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If you’ve ever tried chatbots in multiple languages, you already know the languages have slightly different personalities. As part of a new report on behavior inconsistencies published on Monday, Anthropic researchers acknowledged this quirk. Rather unsettlingly, they note that due to differences in the attributes of texts the models are trained on, the differences might run deeper than just tone, and might actually change the model’s priorities. These “im

Online search has become a nightmare, littered with AI-generated misinformation, spammy sites that brute-force their way to the top of results, and tons of sponsored results. It’s been enough to lead people to start using ChatGPT as their de facto search engine, which can only mean one thing: time to enshittify that, too (you know, more than it already is). According to the New York Times, OpenAI struck a deal with prediction market Kalshi to show the curr

Major publishers Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, and Elsevier have filed a lawsuit against Google alleging that Google used their work to train its AI chatbot Gemini. Scott Turow, the author of crime thrillers like Presumed Innocent, has also joined the suit which is seeking class action status. The lawsuit was filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York alleging that Google “reproduced millions of copyrighted works

There’s been a big push among AI developers in recent years towards the development of more “agentic” systems—that is, algorithms that can autonomously make decisions and interact with digital tools without constant hand-holding from humans. This has been especially true within software development, the field that’s arguably become the most ripe for automation in the ongoing AI boom. But one of the upshots of building highly agentic AI systems is that they

Artificial intelligence labs are after computing power. Kalshi doesn’t have any to offer them but they’ve got something else that might be of some use, according to Bloomberg: a tool that plots the predicted future price of computing power. So, that’s something! There really is some value for companies to know where the cost of compute is going—especially since currently, it’s mostly just going up. Having a sense of just how much compute is going to cost a

SpaceXAI, the AI division of SpaceX, operates dozens of unpermitted gas turbines, and it’s disproportionately impacting the Black communities living near them, according to a Reuters report from Tuesday. Elon Musk owns an estimated 42% of SpaceX, which is now a publicly traded company. The gas turbines power Colossus 2, the data center that runs SpaceXAI’s Grok chatbot, located near Memphis, Tennessee, one of the largest majority-Black cities in the nation

Twenty-six anonymous Meta employees are suing the tech giant, claiming that it used inherently discriminatory AI-powered software systems in a massive round of layoffs. Meta conducted a substantial round of layoffs in May that impacted 8,000 employees, representing 10% of its entire workforce. The layoffs were done in an effort to help offset the hundreds of billions of dollars the tech giant prepares to spend on artificial intelligence development. “Meta

Human beings have long been at war with mosquitos, and it’s not at all clear we’ve been winning. Malaria alone—just one of many deadly mosquito-borne illnesses—kills over 600,000 people every year, most of them very young children. Until now, all we’ve had were short-term solutions, like public inoculations, insecticides, traps, and (usually futile) hand-swatting. But a French tech startup called Tornyol is saying enough is enough: Let’s turn this never-en

OpenAI has officially rolled out its first piece of hardware, and it’s not the one you’re thinking of. The company behind ChatGPT announced on Wednesday a $230 mini keyboard designed specifically to work with its AI coding agent, Codesx. The device is a collaboration with Work Louder, a maker of programmable keyboards and macro pads. Technically, the device is more of a programmable macro pad than a full keyboard. The small, square-shaped pad is officially

AI models tend to be black boxes, but it seems they do become a little less opaque if you forcibly crack them open. According to a report from 404 Media, a hacker who allegedly breached AI music generation platform Suno back in November 2025 was able to get a peek into the trove of training data that was used to build Suno’s models—and it contains lots of works from artists that the company seems to have scraped from streaming platforms. Per 404 Media, the

As I pointed out earlier this year when he obtained a permit for dozens of gas turbines to operate the data centers that power such AI innovations as Grok, Elon Musk said a bunch of things about how capitalism’s failures had made fossil fuels profitable during an interview back in 2014. Here’s a sample: […] because there’s no price on carbon emissions it makes things that are carbon-producing very rewarding, because the true price is not being paid. So if

Artificial intelligence has already turned the job market into a slop fest—AI-generated resumes and cover letters getting reviewed by AI screeners who make decisions before a real person even has a chance. A startup called Refer is offering to put AI on your side—assuming you’re willing to give up some of your salary for it. The company is called Refer, and according to Business Insider, it’s something like a reverse recruiter for workers. That means inste

Seems like the founders of AI labs are ready to hear Peter Thiel’s pitch for a private bunker in New Zealand. According to a recent report from the Wall Street Journal, executives across Silicon Valley are growing increasingly paranoid and afraid of the ongoing public backlash against their technology—they were probably not comforted by the sight of body bags outside of their offices. The body bags weren’t a threat, but rather part of a protest. According

Alibaba-backed Chinese artificial intelligence startup Moonshot just unveiled its latest model, Kimi K3, and it’s already sending shockwaves through the industry, with some benchmarks showing the model outperforming Anthropic and OpenAI’s best offerings. The model packs 2.8 trillion parameters, which Moonshot says would make it the largest open-weight model released to date once its weights become available by July 27. In a blog post, the company acknowled

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