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Aug 29 • 9 months ago

The personhood trap: How AI fakes human personality

AI assistants don't have fixed personalities—just patterns of output guided by humans. ...

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Aug 27 • 9 months ago

Anthropic’s auto-clicking AI Chrome extension raises browser-hijacking concerns

Malicious websites can embed invisible commands that AI agents will follow blindly. ...

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Aug 27 • 9 months ago

OpenAI admits ChatGPT safeguards fail during extended conversations

ChatGPT allegedly provided suicide encouragement to teen after moderation safeguards failed. ...

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Aug 27 • 9 months ago

Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action

Advocates fear such settlements will "financially ruin" the AI industry. ...

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Aug 26 • 9 months ago

Google improves Gemini AI image editing with “nano banana” model

Gemini 2.5 Flash Image is currently atop LMArena's image-editing leaderboard. ...

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Aug 26 • 9 months ago

YouTube secretly tested AI video enhancement without notifying creators

Google says this isn't technically "GenAI," but it is altering videos without warning. ...

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Aug 25 • 9 months ago

Elon Musk sues Apple and OpenAI, revealing his panic over OpenAI dominance

OpenAI slams Musk’s lawsuit as part of his "ongoing pattern of harassment." ...

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Aug 23 • 9 months ago

College student’s “time travel” AI experiment accidentally outputs real 1834 history

Hobbyist training AI on Victorian texts gets an unexpected history lesson from his own creation. ...

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Aug 22 • 9 months ago

Google says it dropped the energy cost of AI queries by 33x in one year

The company claims that a text query now burns the equivalent of 9 seconds of TV. ...

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Aug 22 • 9 months ago

Bank forced to rehire workers after lying about chatbot productivity, union says

Australia’s biggest bank regrets messy rush to replace staff with chatbots. ...

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Aug 22 • 9 months ago

Is the AI bubble about to pop? Sam Altman is prepared either way.

"Someone will lose a phenomenal amount of money," says CEO while fundraising at record prices. ...

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Aug 20 • 9 months ago

In Xcode 26, Apple shows first signs of offering ChatGPT alternatives

Claude support in Xcode heralds bigger moves across the ecosystem. ...

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