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AI week in quotes: Altman doubts Moltbook and snaps at Anthropic
Cybersecurity experts have repeatedly warned about the risks of using Moltbot, while Sam Altman called Anthropic’s Super Bowl ads “dishonest.”
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Anthropic’s Super Bowl ads: funny, but hypocritical?
The Black Mirror-style Anthropic’s Super Bowl commercials, aimed at taking a jab at ChatGPT’s new advertising model, made netizens laugh. However, some cannot help but see hypocrisy in them.
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“There’s no bottom:” Donald Trump removes racist video of Obamas
President Donald Trump has removed his social media post with a video clip depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes after facing backlash.
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US, China opt out of joint declaration on AI use in military
Around a third of countries attending a military AI summit agreed on Thursday to a declaration on how to govern deployment of the technology in warfare, but military heavyweights China and the U.S. opted out.
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Amazon plans to use AI to make movies and shows faster and cheaper
Amazon plans to use artificial intelligence to speed up the process for making movies and TV shows even as Hollywood fears that AI will cut jobs and permanently reshape the industry.
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Top-scoring AI models in Norway caught giving deadly medical, gibberish legal advice
Some of the most advanced large language models used to power AI in Norway might not be as safe as previously thought. New research suggests that those models that normally reach high scores in understanding a language are also responsible for giving the worst security advice you can think of.
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Millions fooled by fake images allegedly taken from Epstein files
Social media users are spreading AI-generated and otherwise manipulated images of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, saying they found them in the freshest batch of the Epstein files.
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Experts voice concerns about AI use in developing biological weapons
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems possess expert-level knowledge of developing biological and chemical weapons, but threat actors face significant physical barriers, according to the International AI Safety Report.
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Should AI decide whether you live or die?
A controversial suicide pod known as Sarco could soon rely on artificial intelligence (AI) to decide who is allowed to die, forcing a global reckoning over whether a machine should ever make irreversible end-of-life decisions.
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Community in Chile fires up chatbot powered entirely by humans: why?
The community of Quilicura, located in one of Chile’s most water-stressed regions, took on an unusual challenge last week. They replaced AI with human intelligence for one day to highlight the environmental toll of the data centers in the area.
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OpenAI’s Altman calls Moltbook a fad, backs future of self-acting AI
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Tuesday played down the viral AI social network Moltbook as a likely fad, but he said the technology that let bots act on their own offered a glimpse of the future.
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I installed Moltbot. How do I protect my data?
As cybersecurity experts increasingly warn about vulnerabilities in Moltbot, an AI assistant now known as OpenClaw, here’s what users can do to prevent their data from being exposed.
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Mozilla is rolling out an AI kill switch for Firefox
Mozilla will let Firefox users control AI features in their browser – or turn them off completely.
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British Museum is under criticism for sharing AI slop
The British Museum has shared images generated by artificial intelligence (AI) on its Instagram account and then deleted them after facing backlash.
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OpenAI launches Codex desktop app to manage multiple AI agents
OpenAI on Monday has launched a new Codex app – a desktop coding tool that acts like a "command center" for managing multiple AI agents at once.
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Moltbook: fear data breach, not an AI apocalypse
Artificial intelligence (AI) agents now have their own social media network, but it is still too early to talk about them taking over the world.
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Google accused of breaching AI principles and helping Israel’s campaign in Gaza
A former Google employee is accusing the tech giant of breaching AI ethics policies by helping an Israeli military contractor analyze drone footage in 2024.
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“A sci-fi horror movie”: Moltbot AI goes rogue and won’t stop calling
A tech entrepreneur claims his Moltbot assistant found his number online and keeps calling him, drawing comparisons to a science-fiction horror movie.
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OpenAI says goodbye to these ChatGPT models in a few weeks
OpenAI has learned from past mistakes and is giving users a few weeks' notice before removing several older ChatGPT models.
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What do we know about dinosaurs? This AI app can help you identify one
Scientists turn their findings into an AI-powered app made to educate users on dinosaurs.
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