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Jan 31 • 3 months ago

Does Anthropic believe its AI is conscious, or is that just what it wants Claude to think?

We have no proof that AI models suffer, but Anthropic acts like they might for training purposes. ...

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Jan 17 • 4 months ago

OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions

Ads coming to free tier and new $8/month ChatGPT Go plan in US. ...

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Dec 31 • 4 months ago

From prophet to product: How AI came back down to earth in 2025

In a year where lofty promises collided with inconvenient research, would-be oracles became software tools. ...

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Dec 29 • 4 months ago

China drafts world’s strictest rules to end AI-encouraged suicide, violence

China wants a human to intervene and notify guardians if suicide is ever mentioned. ...

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Dec 28 • 4 months ago

Bernie Sanders criticizes AI as ‘the most consequential technology in humanity’

Republican senator Katie Britt also proposes AI companies be criminally liable if they expose minors to harmful ideasUS senator B...

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Dec 20 • 5 months ago

LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems

LG says it'll let people delete the Copilot icon. But TV chatbots aren't going away. ...

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Dec 13 • 5 months ago

Chatbot-powered toys rebuked for discussing sexual, dangerous topics with kids

"... AI toys shouldn’t be capable of having sexually explicit conversations, period." ...

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Dec 13 • 5 months ago

OpenAI built an AI coding agent and uses it to improve the agent itself

"The vast majority of Codex is built by Codex," OpenAI told us about its new AI coding agent. ...

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Dec 03 • 5 months ago

OpenAI CEO declares “code red” as Gemini gains 200 million users in 3 months

Three years after Google sounded alarm bells over ChatGPT, the tables have turned. ...

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Nov 14 • 6 months ago

Forget AGI—Sam Altman celebrates ChatGPT finally following em dash formatting rules

Ongoing struggles with AI model instruction-following show that true human-level AI still a ways off. ...

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Nov 13 • 6 months ago

OpenAI walks a tricky tightrope with GPT-5.1’s eight new personalities

New controls attempt to please critics on both sides with a balance between bland and habit-forming. ...

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Nov 08 • 6 months ago

Researchers surprised that with AI, toxicity is harder to fake than intelligence

New "computational Turing test" reportedly catches AI pretending to be human with 80% accuracy. ...

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