Business
Zuck vs sweat: Meta's quest to stop perspiration destroying VR headsets
How did the company formerly known as Facebook respond when users claimed sweatiness was bricking their $500 devices?
Internet
Internet
OpenAI boss Sam Altman vows to fix ChatGPT's em-dash addiction (and finally end LinkedIn's "is this AI writing" debate)
Will an upcoming GPT update finally stop the social media obsession with a punctuation mark that's become a meme of the AI age?
Business
UK launches investigation into how TikTok, Imgur and Reddit use kids' data
"If social media and video sharing platforms want to benefit from operating in the UK they must comply with data protection law."
AI
Meta is using AI to make NPCs more human, less robotic and hopefully not quite as ridiculous
Patent application reveals plans to give non-player characters the ability to speak and behave realistically using LLMs and GenAI.
Internet
Elon Musk offers $100 billion to buy OpenAI, renames himself Harry Bōlz
"It’s time for OpenAI to return to a open-source, safety-focused force for good."
Government
Will the Ministry of Justice finally admit computers are unreliable witnesses?
"A blanket ‘no questions asked’ acceptance of the accuracy of digital evidence can have a devastating impact on people’s lives."
AI
Meta reveals the shocking "hateful speech" it now finds totally acceptable
Warning: Offensive and potentially upsetting content.
AI
Sam Altman reveals OpenAI's dreadful original name for ChatGPT
"We are much better at research than we are at naming things."
AI
Jailbreaking Sora: OpenAI reveals how new model was tricked into making x-rated videos
Video-to-text bot appears to be fond of making raunchy material in a fantasy, medical, or science fiction setting, AI firm reveals.
Internet
"Please stop!": Elon Musk shadowbans "ugly" hashtags on X
Billionaire says "the system doesn't need" the hashtags first made famous by Twitter...
AI
AI doomer explodes: AISafetyMemes goes nuclear over Beff Jezos doxxing drama
Cold war goes hot as long-standing conflict between champions of AI Safety and effective accelerationism (e/acc) intensifies.
AI
Humans exploit female AI models and distrust male bots, study finds
Experiment uncovers clear gender biases in the way people treat AI agents.