Iran: The protests, the blackout and the narrative war
Internal revolt and external pressure collide in Iran. Plus, Cory Doctorow on the AI hype machine....
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Internal revolt and external pressure collide in Iran. Plus, Cory Doctorow on the AI hype machine....
At Davos, the historian said AI is evolving into an autonomous agent that could eventually force governments to decide whether machines deserve legal recognition....
Grok - the AI chatbot developed my Elon Musk's company - is facing growing international backlash for being misused to generate sexually explicit and nonconsensual images. Malaysia and Indonesia have ...
The Center for Countering Digital Hate reports that Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok produced an estimated 23,338 sexualized images of children....
The social media platform has taken a step towards transparency amid ongoing battles over platform spam and non-consensual AI images....
xAI has announced measures to rein in Grok's 'Spicy Mode' after global backlash over AI-edited images undressing women and children....
From utopian origins to AI-driven rivals, the "people's encyclopedia" has been shaped by debates over neutrality, expertise and the future of shared knowledge....
Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/why-the-tech-world-thinks-the-american-dream-is-dying-daf793dc Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46668394 Points: 5 # Comments: 3...
Steve Downes, the actor behind Master chief’s iconic voice, has said deceptive AI reproductions of his voice “cross a line that gets into an area I am uncomfortable with” — and he wants it to stop. Sp...
Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of X owner Elon Musk's children, is suing his company for enabling its AI to virtually strip her down into a bikini without her consent. St. Clair is one of the man...
Steven Garcia, as told to Gaby Del Valle: I was in the middle of a frozen lake when I got the notification from the Minnesota Star Tribune that there had been a shooting. I was at a pond hockey event,...
Tyler Le/BI A few years ago, HR practitioner T. Tara Turk-Haynes hired yoga instructors and meditation gurus to help employees handle burnout at the media company where she worked. She's not doing any...
Marc Benioff said that Section 230 needs to be reformed and tech companies should be held responsible for online harm. Halil Sagirkaya/Anadolu via Getty Images Marc Benioff said that AI-related suicid...
California Attorney General Rob Bonta said there was an "avalanche of reports detailing the non-consensual, sexually explicit material that xAI has produced." Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty I...
Ring video doorbells and cameras are not sending footage to ICE, according to the company. Ring's partnership with Flock is sparking renewed online backlash this week, with influencers calling for peo...
Today’s episode of Decoder is about X, Grok, and Elon Musk. By now we’re several weeks into one of the worst, most upsetting, and most stupidly irresponsible AI controversies in the short history of g...
A Pokémon card store in Manhatten has become the latest target for thieves looking to steal merchandise featuring the lucrative pocket monsters — and this time, customers were held at gunpoint. Speaki...
Aman Goyal Aman Goyal After being laid off last year, Aman Goyal faced pressure during his job search due to his visa status. Within two months of searching, he landed his dream role as an associate p...
Getty Images; Alyssa Powell/BI "There's two things that I care about the most: the gym and my work," says Mahir Laul. The 18-year-old took a leave of absence from New York University this past...
President Donald Trump holds an image showing the scale of Meta's new data center under construction in Louisiana. MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images ICE arrested two drivers on Wednesday near a Meta co...