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AI actor Tilly Norwood releases bizarre music video telling humans to embrace AI
AI “actor” Tilly Norwood just released a bubblegum pop anthem telling human actors to embrace artificial intelligence – complete with pink flamingos, rooftop singing, and lyrics about having a soul.
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Meta acquires AI social network Moltbook, hires founders for superintelligence lab
Facebook parent Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it had acquired Moltbook, a social networking platform built for artificial intelligence agents, bringing the company's founders into its AI research division.
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This is how using AI at work “fries” your brain
A new study suggests that supervising multiple artificial intelligence (AI) agents at work makes employees much more vulnerable to experiencing mental fatigue.
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Yann LeCun’s AI startup raises more than $1B with backing from Nvidia, Bezos
Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs (AMI Labs), a new startup founded by Meta’s former AI chief, has raised more than $1 billion in Europe’s largest seed round, with backing from Nvidia and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
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Ukraine biathlete credits ChatGPT for silver win
Ukraine’s Maksym Murashkovskyi credited artificial intelligence for helping him win a silver medal at the Milano Cortina Winter Paralympics, calling ChatGPT a “revolutionary technology” after finishing runner‑up in Sunday’s biathlon event.
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Amazon summons e-commerce engineers to powwow after code-triggered outage
Amazon’s e-commerce group has told its engineers they must all attend a usually optional weekly meeting to discuss recent outages affecting the website and shopping app – including incidents tied to AI coding.
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AI-driven cybercrime surges as China reports 158% spike in cases
China’s courts have reported a sharp rise in cybercrime, warning that artificial intelligence is increasingly being used to enable scams, doxxing, and other online offences.
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Block staff push back after Jack Dorsey says AI behind mass layoffs
Jack Dorsey is facing further criticism over claims that artificial intelligence (AI) was behind his decision to fire 4,000 employees at the payments company.
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Tesla’s climate work quickly undone by noisy, dirty xAI methane gas turbines
Elon Musk’s eyes are now firmly focused on AI slop – and to hell with the climate crisis. His AI company, xAI, is now operating dozens of unpermitted methane gas turbines in two US states, undoing all the noble work Tesla has done on climate.
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Lucy Suchman: human oversight of autonomous weapons doesn’t mean much when the aim is to maximize destruction
Lucy Suchman, an internationally renowned expert on autonomous weapon systems, says they cannot distinguish between civilians and combatants. Therefore, they can never be made lawful.
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Apple introduces Transparency Tags to label AI-generated music
Want to know whether your favorite music is generated with artificial intelligence (AI) or created by humans? Soon, you’ll know for sure. Apple is currently rolling out a metadata system for its streaming service, Apple Music, called Transparency Tags.
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AI-induced brainrot is increasingly prevalent among business executives, study shows
For ages, instinct, a uniquely human quality, has been an important part of the decision-making process for business leaders. But in today’s boardrooms, executives increasingly outsource their thinking to AI: so is this still leadership?
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4Chan users create deepfake nude images of Alysa Liu and other female Olympians
One 4Chan community is using a new technique to manipulate AI models into producing deepfake pornography of famous women, with one victim being as young as 19 years old.
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Mayor Sadiq Khan invites Anthropic to London after Pentagon flags it as a supply chain risk
London Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan is seizing on the recent row between the Pentagon and Anthropic, inviting the AI firm to expand in the city while criticizing the administration for trying “to intimidate and punish Anthropic”.
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Want legal advice from ChatGPT? New York wants AI chatbots to stop posing as lawyers or doctors
New York is considering a bill to prohibit AI chatbots from giving advice normally offered by licensed professionals like lawyers or doctors. Under the proposal, people who believe they were harmed by such advice would be able to sue the chatbot’s operator.
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OpenAI’s robotics chief resigns over the company's Pentagon deal
OpenAI’s head of robotics, Caitlin Kalinowski, announced her resignation from the company on Saturday, attributing the decision to OpenAI’s deal with the Pentagon.
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Living outside the US? Lower education? ChatGPT will give you worse answers
People aren’t the only ones who judge us based on where we’re from or what college we went to. AI chatbots may give worse answers to vulnerable users.
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The bar for AI companies is set “impossibly low,” Anil Dash says
Applauding Anthropic for refusing to allow using its artificial intelligence (AI) tools to conduct mass surveillance and power autonomous weapons shows that the bar for AI companies is set “impossibly low,” entrepreneur Anil Dash says.
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Oracle plans to cut thousands of jobs as AI expansion strains cash flow
American tech giant Oracle is planning mass layoffs across the company’s divisions as it focuses on a costly AI data center expansion effort.
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Amodei apologizes for saying Anthropic was banned for not giving “dictator-style” praise to Trump
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has apologized for a leaked internal memo criticizing the Donald Trump administration, after the company was officially designated a supply chain risk.
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