Defections, secret conversations, deal talks that fizzled and a battle for control: The turmoil at Thinking Machines Lab is the artificial intelligence industry’s latest drama.
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Elon Musk’s Grok A.I. Chatbot Made Millions of Sexualized Images, New Estimates Show
Over nine days, Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot generated and posted 4.4 million images, of which at least 41 percent were sexualized images of women.
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How to Deal With That Drawer Full of Old Gadgets
This month, resolve to revive or relinquish those old music players and point-and-shoot cameras — and retrieve any files trapped on the devices.
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Why iPhone and Android Weather Apps Are Freaking Out About Winter Storm Forecasts
A foot of snow in New York? Two feet? Well, it’s complicated.
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Overrun with AI slop, cURL scraps bug bounties to ensure “intact mental health”
The project developer for one of the Internet’s most popular networking tools is scrapping its vulnerability reward program after being overrun by a spike in the submission of low-quality reports, much of it AI-generated slop. “We are just a small single open source project with a small number of active maintainers,” Daniel Stenberg, the founder...
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eBay bans illicit automated shopping amid rapid rise of AI agents
On Tuesday, eBay updated its User Agreement to explicitly ban third-party “buy for me” agents and AI chatbots from interacting with its platform without permission, first spotted by Value Added Resource. On its face, a one-line terms of service update doesn’t seem like major news, but what it implies is more significant: The change reflects...
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(BPRW) Alcorn’s SBDC to host second AI business accelerator cohort graduation
(Black PR Wire) The Alcorn State University Small Business Development Center will host the Mississippi AI Business Accelerator Second Cohort Graduation on Jan. 27 at 6 p.m. at the Mississippi Center for Innovation and Technology in Vicksburg, Miss. The …
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Millions of people imperiled through sign-in links sent by SMS
Websites that authenticate users through links and codes sent in text messages are imperiling the privacy of millions of people, leaving them vulnerable to scams, identity theft, and other crimes, recently published research has found. The links are sent to people seeking a range of services, including those offering insurance quotes, job listings, and referrals...
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Wikipedia volunteers spent years cataloging AI tells. Now there’s a plugin to avoid them.
On Saturday, tech entrepreneur Siqi Chen released an open source plugin for Anthropic’s Claude Code AI assistant that instructs the AI model to stop writing like an AI model. Called “Humanizer,” the simple prompt plugin feeds Claude a list of 24 language and formatting patterns that Wikipedia editors have listed as chatbot giveaways. Chen published...
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(BPRW) Rodney Flowers Unveils Doctoral Study Exploring How Leaders Turn Adversity Into Power
(Black PR Wire) LEONARDTOWN, MD – In a field often dominated by traditional perspectives, Rodney C. Flowers, Ph.D. Candidate, is bringing a fresh, rigorously researched voice to leadership development. Flowers has launched a doctoral study on&n…