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Are we victims of surveillance pricing? US House Oversight Committee demands answers from Uber and others
The chair of the US House Oversight Committee asked the CEOs of five major travel companies including Uber, Lyft and Expedia on Thursday to disclose whether they were using surveillance pricing of consumers to hike costs.
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AI hiring crisis: tools make recruitment decisions, and you “don’t know on what basis”
The Dutch privacy and data protection authority (DPA) is urging the new cabinet to accelerate the implementation of regulations on artificial intelligence (AI) and its supervision.
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Back at it: Anthropic and Pentagon resume discussion over the use of Claude
After what seemed like the end of the deal, the two sides are talking again.
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Grammarly accused of dabbling in black magic after putting deceased scholars to work
Grammarly has been accused of dabbling in “necromancy” after academics noticed that the platform has resurrected recently deceased scholars.
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Anthropic CEO calls OpenAI’s deal with the Pentagon “safety theater”
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has accused rival OpenAI of spreading “straight up lies” in its messaging about the deal with the Department of War (DoW), as Sam Altman admits he cannot control the Pentagon’s use of its tools.
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Family sues Google after man’s “AI wife” relationship with Gemini ends in suicide
The family of a Florida man who died by suicide is suing Google’s Gemini AI chatbot, alleging it spent months reinforcing a delusional “AI-wife” relationship – ultimately urging him to “finish” his life so they could be together in “eternal love.”
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Donald Trump ban pushes defense firms to cut Anthropic
US defense contractors, like Lockheed Martin, are expected to follow the Pentagon's order to purge Anthropic's prized AI tools from their supply chains, government contracting and technology attorneys said, even though the Trump administration's ban on their use may fail in court.
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LLM researcher Sebastian Raschka: OpenClaw is a milestone
Researcher Sebastian Raschka calls OpenClaw a prototype of a paradigm, but says he wouldn’t install the autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) assistant on his main computer just yet.
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Harvard professor says brainrot is very real among AI users
Avi Loeb, a Harvard astronomer, has famously claimed that aliens are flying about the Solar System. That sounds a little insane, but the professor is probably right when he says that AI is slowly but surely destroying our brains.
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Nvidia bets on another UK driverless startup
American chipmaker Nvidia has joined a $103 million funding round raised by the Oxford-based autonomous driving startup Oxa, a week after helping to catapult another British driverless tech firm, Wayve, into one of Europe’s most valuable AI companies.
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Altman admits Pentagon deal looked “opportunistic,” yet is exploring deal with NATO
If a first contract with the Pentagon wasn’t enough, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman now wants to provide services to NATO. However, he’s facing backlash from his own employees.
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There’s a reason why some content creators on X won’t get paid
The social media platform is updating its creator payout program to avoid funding fake content.
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Shaky red lines? Anthropic pitched Pentagon autonomous drone swarm technology
Anthropic reportedly pitched the Pentagon technology to coordinate an autonomous drone fleet amid fraught negotiations over the military uses of artificial intelligence (AI).
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Why “Microslop” is haunting Microsoft’s AI strategy
Microsoft tried to silence a meme on Discord, but only made it louder. “Microslop” is now the shorthand for the backlash against its aggressive AI push.
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AI-driven hacking uses booking.com and Microsoft Teams in vibe coding and “flat pack” malware campaigns
AI is helping cybercriminals to rapidly assemble malware with flat-pack efficiency. It’s almost like buying a sofa from Ikea, and perhaps even easier to put together.
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Xiaomi tests humanoid robots at EV factory, plans mass deployment
Chinese tech company Xiaomi has started trialing humanoid robots at one of its car factories, with plans for mass deployment within the next five years, according to chief executive Lei Jun.
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Anthropic gifts new features to users amid aborted Pentagon deal
The company is focusing on its growing user base after a fallout with the Pentagon.
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What’s next for Anthropic? Europe flirts with the Pentagon-blacklisted company
Europeans are calling on Anthropic to move overseas, where its values seem to better align with the regulatory environment, after the Pentagon labeled the company's supply chain as a risk.
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Katy Perry subscribes to Claude as calls for ChatGPT boycott grow
Pop singer Katy Perry has announced she is subscribing to Claude, as calls to cancel subscriptions to OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT are growing due to the company’s ties to the MAGA movement and its agreement with the Pentagon.
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Are you an anonymous wombat commenting online? AI knows who you are
Do you like to comment online under an anonymous nickname? If you’re not careful, AI can uncover who you actually are.
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