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Delivery Robots Are Watching You, According to Lawsuit Original
In addition to paying the cost of food and delivery fees, it turns out there’s another payment you might be making when you place an order that is brought to you by a delivery robot: your biometric data. According to a report from the Associated Press, two popular delivery robot manufacturers are accused of using cameras and sensors to scan the hands and faces of customers without consent. The accusation stems from two separate class-action lawsuits being brought by residents of Chicago.
Polymarket Decides Taking Bets on the Outcome of a Rape Case Might Be a Bad Idea Original
Polymarket recently poured millions of dollars into securing the endorsements of legendary athletes, including LeBron James, Derek Jeter, and Sue Bird, to highlight its sports “prediction market.” The company should have stuck to sports.
Philadelphia Is Holding the Line on Robot Resistance as Woman Gets Arrested for Blocking a Delivery Bot Original
The city of Philadelphia, which solved engineering when it revealed the world’s largest t-shirt cannon more than a decade ago, seems to collectively believe that technology has gone too far and has banded together to stop it. A 78-year-old woman, whom some would call a hero, stepped in front of a delivery robot that could have been transporting weapons for the robot revolution (but probably just had a sandwich) and refused to let it move forward.
The Fear of a One-Man-Band Weaponizing AI Agents Is Becoming Reality
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The Fear of a One-Man-Band Weaponizing AI Agents Is Becoming Reality Original
More than 100 websites belonging to businesses large and small were hit by a hacking collective over the last couple of weeks, stealing data, credit card numbers, and cryptocurrency. Except the collective wasn’t a group of script kiddies, but just one person and their AI agents, according to Reuters, citing a recent report from cybersecurity firm NorForge.
The MapQuest Renaissance Continues as the Platform Adds Flock Camera Locations
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The MapQuest Renaissance Continues as the Platform Adds Flock Camera Locations
MapQuest is continuing its push to become the official map and navigation platform of the resistance. After promising not to comply with the Trump administration’s “Lake America” gimmick, the platform announced a new “Surveillance Layer” that displays the locations of automated license plate readers (ALPRs), including those from Flock Safety.
The MapQuest Renaissance Continues as the Platform Adds Flock Camera Locations
MapQuest is continuing its push to become the official map and navigation platform of the resistance. After promising not to comply with the Trump administration’s “Lake America” gimmick, the platform announced a new “Surveillance Layer” that displays the locations of automated license plate readers (ALPRs), including those from Flock Safety.
Here’s How ChatGPT Is Targeting You With Ads Original
OpenAI has been expanding its advertising business, recently introducing visual promos in addition to text ads that get injected into ChatGPT conversations. But how does OpenAI choose what ads to display? The decision is more personal than you might think. 404 Media ran two advertising campaigns in ChatGPT and found it allows advertisers to target users based on personally linked accounts and information, including a person’s email address, phone number, or a unique identifier on their phone.
AI Startup Wants Every Company to Assign You Your Own Personal Stalker Original
If there is one thing this moment of techno-negativity—from the rejection of Flock Security cameras to the distrust of AI companies gobbling up data—tells us, it’s that people hate feeling watched. You could put the brightest minds of our generation in a room and task them with coming up with the worst possible idea to meet this moment, and they wouldn’t be able to come up with a better idea than the startup Outlit, which promises an AI agent over every person’s shoulder.
Man Accused of Bugging OpenAI Said Elon Musk Was His Role Model Original
Abdulrahman Alfozan seemed to be something of a rising star in Silicon Valley. Identified as one of the few Saudi Arabian nationals working in Silicon Valley and perhaps the only one at OpenAI, he reportedly shmoozed with top Saudi officials and was even recently set to give a speech at Stanford, according to the Financial Times. In an interview, he had identified Elon Musk as his role model, and it seemed like he could have the chops to chart a similar path as his idol.
Man Accused of Bugging OpenAI Said Elon Musk Was His Role Model
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Lawsuit Alleges Expedia Is to Blame for Rising Hotel Prices
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Lawsuit Alleges Expedia Is to Blame for Rising Hotel Prices
Feel like it’s hard to find a good deal on a hotel despite seemingly every other advertisement being for travel apps and services that help you find deals? Well, a new lawsuit alleges that you have Expedia to thank for that. A class action suit filed this month in the Western District of Washington claims that the travel middleman has gobbled up a monopoly-like share of the hotel booking market and is using its power to artificially jack up prices.
Lawsuit Alleges Expedia Is to Blame for Rising Hotel Prices
Feel like it’s hard to find a good deal on a hotel despite seemingly every other advertisement being for travel apps and services that help you find deals? Well, a new lawsuit alleges that you have Expedia to thank for that. A class action suit filed this month in the Western District of Washington claims that the travel middleman has gobbled up a monopoly-like share of the hotel booking market and is using its power to artificially jack up prices.
Bumble Given a Billion Reasons to Go Private
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Bumble Given a Billion Reasons to Go Private Original
Bumble is breaking up with the Nasdaq. According to a report from Reuters, the floundering dating app has accepted a $1.3 billion bid from Ithaca Holdings to go private, taking the company off the market as it and its many rivals struggle to figure out how to get Gen Zers and Gen Alpha to care about dating again.
AI Agents Successfully Recreate the Gender Pay Gap Original
We can replace human workers with AI agents, but we can’t take sexism out of the workplace. A recently published study from researchers at Ireland’s University of Limerick found that existing conscious and unconscious gender biases extend to AI agents, resulting in female-presenting bots getting paid less than their male-presenting counterparts.
We Have Entered a Cybersecurity Hellscape, Japan Warns Original
We haven’t quite reached the cyber apocalypse that artificial intelligence companies have warned their technology could unleash on the world, but we’re getting uncomfortably close to a catastrophe on a national scale.
Anthropic Moves Us One Step Closer to Making ‘Clanker’ a Slur Original
Be nice to Claude; it’s the law. On Thursday, Anthropic published a new Usage Policy update that, among other things, has made it against the rules for users to abuse their chatbot. Under the new policy, users can be cut off for peppering Claude with mean language. “We’ve added a prohibition on sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward our models.
The Tech Bros Are Putting Swords on Robots and ‘Democratizing MMA’ Original
If you’re still wading into the culture war about whether trans athletes should be allowed to compete, you’re living in the past. You gotta keep up; we’re onto humans fighting robots now. Meet Robot Entertainment Kombat, an upstart sports startup that pits human vs. machine… as long as the California State Athletic Commission doesn’t find out.
The Tech Bros Are Putting Swords on Robots and ‘Democratizing MMA’
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OpenAI Wants ChatGPT to Stop Looking Like a Chatbot Original
The wall-of-text responses that ChatGPT is known for will apparently soon be a thing of the past.
Grok Bot Is Now a Model Router as SpaceX Continues to Pivot Further Toward AI Infrastructure Original
Just a couple of weeks after SpaceX released its Grok 4.7 model and claimed that it was competitive with frontier models in coding and knowledge work, the company is now letting those models do Grok’s work. CEO Elon Musk announced via Twitter that the Grok Bot agent service will now select from a range of different models before choosing “whatever is most likely to give you the best outcome” for a user’s request.
OpenAI Decides ChatGPT Would Be Better With More Sponsored Results Original
Hey! You got ads in my AI responses! On Monday, OpenAI announced that it plans to start expanding the types of advertisements that appear in ChatGPT alongside the model’s outputs. The new “visual ad format,” as the company calls it, will include images that are meant to help “people imagine how products and services could fit into their lives.” In an example of the format, OpenAI showed a carousel-style ad slot with images of different types of groceries that a person might want to buy.
The Reviews Are In: ‘Artificial’ is Real Good
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The Reviews Are In: ‘Artificial’ is Real Good Original
Artificial is the film we almost didn’t get. After Amazon decided to drop the project (after signing a big deal with OpenAI, the film’s subject matter), it was unclear if Luca Guadagnino’s latest directorial effort would see the light of day. But with independent production house Neon behind it, Artificial is set to hit theaters on Christmas Day of this year, and critics got their first look at the film at its debut screening at the New York Film Festival last night.
OpenAI Is Adding Text Watermarks in the EU Because Regulation Works Original
Passing off ChatGPT’s work as your own is about to get tougher—at least if you live in the European Union. On Monday, OpenAI announced that it would start inserting an invisible watermark, imperceptible to the naked eye but identifiable by machine, into all text outputs generated by its AI models, including ChatGPT and its coding agent Codex.
Florida Woman Arrested Following Conversation With Claude That Allegedly Included ‘Threats’
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Florida Woman Arrested Following Conversation With Claude That Allegedly Included ‘Threats’
Claude, it turns out, is not a reliable confidant. According to a report from Gulf Coast Now, a Florida woman was arrested last month for allegedly making threats against local law enforcement in a conversation with Anthropic’s chatbot. Per the outlet, which cites the arrest report, the 30-year-old woman from Bonita Springs, Florida, was apparently having an ongoing private conversation with Claude in which she made multiple threats directed at the Lee County Sheriff’s Office.
Florida Woman Arrested Following Conversation With Claude That Allegedly Included ‘Threats’
Claude, it turns out, is not a reliable confidant. According to a report from Gulf Coast Now, a Florida woman was arrested last month for allegedly making threats against local law enforcement in a conversation with Anthropic’s chatbot. Per the outlet, which cites the arrest report, the 30-year-old woman from Bonita Springs, Florida, was apparently having an ongoing private conversation with Claude in which she made multiple threats directed at the Lee County Sheriff’s Office.
Ladies, Lock Up Your DMs: Elon Musk Is Back on the Market Original
Earlier this year, while under oath, Elon Musk referred to Shivon Zilis—a venture capitalist who, at the time, was his live-in girlfriend and mother to four of his children—as his “chief of staff” and “close advisor” rather than, you know, something like a loving partner. Consider it foreshadowing, as Zilis announced via X (the platform that Musk owns, as you might know) that she and the CEO of SpaceX were no longer romantically involved.
Billionaire Collector of Legendary Studio Names Uses None of Them Original
With more than a little help from his father’s piggy bank, David Ellison started Skydance in 2006, and it was… fine, as far as production companies go. Not exactly a brand with a historic legacy, but it had some hits. Now, post-merger and acquisition madness, Ellison controls Paramount and Warner Bros., two of the industry’s most legendary studios with a combined 200+ years of history. So, of course, Ellison has decided to name his new Frankenstein’s monster of a media behemoth… Skydance. Cool, man.
‘This Matters’: Researchers Identify Thousands of New Tells in AI Writing
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‘This Matters’: Researchers Identify Thousands of New Tells in AI Writing Original
Much ado has been made of “AI tells” in writing—so much so that an entire micro-economy of so-called AI detectors has cropped up and is somehow worth millions of dollars. A new study from Graphite (a marketing company, so you know, take it with a grain of salt) has identified about 13,000 words and phrases that it believes are likely indicators that an AI model produced text—and warns that in at least one case, the tells might be getting harder to spot.
Cops May Have Found a Way Around One of Apple’s Toughest iPhone Security Features Original
The latest round of the ongoing cat-and-mouse game between Apple and the cops has seemingly gone to the cat. According to a report from 404 Media, a company that develops tools for law enforcement has figured out a way to bypass a key Apple security technique that has been making life considerably harder for police to crack seized iPhones.
DoorDash Debuts Text-to-Order AI Agent for People Who Find It a Little Too Hard to Order DoorDash
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DoorDash Debuts Text-to-Order AI Agent for People Who Find It a Little Too Hard to Order DoorDash Original
We may have hit the point of diminishing returns on the concept of convenience. DoorDash, a platform that has already given people a unified way to shop (sometimes without their permission) from restaurants and businesses and will pick up and deliver whatever you buy to your doorstep, is apparently concerned that things just aren’t easy enough for consumers. To fix that, they’ve jumped on the AI agent bandwagon and built one that you can text orders to directly.
With No Astra to Release, OpenAI Pivots to New GPT-6.1 Sol Model Original
Less than 24 hours after announcing that it won’t release its new model, GPT-6.1 Astra, because it’s too dangerous to make public, OpenAI showed up to its annual DevDay event with a fresh release after all—just an apparently less powerful one. On Tuesday, the company released GPT-6.1 Sol, an update that promises Astra-level performance at a fraction of the price. If you feel like you’re starting to lose track of OpenAI’s models, you’re forgiven.
Trump Airbnb-ifies Government Services with AI-Powered America.gov
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Trump Airbnb-ifies Government Services with AI-Powered America.gov Original
Donald Trump has developed perhaps the most effective way to get the general public to appreciate the work of public servants by launching a shitty chatbot meant to replace them. On Tuesday, the president signed an executive order to launch America.gov, an online portal that was built for “streamlining access to government services.” It’s not a terrible idea…in theory.
Don’t Believe His Lies Original
We all lie to ourselves to be happy. But we are dangerously at risk of allowing Meta to chibi-wash its image. Meta—you know Meta, the company that is perhaps the most famous and aggressive offender when it comes to extracting and exploiting personal data from people—is in the middle of a little reputational renaissance driven by its AI suddenly not totally sucking.
AI Bubble Watch: Oracle Seeks Financial Shield From Massive Data Center Project
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AI Bubble Watch: Oracle Seeks Financial Shield From Massive Data Center Project Original
The future of the American artificial intelligence industry is tied to the massive data center initiative known as Project Stargate. Oracle, one of the biggest backers of that effort, just took steps to shield itself from financial liabilities from one leg of the project that has hit repeated snags. According to a report from Bloomberg, Oracle recently cited force majeure, a lever that could help the company wiggle out of financial obligations.
Jensen Huang Says if AI Companies Can’t Contain Their Models, ‘We Have to Shut the Labs Down’ Original
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang does not believe that artificial intelligence poses an existential threat to humanity, no matter how many former AI lab employees sound the alarm. But, if the people working behind closed doors at places like Anthropic or OpenAI really are on the verge of destroying the world, Huang has an idea: shut them down.
Jensen Huang Says if AI Companies Can't Contain Their Models, 'We Have to Shut the Labs Down'
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Prepare Yourself for a Discord Age Check Original
It’s impolite to guess a person’s age. And yet, Discord is going to do it by default. In a blog post, Discord announced that it will automatically assign users an estimated age group based on “multiple account signals” in an attempt to prevent children from accessing adult content. According to the company, it has narrowed its age buckets to just two: adult (18 or older) and teen (13-17).
AI Contractors Shouldn’t Use AI to Evaluate AI Model, Says AI Company
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AI Contractors Shouldn’t Use AI to Evaluate AI Model, Says AI Company Original
OpenAI has found itself in a “leopards ate my face” situation, except in this case, it’s a leopard of its own design. According to a new report from 404 Media, the frontier AI lab had to fire a handful of its contractors who were tasked with reviewing ChatGPT outputs to ensure their accuracy because those workers found it easier to complete their tasks by just feeding them into an AI.
China Probes DeepSeek, Moonshot AI Over Anthropic’s Claims They Route Requests to Claude
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