The House Homeland Security Committee has sent a letter to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to testify on Dec. 17 about a cyberattack campaign allegedly conducted by China-affiliated actors using the company’s Claude AI, according to a new report from Axios. House Homeland Security Chair Andrew Garbarino, a Republican from New York, sent letters to Amodei […]
AI Teddy Bear That Talked Fetishes and Knives Is Back on the Market
A week after a toy company pulled its AI-powered teddy bear off the market due to child safety concerns, the company has returned its dystopian stuffed animal to virtual shelves. FoloToy, which sells a stuffed toy named “Kumma,” says that it has made safety upgrades to the toy and that it is once again ready […]
A New Way to Ruin Thanksgiving: Making AI Slop Recipes
Remember when people started asking AI tools for cooking advice, and it wound up telling them to do things like use glue to get cheese to stick on pizza? Well, people are apparently relying on that same technology to guide them through cooking this year’s Thanksgiving dinner. In fact, so many are doing so that […]
Data Centers in Texas Could Lead to Blackouts in the Middle of Winter, Group Warns
The data center industry is booming, as cloud providers seek to scale up their services to keep pace with demand driven by AI. In Texas, the boom is particularly bountiful. Outside of Virginia, there is no other place in the U.S. with a higher concentration of server farms than the Lone Star state (it has […]
The ‘Genesis Mission’: Here’s What’s in Trump’s Most Grandiose AI Executive Order Yet
The title of the executive order is on the short side for Trump: “Launching the Genesis Mission.” It reads in part: In this pivotal moment, the challenges we face require a historic national effort, comparable in urgency and ambition to the Manhattan Project that was instrumental to our victory in World War II and was […]
Marc Benioff Joins the Chorus, Says Google Gemini Is Eating ChatGPT’s Lunch
Despite its excessive spending on data centers with no clear path to revenue generation in front of it, it seemed that if OpenAI had just one thing it could count on, it was audience capture. ChatGPT seemed like it would get the brand verbification treatment, being the term people used to reference AI. Now it […]
An Alarming Number of Teens Say They Turn To AI For Company, Study Finds
We have a whole new generation growing up in the dawn of artificial intelligence. The early signs of its impact are alarming. A British youth charity called OnSide surveyed 5,035 young people between the ages of 11 to 18 for the “Generation Isolation Report,” its annual study on how the youth spend their free time. […]
The Sons of Trump’s Commerce Secretary Are Making Money in the Data Center Biz
The Trump administration has sought to open the floodgates for the AI industry, supporting America’s tech giants as they seek to drastically scale up their AI businesses and wed artificial intelligence to every aspect of American life. This industrial boom has been accompanied by a gold rush for the data center industry—which provides the cloud […]
Google Exec Claims Company Needs to Double Its AI Serving Capacity ‘Every Six Months’: Report
Tech companies are racing to build out their infrastructure as their increasingly resource-intensive AI products gobble up capacity, clean out chipmakers’ supply, and require more power. Google, once dubbed the “King of the Web,” is one of those companies, and a high-level exec for The Big G is reported to have told staff that the […]
Do Not, Under Any Circumstance, Buy Your Kid an AI Toy for Christmas
AI is all the rage, and that includes on the toy shelves for this holiday season. Tempting though it may be to want to bless the kids in your life with the latest and greatest, advocacy organization Fairplay is begging you not to give children AI toys. “There’s lots of buzz about AI — but […]