A few months before Elon Musk left OpenAI’s board of directors in February 2018, he tried to recruit Sam Altman to join a “world-class AI…
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Anthropic Gets in Bed With SpaceX as the AI Race Turns Weird
Anthropic and Elon Musk’s SpaceX said on Wednesday that the two entities have signed an agreement for Anthropic to use computing resources from xAI’s data…
Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Might Make You Lazy and Dumb, Study Shows
Using AI chatbots for even just for 10 minutes may have a shockingly negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem-solve, according to a…
I Am Begging AI Companies to Stop Naming Features After Human Processes
Anthropic just announced a new feature called “dreaming” at the company’s developer conference in San Francisco. It’s part of Anthropic’s recently launched AI agent infrastructure…
Cybercriminals Are Complaining About AI Slop Flooding Their Forums
The complaint sounds familiar. “I’m disappointed that you are working to incorporate AI garbage into the site,” one annoyed person, posting anonymously, said in an…
Apple Will Pay $250 Million to Settle Lawsuit Over Siri's AI Features
Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to settle a false advertising class-action lawsuit accusing the company of overhyping its Apple Intelligence features—specifically a promised…
Hasan Piker, Self-Described ‘Ayatollah of Woke,’ Wants AI to Die
Hasan Piker spends seven to eight hours a day, seven days a week, streaming on Twitch. The far-left political commentator got his start in 2013…
‘I Actually Thought He Was Going to Hit Me,’ OpenAI’s Greg Brockman Says of Elon Musk
In August 2017, Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever gathered at Elon Musk’s self-described “haunted mansion,” a 47-acre, $23 million estate in Hillsborough, south of San…
Google DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize Over Military AI Deals
Employees at Google DeepMind in London have voted to unionize as part of a bid to block the AI lab from providing its technology to…
He Couldn’t Land a Job Interview. Was AI to Blame?
It was mid-October, peak leaf-peeping season in Hanover, New Hampshire, and Chad Markey was on a rare break between clinical rotations during his last year…