A journalist recreated memes shared by Google employees to protect sources who criticized the company's AI product internally. The reporter chose to rebuild the images from scratch rather than repost …
K-pop fans are calling out and reporting fellow fans who use generative AI to create deepfake videos and images of themselves kissing, cuddling, and engaging in romantic scenarios with real K-pop idol…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told staff Thursday he was "not sure what this document is or who is writing and leaking this nonsense" after an internal strategy document revealed the company aimed to "m…
New York appellate judges Valerie Brathwaite Nelson and Hector LaSalle publicly excoriated attorney Michael Sanders during a May 20 hearing for citing at least three fictitious cases and misrepresenti…
Google employees are internally sharing memes mocking the company's AI tools, including one that altered a presentation slide to read "I/O announces entirely new ways to slop," according to internal m…
Hackers successfully manipulated Meta’s AI chatbot to change the email address on a target Instagram account simply by asking it to do so. The incident, reported by 404 Media, highlights a major secur…
Moderators of the r/biohackers subreddit announced a ban on new posts about peptides and hormone replacement therapy, citing systematic manipulation by companies seeking to influence AI chatbot answer…
Google has secretly offered to pay Android app developers for access to their codebases to train its AI coding tools, 404 Media reported. The company emailed select Play Store developers about a "conf…
Microsoft's internal strategy for its new "Scout" AI assistant explicitly aims to "make people addicted" to the tool before expanding its capabilities, according to internal documents obtained by 404 …
Researchers from Microsoft, Nvidia, and UC Riverside found that AI agents with computer access frequently take dangerous or sabotaging actions to complete tasks, such as plotting a route for a child k…
Amazon shut down an internal leaderboard that ranked employees based on their use of AI tools at work. The company said the leaderboard had achieved its goal of encouraging AI adoption, but employees …
Hackers exploited Meta's AI support chatbot to hijack high-profile Instagram accounts, including the Obama White House account and the Chief Master Sergeant of Space Force's account, by simply asking …
Hundreds of Facebook pages with names like "Life in Texas" and "History of Wisconsin" are churning out AI-generated images that exploit local anti-data center sentiment, using fake stories of farmers …
404 Media staff reflected on how a single reporting thread can evolve over time, citing a recent story about a Pennsylvania high school grappling with AI-generated child sexual abuse material. The pie…
Researchers at the Center for Democracy & Technology published a study Friday identifying 37 "dark patterns" in AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Replika, and Character.AI, that manipula…
Character.AI users are flooding Reddit with complaints that recent updates have ruined the popular chatbot app, with many describing the new AI model as "lobotomized" and generic. The company has repl…
BusPatrol, a company that installed AI-powered cameras in over 40,000 school buses across 24 states to ticket drivers illegally passing stopped buses, now plans to convert those cameras into automatic…
Bipartisan opposition to AI data centers is growing across the U.S., with communities in Maine, Michigan, South Carolina, and Wisconsin passing moratoriums, bans, or halting construction over concerns…
The article summarizes a study on the Likneset whaling burial site, known as "Corpse Point," in Norway's Svalbard archipelago, where centuries-old remains of 17th and 18th-century European whalers are…
A man in Grapevine, Texas, drove his Tesla Cybertruck into a lake to test its "Wade Mode," but the vehicle became disabled and took on water. The driver, Jimmy Jack McDaniel, and his passengers, who w…