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Microsoft AI Researchers Just Discovered Something That’s Going to Make Their Bosses Extremely Mad
AI automation is typically exactly what it sounds like: automating tasks — many of which…
OpenAI Accused of Handing Over Your Intimate Personal Information to Meta and Google
A new class action lawsuit accuses OpenAI of sharing data including user chat queries and…
Electric Company Says It’s Cutting Off an Entire Town So It Can Sell All Its Power to Data Centers
The data center scramble feeding off the AI boom is no longer just raising utility…
Sam Altman Accuses Elon Musk of Laughing at Memes During Important OpenAI Meetings
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took the stand yesterday in Musk v. Altman, the chaotic, embarrassing,…
Elon Musk’s Attempts at AI Are Falling Apart
In the AI world, there are what the tech scholar Kate Crawford has called the…
Last Time an El Niño Was This Bad, It Killed 50 Million People
As if oil shortages, perpetual wars, and the existential angst of AI weren’t stressful enough,…
Waymo Admits Its Robotaxis Have a Small Issue With Driving Into Floodwaters
A Waymo took the plunge, and now its human developers are paying for it: the…
New Wikipedia Clone Made Entirely of AI Hallucinations
A new Wikipedia-style site is purportedly made entirely of AI-hallucinations, treating visitors to preposterous insights…
Four Financial Journalists Accused of Being Fake AI-Generated Puppets That Shill Crypto in Forbes, HuffPost, and More
Four prolific financial journalists are facing serious questions over whether they’re actually real. Welcome to…
Software Engineers Say They’re Losing the Ability to Code Now That AI Does It for Them
Even for employees who’ve managed to hold onto their jobs, AI is having a very…
