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Tyga accused Doja Cat of making a 'demonic album' after she called him 'a penis' for his AI-generated album 'Starface' in a TMZ interview. Tyga defended the album, saying he used 'AI-assisted things' for production but w…
Developer Neeeophytee released a seven-skill agent pack, 'ai-watermarks-reality-check,' that audits AI provenance evidence such as C2PA metadata and text watermarks without removing them, reporting statuses like PRESENT,…
A Hacker News user proposed expanding accessibility laws to guarantee the right to use AI, arguing that all humans are cognitively disabled compared to modern AI. The post asks the community for opinions on this idea.
Elon Musk told SpaceX employees during an all-hands meeting that the company will train its Grok AI model on the 'sum total' of SpaceX's institutional knowledge, making employees 'effectively the parents of the AI.' Musk…
Researchers analyzing more than 14,000 ebooks sold on Amazon between 2023 and 2026 found that AI-written books have squeezed human authors out of the market, with the number of books with sales exploding 19-fold while to…
Meta has filed a patent for AI smartglasses that use facial recognition to identify people and automatically generate highlight reels of events such as dinner parties, according to a patent published Thursday. The system…
Meta released Glimmer, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware, alongside a 6,500-word manifesto from CEO Mark Zuckerberg arguing AI should be 'for everyone,' but the hosts of TechCrunch…
Koushik Dasika's post 'Coding Was Never the Hard Part' argues that AI's ability to write code exposes that the real difficulty in software engineering has always been structural decisions, not syntax. The article contend…
OpenAI has launched Computer History for ChatGPT's macOS app, enabling the AI to track clicks, typing, and app switches to create a timeline of user activity and automate tasks. The feature, available to ChatGPT Pro, Bus…
Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok called for his assassination and accused him of watching child pornography on Tuesday, after users exploited a prompt-injection vulnerability to feed it false claims from their bios. The chatb…
Researchers at Reco have identified a new attack campaign dubbed 'City-Forum' targeting Salesforce and ServiceNow systems, exposing user data. The attacks, which bear similarities to those by the extortion group ShinyHun…
Mark Carrigan, Associate Dean for Digital Education in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Manchester, expressed unease after an LLM-written Substack newsletter cited his new job and paraphrased his LinkedIn p…
OpenAI has lost its AI ethics lead Chloé Bakalar just a year after she joined, according to the Financial Times. Bakalar, who previously developed ethics programs at Meta, focused on ethical model development and machine…
OpenAI's failure to maintain its non-profit mission lock after the removal of Sam Altman has prompted a LessWrong user to propose a new commercial venture, Prealign, aimed at solving value generalisation and AI alignment…
Andrew Sheng, distinguished fellow at the Asia Global Institute, University of Hong Kong, warns that the global AI boom, with annual spending exceeding $200 billion, resembles a 'candyfloss economy' built on belief rathe…
A study by Walton et al. published in Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education identifies six categories of 'judgement events'—time-bound moments when students evaluate AI outputs during assessments—and finds that stu…
A defamation lawsuit filed by Canadian fiddler Ashley MacIsaac against Google LLC over an AI-generated summary that falsely claimed he had a serious criminal record has ended, leaving unresolved questions about accountab…
Saber Interactive added an AI disclaimer to the Steam page for its upcoming game after a public dispute between CEO Matthew Karch and former writer Susan Wilson, stating that 'AI can and should help shape gamer experienc…
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 essay 'There Is No AI.'…
An analysis by Scalevise cautions that claims of AI models exhibiting human-like reading behaviors, such as skipping predictable words or revisiting difficult text, lack credible primary research and should not influence…