Rogue AI aren’t science fiction anymore
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The woman claimed that AI tools are "taking everyday life and turning it into child sexual abuse."...
Your AI Slop Bores Me is brilliant in its simplicity. There are two tabs: human and LARP as an AI. On one side you enter a request. On the o...
How will the watermarking actually work? Can it be hidden with editing? And how does this affect code?...
AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX....
A guide on how to check if hackers have broken into your accounts on the most popular AI platforms....
When Twitch announced that streamers could opt out, thousands of users questioned why their content was being used to train AI models in the...
The Unitree G1 has found online fame as a relatively affordable robot that can charm a crowd. But can it ever hold down a real job?...
Screen-sharing bug lets remote hackers log in without a password....
"We don't have access to the data on the hardware/servers," Iron Mountain told Ars....
Instagram's wordmark is iconic. Well, was iconic. Apparently Instagram thought it looked old, so the company rolled out a new one this week....
Google will now allow you to remove visible watermarks from the images, videos, and music made with AI tools. With the update, you can toggl...
Turning off this setting won't affect invisible benchmarks used to identify an AI generated file....
Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to...
Tim O’Reilly built a publishing empire that AI is helping to destroy. Yet he loves AI—as long as it’s open source....
The idea that GPUs are poorly suited for agentic workflows may be a misconception, according to French startup Kog....
US groups release cheaper models after new challenges to their trillion-dollar ambitions....
Natural gas prices could triple in some parts of the U.S., which could saddle hyperscalers with massive bills to power their AI data centers...
Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to...
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