Reid Hoffman doesn’t do much in half measures. He cofounded LinkedIn, of course, and helped bankroll companies including Meta and Airbnb in their startup days.…
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OpenAI Is Asking Contractors to Upload Work From Past Jobs to Evaluate the Performance of AI Agents
OpenAI is asking third-party contractors to upload real assignments and tasks from their current or previous workplaces so that it can use the data to…
Grok Is Being Used to Mock and Strip Women in Hijabs and Sarees
Grok users aren’t just commanding the AI chatbot to “undress” pictures of women and girls into bikinis and transparent underwear. Among the vast and growing…
X Didn't Fix Grok's ‘Undressing’ Problem. It Just Makes People Pay for It
After creating thousands of “undressing” pictures of women and sexualized imagery of apparent minors, Elon Musk’s X has apparently limited who can generate images with…
‘Physical AI’ Is Coming for Your Car
Physical AI sounds like a contradiction in terms. A computer, but a body? But for the marketing architects, it’s the latest term of art, a…
AI Devices Are Coming. Will Your Favorite Apps Be Along for the Ride?
Silicon Valley giants like Amazon, Meta, and OpenAI are racing to develop “operating systems” for AI-powered devices—and 2026 is likely the year these efforts will…
People Are Using AI to Falsely Identify the Federal Agent Who Shot Renee Good
In the hours after a masked federal agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old woman in Minneapolis, social media users have been sharing…
Google Is Adding an ‘AI Inbox’ to Gmail That Summarizes Emails
Google is putting even more generative AI tools into Gmail as part of its goal to further personalize user inboxes and streamline searches. On Thursday,…
Is Craigslist the Last Real Place on the Internet?
The writer and comedian Megan Koester got her first writing job, reviewing internet pornography, from a Craigslist ad she responded to more than 15 years…