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Hikers are ending up in need of rescue because they're following the questionable recommendations of an AI chatbot.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Chatbots Are Putting Clueless Hikers in Danger, Search and Rescue Groups Warn

By Frank Landymore

Special effects house Industrial Light and Magic shared a new AI demo of Star Wars creatures that look absolutely awful.

Artificial Intelligence

Star Wars’ Showcase of AI Special Effects Was a Complete Disaster

By Frank Landymore

Audible announced new AI narration tools that publishers can use to churn out entire AI-generated audiobooks.

Artificial Intelligence

Even Audiobooks Aren’t Safe From AI Slop

By Frank Landymore

Soundcloud, after backlash from musicians, artists, and the music-listening community, changed their policies on AI.

Artificial Intelligence

SoundCloud Backtracks on AI and Changes Policies After Artist Outrage

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

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

By Victor Tangermann

The third patient of Elon Musk's brain computer interface company Neuralink is using Musk's AI chatbot Grok to speed up communication.

Nonverbal Neuralink Patient Is Using Brain Implant and Grok to Generate Replies

By Victor Tangermann

A Google DeepMind executive admitted that the company still trains its AI models on data collected on sites that opted out of AI training.

Google’s AI Is Scraping Even Sites That Ask to Be Ignored

By Frank Landymore

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

ChatGPT Is Already Bungling Product Recommendations

ChatGPT Is Already Bungling Product Recommendations

By Frank Landymore

The State Bar of California admitted that AI was used to draft dozens of questions in the bar exam administered to aspiring lawyers.

Artificial Intelligence

California Admits AI Was Used to Write Bar Exam Plagued by Problems

By Frank Landymore

In a blog post published this week, Business Insider cofounder Henry Blodget used AI to create a fictional exec. He then harassed it.

Artificial Intelligence

Investor Creates AI Employee, Immediately Sexually Harasses It

By Victor Tangermann

Actors who sold their likenesses to AI companies are horrified to learn what their faces are being used for.

Artificial Intelligence

Actors Horrified as They Learn What Selling Their Faces as AI Actually Means

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI's latest AI models tend to make things up — or "hallucinate" — substantially more than earlier versions.

OpenAI’s Hot New AI Has an Embarrassing Problem

By Victor Tangermann

Accused of illegally using copyrighted books to train its AI, Meta argues that those books are individually worthless.

Meta Says It’s Okay to Feed Copyrighted Books Into Its AI Model Because They Have No “Economic Value”

By Frank Landymore

Apple's AI and machine learning group tasked with upgrading Siri is facing just as much scrutiny from its peers as it is from the public.

Artificial Intelligence

Apple’s AI-Powered Siri Is Such a Disaster That Employees Have Given the Team Developing It a Rude Nickname

By Frank Landymore

Artificial Intelligence

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

By Victor Tangermann

$Amazon is likely earning just a tiny fraction of the billions it currently invests in AI models every year, according to experts.$

Artificial Intelligence

The Amount Amazon Is Actually Making on AI Will Make Your Eyebrows Raise Dramatically

By Frank Landymore

Sam Schechner, a tech reporter, was alarmed when he realized that he was using ChatGPT to do stuff as simple as texting his friends.

Artificial Intelligence

Man Alarmed as His Cognitive Skills Decay After Outsourcing Them to AI

By Frank Landymore

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

Sora, OpenAI's video generation tool, overwhelmingly produced results that reflected clear racial and sexist stereotypes.

OpenAI’s Sora Has a Small Problem With Being Hugely Racist and Sexist

By Frank Landymore

Fed up with the millions of AI bots crawling the internet for data, Cloudflare is now fighting back to beat them at their own game.

Artificial Intelligence

Cloudflare Using Devilish Trick to Trap AI Scrapers in Infinite Maze of AI-Generated Content

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

Lawyer Says Studio Ghibli Could Take Legal Action Against OpenAI

By Victor Tangermann

The internet has been flooded with pictures modified by OpenAI to evoke the style of animation legend Hayao Miyazaki's work at Studio Ghibli.

While You’re Churning Out Studio Ghibli Selfies With OpenAI, Remember That Hayao Miyazaki Called AI Art “Disgusting” and an “Insult to Life Itself”

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

In a new music video, Alessandra Basher praised Musk and his businesses while crooning from the bed of a Cybertruck.

This Ultra-Cringe Cybertruck Country Music Video May Cause Your Flesh to Slough Off From Secondhand Embarrassment

By Victor Tangermann

Like so many trolls before, AI is now, apparently, telling people to learn to code when they ask it to write it for them.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Programming Assistant Tells User to Stop Being Lazy and Learn to Code

By Noor Al-Sibai

Attempting to punish reasoning AI models for cheating only made them better at lying about their intent, OpenAI researchers found.

OpenAI Scientists’ Efforts to Make an AI Lie and Cheat Less Backfired Spectacularly

By Frank Landymore

A survey of nearly 500 AI researchers indicated that the vast majority of them think that pursuing "scaling" won't achieve AGI.

Artificial Intelligence

Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End

By Frank Landymore

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

Ashly Burch, the voice actor behind Aloy from the "Horizon" video games, says she's "worried" about her profession's future.

Artificial Intelligence

Voice Actor for Aloy in “Horizon” Games Creeped Out by AI Version of Her Character

By Frank Landymore

New research found that AI models gave the wrong answer in search results more than 60 percent of the time.

Artificial Intelligence

Study Finds That AI Search Engines Are Wrong an Astounding Proportion of the Time

By Frank Landymore

From press releases to job postings: an alarming percentage of them are AI slop written by a large language model, according to new research.

Artificial Intelligence

The Entire Internet Is Being Polluted by AI Slop

By Frank Landymore

Amazon is testing a new "AI-aided" dubbing feature on a selection of movies in English and Latin American Spanish.

Artificial Intelligence

In Further Assault on Cinema, Amazon Is Deploying AI-Aided Dubs on Streaming Movies

By Frank Landymore

Google's so called "AI co-scientist" has been met with skepticism by actual scientists, who've shot down some of the company's claims.

Scientists Say Google’s “AI Scientist” Is Dead on Arrival

By Frank Landymore

Netflix Is Using AI to Upscale a 1980s Sitcom and the Results Are Borderline Horrific

Artificial Intelligence

Netflix Is Using AI to Upscale a 1980s Sitcom and the Results Are Borderline Horrific

By Victor Tangermann

Chegg has sued Google over its shoddy AI Overviews, accusing the tech giant of diverting traffic from its website.

Google Hit With Lawsuit Over Its Loathsome AI Overviews

By Frank Landymore

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

Young programmers "can't actually program" because they're too reliant on AI models, writers developer Namanyay Goel.

Artificial Intelligence

Young Coders Are Using AI for Everything, Giving “Blank Stares” When Asked How Programs Actually Work

By Frank Landymore

Microsoft has released a new generative model, dubbed Magma, that can autonomously control robots. What could go wrong?

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Shows Off AI That Can Control an Entire Robot

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

Plaintiff's lawyers in an ongoing lawsuit against Walmart could face sanctions for citing case law made by an AI model.

Artificial Intelligence

Attorney Pleads for Mercy After Using AI in Court, Where It Made Up Fake Lawsuits

By Frank Landymore

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

Insurance company Allstate has revealed that almost all of the communications its reps send out to claimants are written by AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Allstate Says Almost All Its Communications About Insurance Claims Are Done With AI Now

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI isn't just "legit" invigorated by China's DeepSeek, a "new competitor," it seems to be low key panicking by making sweeping changes.

OpenAI Seems to Be Low Key Panicking

By Victor Tangermann

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

The founder of a San Francisco-based AI startup called On Platform was arrested after being accused of defrauding investors of $60 million.

Artificial Intelligence

Man Arrested for Raising $60 Million for AI Startup, Instead Spending It on Luxurious Lifestyle

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

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

Artificial Intelligence

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

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

Artificial Intelligence

AI “Coworkers” Profiles Prove Too Stupid Even For LinkedIn

By Frank Landymore

Alibaba claims that the latest version of its Qwen AI model has beaten out DeepSeek's V3, and OpenAI's o1.

Another Chinese AI Company Says It’s Beaten OpenAI

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

After several days of silence, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has spoken out about Chinese AI startup DeepSeek throwing Silicon Valley into chaos.

Sam Altman Says OpenAI Is Going to Deliver a Beatdown on DeepSeek

By Victor Tangermann

Mark Zuckerberg' Meta assembled several"war rooms" of engineers, as The Information reports, in an attempt to get ahead of DeepSeek.

Zuckerberg Convening Huge “War Rooms” to Figure Out How a Chinese Startup Is Annihilating Meta’s AI

By Victor Tangermann

OpenAI Developer Seethes at Success of DeepSeek

OpenAI Developer Seethes at Success of DeepSeek

By Frank Landymore

AI totally "crashing" everyone's wages is a necessary stepping stone towards a better future, argues billionaire Marcus Andreessen.

Artificial Intelligence

Top AI Investor Says Goal Is to Crash Human Wages

By Frank Landymore

The emissions produced by AI datacenters is likely far worse than believed because of how companies report their sustainability data.

Artificial Intelligence

We Aren’t Being Told the Real Extent of AI Datacenter Emissions

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI’s Agent Has a Problem: Before It Does Anything Important, You Have to Double-Check It Hasn’t Screwed Up

By Frank Landymore

The Onion used an AI-generated picture on a recent article, despite the paper's CEO Ben Collins recently promising that "we don't use AI."

Artificial Intelligence

The Onion Deletes Image From Article After Realizing It Was AI-Generated

By Victor Tangermann

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

Artificial Intelligence

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

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists subjected AIs to a number of games, forcing them to choose between pain and gain or pleasure and loss.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Experiment With Subjecting AI to Pain

By Victor Tangermann

The company announced that it has rolled out a "GS AI assistant" to around 10,000 employees as part of its longer-term doubling down on AI.

Artificial Intelligence

Goldman Sachs Starts Process of Replacing Bankers With AI

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk blasted OpenAI, accusing it of not having enough cash for Donald Trump's "Stargate" project. CEO Sam Altman has since shot back.

Sam Altman Blasts Elon Musk for Defying Donald Trump’s AI Deal

By Victor Tangermann

Sage Group temporarily suspended its AI model after it started leaking information, which allegedly included customer transactions.

Artificial Intelligence

Accounting Firm’s AI Caught Telling Customers About Each Others’ Financial Records

By Frank Landymore