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AIOpenAI stands firm on firing three AI safety researchers over trust breachOpenAI is standing firm on its decision to fire three safety researchers after an investigation found they committed "a significant breach of trust." In a post on X on Friday, the company said Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita ⁠Balesni were dismissed for violating "clear policies on handling…
The Verge
AIAmazon warns local communities to stop blocking its massive AI data centersThe tech industry has fully lost the plot.
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Daily Dumpster FiresWikipedia says rogue AI agents from OpenAI edited its private wikis and hammered its servers
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AIOpenAI bans accounts used by Russia, Iran for propaganda and political influenceOpenAI banned several accounts associated with two propaganda operations based in Iran and Russia, respectively, it confirmed Thursday. The latter of which the tech company said had the greatest reach it has recorded since it began reporting on and disrupting such schemes. The influence operations…
The Hill
PoliticsCalifornia requires major corporations to disclose slavery ties under new lawCalifornia is putting corporate history under a microscope with a first-in-the-nation law requiring some major companies to disclose whether they or their predecessors profited from chattel slavery. According to LAist, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the Truth in Disclosure Act, a measure requiring…
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PoliticsTrump awards Musk and other tech titans National Medals of SciencePresident Donald Trump joined some of America’s most powerful tech leaders Thursday at a summit the White House billed as the start of a “golden age” of American science.
NBC News
AIAnthropic bans 'sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior' toward its AI modelsThe company is also tightening its election policy ahead of the midterms.
Engadget
PoliticsVance grilled over Microsoft criticism hours before Trump awards CEO National MedalVice President JD Vance was pressed about his "harsh words" about Microsoft during an anti-fraud event in Washington on Thursday, hours before Trump was to honor the tech giant's CEO, Satya Nadella, with a National Medal of Science.
Mediaite
AIGoogle launches workplace AI agent with its own email address and calendarGoogle’s new Gemini agent gives each coworker agent its own Workspace account, email address, calendar and entry in the company directory, and runs work for days after the laptop closes. Every action is logged to the agent rather than to a person, which is the part European regulators have spent the…
The Next Web
AIInfluencers promote cheap Meta AI glasses knockoffs without recording indicator lights"I'm recording you right now and you probably can't even tell, because these don't have that annoying blinking light." The post Influencers Are Promoting Cheap Dupes of Meta AI Glasses that Don’t Have the “Annoying Blinking Light” When They Record appeared first on Futurism .
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PoliticsTrump Admin Blocks Tech Companies from H-1B PERM ProgramVice President JD Vance urged tech companies to hire American workers as he called on Congress to rework the H-1B program.
Newsweek
AIAI boom sends San Francisco rents soaring, eviction notices up 44%According to city’s rent board, eviction notices are up 44% and tenants are on edge over landlords swooping in over their homes To say that Maria Zamudio and her team have been busy lately would be a gross understatement. Every Monday at 9am, the phone lines at the downtown clinic of San Francisco’s…
The Guardian
AIOpenAI rolls out GPT-6 to all ChatGPT tiers with enhanced visual responsesOpenAI is rolling out GPT-6 to ChatGPT, and it will come with the capability to build more visual responses.
Engadget
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AI3 Fired OpenAI Employees Urge Company to Preserve Chain of Thought MonitoringOpenAI fired them, but says it agrees with their recommendations.
Gizmodo
WarFormer US intel official warns of Huawei's expanding control over global internet infrastructureChina's state-linked telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies is expanding control over large swaths of the global internet infrastructure that poses an "existential" national security threat, according to a former U.S. intelligence leader.
The Washington Times
World Is EndingSpaceX warns of collision risk as 11,000+ satellites crowd Earth's orbitSpaceX reported having more than 11,000 satellites in low-Earth orbit and revealed that it experienced approximately 164,000 close calls with other satellites in the last six months.
WESH
AISan Francisco halts new data centers with 45-day moratoriumSan Francisco’s board of supervisors unanimously passed a 45-day moratorium on new data centres, extendable to 22 months, halting a Bayview expansion and a 49.5 MW Dogpatch project. Europe paused first and for a different reason, the grid, and now finds it cannot build the capacity the Commission…
The Next Web
CelebrityTony Driscoll Named Head of Games and Experiences at SkydanceThis has all been an experience.
The Hollywood Reporter
AIMistral claims 'Le Chonk' rivals top closed AI models while staying open-weightMistral says Le Chonk can rival top closed models while remaining open-weight.
Ars Technica
AIGoogle launches SynthID website to identify AI-generated images, videos and audioGoogle on Tuesday launched a new site that lets anyone verify whether a piece of media, be it an image, a video or an audio clip, is generated using AI.
TechCrunch
Daily Dumpster FiresAmazon's tracking data categorized shopper as 'has flat buttocks' based on purchasesMost people know that Amazon collects data about your shopping history to serve up personalized product recommendations. But what some of us didn't realize is that you can check exactly what Amazon knows - or thinks it knows - about you in your settings menu. One user's findings went viral on…
The Verge
AIHSBC to cut hundreds of wealth division jobs as it turns to AIHundreds of people are understood to be employed as wealth relationship managers at the bank across the UK.
Daily Mail
AITesting finds OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens unsafe for young users"It is incumbent for OpenAI to earn the trust of parents and to show them, not just tell them, that this product is safe for teens to use." The post OpenAI’s “ChatGPT for Teens” Is an “Unsafe” Mess, Testing Finds appeared first on Futurism .
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AIOpenAI releases 377 new math results on GitHubIf you're a professional mathematician, you might not be thrilled.
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AIAmazon warns 100+ AI data center bans could cost US tech lead, pledges $1B to communitiesAmazon says over 100 pending proposed moratoriums could threaten America's lead in AI Amazon pledges over $1 billion across five years to data center communities Amazon abandons Maryland data center campus beside Calvert Cliffs after community opposition Amazon has warned that mounting resistance to…
TechRadar
AIChatGPT generates fake New Yorker cartoons with real artist signaturesOpenAI's ChatGPT can't seem to shake its plagiarism problem. Amid an ongoing battle with authors and publishers over its text-based outputs and continued criticism that the chatbot's creative mind is ripping off human artists , the chatbot is under fire again. This time because of poor imitations of…
Mashable
AIBrowser-based GTA V port shows how AI is enabling illegal game distributionIn fairness, having the source code does help.
Gizmodo
AIOpenAI to add invisible watermarks to ChatGPT text for EU complianceOpenAI is preparing to add invisible watermarks to text generated by ChatGPT in the European Union, giving certain organizations a way to detect whether text was produced by its AI models.
Dexerto
AIAI and semiconductor demand fueling gold rush as prices hit historic highsGold demand from AI infrastructure and semiconductors is climbing even as prices hit historic highs, and tech firms aren't switching to cheaper metals.
Fox News
BustedFortnite player arrested by FBI after Epic Games reports voice chat threatsA Fortnite player who wondered aloud whether the FBI would show up at his door was arrested after Epic Games handed his threats to investigators.
Dexerto