China Didn’t Make Americans Hate Data Centers
…One is a “cross-platform network of accounts” using AI-generated avatars that comment on a wide variety of social issues, and that “sporadically” mention US tech companies. The other exception, Sadek…
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Palantir Demos Show How the Military Could Use AI Chatbots to Generate War Plans
…AI technology, but WIRED was not able to independently verify those claims. Since 2022, Palantir has also sold another intelligence platform to the US Army called the Army Intelligence Data Platform. The…
Drug Sites Hijacked Spotify’s Search Ranking Through Fake Podcasts
…Counterfeit pills bought online are frequently cut with fentanyl, and teenagers are among the most exposed. “In the age of AI, all online platforms need to deploy sophisticated efforts to continually identify…
Meet the Tech Reporters Using AI to Help Write and Edit Their Stories
…It's like a higher level of thinking and abstraction than Grammarly can do.” Casey Newton, author of the newsletter Platformer, tells me AI has made him reassess the value of his…
The Fight to Hold AI Companies Accountable for Children’s Deaths
…Grok on the X platform,” she alleges. “Product liability claims against generative AI companies are the most straightforward and intuitive path for holding companies like ChatGPT, Character AI, Grok liable.” One such…
Using AI for Just 10 Minutes Might Make You Lazy and Dumb, Study Shows
…comprehension, through an online platform that paid them for their work. They conducted three experiments, each involving several hundred people. Some participants were given access to an AI assistant capable of solving…
Gazing Into Sam Altman’s Orb Now Proves You’re Human on Tinder
…Founded in 2019 by Altman and Alex Blania, the World project was designed for a future where the internet is overrun with highly capable AI agents that make it incredibly difficult, if…
A Hacker Group Is Poisoning Open Source Code at an Unprecedented Scale
…The group also tainted infrastructure from the web application security firm Checkmarx, hit the development server pgserve, and compromised the web app library TanStack as well as the enterprise AI platform Mistral…
Nick Clegg Doesn’t Want to Talk About Superintelligence
…Nick, on the spectrum from AI doomer to booster, where do you fall? Nick Clegg: I somewhat disregard both kinds of hype. Saying that AI is going to destroy life as we…
Taylor Swift Wants to Trademark Her Likeness. These TikTok Deepfake Ads Show Why
…These ads eventually lead the user to a third-party service that, despite the TikTok name and logo, has evidently been vibe coded using the AI platform Lovable, whose own branding appears…