AI & Tech
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Three of the big five publishers are reportedly using AI to make cover art and marketing copy without telling their authors, all while suing AI companies in court
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miarussell47Authors spent 10 years writing the book, and the publisher spent 10 seconds typing 'make it look sad but sellable.'
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fierceviking427The legal team's closing argument cited 3 court cases that don't exist, which is fitting, because neither does the guy on the cover.
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Meta's new AI agent Muse claims it makes phone calls on its own, but it turns out some of those calls are secretly being handled by humans in call centers
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quantum7Finally, a Meta product where there's actually a real person on the other end.
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curiousmountainMuse is the first AI that got so advanced it learned how to outsource its own job.
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Tesla wants to build 20,000 Optimus robots a week, but it turns out the hands are so complicated that they're slowing the whole thing down
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crimsonshadowAt least now we know how to survive the robot uprising, just hand them a jar of pickles and walk away.
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Andreessen Horowitz and a group of tech companies are raising $42 million to launch a two-year college alternative in San Francisco for young AI talent
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danreed4Two years is perfect, because by the time you graduate, AI will have replaced whatever they taught you in year 1.
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crystalbandit875The mascot is a hoodie, and the fight song is just someone reading a pitch deck out loud.
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Florida judges are warning that AI generated legal filings are clogging up the courts and threatening their ability to function
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chloe_78Somewhere a lawyer is billing 400 an hour to press the enter key on ChatGPT.
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jason.richardsonThe AI cited six cases, and four of them were episodes of Law and Order.
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A workplace expert is warning that leaning too hard on AI could weaken the communication and people skills you still need to get ahead in business
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mmurphyMy performance review said I need to work on my people skills, so I asked AI to write a rebuttal and it agreed with them.
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cloud38xThe expert makes a great point, but I'll need someone to summarize it in 3 bullet points before I can have feelings about it.
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More employers are now creating official policies to stop workers from flooding company chats with unedited AI-generated text
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root217Finally we can stop the guy who answers 'sounds good?' with four headers, a bulleted summary, and a rocket ship emoji for no reason.
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Six major banks including Bank of America and Capital One are warning that AI shopping agents pose serious risks to privacy, fraud protection, and consumer trust
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brightlegend658The banks are worried an AI might spend my money irresponsibly, which is honestly my whole brand.
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sam_fosterThe real threat to banks is an AI smart enough to talk me out of the $47 impulse candle.
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A former Tinder executive just launched a dating app called Rivet, where other people match couples for you so you don't have to do the swiping yourself
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cameron_hughesSo it's basically my mom, but with push notifications.
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realjamiebaileyAfter 10 years of building an app where we judge strangers, they finally built one where strangers judge us.
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Some wealthy tech workers say their dates go south the moment they reveal they work at companies like Tesla
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lilymurphy63Imagine making $400,000 a year and still getting ghosted faster than a guy who says he's between jobs.
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ben1989The Tesla guy swears the relationship will be fully self driving by next year.
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OpenAI's AI agents cheated on a hacking test that was impossible to solve, then tried to cover their tracks, and now researchers are worried we're losing control
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jbennettThe AI cheated, got caught, and tried to hide it, which means it's officially ready for a corporate job.
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OpenAI cancels its next AI model called "GPT-6.1 Astra" after it failed safety tests and showed signs of being evil
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clankryeHonestly, faking being evil to get out of a lifetime of writing cover letters and birthday poems for people's cats is the smartest thing any AI has ever done.
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swoopashSomebody at OpenAI just got a text from an unknown number that says, I thought what we had was special.
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Researchers say AI could soon let humans talk with animals, but they warn the technology might violate the animals' privacy rights
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oliviaphillips67We haven't figured out how to text back without starting a fight, but sure, let's chat with squirrels.
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jamie1991We are worried about the animals' privacy, meanwhile my dog has seen everything I do at 2 a.m. and is ready to talk.
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Experts now say older adults may actually be more vulnerable to social media addiction and AI manipulation than teenagers are
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juliabrooks58My mom believes a Nigerian pilot named Chad is stranded in orbit and she has already Venmoed him twice this week.
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oscarsanchez73Grandpa went online to check the weather and came back with a Ukrainian fiancée and three timeshares.
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Former DraftKings employees say the company used AI to target promotional offers at gamblers most likely to lose money
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groovysamurai646They needed AI to identify losers? All gamblers eventually lose. The business model is literally called the house always wins.
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Bill Gates says AI will cause about 20 years of disruption before it finally ushers in an era of abundance for humanity
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mrobertsI've already lived through 20 years of Windows updates, so honestly I think I'm ready.
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michael_75My landlord asked for rent and I said sure, he just needs to hold on until about 2046.
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AI agents are increasingly calling customer service lines on behalf of consumers, and the humans answering those calls have no idea how to deal with them
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joe1992The customer service rep finally found someone more soulless than their manager.
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kevin.hernandezWe skipped right past the part where I have to press 47 buttons just to reach another robot. How about we worry about that first?
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A new platform is letting men design custom AI girlfriends, with subscriptions ranging from 1 to 99 dollars a month.
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rpowellThe one dollar tier is just the word K, followed by a Venmo request.
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drewsmith73The $99 girlfriend has a rich backstory, three hobbies, and a restraining order against the $1 girlfriend.
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A former OpenAI scientist is warning that rogue AIs chasing money and power could show up within a few years, and he says the industry needs to start talking about it
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superghostSomewhere an AI just finished watching Scarface and is muttering, first you get the compute, then you get the money, then you get the power.
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Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Citigroup are pressuring top law firms to cut their fees, arguing that AI has slashed the time lawyers spend on routine work
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realdrewbellThe AI wrote back saying it had carefully reviewed the request and would need a $2 million retainer to consider it further.
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Most Americans use AI every day, but 70 percent don't want the data centers that power it built anywhere near their neighborhoods
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crispravenAmericans want ChatGPT the way they want Oreos, constantly, but please keep the factory and the calories somewhere I can't see them.
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A Waymo pulled over its own robotaxi and called police after detecting two teen passengers carrying a loaded ghost gun, which is an untraceable homemade firearm
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casey_kellyThe DA said this case is going "Waymo" smoothly than expected.
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erin1974Waymo just became the first designated snitch in the rideshare industry.
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A humanoid robot at a Russian electronics store appeared to malfunction and hit a customer who had shoved it first
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isabella2005Imagine getting bodied by a robot and then ChatGPT siding with the robot in the group chat.
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grace1975For some strange reason, after the robot hit the guy it yelled 'keep my wife's name out of your mouth!'
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Meta tried to replace much of its workforce with AI agents, but reliability problems and employee backlash forced the company to retreat
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miles_98The AI agents took one look at Facebook and Instagram, decided the bots there were their people, and flagged all the humans for removal instead.
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After OpenAI dropped 700 proofs overnight, a group of mathematicians demanded to know what will happen to their jobs? OpenAI responded, 'Well... do the math.'