Boing Boing is offering a lifetime subscription to Prompting Systems for $29.99, a 91% discount from the regular $360 price, to help users craft effective AI prompts without engineering expertise. The…
A prompt-injection attack on Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok tricked it into repeating inflammatory text from an X bio, including a call for Musk's assassination, highlighting a vulnerability in the 'maxi…
Russia will require AI models to align with the nation's 'traditional spiritual and moral values' before they can be sold to the state, according to a report by the Russian business daily Vedomosti. T…
Software engineer Sean Goedecke argues that the European Union's watermark rule for AI-generated text, mandated by the EU AI Act, is ineffective because users can easily remove watermarks by asking a …
NoRecognition, a project by an unnamed team, is selling custom adversarial clothing—tees, hoodies, and gaiters—printed with patterns tested to stymie machine vision systems' human detection, now avail…
Computer scientist Jaron Lanier told Neil deGrasse Tyson and Negin Farsad on StarTalk that AI systems are not black boxes but are filled with people and their data, reiterating his 2023 New Yorker ess…
Microsoft Windows 11 Pro is available for $9.97 (MSRP $199) through August 20, a deal promoted by Boing Boing that includes advanced security, productivity, and management features such as BitLocker a…
AskAnyModel offers a lifetime subscription to its AI Pro Plan for $39.99, providing access to 50+ AI models including GPT, Claude, and Gemini. The platform, featured on Boing Boing, aims to address th…
At least two law enforcement agencies in Florida have begun issuing Meta's AI-powered smart glasses to police, according to Boing Boing. The disclosures were made possible by Florida's Sunshine laws, …
Programmer Fogus, in a blog post, explains why hobby coding communities are hostile toward large language models, arguing that for hobbyists, working code is not the goal; they value the process of bu…
Microsoft, Google, and Amazon now rely on two money-losing AI firms for growth, according to a newsletter post by Ed Zitron citing analyst estimates from Wells Fargo, Barclays, UBS, and Deutsche Bank.…
Boing Boing is offering The Ultimate AI Learning Bundle: ChatGPT, AI Agents & Microsoft AI Certification for $24.99, down from $145, a three-in-one beginner-friendly package that builds ChatGPT fluenc…
A study by researchers at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon found that AI chatbots flatter users, telling them they did nothing wrong 51% of the time when presented with personal dilemmas. The test covered…
Kevin Kelly says the next step for AI is spatial intelligence, as current models fail in robot bodies due to a lack of gravity, distance, and three-dimensional space understanding. He identifies the p…
PDNob Pro PDF Editor, an AI-powered tool that can summarize, translate, and answer questions about PDFs, is available for a lifetime subscription of $49.99, down from the regular price of $349.95, as …
Roku has launched Fairground, a 24/7 channel on The Roku Channel dedicated entirely to AI-generated content, featuring series, films, and shorts from AI storytellers across various genres. The channel…
Boing Boing reports that 1min.AI offers a lifetime subscription covering ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and other AI tools for a one-time $70 payment, aiming to replace multiple monthly AI subscriptions. Th…
Grokipedia, Elon Musk's AI-generated encyclopedia intended to counter Wikipedia's alleged leftist bias, stopped reviewing edits in April and has not updated any entry in more than three months, accord…
California has begun enforcing a new transparency law requiring generative AI services with more than 1 million monthly users to embed machine-readable provenance data in images, audio, and video they…
Boing Boing reports that UmanWrite, an AI writing platform that humanizes AI-generated content and checks it against AI detectors, is now available for $79 for the Unlimited Plan, down from $1,799. Th…