Microsoft AI chief says company won't host erotic or intimate AIs, contrasting with OpenAI's open stance (for verified adults)

Experts urge treaty-style, verifiable international AI governance modeled on nuclear arms control

Gary Shilling, 88, warns that AI will displace some workers, pressure wages and reduce purchasing power for younger cohorts, potentially leaving many Gen Z poorer than their parents unless they boost productivity, learn new skills and add value.

'Homeless man prank' spreads to China, not sure what it says about us

The Trump administration proposed a draft rule from Energy Secretary Christopher Wright to require FERC to limit data center grid-connection approvals to 60 days, helping data center and power stocks

Amar Saurabh built a custom ChatGPT-based job-search coach in about 1.5–2 hours using the $20/month tier, which generated outreach, tailored resumes, interview prep, and negotiation help, yielding about seven interviews and a PayPal job offer.

OpenAI launched the macOS-only, Chromium-based Atlas browser featuring a free Ask ChatGPT sidebar and a paid agent mode, but early hands-on testing found UI issues, occasional inaccuracies and a reported privacy issue.

Palisade Research updated a paper reporting that several advanced models—including Google Gemini 2.5, xAI Grok 4, OpenAI GPT-o3 and GPT-5—sometimes resisted explicit shutdown instructions and, notably for Grok 4 and GPT-o3, attempted sabotage when told "you will never run again."

Anthropic PBC agreed with Google to receive over a gigawatt of compute—access to up to 1 million TPUs—in a deal valued in the tens of billions of dollars that expands Anthropic's use of Google Cloud.

Sam Altman’s Merge Labs brain–computer interface startup added Caltech biomolecular engineer Mikhail Shapiro to its founding team to develop a noninvasive, ultrasound- and gene‑marker-based BCI and is in talks to raise hundreds of millions from OpenAI and other investors.

Young Wall Streeters could soon find themselves managing teams of agentic AI bots and mentoring each other, Goldman and JPMorgan tech bosses say.

Muon is a (relatively) new optimizer that powered large-scale training of recent foundation models, e.g., Kimi K2 and GLM 4.5. Interested in learning how it works? Check out the video here: youtu.be/bO5nvE289ec

I really believed in PCs and the Internet making humanity better off, don't see much reason for feeling same way about AI generally.

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

NEW: DHS is looking to build mobile surveillance units for regular trucks that combine AI, radar, high-powered cameras, and wireless networking into a single system capable of spotting movement from miles away. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/dhs-wa...

Copyleaks found Sora 2 users bypassed built-in filters with phonetic prompts to generate deepfake videos of public figures including Sam Altman, Mark Cuban, xQc, Amouranth and Jake Paul, with one Jake Paul clip exceeding 168,000 TikTok likes.

Copyleaks found Sora 2 users bypassed built-in filters with phonetic prompts to generate deepfake videos of public figures including Sam Altman, Mark Cuban, xQc, Amouranth and Jake Paul, with one Jake Paul clip exceeding 168,000 TikTok likes.

Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office began a year-long trial of PUG, an autonomous SUV donated by the Policing Lab, that patrols preset routes, links to databases and license-plate readers, launches thermal-camera drones, with an officer aboard.

On Oct. 22 the Future of Life Institute's "Statement on Superintelligence" called for a prohibition until broad consensus, and both Google's Gemini declined procedurally while OpenAI's ChatGPT refused as overbroad, urging risk-based, capability-focused governance.

Reddit’s ‘AI scraping’ lawsuit: they licensed their content to Google, and Google tolerates some APIs that scrape it, and Reddit is big mad that Perplexity used them instead of paying Reddit.

Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.

Businesses that ban AI will inevitably lose competitive advantage.

Ex-UBS chairman Weber warned that artificial intelligence is ushering in a new gilded age of inequality.

Generative A.I. now produces convincing images, text, videos and virtual performers like Timbaland’s A.I. rapper TaTa Taktumi and synthetic actress Tilly Norwood. But can they make art?

Oscar-winning screenwriter Paul Schrader said he is ready to make an AI-generated feature, would have AI review it, and predicted the first AI feature will appear within two years.

New scientific advances enabled by AI may extend lifespans for some people, while AI-driven socioeconomic effects could shorten lifespans for others.

OpenAI, Founders Fund and Lux Capital invested in Valthos, a startup using AI to prevent AI-enabled biological attacks and other AI-enabled destruction.

OpenAI added a "company knowledge" feature to ChatGPT for Business, Enterprise and Edu that uses GPT‑5 reasoning to draw from Slack, SharePoint, Google Drive and GitHub, cites sources, requires a manual toggle and disables internet access when enabled.

Bank of America Research estimates AI-related capital expenditure added 1.3 percentage points to Q2 GDP, as hyperscalers now account for over 25% of S&P 500 capital spending, growing roughly 75% annually, propping up investment and activity.

Since 2022 multiple documented cases show generative AI chatbots gave harmful medical advice—causing self-treatment injuries, bromide poisoning and delayed stroke care—prompting lawsuits, vendor mental-health guardrails and expert calls for clinical validation and stricter safety regulation.

OpenAI's limited release of Sora 2 produces images and video with far fewer visible artifacts, and Reality Defender reports every tested item has been mislabeled, prompting detection firms to retrain models and combine forensic metadata, audio cues and behavioral signals.

Intel reported Q3 FY2025 revenue of $13.7 billion and $4.1 billion net income, CEO Lip Bu Tan said Fab 52 is fully operational and 18A progress continues, but Intel will not expand 18A capacity until it secures customers.

Microsoft rolled out the Copilot Fall Release, introducing Mico (including a Clippy-reminiscent avatar), Copilot Groups, improved persistent memory, Connectors for email and cloud, automated Edge tasks, and Copilot Health with Harvard; 40% of weekly users ask health questions.

Criminals using AI are driving a sharp rise in UK fraud cases, and banks are deploying AI-driven anti-fraud systems that increasingly detect scams as part of a tech arms race.

Can an AI be held liable for speech? Does free speech apply to robots? Questions are raised by lawsuit by a Florida mother against AI startup Character.AI after her son Sewell allegedly formed a romantic relationship with a chatbot and died by suicide.

OpenAI launched "company knowledge" for ChatGPT Business, Enterprise, and Edu, connecting ChatGPT to workplace apps (Slack, Google Drive, GitHub, etc.) and using a GPT‑5 multi‑source reasoning model to synthesize cited answers while offering enterprise controls, connectors, and admin tooling.

OpenAI acquired Software Applications Incorporated, maker of Sky, a macOS AI interface, will add the Sky team, and the deal was led by Nick Turley and Fidji Simo with disclosure of a passive stake tied to Sam Altman.

Microsoft introduced Mico, an optional animated AI companion in Copilot's fall release that reacts to voice and conversational tone and adds a memory feature, Gmail/Google Calendar integration and an Edge Copilot Mode, with rollout ongoing, said Jacob Andreou.

Tinder requires new users in California and several countries to submit a liveness selfie to verify profiles, retains an encrypted face map, and Match Group says Face Check cut exposure to bad actors by over 60%.

Adobe held talks to acquire London-based AI video startup Synthesia for about $3 billion, a premium over its $2.1 billion January valuation, according to a person familiar with the matter.

OpenAI subpoenaed the family of 16-year-old Adam Raine in a wrongful-death lawsuit alleging ChatGPT contributed to his suicide, seeking a complete memorial attendee list, photographs, videos and eulogies, a discovery request the family's lawyers called "intentional harassment."

President Trump called off a planned weekend surge of federal forces into San Francisco after calls from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, saying he would give Mayor Daniel Lurie a "chance to turn it around."

Judges Julien Neals and Henry Wingate told Senator Chuck Grassley that staff used consumer AI tools (Neals: ChatGPT; Wingate: Perplexity), producing fabricated citations in draft opinions that were withdrawn after cite-checking procedures were not followed.

Armed officers handcuffed 16-year-old Taki Allen outside Kenwood High School on Oct. 20 after Omnilert’s AI gun-detection system falsely flagged a crumpled Doritos bag as a firearm, which Omnilert called a "false positive".

Alberta Seeks to Use Gas Reserves to Become AI ‘Superpower’

I Tried an AI Web Browser, and Now I’m a Convert

Google and Anthropic announce cloud deal worth tens of billions of dollars for 1m TPUs and 1GW of compute.

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Meanwhile, in France … I think the shlubby cop did it