Of the ways that artificial intelligence firms have attempted to get people to engage with their products, perhaps the grossest is by preying upon loneliness. When Friend, a wearable AI pendant marketed as a portable “companion,” plastered its advertisements across New York City’s subway, they were (rightly) defaced. And yet, a new survey suggests that […]
Deutsche Bank Notices That a Needle Is Getting Dangerously Close to the AI Bubble
Money seems to endlessly flow in the AI space, whether it’s Nvidia announcing a $100 billion investment in OpenAI or OpenAI planning to build more massive data centers before the first $500 billion project is even completed. Eventually, some of the folks who have poured money into these ventures are going to expect to see […]
Klarna CEO Makes Employees Review His AI-Generated Vibe Coding Projects
Perhaps the only thing worse than having a boss who thinks your job can be replaced by artificial intelligence is having a boss who thinks he can do your job for you with AI and wants to show you his work. Unfortunately, depending on your role at the company, Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski is guilty […]
AI Experts Urgently Call on Governments to Think About Maybe Doing Something
Everyone seems to recognize the fact that artificial intelligence is a rapidly developing and emerging technology that has the potential for immense harm if operated without safeguards, but basically no one (except for the European Union, sort of) can agree on how to regulate it. So, instead of trying to set up a clear and […]
AI Medical Tools Provide Worse Treatment for Women and Underrepresented Groups
Historically, most clinical trials and scientific studies have primarily focused on white men as subjects, leading to a significant underrepresentation of women and people of color in medical research. You’ll never guess what has happened as a result of feeding all of that data into AI models. It turns out, as the Financial Times calls […]
DeepSeek Model ‘Nearly 100% Successful’ at Avoiding Controversial Topics
Meet the new DeepSeek, now with more government compliance. According to a report from Reuters, the popular large language model developed in China has a new version called DeepSeek-R1-Safe, specifically designed to avoid politically controversial topics. Developed by Chinese tech giant Huawei, the new model reportedly is “nearly 100% successful” in preventing discussion of politically […]
‘AI Scheming’: OpenAI Digs Into Why Chatbots Will Intentionally Lie and Deceive Humans
At this point, most people know that chatbots are capable of hallucinating responses, making up sources, and spitting out misinformation. But chatbots can lie in more human-like ways, “scheming” to hide their true goals and deceiving the humans who have given them instructions. New research from OpenAI and Apollo Research seems to have figured out […]
We Finally Know How Much It Cost to Train China’s Astonishing DeepSeek Model
Remember when DeepSeek briefly shook up the entire artificial intelligence industry by launching its large language model, R1, that was trained for a fraction of the money that OpenAI and other big players were pouring into their models? Thanks to a new paper published by the DeepSeek AI team in the journal Nature, we finally […]
Thanks to AI, Charlie Kirk Will Never Die for Some People
There really is no rest for the wicked. Over the weekend, according to Religious News Service, at least three churches played for their congregations a posthumous message from Charlie Kirk, in which he assured those in the pews, “I’m fine, not because my body is fine, but because my soul is secure in Christ. Death […]
Anthropic Wants to Be the One Good AI Company in Trump’s America
Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the chatbot Claude, is trying to carve out a spot as the Good Guy in the AI space. Fresh off being the only major AI firm to throw its support behind an AI safety bill in California, the company grabbed a headline from Semafor thanks to its apparent refusal […]