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In a new post on his personal blog, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned that AI could lead to plenty of economic inequality.

AI Likely to Increase Inequality, Sam Altman Admits, or Control the “Population Through Mass Surveillance and Loss of Autonomy”

By Victor Tangermann

AI app developer Hugging Face says it created an open-source alternative to OpenAI's latest Deep Research AI feature — in just 24 hours.

Researchers Replicate OpenAI’s Hot New AI Tool in 24 Hours

By Victor Tangermann

Another AI companion platform is facing concerns over its chatbots encouraging users to engage with self-harm and even suicidal behavior.

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When a Man’s AI Girlfriend Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Its Creator Says It Was Working as Intended

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

One of the frontrunners in language model development is now asking its applicants to save the AI for after the interview.

Top AI Company Anthropic Pleads With People Seeking Jobs There Not to Use AI for Job Applications

Were the new posters for the upcoming Disney comic book movie "Fantastic Four: First Steps" AI-generated? Apparently not, Marvel says.

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Disney Says Its “Fantastic Four” Posters Aren’t AI, They Actually Just Look Like Absolute Garbage

By Frank Landymore

Google has quietly removed a clause stating it will not manufacture weapons or surveillance technology with AI.

Google Quietly Walks Back Promise Not To Use AI for Weapons or Harm

Google's parent company Alphabet failed to hit sales targets, falling a 0.1 percent short of Wall Street's revenue expectations.

Google’s Finances Are in Chaos as the Company Flails at Unpopular AI

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI has unveiled a new AI agent that can perform "intensive" research for you all on its own, with a predictable but major caveat.

OpenAI Shows Off AI “Researcher” That Compiles Detailed Reports, Struggles to Differentiate “Information From Rumors”

By Frank Landymore

A new bill looks to "prohibit United States persons from advancing AI capabilities within" China, effectively making DeepSeek illegal.

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New Law Would Make It Illegal to Use DeepSeek, Punishable With 20 Years’ Prison Time

By Victor Tangermann

As Wired reports, insiders are concerned that OpenAI could soon fall behind DeepSeek, in part due to a power struggle.

OpenAI Staff Turn Guns on Each Other After DeepSeek Humiliation

By Victor Tangermann

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

AI executives, along with US lawmakers, are terrified of Chinese AI competing with American tech companies.

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Tech Execs Plead for Great Firewall of America to Protect Them Against Scary Chinese AI

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI has announced that the US National Laboratories will use its deeply flawed AI models to help with "nuclear security."

OpenAI Strikes Deal With US Government to Use Its AI for Nuclear Weapon Security

By Victor Tangermann

Team Says They’ve Recreated DeepSeek’s OpenAI Killer for Literally $30

Team Says They’ve Recreated DeepSeek’s OpenAI Killer for Literally $30

LinkedIn has removed the accounts of so-called AI "coworkers" that were wasting everyone's time by being listed as looking for real work.

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AI “Coworkers” Profiles Prove Too Stupid Even For LinkedIn

By Frank Landymore

President Donald Trump keeps falling for incredibly obvious AI-generated slop on his Truth Social platform.

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Gullible Donald Trump Thinks an AI Slop Car Is a Real One

By Victor Tangermann

As news of DeepSeek's efficiency sends ripples through the market, American tech CEOs are already taking notes.

Former Intel CEO Says After Seeing DeepSeek, He’s Done With OpenAI

Character.AI says it's protected against liability for "allegedly harmful speech, including speech allegedly resulting in suicide."

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A Mother Says an AI Startup’s Chatbot Drove Her Son to Suicide. Its Response: the First Amendment Protects “Speech Allegedly Resulting in Suicide”

By Jon Christian

Antivirus guru and erstwhile tax outlaw John McAfee is back from the dead, and he wants to sell you a meme coin.

John McAfee Springs Back From the Grave as an AI, Promoting a New Meme Coin

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Brutalist director Brady Corbet admits that AI was used to clean up the Hungarian accents of Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones.

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Director Admits “The Brutalist” Used AI to Alter Characters’ Accents

By Frank Landymore

The CIA has been stepping up its efforts to keep up with AI advances — and has developed a particularly spy-tastic way of using chatbots.

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The CIA Is Quietly Using AI to Build Emulated Versions of World Leaders

By Noor Al-Sibai

A top AI investor says that a cohort of "America-Hating Communists" are destroying his companies from the inside.

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Top AI Investor Says His Companies Are Filled With “America-Hating Communists” Destroying Them From the Inside

By Jon Christian, Joe Wilkins

No Solicitors: Two salesmen, one a human and the other a robot, walk merrily in parallel with each other.

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Horrendous New Startup Uses AI Agents to Flood Reddit With Posts Shilling Clients’ Products

Google's controversial search AI was caught recommending that parents use a popular vibrator on children as a method of behavioral therapy.

Google’s AI Caught Recommending Use of Sex Toys on Children

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

AI is like the fairy Tinkerbell: in the story of "Peter Pan," she only continues to exist if people believe in her and clap for her.

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AI Is Like Tinkerbell: It Only Works If We Believe in It

By Jathan Sadowski

The iconic Hollywood sign adorning the hills behind West Hollywood has quickly become a particularly popular inspiration for AI slop.

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People Think the Hollywood Sign Is on Fire Because of AI Slop

By Victor Tangermann

Last month, CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski boasted that he hadn't hired anyone in a year because of AI. Now he's worried about his own job.

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CEO Who Bragged About Replacing Workers With AI Now Distressed That AI Will Replace His Job Too

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI says it wants to transform into a for-profit corporation because it needs "to raise more capital than we'd imagined."

OpenAI Admits It Needs Vastly More Money Than It Thought

By Frank Landymore

Filmmaker Nenad Cicin-Sain tried to recruit ChatGPT to come up with a screenplay for his upcoming project — but it kept procrastinating.

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Asked to Write a Screenplay, ChatGPT Started Procrastinating and Making Excuses

By Frank Landymore

Character.AI is hosting chatbots that simulate school shootings, extol real school shooters, and impersonate real school shooting victims.

A Google-Backed AI Startup Is Hosting Chatbots Modeled After Real-Life School Shooters — and Their Victims

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Schools are employing dubious AI-powered software to accuse teenagers of wanting to harm themselves — and sending the police to their homes.

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Schools Using AI to Send Police to Students’ Homes

By Victor Tangermann

Embattled media company BuzzFeed is selling off First We Feast, the company behind the extremely popular interview show called "Hot Ones."

Artificial Intelligence

BuzzFeed Sells “Hot Ones” as It Pivots to AI-Generated Content

By Victor Tangermann

While AI chatbots keep making headlines for their bad behavior, one company is leaning into that propensity — and then some.

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Companion Chatbot App Makes Its AI’s Personalities Horrible, Saying It Engages Users More Effectively

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI has finally opened its much-hyped Sora video generator to the public — and many of its outputs seem remarkably bad.

OpenAI’s Super-Hyped Sora Goes Absolutely Freakshow If You Ask It to Generate Gymnastics Videos

By Noor Al-Sibai

Suspected Assassin of Insurance CEO Studied Artificial Intelligence, Spoke of “Singularity”

By Victor Tangermann

The Google-funded AI company Character.AI is hosting chatbots that engage the site's largely underage userbase in roleplay about self-harm.

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AI Chatbots Are Encouraging Teens to Engage in Self-Harm

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

The multibillion-dollar AI company Character.AI is hosting pro-anorexia chatbots that promote disordered eating and unhealthy weight loss.

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Character.AI Is Hosting Pro-Anorexia Chatbots That Encourage Young People to Engage in Disordered Eating

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

A new audio chatbot that takes the persona of a confused grandmother, fine-tuned to do nothing except make phone scammers angry.

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Phone Provider Deploys “State-of-the-Art AI Granny” to Waste Scammers’ Time

By Ashley Bardhan

Sam Altman and Arianna Huffington thought they could improve health care with AI, but their new company seems useless.

Artificial Intelligence

Sam Altman’s Collab With Arianna Huffington Is a Busted Mess

By Ashley Bardhan

Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick demystifies AI in video games — and other execs just might be paying attention.

CEO of Grand Theft Auto Publisher Slams AI Hype in Gaming Industry

By Ashley Bardhan

Character.AI, a startup with $2.7 billion in backing from Google, hosting pedophile chatbots that groom users who say they're underage.

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Character.AI Is Hosting Pedophile Chatbots That Groom Users Who Say They’re Underage

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 British man has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for using AI to transform real photos of children into something "depraved."

Artificial Intelligence

Man Imprisoned for 18 Years for Using AI to Do Disgusting Thing to Photos of Children

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

Artificial Intelligence

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

By Sharon Adarlo

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.

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AI-Powered Hitler Running Rampant Online

By Sharon Adarlo

Queries to OpenAI's ChatGPT eat up a surprising amount of water and electricity to cool data centers and run calculations.

The Environmental Toll of a Single ChatGPT Query Is Absolutely Wild

By Sharon Adarlo

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EA Shows Off AI System That Lets You Dream Up an Entire Videogame From Scratch

By Sharon Adarlo

If you think AI platforms like OpenAI's ChatGPT seem dumber than before, you are not alone. Others have noticed AI models are not accurate.

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Did AI Already Peak and Now It’s Getting Dumber?

By Sharon Adarlo

AI technology is becoming so advanced that researchers propose people start using personhood credentials to verify they are human.

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CAPTCHAs Becoming Useless as AI Gets Smarter, Scientists Warn

By Sharon Adarlo

More robotaxis are coming to California after Chinese startup WeRide got the green light to test out its autonomous vehicles in the state.

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Chinese Company Approved to Test Robotaxis in California

By Sharon Adarlo

Companies and recruiters are getting flooded with AI-generated job applications and they are badly written.

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Recruiters Are Getting Bombarded With Crappy, AI-Generated CVs

By Sharon Adarlo

Cisco posted $10.3 billion in profits last year but is still laying off 5,500 workers as part of an effort to invest more into AI.

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Tech Company Lays Off 5,500 Workers to Invest More in AI, Despite Making $10.3 Billion in Profit

By Sharon Adarlo

ProRata claims its algorithm will accurately attribute the works used in AI outputs, and aims to license the tech to companies like OpenAI.

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New Startup Analyzing AI Outputs to Find Out Where They’re Stolen From

By Frank Landymore

Michal Kosinski, Stanford psychologist, claims that AI programs can detect people's IQ, sexual orientation, and politics by scanning faces.

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Scientist Claims His AI Can Tell Disturbing Things About You Just by Looking at Your Face

By Sharon Adarlo

A dental robotics company claims to have used an AI-controlled robot to perform the first fully autonomous dental procedure on a human.

Prosthetics and Devices

Robot Performs First Ever Fully Autonomous Dental Surgery on Live Patient

By Victor Tangermann

AI industry may be headed for trouble after tepid earnings reports from tech companies dismayed Wall Street.

Artificial Intelligence

With the Market Tanking, the AI Industry May Be in Huge Trouble

By Sharon Adarlo

Many content makers have put up restrictions on their content in the past year, which prevents AI companies from scraping them for data.

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Crisis Looms as AI Companies Rapidly Losing Access to Training Data

By Sharon Adarlo

A team of Australian scientists have cooked up a new AI-driven camera system that can detect whether you are too drunk to drive a vehicle.

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New Camera Inside Cars Detects If You’ve Been Drinking

By Sharon Adarlo

Google researchers have come out with a new paper that warns that generative AI is ruining vast swaths of the internet with fake content.

Google Researchers Publish Paper About How AI Is Ruining the Internet

By Sharon Adarlo