It’s now even easier to find—and exploit—vulnerabilities in computer systems using AI. Last Friday, the Chinese AI company Z.ai announced a powerful open-weight model that…
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Amazon Can Use Your Twitch Content to Train Its AI—Unless You Opt Out
Twitch has updated its account settings to let streamers opt out of having their content used to help train the artificial intelligence models of Twitch’s…
The Next Big Influencer Is This 4-Foot-Tall Robot From China
When Edward Warchocki speaks with you, he sounds like a regular guy. “Not super intelligent, but very emotional, very easy to make friends with,” says…
Tech Visionary Says the Big AI Labs Don’t Get What People Want
Tim O’Reilly’s yardstick for measuring the worth of a company, person, or society has long been create more value than you capture. It’s no surprise…
These ‘Masturbation Consultants’ Were Hired to Pleasure Themselves With AI
For 28 days, Keshav had a new item on his daily to-do list: masturbate for research purposes. Both before and after self-pleasuring, he logged his…
The Safety Reckoning Inside OpenAI
OpenAI’s leaders are rallying workers to respond to one of the largest crises in the company’s history—which spans across its AI safety, cybersecurity, and alignment…
There’s a Fatty Liver Epidemic. AI Could Help Get Ahead of It
All over the world, a slow, insidious change is taking place in the composition of the livers of more than a billion people. While the…