Last week, in a classic Friday news dump, Apple made the deeply embarrassing announcement that it would be delaying plans to infuse its voice assistant Siri with artificial intelligence-powered capabilities. But that announcement didn’t just send its stock price tumbling. According to a new report from Bloomberg, it’s also caused morale within its Siri team […]
Yale Suspends Palestine Activist After AI Article Linked Her to Terrorism
The dystopian future is here. Yale University has suspended a scholar in its law school after a Jewish news website that uses AI to produce articles called her a member of a terrorist group. It comes as the Trump administration has launched a relentless campaign to silence any speech sympathetic to the Palestinian cause. Already, […]
Meta Is Ready to Rock Nvidia’s Boat With Its In-House AI Chip
The adage goes, “your arbitrage is my opportunity,” and could be used to sum up Meta’s push into building an in-house chip for AI training tasks. Reuters reports the company recently began a small deployment of the chips after successfully building them in a test with Taiwan’s TSMC (sorry Intel). Meta is already using its […]
DOGE Threat: How Government Data Would Give an AI Company Extraordinary Power
The Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has secured unprecedented access to at least seven sensitive federal databases, including those of the Internal Revenue Service and Social Security Administration. This access has sparked fears about cybersecurity vulnerabilities and privacy violations. Another concern has received far less attention: the potential use of the data to train […]
DOGE Is Replacing Fired Workers With a Chatbot
Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency are attempting to enact what some experts have called the “largest job cut in American history“—but don’t worry, these geniuses have a solution to pick up the significant amount of slack caused by letting go of tens of thousands of domain experts and civil servants all at […]
Russia Is ‘Grooming’ Global AI Models to Cite Propaganda Sources
Since the 2016 election of Donald Trump, there has been some debate over how effective Russian propaganda has been at swaying the opinions of American voters. It was well-documented back in those days that Russia employed large IT companies, most infamously the anodyne-sounding Internet Research Agency, with the sole remit of churning out divisive, pro-Russia […]
Chatbots Convinced Idiots They Cracked the Code on a Sculpture in the CIA’s Backyard
Near the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, there is a sculpture known as Kryptos. It has been there since 1990 and contains four secret codes—three of which have been solved. The final one has gone 35 years without being decrypted. And, according to a report from Wired, the sculptor responsible wants everyone to know that […]
Eric Schmidt Suggests Countries Could Engage in Mutual Assured AI Malfunction (MAIM)
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang are co-authors on a new paper called “Superintelligence Strategy” that warns against the U.S. government creating a Manhattan Project for so-called Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) because it could quickly get out of control around the world. The gist of the argument is that the […]
LA Times Will Label Opinion Articles With AI-Powered ‘Bias Meter’
The Los Angeles Times has seen better days as the company’s billionaire owner continues taking a wrecking ball to the nearly 150-year-old institution. Waves of layoffs and editorial interference by Patrick Soon-Shiong, a vocal Trump supporter, has tanked morale, and now the owner has set his sights on AI as the panacea that will improve […]
Singapore Scheme May Have Funneled Nvidia Chips to DeepSeek
A local case of fraud in Singapore might be the tip of the iceberg for some international AI intrigue. According to Reuters, three people were charged with fraud for allegedly lying about the delivery of items to a server supplier. Local media reports indicate that those “items” may have been high-end Nvidia chips that may […]