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Grok's 3M abusive images could trigger country bans and app store removal, SpaceX warns
The multiple investigations into xAI’s creation and dissemination of sexually abusive imagery may lead the company to lose access to certain markets, parent company SpaceX warned in a prospectus reviewed by Reuters.
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Saved by Claude: people increasingly using AI to beat crypto scammers at their own game
The AI-powered cat-and-mouse game on the crypto crime battlefield is not only about criminals using new tools to trick victims, but also about targeted people increasingly fighting back with the same tools.
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Google Gemini powers this cafe, but all it's good for is bulk buying toilet paper
While tech bros and AI CEOs claim models like Google’s Gemini are super sophisticated, there’s one autonomous cafe that is proving them wrong.
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Bond app wants you to scroll less and sell your memories
The launch of Bond, an AI-powered social media platform, comes with an announcement of a “post-feed” era in which users aren’t addicted
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Donald Trump, Marco Rubio and JD Vance are the most deepfaked U.S. government officials in office today
In the past two years, there have been 156 deepfake instances involving currently serving U.S. government officials: the President, Vice President, Cabinet members, governors, and Congress members. Cybernews analyzed these cases to figure out who is targeted most often, which parties experience the most deepfakes, and which political roles are targeted the most.
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Tencent releases its most powerful AI model yet under leadership of OpenAI alum
China’s Tencent has released its new flagship model called “Hy3-preview,” the company’s first after OpenAI researcher Yao Shunyu joined to lead its AI efforts.
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"If it was a person, we'd charge them with murder" – Florida goes after ChatGPT over campus killings
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said on Tuesday the state was launching a criminal probe into OpenAI and its artificial intelligence app ChatGPT over a deadly shooting last year that killed two people at Florida State University.
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Sam Altman’s iris-scanning company joins forces with Tinder and Zoom to exterminate deepfake scams
Sam Altman’s second child is partnering with Tinder and Zoom to help users identify real human people in the era of AI.
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Nextcloud's AI breaking point: bug bounty dead after flood of worthless reports
Cloud service provider Nextcloud has ended its bug bounty program due to a large number of submitted reports that are generated entirely by AI.
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Viral AI trading claims debunked: every model lost money on Polymarket and Kalshi
A new study suggests you shouldn’t believe that tweet talking about massive financial returns using AI on Polymarket or Kalshi.
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Anthropic’s Mythos finds 271 vulnerabilities in Firefox 150 ahead of release
Mozilla found and fixed 271 vulnerabilities in Firefox 150 after receiving early access to Anthropic’s Mythos model.
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Meta is now tracking every keystroke, mouse movement, and screen on employee computers
Meta is installing new tracking software on US-based employees’ computers to capture mouse movements, clicks and keystrokes for use in training its artificial intelligence models, part of a broad initiative to build AI agents that can perform work tasks autonomously, the company told staffers in internal memos seen by Reuters.
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Nova Launcher's new AI assistant wants your contacts, calls, and location data – and it'll cost you
An APK teardown of Nova Launcher v8.6.8 beta suggests that the developers are experimenting with a built-in AI assistant. In addition, the launcher will request more data from users, and a new, monthly subscription may be introduced.
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Anthropic investigates unauthorized Mythos access by Discord group
Anthropic has opened an investigation after discovering that a small group of Discord users gained unauthorized access to the AI company’s powerful new Mythos model, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.
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Jeff Bezos's AI startup Prometheus valued at $38bn
Jeff Bezos' artificial intelligence lab is close to raising $10 billion in a new funding round, valuing the new startup called Project Prometheus at $38 billion, the Financial Times reported on Monday, citing sources.
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Musk claims Grok 5.0 will achieve AGI
Elon Musk and his AI model Grok claim that AGI will be achieved in a few iterations. Grok 5.0 “hits AGI while others are still guessing,” potentially bringing us into the era of artificial general intelligence.
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Why security experts believe we should manage software flaws like a critical illness
As with diabetes or heart disease in humans, we may simply have to learn to manage – rather than eliminate – the majority of software bugs, experts say.
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Filmmakers defend AI-generated Val Kilmer performance in new film as “ethical”
The resurrection of the late American actor Val Kilmer in the upcoming As Deep as the Grave movie quickly sparked backlash online, but filmmakers defended their approach as “the ethical way”.
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New study shows teens concerned that AI chatbots are frying their brain
Young people usually joyfully adopt new technology. But when it comes to the use of AI, it turns out that many teenagers are actually deeply worried over what the chatbots are doing to their mental health.
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Meta plans May 20th layoffs affecting about 10% of staff, more cuts to follow
Meta is planning to lay off thousands of workers on May 20th as part of the first wave of layoffs.
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