Artificial Intelligence
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Report on Candidates for Office Finds AI Is More Talked-About Than Racism or Israel
Back in March, we all couldn’t help but watch with trepidation as Senator Bernie Sanders sat in a darkened room and interrogated…
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Used Booksellers Are Racking Up Huge Sales. They’re Not Thrilled About the Likely Reason
Another bookseller, David Tobin, who runs north London’s Walden Books—not to be mistaken for Waldenbooks—said he was also in the midst of…
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Anthropic Explains Its Watermark System as Some Claude Users Loudly Revolt
In a blog post on Friday, Anthropic elaborated on its controversial watermarking system, announced earlier this week as an effort to comply…
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Dude Reportedly Hides Prompt Injections in Legal Filing, Just in Case Judge Is Really That Lazy
A guy suing the New York Bariatric Group reportedly included hidden prompts in filings instructing AI to declare him the winner of…
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‘Masturbation Consultants’ Gave an AI Startup a Hand
You might remember a few months ago, an AI startup posted a job listing looking for 10 “masturbation consultants,” offering to pay…
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Anthropic Investors Think It’s Worth $2 Trillion
Investors in Claude developer Anthropic are reportedly setting a $2 trillion target for its October IPO in an eye-watering and potentially risky…
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Twitch Adds Setting Letting Users Opt Out of AI Training Amid User Backlash
AI companies have already scraped much of the public internet to train their models. Now Amazon is turning to Twitch streamers. Twitch…
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Microsoft Ups Investment in Polluting AI, but Cuts Down Carbon Removal by 80%
Microsoft’s carbon footprint is swelling. A BloombergNEF report from Thursday found that the tech giant bought about 80% fewer carbon removal credits…
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Anthropic Is Reportedly Looking to Buy This Seemingly Un-Anthropic-Like Startup
In one of those anonymously-sourced Bloomberg articles you can’t help but suspect might exist solely to help out one or another side…
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An AI-Powered News Site Scooped Human Journalists. Now What?
Most of us by now have become more or less desensitized to a steady drip of AI slop: AI-generated influencers, musicians racking…





