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AI week in quotes: leaders in Davos discuss AI stealing jobs
Artificial intelligence (AI) was the dominant topic at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos this week, as experts made bleak predictions about the future of jobs.
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Paris Hilton’s “haunting” revenge porn experience pushed her into politics
Paris Hilton says that her non-consensual sex tape will haunt her for the rest of her life.
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Students reach for AI before anything else, but there’s still hope
A new study finds that students frequently use AI to seek quick-fire solutions with as little effort as possible. Citing concerns about plagiarism and loss of creativity, the researchers advocate for more "instrumental" AI usage.
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Musk crashes Davos with wild sci-fi vision for humanity
Elon Musk drops into Davos unannounced – instantly turning the World Economic Forum into a sci-fi brainstorming session. Here’s a round-up of the most engaging quotes quipped during his on-stage appearance Thursday.
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Even the most advanced chatbots don’t recognize AI-generated videos
An experiment by NewsGuard, a media-reliability rating service, found that in most cases, leading AI chatbots couldn’t tell when videos were generated by OpenAI’s text-to-video tool Sora. Even OpenAI’s own ChatGPT is faltering.
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Winter is coming: How can AI help in the event of severe weather approaching the US?
As the US faces severe weather, services and residents need all the information they can get to be fully prepared. This is where AI proves its reliability.
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Users ask ChatGPT to create an image of how they treat it, get unexpected results
The new trend may give a sneak peek into your future in case of an artificial intelligence (AI) uprising – just ask ChatGPT to create an image of how you have been treating it.
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Spotify rolls out AI "prompted playlists" that follow user rules and refresh automatically
Spotify has rolled out "prompted playlist", an artificial intelligence-powered feature in the United States and Canada that allows premium users tailor playlists using their listening habits and commands.
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$15.5B Palantir CEO says AI will replace office work with manual jobs
Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir and one of the richest tech bros in America, has his future and old age covered. It’s going to be comfortable. The rest of humanity? Citing progress in AI development, Karp predicts we’ll leave our offices and roll up our sleeves. This is a perfect example of a feudal mindset.
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Will ChatGPT survive 2026? Some are bidding farewell to OpenAI
With the introduction of adverts in ChatGPT and a $134 billion lawsuit from Elon Musk, OpenAI may run out of money in the next 18 months or sooner.
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Energy costs will decide who wins the AI race, Microsoft’s Nadella says
Tech giants are pouring billions of dollars into energy facilities to power their rapaciously hungry AI engines. The ones who will win this race are those who manage their energy costs the best, says Microsoft’s Satya Nadella.
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Apple tests Gemini-powered Siri as AI wearable pin rumors surface
Apple is doubling down on AI this week, with reports revealing the company is developing an AI-powered wearable pin while preparing a major Siri overhaul by the end of 2026.
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OpenAI adds age prediction to ChatGPT so it can “treat adults like adults”
OpenAI has begun rolling out age prediction on ChatGPT to identify users under the age of 18 and apply appropriate content filters as it prepares to introduce adult features to the chatbot.
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Hacker One extends safe harbor protections to AI research, cURL scraps bug bounties
AI is impacting bug bounties at both ends of the pipeline as Hacker One launches a legal safe-harbor framework for researchers, while open-source project cURL says it is scraping bounty payouts to curb a surge of low-quality AI-generated reports.
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Japan arrests man for selling half a million AI porn deepfakes of celebrities
Japanese police have arrested a 31-year-old man for selling AI-generated celebrity porn, with his collection amounting to a staggering 520,000 images of women, comprising 300-plus celebrities.
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT ads trial for advertisers
OpenAI has started offering its new chatbot ads to dozens of advertisers, The Information reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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Can AI learn to read my emotions?
The idea of computers being able to recognize emotions was first introduced by Rosalind Picard in her 1995 book Affective...
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Asus says it will no longer make Android phones, turns focus on “physical AI”
The Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Asus has confirmed it will no longer make new Android smartphones and will focus on physical artificial intelligence (AI) products such as robots and smart glasses.
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Of every 10 hours saved by AI, nearly 4 are spent fixing its mistakes
Highly engaged employees spend one and a half weeks per year on average fixing mistakes made by artificial intelligence (AI), a new survey has found.
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Nvidia may have “borrowed” millions of books from this shadow library for its AI
Authors who filed a lawsuit against the company have dug deeper to uncover Nvidia’s methods for obtaining new content to train its AI models.
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