Republicans have largely been embracing a “hands-off” approach to regulating artificial intelligence, but Vice President JD Vance has found where he draws the line: weird porn. During an appearance on Newsmax’s “The Record with Greta Van Susteren,” Vance called out OpenAI’s recent announcement that it would allow adult users to create erotica with ChatGPT as […]
Trump AI Czar Is Trying to Take Down Anthropic AI
David Sacks, a venture capitalist who has made much of his fortune investing in tech companies and currently serves as the Trump administration’s “Crypto and AI Czar,” is worried about regulatory capture. No, not his regulatory capture, that’s fine. He’s worried about Anthropic, one of the largest AI startups in the world, which he believes […]
Even the Inventor of ‘Vibe Coding’ Says Vibe Coding Can’t Cut It
It’s been over a year since OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy exited the company. In the time since he’s been gone, he coined and popularized the term “vibe coding” to describe the practice of farming out coding projects to AI tools. But earlier this week, when he released his own open source model called nanochat, he […]
Sam Altman: Lord Forgive Me, It’s Time to Go Back to the Old ChatGPT
Earlier this year, OpenAI scaled back some of ChatGPT’s “personality” as part of a broader effort to improve user safety following the death of a teenager who took his own life after discussing it with the chatbot. But apparently, that’s all in the past. Sam Altman announced on Twitter that the company is going back […]
Palmer Luckey and Mark Zuckerberg Are Putting Cat Ears on the US Military
Palmer Luckey and Mark Zuckerberg never quite cracked virtual reality headsets for consumers, but they’re taking another crack at it with the US military as their new audience. On Monday, Luckey’s military tech company Anduril announced its AI-powered mixed reality system EagleEye, which will put hardware right into the helmets of Army soldiers and provide […]
Police Say People Keep Calling 911 Over an ‘AI Homeless Man’ TikTok Prank
Finally, generative AI has found its purpose: letting kids prank parents. In an apparent new social media trend, kids are creating AI-generated images of homeless people in their homes and sending the images to their parents, causing them to freak out and, in some cases, call the police to respond to the situation. The basic […]
You Can’t Use Copyrighted Characters in OpenAI’s Sora Anymore and People Are Freaking Out
The complete copyright-free-for-all approach that OpenAI took to its new AI video generation model, Sora 2, lasted all of one week. After initially requiring copyright holders to opt out of having their content appear in Sora-generated videos, CEO Sam Altman announced that the company will be moving to an “opt-in” model that will “give rightsholders more […]
Taylor Swift, Defender of Artist Ownership, Allegedly Uses AI in Videos
Taylor Swift once said, “You deserve to own the art you make.” Apparently, that doesn’t apply to the millions of artists who have had their works fed into the data wood chipper that is generative AI tools. In the lead-up to the release of the world’s biggest pop star’s latest album, “Life of a Showgirl,” […]
OpenAI Goes All-In on Vibe Coding, Says ‘Mature Experiences’ Are on the Horizon
OpenAI’s DevDay 2025 featured a major focus on vibe coding. The company, which boasts that it now has more than 800 million weekly active users for ChatGPT, announced a variety of new tools for developers during its annual event in San Francisco. Headlining the announcements: the ability to build with apps directly in ChatGPT (including […]
Is Everyone Really Dating AI Chatbots?
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 […]