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A top Taco Bell executive is having second thoughts about the tech as its AI-powered drive-thrus fail to endear customers.

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Taco Bell’s Attempt to Replace Drive-Thru Employees With AI Is Not Going Well

By Frank Landymore

Personal AI assistants are slated to take over this year — and if they do, the internet as we know it may not exist any longer.

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Analysts Warn That If AI Agents Succeed, the “Internet Will Go Dark”

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

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

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.

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Goldman Sachs Starts Process of Replacing Bankers With AI

By Victor Tangermann

According to Amazon AI team lead Rohit Prasad, the company still has to solve the problem of "hallucinations" before releasing an AI Alexa.

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Amazon Says All It Needs to Do Before Releasing an AI-Powered Alexa Is to Solve the Giant Engineering Problem That Nobody Else on Earth Has Been Able to Solve

By Victor Tangermann

We've reached a new milestone in the uncanny valley, folks: artificial intelligence is now Rickrolling humans.

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Startup Alarmed When Its AI Starts Rickrolling Clients

By Noor Al-Sibai

Google DeepMind researchers have finally found a way to make life coaching even worse: infuse it with generative AI.

Google’s Apparently Building an AI That Tells You How to Live Your Life

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Cybercriminals could hack Siri, Alexa, and other voice-activated AI assistants using beams of light, according to new research.

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Hackers Can Access Your Alexa by Shining a Laser in Your Window

By Kristin Houser