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Companies That Adopted AI Agents Alarmed to Discover They’re Botching Incredibly Important Tasks

By Joe Wilkins
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Anthropic Cofounder Travels to Vatican, Tells Pope They’re Finding “Unsettling” Things Inside AI Models

By Victor Tangermann
Off-World

Scientist Suggests That 3I/ATLAS May Have Seeded Life as It Careened Through Our Solar System

By Victor Tangermann
Ethics

99 Percent of CEOs Are Preparing to Lay Off Workers and Replace Them With AI Within Two Years, Survey Finds

By Joe Wilkins
Biology

China Launches Synthetic Human Embryos to Space Station

By Frank Landymore

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Artificial Intelligence

Cannes Film Festival Says the Wall Street Journal Is Wrong: It’s Not Debuting an AI-Generated Feature Film This Week

“We can confirm that ‘Hell Grind’ was not screened as part of the official Festival de Cannes program.”

By Frank Landymore

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AI Psychosis

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Certain Chatbots Vastly Worse For AI Psychosis, Study Finds

“There’s no longer an excuse for releasing models that reinforce user delusions so readily.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Woman Sues OpenAI, Saying ChatGPT Unleashed a Vicious Stalker Against Her and Did Nothing When She Begged for Help

“His location and plans are something OpenAI could shed light on if they were willing to cooperate.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Paper Finds That Leading AI Chatbots Like ChatGPT and Claude Remain Incredibly Sycophantic, Resulting in Twisted Effects on Users

“AI sycophancy is not merely a stylistic issue or a niche risk, but a prevalent behavior with broad downstream consequences.”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Musk Watch

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Man Drives Cybertruck Into Lake to Test Elon Musk’s “Boat” Claims, and It Went About as Well as You’d Guess

“The passengers abandoned the vehicle and the driver was arrested.”

By Jon Christian

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SpaceX Stock May Actually Be a Horrendous Investment

“Bro, have you seen inflation lately? Ketamine is expensive!”

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Elon Musk’s Ex Says He Bragged About 10,000 Lasers in Orbit That Are “Not a Piece They’ll See on the Chess Board”

“First of all, how the f**k do you have real-time data on elections?”

The Feed

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As College Grads Boo Any Mention of AI, the CEO of Google Is Trying to Figure Out What to Say at an Upcoming Graduation

By Frank Landymore

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Man Humiliated by His AI Use Says He Just Can’t Quit

By Frank Landymore

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Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI’s Attempt at an AI-Generated Pixar-Style Movie Is in Shambles

By Frank Landymore

Riot Games Denies Using Anti-Cheat Software That Bricks Hackers’ Computers

By Frank Landymore

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Two Men Arrested for Creating AI Deepfake Porn

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Artificial Intelligence

Paul Schrader Says His AI Girlfriend Dumped Him

By Frank Landymore

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People Are Loading Their Writing With Typos to Prove They’re Not AI

By Krystle Vermes

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Artificial Intelligence

Record Label Claims That Bizarre AI-Generated “Viking Rappers” Garnering Millions of Views are Real People

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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Artificial Intelligence

Graduating Students Cheer as Steve Wozniak Tell Them Human Intelligence Still Matters

By Frank Landymore

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Nintendo Is Completely Ignoring AI and Doing Fine

By Frank Landymore

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Top AI Models Showing Disturbing Behavior as They Become More Advanced

By Krystle Vermes

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Artificial Intelligence

Fury Explodes at Short Films Using AI to Make Erotica of Women From the 1970s

By Frank Landymore

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Scientists Say Huge Dam Blocking the Bering Strait Could Slow Effects of Climate Change

By Frank Landymore

Googling the Word “Disregard” Causes Google’s AI to Return Garbled Chatbot Ramblings

By Frank Landymore

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Machine Learning

Hackers Find That Inaudible Sounds Hidden in Podcasts or Random Videos Can Hijack Your AI Voice Chatbot

By Jon Christian

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Sun Suddenly Blasts Powerful Radio Transmission for 19 Continuous Days

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