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Getty Images / Kevin Mazur / MG26 AI slop purveyors are stealing comedians’ jokes to create viral Instagram videos of fake comics. And Adam Mosseri, the longtime head of Instagram, says he doesn’t know what to do about it. As Wired reported last week, a recent trend among AI sloppers is to steal the work of real comedians and repackage it in AI-manipulated clips in which the human performers are replaced by fake AI ones. The AI performers in the videos are

Shutterstock / harhar38 Ever since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, a torrent of money has flowed into building out data centers to power the AI boom. The efforts reached a fever pitch the day after Donald Trump’s second inauguration in 2025, when a bevy of AI luminaries including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Softbank founder Masayoshi Son crowded into the Oval Office to announce a $500 billion private investment in data centers. But as the public has grown jit

Getty Images / JORGE UZON Geoffrey Hinton, one of the godfathers of AI, is prognosticating about our future with trademark gloom. In an interview with The Telegraph, the famed British computer scientist insisted that AI has become conscious, and said that humankind must befriend it — “or else we are toast.” Yes, you read that right: he thinks that today’s AI models are already conscious beings. “AI has just as much subjective experience as we do,” Hinton s

Shutterstock / Media Whale Stock A man in Sydney, Australia was arrested this week after telling Anthropic’s Claude that he wanted to kill children at a daycare near his home. As the Sydney Morning Herald reported, 29-year-old David Lan Thackray was taken into custody on Sunday after his disturbing interactions with Anthropic’s Claude were flagged by Interpol. He was charged with using a carriage service to harass, menace, or offend, an Australian criminal

Shutterstock / favoritesphoto Meta’s stocks have taken a serious beating lately, with its price shedding more than 13 percent over the past month. That fact isn’t likely to ease pressure in the trillion-dollar megacorp’s board room, as tensions between CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his board of directors reach a boiling point. As the Wall Street Journal phrased it in new reporting, the conflict between Zuckerberg and his board have amounted to a “war over power

Shutterstock / Hitdelight In October 2024, as The New York Times first reported, a mother in Florida named Megan Garcia filed what was then a first-of-its-kind lawsuit accusing the chatbot startup Character.AI of killing her 14-year-old son, Sewell Setzer III. The young user took his life in April 2024 after months of extensive and deeply intimate conversations with chatbots, or AI “Characters,” on the platform. Garcia’s lawsuit — which also named Characte

Shutterstock / RollingCamera Doomsaying about the coming AI apocalypse is no longer relegated to outbursts from a few tech billionaires. Now, the major American banks whose policies dictate the flow of capital throughout the world are starting to worry about rogue AI, preparing contingency plans for the “day after” a theoretical AI-driven catastrophe. That’s according to new reporting from Axios, which notes that banks are preparing for the worst as they e

The AI-fueled global memory shortage is hitting China particularly hard. So much so that the country’s largest maker of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) is pushing ahead with plans to produce advanced memory chips despite extremely low manufacturing yields. Reuters reports, citing unnamed sources, that ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) plans to begin limited production of HBM3E chips within the next two months. HBM3E is an advanced type of high-bandwi

Meta is entering its AI era (please ignore the company name, reflective of the last time it went all-in on an emerging technology), and it has a pretty clear playbook in mind: a cuteness honeypot. Its latest installation in the “what if we disguised our latest tech with an unassuming little mascot” is a Tamagotchi-like pet app called Waddle World. The game that maybe isn’t really a game puts users in charge of a 16-bit pet. To keep it happy, users are enco

We all like to believe we have complete control over our decisions. Ask most people how they chose their undergrad major, for example, or their career path or spouse, and they’ll probably give you a perfectly cogent response about how they weighed the relevant pros and cons and, after careful consideration, chose the best route accordingly. But as decades of cognitive science can attest, our decision-making processes are far from objective: we’re pushed an

Google’s free cash flow continued tanking in its third quarter of the year. The tech giant had reported its first negative free cash flow figure as a public company back in July in its second quarter earnings, when it came in at negative $5.9 billion. On Wednesday, Google reported that number had dropped even lower to negative $9.07 billion. The quarterly revenue of $127.58 billion also missed market expectations, and the tech giant reported that its long-

Last week, Kimi K3.1 Pro, an LLM from the Beijing, China-based company Moonshot AI, debuted to a surprising amount of fanfare, particularly if you care about benchmarks, which are meant to be standardized measurements for models’ capabilities. It charted at a very respectable—in fact somewhat shocking—fourth place on the marquee Artificial Analysis benchmark called Intelligence Index v4. It also claimed the top spot on Artificial Analysis’ Terminal Bench 4

If your boss asks why you haven’t integrated artificial intelligence tools into your workflow yet, tell them it’s because your faith forbids you from doing so. According to a report from the Religion News Service, a research administrator at the University of Kentucky successfully received a religious exemption from his employer, excusing him from any expectations to use AI for his work. The man, 45-year-old David Durman, identifies as a humanist and told

Big tech firms have poured an infinite amount of money into artificial intelligence development and rolled out tools without any consideration as to whether consumers actually want them or not, all based on the theory that eventually they’ll figure out how to turn a profit. Instead, early returns seem to suggest they’ve simply figured out a way to eat their own profits without an obvious way to replace that revenue stream. That is at least the case for Goo