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In a blog-length post on X-formerly-Twitter, former WeWork exec Greg Isenberg said that after meeting a young guy who claims to spend $10,000 a month on so-called "AI girlfriends," he realized that eventually, someone is going to capitalize upon that market.

Microsoft and OpenAI are building a $100 billion "Stargate AI" supercomputer, scheduled for release in 2028. This could be a turning point in the process of creating AGI.

APPLE SECRETLY WORKING ON AI ROBOT THAT FOLLOWS YOU AROUND THE HOUSE With its forays into car-making kaput, Apple has reportedly set its sights on home robots — and is said to be in the early stages of developing one that follows you around the house, for some reason.

Hackers Can Spy on Your Chats With Almost Any AI, Experts Find Be careful what you tell AI chatbots, because apparently it's easy for hackers to spy on those conversations. "Currently, anybody can read private chats sent from ChatGPT and other services," Yisroel Mirsky, the head…

European Parliament Approves Sweeping Limits on Generative AI The European Union has approved the first comprehensive AI regulations in the world, sweeping guardrails meant to put real-world limits on the development of the technology. The straightforwardly named AI Act was…

Scammers have already been using the advent of AI to get smarter and more unhinged — including spoofing voices to demand ransom for loved ones held "hostage." Take this chilling anecdote in The New Yorker, which illustrates the phenomenon in grim new detail. In it, a Brooklyn…

Google-backed AI company Anthropic has released Claude 3, its latest set of AI large language models (LLMs) rivaling — and allegedly beating — those being developed by OpenAI and Google. The company's latest LLM comes in three flavors known as Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus. A new…

AI isn't nearly as popular with the global populace as its boosters would have you believe. As Axios reports based on a new poll of 32,000 global respondents from the consultancy firm Edelman, public trust is already eroding less than 18 months into the so-called "AI revolution"…

Elon Musk has sued OpenAI, its co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, and its affiliated entities, alleging the ChatGPT makers have breached their original contractual agreements by pursuing profits instead of the nonprofit’s founding mission to develop AI that benefits…

The mercurial OpenAI CEO Sam Altman got interviewed by The Advocate, and the whole thing is worth a read — but the most fascinating moment about his technical work was when the publication asked Altman about the biggest misconceptions about AI. Altman seized the opportunity to…

Despite its well-documented tendency to make up claims — and entire court cases — on the spot, New York-based law firm Cuddy Law used the OpenAI chatbot ChatGPT to help justify a $113,484.62 bill for a recently won trial. The firm argued that it had asked the AI tool for…

After an embarrassing rollout and a bunch of attention from all the wrong people, Google forbade its Gemini AI from generating images of people — but, for whatever reason, it'll still draw clowns. Which are people. Right? Right!? This debacle began last week when anti-woke…

The work from home movement has given way for more employee chats to take place online. However, remote workers may want to practice caution before chatting through keyboards amid new reports that artificial intelligence could snoop through messages. Several companies, including…

Sora, OpenAI's new AI model for generating video, has become the talk of the town since its release last week. But Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist at Meta, doesn't think the much-hyped text-to-video model is all that. In particular, LeCun takes issue with OpenAI's claims that its…

As The Independent reports, ChatGPT users have spent the last 24 hours or so flocking to social media to share screenshots and anecdotes of bizarre interactions with the OpenAI chatbot — which, well, appears to be losing its mind. Screenshots show the AI's responses to seemingly…

You may remember a series of lawyers who have attempted to use AI tools in court — and were subsequently embarrassed and sanctioned when the chatbots screwed up, sometimes even inventing plausible-sounding cases that didn't actually exist. So consider this: how would you feel if…

The notoriously pessimistic AI researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky is back with a new prediction about the future of humankind. "If you put me to a wall," he told The Guardian in a fascinating new interview, "and forced me to put probabilities on things, I have a sense that our current…

AI has come to the hiring process — and it's made those mandatory personality tests all the weirder. As 404 Media reports, companies as disparate as McDonald's, Olive Garden, and FedEx are now requiring that job applicants take personality evaluations, which are then sorted by…

An Indonesian political party used generative AI to "resurrect" one of the most violent political figures in the nation's history in a bizarre, deepfaked endorsement message, CNN reports — the latest, and possibly strangest, use of generative AI in the world of politics,…

There's an episode of the show "Black Mirror" where a woman, trapped by grief, starts a relationship with an AI trained on her dead boyfriend's data. "You're not enough of him," she eventually decides. "You're nothing." But even an empty happily-ever-after is tantalizing in the…