.
Future Society

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

By Victor Tangermann

Facing dismal financial results, Target is praying to the gods of artificial intelligence to fix its horrible stores.
Artificial Intelligence

After Disastrous Experiments Into AI, Target Pledges to Pile on Even More AI

By Joe Wilkins

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

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.
OpenAI

Terrifying Survey Claims ChatGPT Has Overtaken Wikipedia

By Victor Tangermann

Google's got a brand new AI video generator, and it's so sophisticated that we're starting to sweat around the collar a bit.
Google

Google’s New Video-Generating AI May Be the End of Reality as We Know It

By Noor Al-Sibai

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.
Artificial Intelligence

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

By Victor Tangermann

In a new "Will Smith eating spaghetti" AI clip, a far more recognizable Smith can be seen indulging in a tasty-looking plate of noodles.
Artificial Intelligence

The Newest “Will Smith Eating Spaghetti” Video Includes AI-Generated Squelching and Chomping Sounds That Just Might Make You Sick

By Victor Tangermann

Swedish buy-now-pay-later company Klarna, whose CEO once bragged about replacing workers with AI, is now in deep trouble.
Future Society

CEO Who Bragged About Replacing Human Workers With AI Realizes He Made a Terrible Mistake

By Victor Tangermann

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

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

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A shockingly small proportion of CEOs surveyed by IBM reported that the tech was delivering on its promises.
Advanced Transport

Executives Are Pouring Money Into AI. So Why Are They Saying It’s Not Paying Off?

By Victor Tangermann

The US Copyright Office released a report that could be bad for powerful AI companies. The next day, the agency's head was fired.
Artificial Intelligence

The US Copyright Chief Was Fired After Raising Red Flags About AI Abuse

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Pope Leo XIV, the newly-crowned first American pope, is keeping the social costs of rapid AI advancement front and center.
Artificial Intelligence

The New Pope Is Deeply Skeptical of AI

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

USA Today is publishing automated articles full of links to gambling sportsbooks, which may result in financial kickbacks for the publisher.
Artificial Intelligence

USA TODAY’s Disclaimers on Its Automated Sports Stories Are Longer Than the Actual Articles

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Chinese Tech Giant Wants to Translate Your Cat’s Meows Using AI
Artificial Intelligence

Chinese Tech Giant Wants to Translate Your Cat’s Meows Using AI

By Victor Tangermann

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

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

By Joe Wilkins

Pinterest is facing an influx of AI slop designed to attract users to synthetic websites. Here's a glimpse into their tactics — and psyches.
Artificial Intelligence

Slop Farmer Boasts About How He Uses AI to Flood Social Media With Garbage to Trick Older Women

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

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

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI's ChatGPT may be driving countless of its users into a dangerous state of "ChatGPT-induced psychosis."
Artificial Intelligence

ChatGPT Users Are Developing Bizarre Delusions

By Victor Tangermann

As local activists repel data center development, their battleplans are being chronicled and shared with organizers across the country.
Artificial Intelligence

Small Towns Are Rising Up Against AI Data Centers

By Joe Wilkins

A startup called RAW Ring has come up with a wearable that it claims can catch a cheating partner in the act.
Future Society

New Wearable for Exceptionally Pathetic Men Detects When Their Wife Is Cheating

By Victor Tangermann

The website for WECB, Emerson College's student radio station, was stolen — and quickly transformed into a parasitic AI zombie site.
Artificial Intelligence

Scammers Stole the Website for Emerson College’s Student Radio Station and Started Running It as a Zombie AI Farm

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The emergence of generative AI, may have already begun to slowly replace young college graduates with algorithms.
Artificial Intelligence

Signs Grow That AI Is Starting to Seriously Bite Into the Job Market

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers from Stanford and the tech safety nonprofit Common Sense Media say children shouldn't be talking to AI companion bots.
Artificial Intelligence

Stanford Researchers Say No Kid Under 18 Should Be Using AI Chatbot Companions

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

Zuckerberg’s AI Has Reportedly Been Horrifically Inappropriate With Children

By Victor Tangermann

University of Zurich researchers dispatched an army of AI chatbots to debate human users on Reddit. It was a highly contentious experiment.
Artificial Intelligence

Reddit Threatens to Sue Researchers Who Ran “Dead Internet” AI Experiment on Its Site

By Victor Tangermann

As if the market weren't already bad enough, applicants are now having to compete with AI-generated job seekers.
Artificial Intelligence

When You Apply for a Job Now, You’re Competing With Non-Human Entities

By Noor Al-Sibai

Artificial intelligence keeps getting smarter — and soon, warns former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, it won't take orders from us anymore.
Google

Former Google CEO Warns That AI Is About to Escape Human Control

By Noor Al-Sibai

Microsoft has abruptly paused work on AI data centers in Ohio. Could the tech giant be getting cold feet about over-investing in the tech?
Data Privacy

Microsoft’s Huge Plans for Mass AI Data Centers Now Rapidly Falling Apart

By Victor Tangermann

As the biggest news brands experiment with artificial intelligence in their content, a near-majority of readers aren't buying it.
Artificial Intelligence

Poll Finds Americans Are Largely Disgusted by AI-Generated News

By Noor Al-Sibai

A 74-year-old entrepreneur played an entirely AI-generated video of a male avatar to address the judge during a court appearance.
Artificial Intelligence

Judge Goes Ballistic When Man Shows AI-Generated Video in Court

By Victor Tangermann

A report found that some NSFW chatbot sites are oozing explicit user chats into the open web — and what they contain can be disturbing.
Artificial Intelligence

Naughty AIs Are Spilling Their Users’ Super Personal Chats Onto the Open Web

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a new countersuit, OpenAI alleges that Elon Musk has been caught in a web of lies, accusing him of a pattern of harassment.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Credibility Sinking as He’s Caught in Web of Lies

By Victor Tangermann

During an education summit, Trump's secretary of education Linda McMahon repeatedly pronounced "AI" as "A1."
Education

You’ll Die Inside When You Hear How Trump’s Education Secretary Pronounces “AI”

By Victor Tangermann

Tech CEOs spent millions of dollars on donations to president Donald Trump's campaign and inauguration. Their reward has been terrible.
Future Society

Tech CEOs Bent Over Backwards for Trump and Their “Reward” Has Been Horrible

By Victor Tangermann

A new book claims to have the tea on why OpenAI's board of directors fired Sam Altman as CEO during its stunning (and failed) 2023 coup.
OpenAI

This Appears to Be Why Sam Altman Actually Got Fired by OpenAI

By Noor Al-Sibai

A notorious AI founder went viral after claiming that a firecracker prank was actually an attempt on his life.
Future Society

Paranoid AI Founder Reportedly Thought He Was Being Shot At After Hearing Innocuous Noise

By Joe Wilkins

OpenAI's image-generating 4o model is surprisingly good at generating text inside images. Users are using it to fake receipts for expenses.
OpenAI

OpenAI’s New Image Generator Is Incredible for Creating Fraudulent Documents

By Victor Tangermann

There seem to be signs that president Donald Trump's befuddling tariff measures were cooked up by an AI chatbot.
Artificial Intelligence

Trump Tariffs Show Signs of Being Written by AI

By Victor Tangermann

Coreweave's stock seemingly shook off the gloom and spiked over 20 percent before settling around 18 percent by midday.
Artificial Intelligence

CoreWeave’s Stock Now Spiking After Disastrous IPO

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new survey, lots of people are having AI dreams — and some of these nightmares are pretty surprising.
Artificial Intelligence

Large Numbers of People Report Horrific Nightmares About AI

By Noor Al-Sibai

Once a rising star of AI automation, the startup 11x is now facing new allegations of extremely sketchy behavior.
Artificial Intelligence

Startup Reportedly Claimed Fake Clients as Its AI-Powered Sales Bot Flailed

By Joe Wilkins

The viral Studio Ghibli AI trend reignited a heated debate surrounding copyright. AI expert Rob Rosenberg says the company could sue.
OpenAI

Lawyer Says Studio Ghibli Could Take Legal Action Against OpenAI

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese tech giant Alibaba's chairman Joe Tsai is now warning of a potential bubble starting to form in AI data center construction.
Artificial Intelligence

Alibaba Head Warns AI Industry Is Showing Signs of Bubble

By Victor Tangermann

ChatGPT "power users," or those who use it the most, are becoming dependent upon — or even addicted to — the chatbot. 
Artificial Intelligence

Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot

By Noor Al-Sibai

A Pentagon press secretary blamed AI for why an article about Jackie Robinson was taken down amidst its rampant anti-DEI purge.
Artificial Intelligence

Pentagon Says It’s Using AI to Delete Pages About History That’s Too Woke

By Frank Landymore

The chatbot startup Character.AI is accused of causing the death of a 14-year-old user. Now, it's hosting AI impersonations of the dead teen.
Google

Google-Backed Chatbot Platform Caught Hosting AI Impersonations of 14-Year-Old User Who Died by Suicide

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Chinese regulators have announced that all AI-generated content on the internet will have to be labeled as such.
Artificial Intelligence

All AI-Generated Material Must Be Labeled Online, China Announces

By Victor Tangermann

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei proposed to give AI models of the future the ability to hit an "I quit this job" button.
Future Society

Anthropic CEO Suggests That AI Deserves Workers’ Rights

By Victor Tangermann

Australian startup Cortical Labs has launched what it's calling the "world’s first code deployable biological computer."
Science & Energy

Weird New Computer Runs AI on Captive Human Brain Cells

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft Backing Out of Expensive New Data Centers After Its CEO Expressed Doubt About AI Value
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Backing Out of Expensive New Data Centers After Its CEO Expressed Doubt About AI Value

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, whose company has invested billions of dollars in ChatGPT maker OpenAI, has had it with the AI hype.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value

By Victor Tangermann

Netflix has come under fire for using AI to reproduce the voice of Gabby Petito, the 22-year-old social media influencer who was murdered.
Artificial Intelligence

Fury Erupts After Netflix Used AI to Clone the Voice of a Murdered Influencer for a True Crime Doc About Her Death

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.
Artificial Intelligence

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

By Victor Tangermann

A startup called Firecrawl went viral last week for posting a — very real — job listing intended for an "AI agent."
Artificial Intelligence

Startup Adds Job Listing Specifically for AI Agents, With Horrible Salary

By Victor Tangermann

We got a bizarre email from someone on Allstate's media relations team, claiming the Wall Street Journal's reporting was flawed.
Artificial Intelligence

Allstate Is Demanding We Delete These Quotes by Its Exec About How It’s Using AI to Write Insurance Emails

By Victor Tangermann

After an embarrassing pivot to AI content, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti says he's had enough of all the ragebait, clickbait, and fake news.
Artificial Intelligence

Jonah Peretti, Who Filled BuzzFeed With AI Slop, Now Says AI Is Threatening Human Agency

By Victor Tangermann

During a Bloomberg interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took another jab at the richest man in the world, Elon Musk.
Elon Musk

Sam Altman Says He Feels Sorry for Elon Musk and His Bottomless Insecurity

By Victor Tangermann

The parents of an OpenAI whistleblower who was found dead say their independent pathologist found that he did not die of suicide.
OpenAI

Independent Autopsy Finds OpenAI Whistleblower’s Bullet Wound Was Not Consistent With Suicide

By Noor Al-Sibai