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AI chatbots are prone to ‘sycophancy’ — and are giving users bad advice because of it: study
Artificial intelligence chatbots feed into humans’ desire for flattery and approval at an alarming rate and it’s leading…
New study reveals which jobs are most vulnerable to AI
The bots are coming for your livelihoods. Researchers at Tufts University have put together the American AI Jobs…
Wikipedia officially bans AI-generated encyclopedia entries
Bots, be gone. The internet’s favorite encyclopedia has officially banned its 260,000 human editors from using artificial intelligence…
Inside the fallout between Gavin Newsom and Elon Musk
In February 2023 California governor Gavin Newsom and Elon Musk stood side by side at a press conference…
Disgraced Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes just caught a break in court — and prosecutors aren’t happy
Disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes will serve just over 10 years behind bars after a federal judge trimmed…
Here’s the most overlooked part of Larry Fink’s yearly letter to shareholders — and why it could be good news
Maybe the most overlooked part of Larry Fink’s annual letter is probably the most optimistic: That people need…
US judge blocks Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic, for now
A U.S. judge on Thursday temporarily blocked the Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic, the latest turn in the Claude…
OpenAI shelves erotic chatbot indefinitely amid concerns: report
OpenAI won’t be releasing its controversial “adult mode” erotica chatbot after all — at least for the time…
Parents of social media victims to Big Tech after addiction trial verdict: ‘This is not over’
The tenacious families of social media victims celebrated the landmark verdict Wednesday that determined Meta and Google design…
Legal double whammy is just the start for social media companies
Big Tech — and especially Meta, the parent of Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp — has weathered two major legal…