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Microsoft will buy all the power produced by the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant for twenty years as part of a deal to reopen it.

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Microsoft Working to Reopen Three Mile Island to Power Huge AI Datacenters

By Frank Landymore

Lionsgate announced a major partnership with Runway, which will develop a custom AI model for the movie studio using its library of movies.

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Lionsgate’s AI Deal Sounds a Lot Like It Wants to Replace the Jobs of Storyboard and VFX Artists

By Frank Landymore

The app SocialAI simulates the experience of making hit tweets on social media and getting thousands of replies in return.

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Bizarre New AI App Simulates If You Were Famous With Millions of Fawning Fans

By Frank Landymore

California passed new laws that protect actors from being replicated by an AI without their explicit permission.

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It’s Now Officially Illegal to Use AI to Impersonate a Human Actor in Hollywood

By Frank Landymore

Try to dig too deeply into how "Strawberry," the latest ChatGPT AI model, and OpenAI will threaten you with a ban.

OpenAI Threatening to Ban Users for Asking Strawberry About Its Reasoning

By Frank Landymore

Tech companies have been obfuscating the emissions of their AI data centers by using dodgy energy certificates in their calculations.

AI Datacenters More Than 600 Percent Worse for Environment Than Tech Companies Claimed

By Frank Landymore

Larry Ellison, cofounder of the software giant Oracle, believes that an age of surveillance supercharged by AI will soon be upon us.

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Billionaire Drools That “Citizens Will Be on Their Best Behavior” Under Constant AI Surveillance

By Frank Landymore

A ChatGPT conversation went viral on Reddit purportedly showing the chatbot reaching out to a user first. Other users are crying foul.

OpenAI Says It’s Fixed Issue Where ChatGPT Appeared to Be Messaging Users Unprompted

By Victor Tangermann

o1-preview's "chain-of-thought reasoning" allows users to get a glimpse of what the model is "thinking." It also shows how its deceiving.

OpenAI’s Strawberry “Thought Process” Sometimes Shows It Scheming to Trick Users

By Victor Tangermann

In a bizarre video, an AI music generator appears to be sobbing like a human, shocking the Reddit user who posted it.

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User Confused When AI Unexpectedly Starts Sobbing Out Loud

By Noor Al-Sibai

AI chipmaker Nvidia wiped out a massive $279 off its value on Tuesday, a massive drop of 9.5 percent in share price.

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Nvidia Should Be Printing Money Right Now by Selling AI Hardware. Instead, Its Stock Is Falling

By Victor Tangermann

The AI supercomputer, which Elon Musk calls "Colossus," is powered by a staggering 100,000 Nvidia AI chips.

Elon Musk Claims He Just Activated the World’s Most Powerful AI Supercomputer

By Frank Landymore

A series of blind assessments found that human-written summaries scored significantly better than summaries generated by AI.

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Government Test Finds That AI Wildly Underperforms Compared to Human Employees

By Frank Landymore

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AI Accuses Journalist of Escaping Psych Ward, Abusing Children and Widows

By Frank Landymore

A chef in Dubai used OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT to come up with a pizza recipe — and as it turns out, it started selling like hotcakes.

Chef Admits His Smash Hit Pizza Was Invented by ChatGPT

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers trained a generative AI neural network to run the 1993 video game Doom instead of a conventional video game engine.

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Doom Running on a Neural Network Is a Surreal Dreamscape

By Victor Tangermann

AI CEO Proud of Chatbot for Convincing Woman to Euthanize Her Dog

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AI CEO Proud of Chatbot for Convincing Woman to Euthanize Her Dog

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers found that the vast majority exchange-traded funds that used AI to pick stocks did worse than the S&P 500.

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AI’s Hyped Up Attempts at Picking Stocks Are Completely Faceplanting

By Frank Landymore

Google's latest AI photo editing tool called "Reimagine" is part of the tech giant's latest efforts to enhance photos with the power of AI.

Google’s AI Now Lets You Wildly Alter Photos Right in Your Camera App

By Victor Tangermann

The California bill, SB 1047, has been criticized by companies like OpenAI for potentially stifling the nascent AI industry.

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Tech Companies Furious at New Law That Would Hold Them Accountable When Their AI Does Bad Stuff

By Frank Landymore

The trailer featured quotes from famous film critics panning Francis Ford Coppola's previous films that appear to be made up by ChatGPT.

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“Megalopolis” Trailer Pulled After Revelation That Its “Critic Quotes” Were AI-Generated Fakes

By Frank Landymore

Trump has denied any wrongdoing, claiming that he had nothing to do with the fake Taylor Swift pictures he posted on Truth Social.

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Donald Trump Says He Doesn’t Know Anything About AI-Generated Taylor Swift Images He Posted

By Victor Tangermann

"Alien: Romulus" used CGI and generative AI to imitate British actor Ian Holm from the original "Alien" movie.

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“Alien: Romulus” Used AI to Bring Back Dead Actor

By Frank Landymore

New research found that ChatGPT was only able to correctly diagnose less than half the medical cases it was asked to look at.

ChatGPT Is Absolutely Atrocious At Being a Doctor

By Frank Landymore

A green reporter at Wyoming newspaper the Cody Enterprise resigned this month, after a competitor noticed awkward language in his articles.

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Journalist Resigns After Being Exposed for Fake, AI-Generated Quotes

By Frank Landymore

Users are creating tons of AI girlfriends and boyfriends using Instagram's new AI studio, and they're about as embarrassing as you'd expect.

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Instagram Already Loaded With AI Girlfriends and Boyfriends

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI keeps losing top talent, indicating some considerable inner turmoil. Are they worried OpenAI is making empty promises?

Why Are OpenAI’s Most Prominent Employees Leaving?

By Victor Tangermann

MIT economist and AI skeptic Daron Acemoglu argued that generative AI isn't intelligent enough to impact jobs.

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MIT Economist Blasts AI Hype, Says It’s Too Dumb to Really Impact Jobs

By Victor Tangermann

Andrew Odlyzko, an expert in financial bubbles, compares the AI industry's downturn to the telegraph and electricity booms of the past.

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Expert on Financial Bubbles Weighs in on AI Industry

By Frank Landymore

Alt-weekly publications like LA Weekly and the Village Voice have suddenly started running hundreds of articles listing OnlyFans porn.

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Beloved Local Newspapers Fired Staffers, Then Started Running AI Slop

By Frank Landymore

To keep generative AI models running requires huge amounts of electricity — and the US' aging power grid is struggling to handle the load.

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America’s Ramshackle Power Grid Is Straining Under the Load of Generative AI

By Victor Tangermann

A South Carolina man accused of using his father's name to pose as a real lawyer allegedly used AI to write legal documents.

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Man Accused of Pretending to Be Lawyer Using AI, Representing Real Clients

By Frank Landymore

Runway's Gen-3 Alpha text-to-video AI generator was trained on pirated content and ripped off YouTube videos, 404 Media reports.

Leak Shows That Google-Funded AI Video Generator Runway Was Trained on Stolen YouTube Content, Pirated Films

By Victor Tangermann

Chatbots like ChatGPT were either confused by questions about political events in the past week, or outright refused to answer them.

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Leading AI Chatbots Stumped When Asked About Biden’s Decision to Drop Out

By Frank Landymore

A viral AI-generated clip of celebrities hugging their younger selves has really squicked out people online.

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Everyone Hates That “Hideous” AI Video Of Celebs Hugging Their Younger Selves

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI wants to see the notes to assess The New York Times' copyright claims, in the newspaper's legal battle against the AI company.

OpenAI Demands to See All Notes by New York Times Reporters

By Frank Landymore

AI certainly isn't the only sector to use tons of water, but it's wasting it in a way that's especially disruptive to fresh water supplies.

AI’s Outrageous Environmental Toll Is Probably Worse Than You Think

By Frank Landymore

A new survey shows that over half of customers would consider switching to a competitor if they found out a company was using AI.

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Ordinary People Are Absolutely Repulsed by AI-Powered Customer Service

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI spent only a single week safety testing its new model GPT-4o, according to insiders at the company.

Whistleblowers Say OpenAI Broke Promise to Rigorously Test AI for Danger Before Releasing

By Frank Landymore

The factors that YouTube will consider to determine if AI content impersonates someone, however, is considerably hazy.

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YouTube Now Lets You Request the Removal of AI Content That Impersonates You

By Frank Landymore

By analyzing a decade of scientific papers, researchers found AI models are overusing "style" words that were uncommon just a few years ago.

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Research Shows That AI-Generated Slop Overuses Specific Words

By Frank Landymore

The internet has been using AI to turn famous memes into videos — and a fair share of the results are nothing short of nightmare fuel.

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People Are Using AI to Turn Memes Into Videos and It’s Low Key Terrifying

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Directed by Robert Zemeckis, "Here" has its reuniting co-stars looking younger, and maybe uncannier, than ever.

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New Movie Uses AI to De-Age Tom Hanks and Robin Wright to What They Looked Like in the 90s

By Frank Landymore

The Voice Mode assistant for ChatGPT, originally teased in May, has been delayed for at least another month, according to OpenAI.

OpenAI Fans Slam Delay of ChatGPT Voice Mode, as Company Hints at Trouble Behind the Scenes

By Frank Landymore

OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati suggested that the artists who lose their jobs to AI probably deserve it.

OpenAI Exec Says AI Will Kill Creative Jobs That “Shouldn’t Have Been There in the First Place”

By Frank Landymore

Photographers are accusing Meta of mistakenly labeling their legitimate work with a "Made with AI" labels on its platforms.

Facebook Is Already Mistakenly Tagging Real Photos as “Made With AI”

By Victor Tangermann

The Recording Industry Association of America is suing two AI music startups on behalf of some of the biggest record labels in the world.

Major Record Labels Sue Music AI Startups for Copyright Infringement

By Victor Tangermann

The new generative AI tech from Snapchat aims to bring an augmented reality to your videos using your phone's hardware.

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New AI Snapchat Filter Transforms You in Real Time

By Frank Landymore

As the last man standing, he was tasked with fixing-up all the AI-generated articles that once would've been composed by dozens of writers.

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Writer Alarmed When Company Fires His 60-Person Team, Replaces Them All With AI

By Frank Landymore

The report by Reuters found that 52 percent of US audiences were uncomfortable with the heavy involvement of AI in producing the news.

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Readers Absolutely Detest AI-Generated News Articles, Research Shows

By Frank Landymore

A new paper suggests that people find images they thought were real much more arousing than those they thought were AI-generated

Something Fascinating Happens When You Look At AI-Generated Lewds, Researchers Find

By Noor Al-Sibai

The layoffs, a Microsoft exec said in a leaked memo, are merely part of the decisions the company has to make "along the way."

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Microsoft Lays Off 1,500 Workers, Blames “AI Wave”

By Frank Landymore

Nvidia dominates both the AI chip and gaming hardware market. And so its CEO Jensen Huang eagerly anticipates the two technologies colliding.

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Nvidia CEO Says Video Games Will Be Totally Infused With AI

By Frank Landymore

The creator of the new "Spider-Verse" animated film has laid to rest concerns that artificial intelligence was used in the new "threequel."

Artificial Intelligence

Producer of “Beyond the Spider-Verse” Responds to Rumors of AI Use in Animation

By Noor Al-Sibai

Impartial, data driven AI models could be an appealing replacement for biased , egotistical CEOs — and cheaper, too.

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CEOs Could Easily Be Replaced With AI, Experts Argue

By Frank Landymore

Google has released a statement, admitting that "some odd, inaccurate or unhelpful AI Overviews certainly did show up."

Google Admits Its AI Search Feature Is a Dumpster Fire, Says It Will Scale Back the Tool

By Victor Tangermann

While CEOs and investors rush to jam AI into as many products as possible, the general public couldn't care less about it.

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Most People Couldn’t Give a Crap About Using AI, Survey Finds

By Noor Al-Sibai

The source for the recommendation made by the Google AI Overview to add glue to pizza is utterly embarrassing.

The Reason That Google’s AI Suggests Using Glue on Pizza Shows a Deep Flaw With Tech Companies’ AI Obsession

By Frank Landymore

A resurfaced video shows an OpenAI engineer conceding that it's "deeply unfair" to "build AI and take everyone's job away."

Video Shows OpenAI Engineer Admitting It’s “Deeply Unfair” to “Build AI and Take Everyone’s Job Away”

By Frank Landymore

Those dodgy "AI Overviews" that Google is forcing onto your search results will now feature "relevant" sponsored ads.

Google Is Already Jamming Advertisements Into Its Crappy AI

By Frank Landymore

Geoffrey Hinton fears that we aren't doing enough to ensure the safe development of AI, with military applications posing the biggest threat.

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Godfather of AI Says There’s an Expert Consensus AI Will Soon Exceed Human Intelligence

By Frank Landymore

The robot, named Sophia, gave painfully generic answers and even plugged the AI industry. Many students felt "disrespected" by the decision.

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Students Show Up to Graduation, Find Commencement Speaker Is an AI Robot

By Frank Landymore

Users are protesting the OpenAI partnership by attempting to edit or delete their own posts, only to get banned by Stack Overflow.

Stack Overflow Bans Users for Protesting Against It Selling Their Answers to OpenAI as Training Data

By Frank Landymore

Over a decade after suffering a stroke, country music star Randy Travis has released a song that features an AI-generated clone of his voice.

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Country Star Who Can’t Sing After Stroke Releases New Song Using AI

By Victor Tangermann