Will AI dominate and begin to think for itself? Apple's recent research may have unintentionally revealed the truth many of us have long suspected: AI is artificial, but it is not intelligence.
A 16-year-old boy in Kentucky tragically took his own life after falling victim to an AI-generated sextortion scheme. Elijah Heacock of Glasgow received a message containing a fake nude image created with AI and a demand for $3,000 to prevent it from being sent to family and friends. Hours later, on February 28, Elijah died by suicide.
A federal judge has ruled that AI chatbot responses are not protected speech under the First Amendment, allowing a wrongful death lawsuit to proceed against Character Technologies and Google.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is sounding the alarm: AI could wipe out up to 50% of entry-level white-collar jobs within the next five years. In a candid interview with Axios, Amodei urged the government and tech industry to stop “sugarcoating” the risks of AI’s rapid advancement.
Telegram founder Pavel Durov announced Wednesday a groundbreaking partnership with Elon Musk’s xAI, bringing the AI chatbot Grok to Telegram’s 1 billion users worldwide. The one-year deal will integrate Grok across all Telegram apps starting in summer 2025, offering features like message summaries, document analysis, question answering, and even chat moderation.
