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A massive pile of money aimed at stopping AI regulation was already set to reshape U.S. electoral politics in the coming cycle, and now a massive pile of…
Read more The Latest Thing AI Is Accelerating Is How Much U.S. Elections SuckLate last week, a German musicians’ organization scored a pretty crushing legal victory against OpenAI. The court says the training of the GPT 4 and 4o models included…
Read more OpenAI’s Smackdown by a German Court Hints at What’s Next for AI and ArtIs it a good sign or a bad sign that the biggest player in an emerging industry actively making trillion-dollar commitments that are artificially propping up the economy…
Read more Why Is the AI Czar Already Saying OpenAI Won’t Get a Bailout?What happens when data centers come to town? A whole lot, wanted or not. Tech firms are promising to pour trillions of dollars into building new data centers…
Read more Small Towns Are Betting That the Data Center Boom Will Never EndMeta forgot to keep its porn in a passworded folder, and now its kink for data collection is the subject of scrutiny. The social media giant turned metaverse…
Read more Meta Says Porn Stash was for ‘Personal Use,’ Not Training AI ModelsGoogle’s AI Overview has somehow successfully managed to get people to be less engaged with search results, clicking through less often, and less likely to fact-check the information…
Read more Have No Fear, Google Has Plans to Enshittify AI Search With Ads, TooThe owner of a haunted house in Pennsylvania has a new idea to spook his patrons: the eerie whirring of fans, the humming of electricity, and the looming…
Read more What’s Scarier Than a Haunted House? An AI Data CenterOpenAI’s “will they, won’t they” flirtation with becoming a for-profit corporation is over. On Tuesday, the company announced that it has completed its recapitalization process, turning its AI…
Read more OpenAI Ditches the ‘Non’ in ‘Non-Profit’Grokipedia, Elon Musk’s alternative to Wikipedia, sparked to life on Monday afternoon. Then it went dark again. Then it sparked to life again Monday evening. As of this…
Read more Elon Musk’s Version of Wikipedia Is Live. Here’s What the Difference IsOpenAI claims that 10% of the world’s population currently uses ChatGPT on a weekly basis. In a report published by on Monday, OpenAI highlights how it is handling…
Read more OpenAI Data Shows Hundreds of Thousands of Users Display Signs of Mental Health ChallengesA line in the sand has been drawn in the AI race: the porn-brained and the porn-banned. Microsoft has sorted itself into the latter category. According to a…
Read more Microsoft Risks the Ire of the Anti-Woke, Won’t Build a Jerk-Off MachineMeta has thrown billions of dollars at its artificial intelligence efforts. Somehow, that is apparently resulting in fewer people being employed. According to a report from Axios, about…
Read more Meta Reportedly Laying Off Hundreds From Its AI TeamAt a recent event in San Antonio, about 50 educators received a three-hour crash course in AI, organized by the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and largely funded…
Read more Big Tech Is Funding AI Lesson Plan Seminars that Parents Increasingly Do Not WantChatGPT has broken out of the chatbot. On Tuesday, OpenAI announced that it is launching a web browser called ChatGPT Atlas, which it says will reimagine the browsing…
Read more OpenAI Launches the AI Browser WarRepublicans have largely been embracing a “hands-off” approach to regulating artificial intelligence, but Vice President JD Vance has found where he draws the line: weird porn. During an…
Read more Looks Like JD Vance Didn’t Get the Memo That This Admin Hates AI GuardrailsThe American economy is little more than a big bet on AI. Morgan Stanley investor Ruchir Sharma recently noted that money poured into AI investments now accounts for…
Read more Is the AI Conveyor Belt of Capital About to Stop?Finally, generative AI has found its purpose: letting kids prank parents. In an apparent new social media trend, kids are creating AI-generated images of homeless people in their…
Read more Police Say People Keep Calling 911 Over an ‘AI Homeless Man’ TikTok PrankThe complete copyright-free-for-all approach that OpenAI took to its new AI video generation model, Sora 2, lasted all of one week. After initially requiring copyright holders to opt…
Read more You Can’t Use Copyrighted Characters in OpenAI’s Sora Anymore and People Are Freaking OutOpenAI’s DevDay 2025 featured a major focus on vibe coding. The company, which boasts that it now has more than 800 million weekly active users for ChatGPT, announced…
Read more OpenAI Goes All-In on Vibe Coding, Says ‘Mature Experiences’ Are on the HorizonTaylor Swift once said, “You deserve to own the art you make.” Apparently, that doesn’t apply to the millions of artists who have had their works fed into…
Read more Taylor Swift, Defender of Artist Ownership, Allegedly Uses AI in Videos