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What if you could make trades on the global financial markets and never lose money? That’s the pitch of UpsideOnly, a new AI-powered trading platform from Perpetuals.com. While the idea is obviously compelling, there is a big catch. UpsideOnly exists as a kind of fake trading platform where human users trade stocks, cryptocurrencies, and commodities. The idea is that by engaging in these fake trades, humans are providing data to the company’s AI model, Bay

Donald Trump was supposed to sign an executive order on Thursday that would have created a voluntary framework for frontier AI companies to have their models reviewed by the federal government for security risks before being made available publicly, according to Alex Heath. It was reportedly canceled because tech execs couldn’t get to D.C. fast enough for the photo op—though Trump claimed that it was because he “didn’t like certain aspects of it” and doesn

Remember when there was that stretch of time where people were leaving AI companies and every one of their farewell messages boiled down to, “This is going to kill us all?” Lun Wang, a researcher at Google’s DeepMind, recently announced he was departing from the company and may have reignited the trend by warning that current benchmarking tests aren’t capable of truly evaluating risks presented by evolving AI models. On X, Wang noted that before deciding t

Starbucks has stopped using an AI-powered inventory tool after just nine months because it made the most basic of errors, according to a report from Reuters. The news comes after other AI tools have reportedly made serious mistakes, such as the case of a Pizza Hut franchisee who sued the pizza chain’s parent company after a system meant to make things more efficient allegedly cost $100 million in lost revenue. “Starting today, Automated Counting will be re

As someone who built a large fortune over the last few decades, I couldn’t help but notice artificial intelligence is something young people now perceive as a source of adversity. Well, roomful of 22-year-olds, let me tell you something about adversity: I myself faced a great deal of adversity back when I was building my large fortune, and when I encountered adversity, I simply turned that adversity into opportunity, which I believe to be your duty vis-a-v

A new report from Bloomberg raises some uncomfortable questions about Salesforce’s marketing around Agentforce, the company’s AI platform. The platform has long been criticized on social media as “vaporware” (sometimes even in pro-Salesforce posts), and this Bloomberg report doesn’t look like it’s helping matters. Conventional wisdom—true or not—holds that we’re in the midst of something called the “SaaSpocalypse,” brought about by AI. The thinking goes th

There’s an argument to be made that audiobooks are the finest form of content. You take a book—already off to a good start—and you get to have someone read it right into your ears. And when I say “someone” I mean the GOATs in the voice game. I could cite examples of celebrities you never knew narrated audiobooks, but here’s a sample of Werner Herzog narrating his memoir Every Man for Himself and God Against All that I think speaks for itself: What could be

Don’t play innocent. If you’re a non-lawyer in the 2020s, you’ve at least had the passing thought that you could use an LLM to help you generate a killer lawsuit against someone who pissed you off. Or at least now I know it’s not just me. Thanks to AI, plaintiffs representing themselves, also known as “pro se” plaintiffs, are changing the legal landscape for the worse, according to a new study by MIT’s Anand Shah and USC’s Joshua Levy, reported on by the N

One of the things artificial intelligence seems particularly adept at is cybersecurity—at least if you buy the marketing pitch of models like Anthropic’s Mythos, which supposedly spotted vulnerabilities that humans failed to patch for more than 20 years. But instead of putting cybersecurity experts out of work, AI has actually created a hiring spree, according to the New York Times. Citing headhunter companies that help place cyber engineers at major firms

Uber does not see a link between productivity gains and its colossal AI spending commitments, according to the company’s chief operating officer. Like much of the rest of the tech industry, Uber went all in on AI this past year. Company executives had employees across divisions embed AI into their workflows and reported that they were relying on AI agents for 10% of all code changes. While Uber doesn’t outwardly subscribe to this practice, many tech giants

Citizens have started pushing back against Flock Safety, a company best known for its AI-powered Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs). Now they’ve got another company they can add to their enemies list. According to a report from 404 Media, a company called BusPatrol has installed cameras on school buses across the country and is planning to let law enforcement use them to scan license plates. It’s likely that the “letting law enforcement use them” part