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This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops
On June 5, a Pinal County Board of Supervisors meeting was asked to approve a $500,000 contract between the county ...

Sex-Fantasy Chatbots Are Leaking a Constant Stream of Explicit Messages
All of the 400 exposed AI systems found by UpGuard have one thing in common: They use the open source ...

Autonomous AI Could Wreak Havoc on Stock Market, Bank of England Warns
The stock market is already an unpredictable place, and now the Bank of England has warned that the adoption of ...

This Tool Probes Frontier AI Models for Lapses in Intelligence
Executives at artificial intelligence companies may like to tell us that AGI is almost here, but the latest models still ...

An AI Image Generator’s Exposed Database Reveals What People Really Used It For
As well as CSAM, Fowler says, there were AI-generated pornographic images of adults in the database plus potential “face-swap” images. ...

If Anthropic Succeeds, a Nation of Benevolent AI Geniuses Could Be Born
When Dario Amodei gets excited about AI—which is nearly always—he moves. The cofounder and CEO springs from a seat in ...

Databricks Has a Trick That Lets AI Models Improve Themselves
Databricks, a company that helps big businesses build custom artificial intelligence models, has developed a machine learning trick that can ...

Hot New Thermodynamic Chips Could Trump Classical Computers
Guillaume Verdon stands before me with a new kind of computer chip in his hand—a piece of hardware he believes ...

OpenAI’s Sora Is Plagued by Sexist, Racist, and Ableist Biases
Despite recent leaps forward in image quality, the biases found in videos generated by AI tools, like OpenAI’s Sora, are ...

OpenAI’s Deep Research Agent Is Coming for White-Collar Work
Isla Fulford, a researcher at OpenAI, had a hunch that Deep Research would be a hit even before it was ...