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OpenAI Staffers Are Funding a Rival Super PAC to Take on Their Boss

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We’re Admittedly Terrified That They’ve Now Invented Invisible Drones

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New spinning drone hides in plain sight, Computational Design of a Low-Visibility UAV Using a Human-Aligned Perceptual Metric

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Author Invited to Give Speech at OpenAI Headquarters, Uses Opportunity to Trash AI to Their Faces

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MLB Bans Hitters From Consulting AI Chatbots Before Going Up to Bat

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MLB cracks down on using AI via dugout iPads to help shape in-game decisions

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Restaurant in Major Trouble After Posting AI Pictures of “Its Food”

Futurism8w8 weeks ago3 min read

We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’, San Francisco restaurant gets angry backlash for AI menu images, and more ›

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New “Advertisement” for Kylie Jenner’s Meta Perv Glasses Shows Something Extremely Funny If You Look at It From the Wrong Angle

Futurism8w8 weeks ago2 min read

Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones, Guerrilla London Bus Ads Mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta Glasses Campaign

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The Proliferation of Deepfakes Is Profoundly Changing the Way Teenagers Use the Internet

Futurism8w8 weeks ago5 min read

San Francisco Demands Apple and Google Delete AI ‘Nudify’ Apps From App Stores, How Deepfakes Tore a High School Apart, and more ›

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SpaceX Is Learning a Nasty Lesson About Going Public When Your Main Product Is Experimental

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Whole Foods Offering Steep Discount on Taylor Farms Shredded Iceberg Lettuce

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Taylor Farms Expands Iceberg Lettuce Recall to 27 States

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Taylor Farms Made Huge Donation to Trump Group After Loosening of Rules That Could Have Prevented Explosive Diarrhea Outbreak

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Trump’s funding cuts created ‘the perfect storm’ that slowed the government’s cyclosporiasis response, FSMA Final Rule on Requirements for Additional Traceability Records, and more ›

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OpenAI Appears to Be Missing Its Sales Goals by a Vast Margin

Futurism9w9 weeks agoHN Covered by62 min read

OpenAI’s Ad Business Is on Pace to Miss Its Own Forecast By 90%, Analyst Says, Visualising AI spending: How does it compare with history’s mega projects?

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OpenAI Exec Laments That China Is Giving Away Models So Good That For-Profit Companies Won’t Be Able to Compete

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Kimi K3 Just Triggered DeepSeek Flashbacks for the Stock Market

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GadgeteerZA, Metacurity, and more ›

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Gen Z Appears to Be Reversing No-Drinking Trend, Now Lurching Toward Alcoholism

Futurism9w9 weeks ago2 min read

Gen Z is afraid of sex — and for good reason, It's official: Gen Z is in their alcohol era

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There’s a Gigantic Problem at the Heart of the AI Industry That Could Cause the Whole Thing to Collapse

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Generative AI Is an Engineering Disaster

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Lawsuit Alleges That ChatGPT Encouraged Suicide of Woman Who Walked Into Traffic

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A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In., ChatGPT convinced an Alabama woman to end her life to fulfill a divine prophecy, lawsuit alleges

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Spotify tra “AI slop” e nuove funzioni generative: la protesta di Lorde

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Introducing About the Song, a New Way to Explore the Stories Behind the Music, Lorde Slams Spotify Over Sloppy AI-Generated Song Descriptions

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Amazon’s Robotaxi Company Recalls Its Fleet After One of its Cars Got Confused by Heavy Smoke

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Amazon's Zoox issues software recall after robotaxi drove into heavy smoke, Zoox issues software recall after a robotaxi got confused by heavy smoke

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In Light of Overwhelming Backlash, Flock Cancels Creepy Audio Surveillance Feature

Futurism9w9 weeks agoCovered by32 min read

Victory Flock Ends Rollout of Audio "Distress Detection" of Human Voices, How Flock's Audio Detection Works, and the Concerns We Hear Most

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Climate Activists Pelt Microsoft Data Center With Balloons Full of Acid

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Amsterdam activists throw acid at Microsoft datacenter project

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It’s Laughably Easy to Poison Open-Weight AI Models, Researcher Finds

Futurism9w9 weeks ago2 min read

A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size, Researcher poisons open-weight AI model for under $100, and more ›

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