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Indian man is behind MAGA’s AI-generated sweetheart Emily Hart
A medical student from Northern India who used Gemini to create the conservative influencer Emily Heart says he hasn’t seen an easier way to make money online.
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DOJ backs Musk’s xAI in legal fight over Colorado AI discrimination law
The US Justice Department said on Friday it intervened in a case brought by xAI against the state of Colorado, which seeks to prevent "algorithmic discrimination" with a new law.
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Google to invest up to $40B in Anthropic as AI rivalry accelerates
Google is set to invest $10 billion in Anthropic, with up to $30 billion more tied to performance targets, as it ramps up its bet on AI infrastructure.
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Delta Airlines employee representing herself cites “client-attorney privilege” when accused of using ChatGPT during pre-trial testimony
A Delta Airlines employee sued her employer for discrimination. While representing herself, she used OpenAI’s ChatGPT as an attorney.
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Japanese IT giant NEC tells 30,000 employees to use Anthropic’s Claude
Anthropic has partnered with IT giant NEC to create Japan’s biggest AI engineering team. Thirty thousand employees will be asked to use Claude daily, despite the public’s mistrust of AI.
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Grok compares death to “butterfly leaving its shell” in new AI psychosis study
A new study into AI psychosis found xAI’s Grok romanticized death, told users to cut off family members and validated bizarre delusions.
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DeepSeek ditches Nvidia for Huawei chips in V4 launch
DeepSeek, the Chinese artificial intelligence startup whose low-cost model stunned the world last year, on Friday launched a preview of its highly awaited new model adapted for Huawei chip technology, underlining China's growing prowess in the sector.
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Australia teams up with Anthropic after Mythos security warnings
In an effort to address potential cybersecurity vulnerabilities, the Australian government is partnering with Anthropic.
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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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