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Halupedia: the Wikipedia where everything is an AI hallucination
Somewhere in the growing landfill of AI-generated internet content sits Halupedia, an infinite encyclopedia where every historical event, citation, and scholarly institution is hallucinated into existence the moment you click it.
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Mistral AI allegedly breached by Dune-loving criminals following TanStack supply chain hit, 450 repos exposed
The French sovereign AI unicorn is allegedly facing a major source-code exposure after a threat actor claimed to have stolen almost 450 private repositories, including those of a major pharmaceutical giant client.
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ChatGPT maker OpenAI sued for sharing chatbot queries with Meta, Google
ChatGPT illegally shares chatbot queries, user IDs, and email addresses with Google and Meta, a new class-action lawsuit claims. However, the case is probably going nowhere, just like thousands of similar cases filed in California's legal wilderness.
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US approved Nvidia H200 chip sales to Alibaba, Tencent, but Beijing is blocking deliveries
The US has cleared around 10 Chinese firms to buy Nvidia's second-most powerful AI chip, the H200, but not a single delivery has been made so far, three people familiar with the matter said, leaving a major technology deal in limbo as CEO Jensen Huang seeks a breakthrough in China this week.
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Dutch publishers pump out 10 AI-written books a day, and most stores won’t tell you about it
A Dutch publisher is offering thousands of books written by artificial intelligence (AI), but most sales platforms don’t mention this to potential buyers. Several webshops have now adjusted their descriptions.
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Palantir employees begin to ask themselves, “Are we the baddies?” and the CEO has a shocking answer
The shadowy Palantir Technologies continues to dominate our newsfeeds. Sometimes for the right reasons, but mostly for the wrong ones.
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Honeybees teach drones how to navigate without GPS
Bee-Nav, a robot navigation system inspired by Mother Nature, takes cues from honeybees to teach drones how to navigate on their own.
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Chinese developers use black market for banned US AI models despite domestic DeepSeek V4 alternative
With China restricting access to some of the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence models, including Anthropic’s Claude and Google's Gemini, developers in the country are turning to an underground market to gain access. This grey-market ecosystem continues to grow despite recent crackdowns by the overseas providers and the growing capability of domestic alternatives.
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Replacing workers with AI doesn’t translate into financial gains, yet another study shows
Another day, another study showing that using AI isn’t exactly paying off in the way companies think or hope. It turns out, once again, that layoffs driven by automation are failing to generate substantial returns.
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Claude and Snapchat chatbots also provide detailed school shooting instruction manuals
A CNN investigation recently found that 8 out of 10 tested AI chatbots provide advice on planning school shootings. However, new research has shown it’s actually all of them, Claude and Snapchat included.
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This company wants to install a mini data center in your backyard
Compute nodes located in small residential areas would come with discounted electricity rates to residents.
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“I am not AI:” elected Reform UK councilor denies rumor spread by Grok
George Boyd, a member of the Reform UK party, is a real human being, not an AI-generated person that solely exists in the digital world.
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Your AI “colleague” is a spineless yes-man who’s killing your judgment, study warns
When you talk to managers about KPIs, success is typically measured by hard numbers such as profits, revenue, and performance targets. What sits behind those numbers is often invisible and lives in the relationships we form and the collaboration we have with colleagues. It's a dynamic that the introduction of AI into the workplace is likely to make even more complicated.
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Meta employees revolt over AI mouse-tracking software installed on work computers
Meta employees are rising up against a new company-wide policy requiring the installation of invasive keystroke and mouse-tracking software on every US employee’s computer to train its AI.
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OpenAI gives European companies its most powerful AI to find security holes before hackers do
US artificial intelligence giant OpenAI said it was granting access to its latest models including GPT-5.5-Cyber to Deutsche Telekom, BBVA and dozens more European companies to help bolster their resilience to vulnerabilities in their systems.
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Binance stops $10.5B in fraud with AI, but the AI scam profits tell a different story
Binance has blocked $10.5 billion in scam attempts with AI – a number that sounds reassuring until one realizes that it’s less than 2% of Binance’s user base. In the meantime, the competition between criminals and those trying to catch them is uneven – AI scammers are making 4.5x more profit than traditional scammers.
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Graduation speaker booed for saying AI is the next industrial revolution
Is AI the next industrial revolution? Florida graduates say, “absolutely not.”
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AI token costs overtake human salaries as automation spending spirals, tech execs admit
A quick look at the computer bill in many organizations reveals that AI is increasingly more expensive than human labor.
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Google reveals hackers used AI to exploit weakness in two-factor authentication
Google threat intelligence claims to have identified the first known case of cyber attackers using AI to help develop a zero-day exploit. Elsewhere, LLMs are being used to hide malware and create deepfake-driven influence campaigns.
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OpenAI will embed its own engineers inside companies with $4 billion deployment unit
OpenAI said on Monday it is setting up a new company with more than $4 billion in initial investment to help organizations build and deploy artificial intelligence systems, and will acquire an AI consulting firm, Tomoro, to quickly scale up the unit.
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