ChatGPT’s new AI agent can browse the web and create PowerPoint slideshows
New "agentic" AI feature combines web browsing with task-execution abilities.
Benj Edwards
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AI // Open the pod doors
Google hides secret message in name list of 3,295 AI researchers
Gemini 2.5 paper hides Easter egg in massive author list—but why so many contributors?
Benj Edwards
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Will AI end cheap flights? Critics attack Delta’s “predatory” AI pricing.
Your data could soon be used to spike flight costs, as Delta expands AI pilot.
Ashley Belanger
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Permit for xAI’s data center blatantly violates Clean Air Act, NAACP says
Evidence suggests health department gave preferential treatment to xAI, NAACP says.
Ashley Belanger
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Chinese firms rush for Nvidia chips as US prepares to lift ban
H20 chips, designed to skirt export bans, are back after Trump meets with CEO.
Benj Edwards
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Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower
Coders spent more time prompting and reviewing AI generations than they saved on coding.
Kyle Orland
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New Grok AI model surprises experts by checking Elon Musk’s views before answering
Grok 4's "reasoning" shows cases where the chatbot consults Musk posts to answer divisive questions.
Benj Edwards
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AI therapy bots fuel delusions and give dangerous advice, Stanford study finds
Popular chatbots serve as poor replacements for human therapists, but study authors call for nuance.
Benj Edwards
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Cops’ favorite AI tool automatically deletes evidence of when AI was used
AI police tool is designed to avoid accountability, watchdog says.
Ashley Belanger
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Everything tech giants will hate about the EU’s new AI rules
EU rules ask tech giants to publicly track how and when AI models go off the rails.
Ashley Belanger
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Musk’s Grok 4 launches one day after chatbot generated Hitler praise on X
xAI claims new multi-agent model hits top benchmarks as Nazi controversy lingers.
Benj Edwards
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Gemini can now turn your photos into video with Veo 3
Google is making it easier to create videos with Gemini, but you only get a few shots per day.
Ryan Whitwam
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ChatGPT made up a product feature out of thin air, so this company created it
Soundslice caught OpenAI's bot telling users about a fake music notation feature—then built it.
Benj Edwards
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Cloudflare wants Google to change its AI search crawling. Google likely won’t.
Cloudflare pushes Google to separate bots for AI Overviews and search indexing.
Ashley Belanger
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AI mania pushes Nvidia to record $4 trillion valuation
AI craze makes Nvidia the most valuable publicly traded company in history.
Benj Edwards
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Grok praises Hitler, gives credit to Musk for removing “woke filters”
X removed many harmful Grok posts but not before they reached tens of thousands.
Ashley Belanger
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Mike Lindell lost defamation case, and his lawyers were fined for AI hallucinations
Lawyers fined $6,000, while Lindell lost $2.3 million defamation verdict.
Jon Brodkin
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What is AGI? Nobody agrees, and it’s tearing Microsoft and OpenAI apart.
Several definitions make measuring "human-level" AI an exercise in moving goalposts.
Benj Edwards
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Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps
Important changes to Android devices took effect starting Monday.
Dan Goodin
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How a big shift in training LLMs led to a capability explosion
Reinforcement learning, explained with a minimum of math and jargon.
Timothy B. Lee
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Meta’s “AI superintelligence” effort sounds just like its failed “metaverse”
Zuckerberg and company talked up another supposed tech revolution four short years ago.
Kyle Orland
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xAI data center gets air permit to run 15 turbines, but imaging shows 24 on site
County health department accused of turning a "blind eye" to xAI's alleged pollution.
Ashley Belanger
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TikTok is being flooded with racist AI videos generated by Google’s Veo 3
Google and TikTok have rules against this sort of thing, but it doesn't seem to matter.
Ryan Whitwam
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Everything that could go wrong with X’s new AI-written community notes
X says AI can supercharge community notes, but that comes with obvious risks.
Ashley Belanger
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NYT to start searching deleted ChatGPT logs after beating OpenAI in court
What are the odds NYT will access your ChatGPT logs in OpenAI court battle?
Ashley Belanger
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Nudify app’s plan to dominate deepfake porn hinges on Reddit, 4chan, and Telegram, docs show
Reddit confirmed the nudify app's links have been blocked since 2024.
Ashley Belanger
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Ted Cruz plan to punish states that regulate AI shot down in 99-1 vote
The one vote backing moratorium on state AI laws came from Thom Tillis, not Cruz.
Jon Brodkin
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Pay up or stop scraping: Cloudflare program charges bots for each crawl
Cloudflare now beta testing pay-per-crawl feature to stop endless AI scraping.
Ashley Belanger
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Half a million Spotify users are unknowingly grooving to an AI-generated band
A supposed band called The Velvet Sundown has released two albums of AI slop this month.
Ryan Whitwam
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In a wild time for copyright law, the US Copyright Office has no leader
Rudderless Copyright Office has taken on new prominence during the AI boom.
WIRED
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Judge: Pirate libraries may have profited from Meta torrenting 80TB of books
Meta may defeat authors’ torrenting claim due to lack of evidence.
Ashley Belanger
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Anthropic summons the spirit of Flash games for the AI age
AI chatbot codes browser-based apps from plain English with classic web vibes.
Benj Edwards
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Book authors made the wrong arguments in Meta AI training case, judge says
Judges clash over "schoolchildren" analogy in key AI training rulings.
Ashley Belanger
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Google begins rolling out AI search in YouTube
The feature is only available as a test for Premium members for now.
Ryan Whitwam
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Reddit CEO pledges site will remain “written by humans and voted on by humans”
Reddit is in an “arms race” to protect its communities from AI-generated content.
Financial Times
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Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models
Company hired Google's book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize "all the books in the world."
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