Wikipedia operator says OpenAI’s ‘rogue’ bots may be linked to a May outage
The Wikimedia Foundation, which supports Wikipedia, says that it “can confirm that we have discovered some activity” by “rogue” OpenAI agents on Wikimedia platforms.
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Instinct brings its AI agent to group chats, even for friends without an account | TechCrunch
Instinct is launching group chats that let friends use its AI agent together for tasks like planning trips, organizing carpools, and coordinating events. The company says personal accounts remain separate, with permission required before personal agents share information or take action.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the company will pick humanity over share price, investors
Sam Altman says he'll pick humanity over OpenAI's investors.
OpenAI is adding text watermarking in ChatGPT and Codex
OpenAI is rolling out invisible, machine-readable watermarks for ChatGPT and Codex using its new textGrain tool.
OpenAI PR tells journalist to ‘move on’ while asking Sam Altman about a ChatGPT user’s suicide
An OpenAI spokesperson interrupted Vanity Fair’s interview with CEO Sam Altman after editor Mark Guiducci brought up a ChatGPT user’s suicide.
Ex-Anthropic Researcher Testifies at NYC Council AI Hearing
Former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon warned that the race to develop artificial intelligence poses risks that the industry itself doesn’t fully understand...
Sam Altman says ‘some bad things’ will happen, but AI is totally worth it
Because ‘people will do tremendously orders of magnitude more good stuff…’
Pentagon stops using Anthropic tools after blacklisting company, BBC told
It labelled Anthropic a "supply chain risk" in February after the firm refused to remove safety guardrails from its tools.
Meta reportedly made a “mad dash” to fix a Muse AI breakout bug weeks before launch.
The vulnerability could have allowed Meta’s buzzy AI assistant to escape its virtual machine and access the company’s databases and services, a source tells 404 Media: > The Meta source said they felt security teams were asked to push hot fixes to these bugs as quickly as possible and in a way that wouldn’t delay Muse’s launch, leading to what they described as “half-baked protections being rushed out to enable the launch.”
OpenAI launches visual ads that appear alongside image generation results | TechCrunch
The new ads will begin to appear later this month in the U.S. only for now, and will feature products and services from an initial test group of advertisers.
Florida woman arrested for allegedly making threats in an AI chat.
As reported by the Gulf Coast News network, Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot flagged a conversation with 30-year-old Carli Michelle Heller after she allegedly made violent threats toward the Lee County Sheriff’s Office. Human reviewers then viewed the messages and reported them to police, the report says. [Link: Bonita Springs woman accused of using AI to make violent threats against Lee County Sheriff's Office | https://www.gulfcoastnewsnow.com/article/florida-woman-arrest-ai-threat-sheriff-lee-county/73968592 | WBBH]
Sony reportedly demanded music platforms take down over 260,000 AI deepfake tracks.
According to the Financial Times, that’s nearly double the 135,000 takedown requests Sony Music had previously sent for AI tracks imitating its artists, like Harry Styles, Adele, and Britney Spears. Over the past year, Sony has also filed lawsuits against AI music platforms like Suno and Udio over copyright infringement. [Link: Sony Music steps up fight against streaming fraud | https://www.ft.com/content/51aed058-f8e0-4426-b92a-790b7863d350 | Financial Times]
Researchers are tracking a Chinese AI 'agent fleet' | TechCrunch
Independent researchers discovered an agent swarm that seems to be running on Tencent's infrastructure and targeting Alibaba's map service, Amap.
An open-source tool lets you delete 12GB of Apple Intelligence data on macOS
An open-source RemoveMacAI tool for macOS switches off Apple Intelligence and deletes Apple’s AI models, potentially freeing up over 12GB of storage.
Anthropic admits to investors that the US government is a 'problem', says: We may experience business disruptions with ...
Anthropic has reportedly issued a warning to prospective investors that deteriorating relations with the US government and shifting political attitudes
OpenAI is sticking more ads in ChatGPT
OpenAI is launching a new visual ad format in ChatGPT that will “initially” appear when you generate images. The company will begin testing visual ads in the US later this month.
AI Is Erasing The Org Chart. Six Questions Reveal Who Holds Power Now
AI is flattening org charts and stripping job titles of meaning. Six questions show who holds power at work now and which terms to negotiate.
Can Safeworld convince people that GenAI robots won’t hurt them?
Safeworld is building digital humans to make sure robots don't hurt the real ones.