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The Latest Thing AI Is Accelerating Is How Much U.S. Elections Suck
[ad_1] A massive pile of money aimed at stopping AI regulation was already set to reshape U.S. electoral politics in the coming cycle, and…
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OpenAI’s Smackdown by a German Court Hints at What’s Next for AI and Art
[ad_1] Late last week, a German musicians’ organization scored a pretty crushing legal victory against OpenAI. The court says the training of the GPT…
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Why Is the AI Czar Already Saying OpenAI Won’t Get a Bailout?
[ad_1] Is it a good sign or a bad sign that the biggest player in an emerging industry actively making trillion-dollar commitments that are…
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Small Towns Are Betting That the Data Center Boom Will Never End
[ad_1] What happens when data centers come to town? A whole lot, wanted or not. Tech firms are promising to pour trillions of dollars…
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Meta Says Porn Stash was for ‘Personal Use,’ Not Training AI Models
[ad_1] Meta forgot to keep its porn in a passworded folder, and now its kink for data collection is the subject of scrutiny. The…
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Have No Fear, Google Has Plans to Enshittify AI Search With Ads, Too
[ad_1] Google’s AI Overview has somehow successfully managed to get people to be less engaged with search results, clicking through less often, and less…
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What’s Scarier Than a Haunted House? An AI Data Center
[ad_1] The owner of a haunted house in Pennsylvania has a new idea to spook his patrons: the eerie whirring of fans, the humming…
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OpenAI Ditches the ‘Non’ in ‘Non-Profit’
[ad_1] OpenAI’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…
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Elon Musk’s Version of Wikipedia Is Live. Here’s What the Difference Is
[ad_1] Grokipedia, Elon Musk’s alternative to Wikipedia, sparked to life on Monday afternoon. Then it went dark again. Then it sparked to life again…
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OpenAI Data Shows Hundreds of Thousands of Users Display Signs of Mental Health Challenges
[ad_1] OpenAI claims that 10% of the world’s population currently uses ChatGPT on a weekly basis. In a report published by on Monday, OpenAI…
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Microsoft Risks the Ire of the Anti-Woke, Won’t Build a Jerk-Off Machine
[ad_1] A line in the sand has been drawn in the AI race: the porn-brained and the porn-banned. Microsoft has sorted itself into the…
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Meta Reportedly Laying Off Hundreds From Its AI Team
[ad_1] Meta has thrown billions of dollars at its artificial intelligence efforts. Somehow, that is apparently resulting in fewer people being employed. According to…
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Big Tech Is Funding AI Lesson Plan Seminars that Parents Increasingly Do Not Want
[ad_1] At a recent event in San Antonio, about 50 educators received a three-hour crash course in AI, organized by the American Federation of…
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OpenAI Launches the AI Browser War
[ad_1] ChatGPT has broken out of the chatbot. On Tuesday, OpenAI announced that it is launching a web browser called ChatGPT Atlas, which it…
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Looks Like JD Vance Didn’t Get the Memo That This Admin Hates AI Guardrails
[ad_1] Republicans have largely been embracing a “hands-off” approach to regulating artificial intelligence, but Vice President JD Vance has found where he draws the…
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Is the AI Conveyor Belt of Capital About to Stop?
[ad_1] The American economy is little more than a big bet on AI. Morgan Stanley investor Ruchir Sharma recently noted that money poured into…
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Police Say People Keep Calling 911 Over an ‘AI Homeless Man’ TikTok Prank
[ad_1] Finally, generative AI has found its purpose: letting kids prank parents. In an apparent new social media trend, kids are creating AI-generated images…
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You Can’t Use Copyrighted Characters in OpenAI’s Sora Anymore and People Are Freaking Out
[ad_1] The 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…
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OpenAI Goes All-In on Vibe Coding, Says ‘Mature Experiences’ Are on the Horizon
[ad_1] OpenAI’s DevDay 2025 featured a major focus on vibe coding. The company, which boasts that it now has more than 800 million weekly…
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Taylor Swift, Defender of Artist Ownership, Allegedly Uses AI in Videos
[ad_1] Taylor Swift once said, “You deserve to own the art you make.” Apparently, that doesn’t apply to the millions of artists who have…