We once again have to hear the nine most terrifying words in the English language: “We’re Facebook, and we’re here to fix the news.” This time, the solution from the social media giant is to deliver breaking news via chatbot. On Friday, Meta announced that it has partnered with several new organizations, including CNN and […]
Salesforce CEO Mulls Changing Name to AI-Flavored ‘Agentforce’
Despite the fact that Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff talks about AI nonstop, regularly chimes in on the AI news of the day, and endlessly pushes his company’s AI platform, he seems worried that people just aren’t associating Salesforce with AI. Luckily, he has a solution in mind, according to a report from Business Insider: changing […]
Trump’s New Plan to Cut Energy Costs: Use Walmart’s Backup Generators
The massive data center buildout happening across the country is driving up energy prices for local communities, creating shortages and strains as AI companies hammer the grid with demand. To solve that without telling tech companies to get bent (not that we should dismiss that option), we need to rapidly increase the available energy supply, […]
Anthropic Accidentally Gives the World a Peek Into Its Model’s ‘Soul’
Artificial intelligence models don’t have souls, but one of them does apparently have a “soul” document. A person named Richard Weiss was able to get Anthropic’s latest large language model, Claude 4.5 Opus, to produce a document referred to as a “Soul overview,” which was seemingly used to shape how the model interacts with users […]
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 […]
DOGE Laid Off the Humans. Now the IRS Is Deploying AI Agents
Months after Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency stripped the Internal Revenue Service for parts and snagged as much taxpayer data as they could get their hands on, the agency is getting some support—just not from actual people. According to a report from Axios, the IRS is deploying AI agents for the first […]
Move Over Crypto Bros, the AI PACs Are Here to Buy the Next Election
The crypto community was able to help buy itself a friendly administration in the 2024 election by pouring money into political action committees, and now the AI industry looks like it is planning to follow the playbook heading into the midterms. According to CNBC, the biggest PAC in the game has already picked its first […]
ChatGPT Has Problems Saying No
If you’re looking for some real talk, there’s probably no reason to ask ChatGPT. Thanks to the web-scraping-for-good powers of the Internet Archive, The Washington Post got hold of 47,000 conversations with the chatbot and analyzed the back-and-forths with users. Among its findings are evidence that OpenAI’s flagship chatbot still has major sycophancy problems, telling […]
What’s Cooler Than Building a Literal God? Building the New Uber
An interesting shift seems to be happening in the language of OpenAI’s biggest hype people. The term “artificial general intelligence” and the idea of the do-it-all AI seem to have fallen out of favor a bit. In its place: personalized AI experiences and researchers. Perhaps the clearest example of this change can be seen in […]
OpenAI Will Lose $74 Billion the Same Year That Anthropic Breaks Even: Report
OpenAI has committed more than $1.4 trillion to building out its data center infrastructure in the next 8 years. It’s projected to lose $74 billion in 2028 alone, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal citing internal documents from the company. On the opposite end of the spectrum, AI startup Anthropic is […]